Former US president entangled in at least six legal cases, including indictment related to attempts to overturn 2020 election
US prosecutors charged Trump on August 1 in connection with attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The four criminal counts include conspiracy to defraud the US, to obstruct an official proceeding and to threaten individual rights, according to the indictment. Trump pleaded not guilty during a hearing at a federal court in Washington on August 3.
Charges were also brought against 18 other defendants, including Rudy Giuliani, who was involved in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 vote, and John Eastman, a constitutional scholar who persuaded the former president of his theory that then-vice-president Mike Pence could refuse to certify Joe Biden’s win.Trump is also facing federal criminal charges in a separate case related to classified documents seized by federal agents at his Mar-a-Lago residence in August 2022.
All the counts in the New York case are linked to payments made to Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, reimbursing him for an alleged $130,000 “hush money” payout made to Daniels. Cohen is expected to be the prosecution’s star witness at the trial, which begins in March 2024.New York’s attorney-general Letitia James filed a civil lawsuit in September 2022 accusing Trump, his two eldest sons and the Trump Organization of repeatedly lying to lenders and insurers.
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