The 77-year-old former president is trying to become the GOP presidential nominee again. At the same time, major legal problems loomed.
In recent months, he has been charged in three different court cases. In addition, he is under investigation in Georgia led by Attorney General Fanny Willis. Here he is being investigated for trying to change the outcome of the presidential elections in 2020.
A racist guy
US media reported that an indictment may be imminent here as well. But that didn’t stop him on Tuesday launching a very personal attack on Willis while campaigning in New Hampshire.
– There is a young racist in Atlanta .. They say that she chased after a certain gang, and ended up with a relationship with the leader of the gang or one of the gang members, as Trump said in the speech, according to what he reported. The Independent He adds:
– He raped her
– This is the person who wants to court me. She has many problems. But she wants to sue me for trying to prevent me from standing for election. I contested the election in Georgia, which I had every right to do, and they want to prosecute me for contesting the election.
Also last week, Trump posted a video on his own platform Truth Social with a headline that Willis was a defense attorney for rapper YSL Mondo in 2019 and a false claim that she was “caught hiding an affair with a member of the gang she was a plaintiff against”.
Thousands of lies
There is no evidence that Willis ever had a romantic relationship with the rapper. Willis is married and has two children.
In this case, this wouldn’t be the first time Trump lied. outcome Washington Post Did Trump’s first four years in the White House show that he lied or made false allegations more than 30,000 times?
Trump lost the election in Georgia by a narrow margin, and he is being investigated for trying to overturn that result. The investigation includes, among other things, the famous phone call he had with Georgia’s Republican Secretary of the Interior, Brad Raffensperger. The conversation was recorded, and in the conversation Raffensperger demanded to “find” the 11,780 votes he would need to win the state.
Trump is also under investigation over a plan to get his alternate electors to vote in the Electoral College.
Many lawsuits
Even if Trump wins the 2024 presidential election, he will not be able to fire Willis or pardon himself if he is convicted in Georgia. This is because the investigation is taking place at the state level, not the federal level.
Trump was also indicted in another trial in New York for his role in making large payments to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
Return to the scene
At the federal level, he has been charged in two different cases – both led by private investigator Jack Smith. One of the cases, which is taking place in federal court in Miami, involves Trump illegally taking classified documents home to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House. In the second case, which took place in Washington, D.C., he is on trial for his role in the deadly attack on Congress on January 6, 2021, and his attempts to overturn the election results.
Trump himself has pleaded not guilty to all charges. He also constantly claims that he is the subject of widespread political stalking.