How many criminal charges is Donald Trump facing? FactCheck takes a look at the former president's indictments.
But this isn’t the only major trial he’s facing this year. Let’s take a look at the former president’s criminal indictments.Mr Trump is currently facing 91 criminal counts in four separate prosecutions. These are:
A payment of $130,000 was reportedly made before the 2016 presidential election to Stormy Daniels, who said she and Mr Trump had an affair. The former president has denied the affair. His former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has said he made the payment at Mr Trump’s direction. While such a payment is not illegal, spending money in order to help a presidential campaign but not disclosing it violates federal campaign finance law.
“It seems much more likely that the former president would, at most, be sentenced to some form of home confinement for lesser crimes of the kind that Trump is now facing,” he adds.No American president or former president had ever been indicted until Mr Trump was charged in four criminal cases over a five-month span.A trial for the “Hush Money” case will take place on 25 March this year, a judge in New York has confirmed.
This is because “the prosecution of a former American president is literally unprecedented,” Mr Neily adds, “so there are many legal issues that are being raised and decided for the first time, and some of those issues are likely to be appealed all the to the US Supreme Court for final resolution”.nothing prevents an individual from running for office if facing criminal charges.
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