US Inauguration: Donald Trump Faces Gigantic Legal Settlement

When Donald Trump leaves the Oval Office on Thursday, his impeachment in the Senate won’t be the only thing awaiting him.

The 74-year-old man faces mounting government investigations, including a civil investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a criminal investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr, and a federal investigation by Acting United States Attorney for DC. Michael Sherwin, which could include his role in the deadly assault on the Capitol earlier this month.

The outgoing president will also face, reports The Washington Post, a trio of lawsuits alleging “defamation, fraud and more fraud,” all led by a lawyer, Roberta Kaplan.

“I became the go-to person to sue the president,” the 54-year-old told The Post.

Her clients include writer E Jean Carroll, who filed a defamation case after Trump claimed she was “totally lying” about his accusation that he raped her more than 20 years ago, and her niece Mary L Trump, who claims that Trump and two of his brothers deprived her of a millionaire inheritance.

With a return to private life, “his terror is that he will no longer be protected by the office and will have to deal with these demands,” his niece told the newspaper.

Kaplan said he will seek to depose Trump (meaning he will have to testify / give evidence under oath) in all three cases.

“When we depose you, you won’t get away with it,” he said.

“He had the mantle of the presidency, and that no longer exists.”

Meanwhile, in the final hours of his presidency, Trump has a big statement by drastically changing the nation’s travel rules.

It has just lifted the entry bans imposed due to the coronavirus on most non-US citizens arriving from Brazil and much of Europe, despite the emergence of new variants in both parts of the world.

Current rules prohibit almost all non-US citizens who have been in Brazil, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the 26 Schengen countries in Europe in the past 14 days from allowing travel across open borders.

The new rules will go into effect on January 26. They say that anyone entering the country on an international flight must have a negative coronavirus test or a Covid recovery test.

FBI Notice of Far-Right Extremist Plots

The FBI privately warned law enforcement that far-right extremists have discussed posing as members of the National Guard in Washington and others have reviewed maps of vulnerabilities in the city, an intelligence report obtained by The Washington Post.

The document is a summary of the threats identified by the bureau in an intelligence briefing on Monday, warning that both “lone wolves” and QAnon supporters have indicated that they plan to come to the nation’s capital for the inauguration of Joe Biden. on Wednesday.

The FBI said it had also observed people downloading and sharing maps of “sensitive locations” in Washington and discussing how they could be used to interfere with security during the inauguration of the president-elect.

Last week, FBI Director Christopher A Wray said agents were monitoring a “lot of worrying online conversations” and pointed to the challenge of “trying to distinguish what is aspirational and what is intentional.”

“We are monitoring all incoming leads, whether they are calls for armed protests, potential threats arising from the rape of the Capitol on January 6, or other types of potential threats leading to inaugural events and on various other objectives. We are committed to everyone. our partners in that regard, “he said.

Biden’s big plans for the first day in office

Biden will sign a series of sweeping executive actions that will overturn the policies of Trump’s firm just hours after he was sworn in on Wednesday, his new chief of staff announced.

After his inauguration in a heavily fortified US Capitol, Biden will sign executive orders to end Donald Trump’s travel ban, rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement and require the wearing of masks on federal property, he said. Ron Klain to senior staff in a memo obtained by the Associated Press.