The three accusations that already weigh on Trump… and a fourth just around the corner

Donald Trump, president of the United States between 2017 and 2021, has been seen, once again, singled out by justice. One year after the US elections, the one who has been one of the most controversial presidents in history is facing more than 70 criminal charges brought by the Prosecutor's Office during his second race to the White House.

Sexual crimes, falsification of documents and an attempt to manipulate the elections, are the three causes that blame the one who is also one of the richest businessmen in the world.

However, for Trump and his spokesmen, this entire legal cycle is nothing more than “a continuous desperate and agitated attempt” by Biden to “harass President Trump” ahead of the elections that will take place in 2024.

$130,000 for the silence of Stormy Daniels

The facts date back to 2016 when Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer, issued a payment of $130,000 (€120,000) to the porn actress Stormy Daniels in order to keep hidden an alleged sexual encounter that took place ten years earlier.

The judicial process began at the end of March when Alvin Bragg, a New York prosecutor, considered that this money came from the electoral campaign dedicated to the elections that took place weeks after the alleged extramarital affair.. However, the former president assured that said meeting never took place and that the payment was made with his own money.

Ultimately, a grand jury convened by Bragg decided to charge Trump with a total of 34 counts for a payment that involved violating election finance rules.

A few days later, on March 4, the Republican appeared in New York, pleading not guilty to all charges and stating that this entire case was a “witch hunt” and “political persecution and electoral interference.”. In May, Judge Merchan of the Supreme Court of the same district set March 25, 2024 as the date for the next trial.

The Mar-a-Lago documents

On June 27, another 37 charges were added to Trump's list when special counsel Jack Smith presented another list of crimes for “mishandling forged documents” during the former president's time in the White House. In this case, the “deliberate withholding of national defense information” at his Mar-a-Lago estate and two types of obstruction were the three causes determined by the prosecutor.

The FBI found 48 boxes of documents with at least thirty containing national defense matters and secret attack plans.

Just a week ago, Smith decided to expand the accusation for three new crimes related to the attempted sabotage of the video surveillance cameras of the Republican's mansion, which had received an order to deliver the images.

Again, Trump's spokesmen dismissed the accusations for what they consider to be part of the Biden team's political strategy before the upcoming US elections.. Now, Judge Aileen Cannon has decreed that the trial will be held on May 20, 2024, just six months before the call to the polls.

Electoral manipulation and assault on the Capitol

Last Tuesday, Smith indicted Trump, granting him what will be the third case against which the businessman will have to fight to maintain his career in the White House.. This time, the Prosecutor's Office has accused him of reversing the result of the 2020 elections, where he was defeated by his rival, Democrat Joe Biden.

The accusation is made up of four crimes: “dishonesty, fraud and deception” to the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official procedure by trying to prevent Biden's victory from being certified in Congress, obstruction of an official procedure for the attempted assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and conspiracy against the right to vote and vote counting of citizens.

The defendant appeared this Thursday, August 3, in the federal court of the district of Washington, where he pleaded not guilty.. For her part, Judge Moxila Upadhyaya accepted her release under certain conditions and pending the next hearing, which will take place on August 28.

The Prosecutor's Office considers that Trump's insistence on spreading a message of “falsified elections” deeply touched his followers, for which they blame him for creating an “intense national atmosphere of mistrust and anger that eroded public faith in the electoral administration “.

A possible fourth cause

This time it is Fani Willis, Fulton County prosecutor, who will try to indict Trump with the support of the jury for the former president's attempts to reverse the Georgia election results in 2020.

The prosecutor began investigating the alleged “push” more than two years ago, after listening in January 2021 to a recording of a phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, in which they talked about trying to “find “the votes needed to sell Biden in this state.

Now, Willis has declared that all accusations will be presented until next August 18.. Subsequently, the jury must determine whether or not to indict Trump for these events.