Donald Trump: The United States has elected a convicted criminal, Donald Trump, to the White House who is still awaiting sentencing in New York for his hush money case. He was declared the winner following projections by the US media on Wednesday. Trump believes that this is really the golden age of America for him.” USA Election 2024
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State and federal prosecutors had hoped to take their cases against Trump before election day, but his legal team employed a variety of delaying tactics, resulting in only one criminal trial in Manhattan.
Trump’s special counsel Jack Smith is in active talks with Justice Department leadership about how to end the federal cases against Trump.
Donald Trump: Let’s take a look at the pending cases against the 47th president of the United States.
Donald Trump Conviction in New York
On May 30, Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records related to payments of money made by his then-attorney Michael Cohen to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election. Trump is appealing the verdict.
A Manhattan judge issued the ruling in May, making Trump the first former president to be convicted of felony charges.
His September conviction in New York Trump’s sentencing in the case has been delayed to November 26, 2024. It was originally scheduled for just days before the Republican National Convention in July, where Trump officially accepted the party’s nomination.
Donald Trump Florida case
The charges brought by Smith against President-elect Trump in Florida accuse him of illegally taking classified documents from the White House and resisting the government’s efforts to retrieve the material.
The case was dismissed in July by Ellen Cannon, who has been appointed to the federal bench by Trump. Her ruling said Smith’s appointment by Attorney General Merrick Garland violated the Constitution.
Washington DC case
Four charges have been brought against Trump in federal court, accusing him of spreading false claims of election fraud and conspiracy in the 2020 election, which Trump’s Democrat party lost to Joe Biden. Trump has pleaded innocent and said the charges were a political ploy.
The case stalled for months as Trump pressured federal courts to grant him presidential immunity, and in July the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling saying he has some immunity from criminal prosecution.
Georgia racketeering case
Last year, prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, used state racketeering laws β developed to fight organized crime β to charge Trump in an alleged plot to overturn his defeat in the battleground state in the 2020 election.
Trump’s lawyers have already said in court they will seek to halt any Trump-related activity based on the argument that the president should not bear the burden of criminal prosecution while in office.
Trump and eight of his 14 co-defendants in the case are asking the Georgia Appeals Court to disqualify the lead prosecutor, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, for alleged misconduct stemming from her romantic relationship with a former deputy.
Civil lawsuits
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Trump, his three eldest children and the Trump Organization, alleging they engaged in financial fraud by inflating property values ββto secure favorable loan and insurance terms.
A federal appeals court ruled in October that Trump could be sued in civil court for his role in inciting the January 2021 riot on Capitol Hill. The riot broke out inside Congress as lawmakers met to certify President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. Hours earlier, Trump had addressed a rally in Washington DC where he urged supporters to march to the Capitol. During the violence, at least 138 Capitol and Metropolitan police officers were injured by rioters. Four police officers died by suicide in the months following the attack.
Trump lost two defamation cases against E. Jean Carroll in federal court in 2023 and 2024, when juries found him liable for sexually assaulting the one-time columnist and then defaming her. Trump awarded Carroll $5 million to $83 million to suppress the case. In September, a federal appeals court heard Trump’s appeal of Carroll’s earlier ruling. The court has not yet issued a decision. Donald Trump
