This is a handy website you might want to bookmark. They are keeping track of all of Trump’s legal woes.
Which comes first, the indictment or the re-election announcement?
In Sioux City, Iowa on Nov. 3, five days before the midterms, former President Trump told a rally, “Get ready. That’s all I’m telling you,” pausing to let the crowd chant his name. “Very soon. Get ready.”
“In order to make our country successful, and safe and glorious, I will very, very, very probably do it again okay,” he added. “Very, very, very probably.”
But Alexander Bolton at The Hill reported on Nov. 2, “Republican aides and strategists privately expect Attorney General Merrick Garland to pursue an indictment of former President Trump within 60 to 90 days after Election Day, predicting the window for prosecuting Trump will close once the 2024 presidential campaign gains momentum.”
And while we all wait breathlessly for the drama to unfold in the weeks ahead here is a guide to the criminal and grand jury investigations found below in the blog which may – or may not – lead to one or more indictments of the former president/possible future GOP presidential nominee. Scroll down the Index and the blog to find each heading and its full text.
New York AG sues Trump for $250 million, threatening to shut down business On Sept. 21, Attorney General James filed the civil lawsuit seeking a $250 million judgment and a prohibition on any of the Trumps leading a company in the state of New York. The suit was filed against the Trump Organization, the former president and three of his children, Eric, Don Jr. and Ivanka. James said her office has sent a criminal referral to the U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan and the IRS.
Trump Organization goes on trial for tax fraud, prosecutors put Trump at center of crime The prosecution has started to lay out its case in the trial of the Trump Organization and Trump Payroll Corporation on criminal charges of grand larceny and tax fraud. As the CEO of the company, testimony by the company’s executives linking Trump, the CEO of the company, to the crime could put Trump in the thick of the alleged fraud. The trial resumes Nov. 10.
Georgia county DA investigating Trump’s alleged attempt to overthrow election CNN reported in October, 2022 that the prosecutor investigating the very public efforts by Trump and his allies to challenge the 2020 election results may be issuing indictments as soon as this coming December. A federal judge declared Trump has signed a document under oath claiming Fulton County had improperly counted more than 10,000 votes of dead people, felons and unregistered voters and that Trump and his attorneys had been warned repeatedly the claim was false.
Is Donald Trump guilty of criminal obstruction? Regarding Trump’s actions between the election and Jan. 6: “At the core of a possible criminal case against former President Trump is this argument – He knew he had lost the election and sought to overturn it anyway.” Will the Jan. 6 committee recommend the House vote to recommend the DOJ to prosecute the former president?
Justice Department investigating Jan. 6 riot; is Trump now a target? A special federal grand jury has issued subpoena requests to more than 40 officials in former President Trump’s orbit. Justice Department criminal prosecutors are now examining nearly every aspect of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election — including the fraudulent electors plot, efforts to push baseless election fraud claims and how money flowed to support these various efforts.
Justice Department, states investigating GOP plot to submit fake Electoral College voters Former President Trump played a direct role in the effort to use fake electors to overturn the presidential election, the head of the Republican National Committee told the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot.
Timeline: Trump’s removal of top-secret documents to Mar-a-Lago and the ongoing federal investigation Donald Trump’s legal team acknowledged Sept. 19 in a court filing the possibility the former president could be indicted for any one of several crimes being investigated. Breitbart reported Trump is under investigation by the Department of Justice for concealment, removal or mutilation; gathering, transmitting or losing defense information and destruction, alteration or falsification of records in Federal investigation.
Is this the end for Trump’s Truth Social? Feds launch investigations, investors balk, Musk buys Twitter Trump Media & Technology Group is being investigated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in connection with a criminal probe.
Lawsuits
New York AG sues Trump for $250 million, threatening to close down business, plus Legal Analysis
House committees seek Trump’s tax returns, financial records
NAACP, Democrat House members file lawsuit for Jan. 6 attack on Capitol; Trump, Pence don’t see “eye to eye” on Jan. 6 violence
E. Jean Carroll sues Trump for defamation, threatens to sue for sexual battery
Trump and GOP face lawsuit claiming they violated the Ku Klux Klan Act
Rep. Swalwell files lawsuit alleging Trump, others responsible for Jan. 6 riots
Trump faces five separate lawsuits by Capitol and D.C. police officers for Jan. 6 riot
Trump sues Facebook, Twitter and Google, plus Legal Analysis
Dominion sues Fox News, Giuliani and Powell
Smartmatic sues Fox News, its hosts and Giuliani and Powell, plus Legal Analysis
Trump family accused of pushing pyramid scheme on “The Celebrity Apprentice”
Trump 2020 campaign, Giuliani, Powell and others target of defamation suit
Trump sues the New York Times and niece Mary Trump
Trump sues CNN for defamation (and $475,000,000)
Trump 2020, 2024 campaigns subject of lawsuits filed against FEC
Criminal indictment and trial
Trump Organization goes on trial for tax fraud, prosecutors put Trump at center of crime
Investigations
Georgia county DA investigating Trump’s alleged attempt to overthrow election, plus Legal Analysis
House Select Committee investigates Jan. 6 attack on U.S. Capitol; plus, Running Tally: Who’s cooperating and who’s not; Legal Analysis: Is Donald Trump Guilty of Criminal Obstruction? and 64 Days That Will Live in Infamy
Justice Department investigating Jan. 6 riot; is Trump now a target?
Justice Department, states investigating GOP plot to submit fake Electoral College voters
Timeline: Trump’s removal of top-secret documents to Mar-a-Lago and the ongoing federal investigation
Is this the end for Trump’s Truth Social? Feds investigating, investors balk, Musk buys Twitter
Trump’s A-Team: Meadows, Powell, Giuliani and Eastman all under investigation
Complaint
Trump’s Bedminster golf club facing criminal complaint
Disposition of six Trump cases
Manhattan DA’s investigation of Trump’s real estate empire comes to an end (maybe?)
DC Attorney General, Trump Organization settle case over alleged misuse of Inaugural funds
Summer Zervos drops suit against Trump for alleged assault
Trump avoids Wisconsin $$ bill for failed election fraud lawsuit
Trump campaign ordered to pay Omarosa $1.3 million
Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, James Comey and others
It’s a lot. And the list gets longer every day.