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When Donald Trump leaves the White House, he runs the risk of loopholes in various courts. Prosecutors have him in view for, among other things, economic crimes. Moon is a lifeline who could save Trump from prosecution.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance is not waiving Donald Trump’s tax deal. Stock Photography.
On January 20, Joe Biden (Democrat) takes office as President of the United States. Thus, the immunity that Trump (Republican) has enjoyed until now ceases, and several lawsuits and criminal investigations against him may take off again.
District Attorney Cyrus Vance in Manhattan, New York, has been investigating Trump and his family business The Trump Organization for more than two years.
From the beginning, the criminal investigation concerned the payments, before the 2016 elections, to two women to keep silent about alleged sexual relations with Trump.
Later, Vance, who is a Democrat, expanded the investigation to include bank, tax and insurance fraud, as well as falsification of business documents.
This summer, the Supreme Court granted Vance the right to request Trump’s testimony history after a multi-year legal battle.
Trump compares the Vance investigation to a “politically motivated persecution.”
According to the Ministry of Justice, a sitting president cannot be prosecuted at the federal level. Vance isn’t bound by that because he’s conducting a state investigation. But so far he has waited, perhaps due to uncertainty about whether a position is constitutionally correct during Trump’s term.
“The fact that they have filed lawsuits and prosecuted all the way to the Supreme Court suggests that this is a very important criminal investigation by the president,” said Corey Brettschneider, professor of political science at Brown University.
Trump also risks a criminal investigation led by the country’s new justice minister next year. This is a possible tax fraud.
For ten of the fifteen years before Trump’s election, he did not pay a penny in federal income taxes, The New York Times revealed in September.
In 2016 and 2017, when Trump was elected and took office, he paid just $ 750, or just under $ 7,000, in federal income taxes annually.
“I paid many millions of dollars in taxes, but, like everyone else, I was entitled to write-offs and deductions,” Trump defended on Twitter.
In addition, the head of the New York State Department of Justice, Letitia James (also a Democrat), is filing a civil lawsuit on suspicion of tax fraud by Trump and The Trump Organization.
The suspicion is partly due to having inflated assets to save money on loans and insurance, and partly to having reduced assets to pay less in property taxes.
Since it is a civil lawsuit, Trump is not risking jail time, but sanctions, if James wins the case.
E Jean Carroll, a former writer for Elle magazine, sued Trump for defamation in 2019. She charged him with rape in the 1990s, which he denied. Trump said he lied to generate interest in his book.
In August, a judge approved a new investigation into the case. However, Barbara McQuade, a law professor at the University of Michigan and a former federal prosecutor, finds it unlikely that the Justice Department will pursue the case.
In another lawsuit, the accusations come from Summer Zervos, who appeared on Trump’s soap opera “The Apprentice” in 2005. She claims that in 2007 Trump kissed her against her will and then groped her in a hotel room.
Trump called her a liar, she sued him for defamation, to which he replied that he has immunity as president. That discussion lasts another three months.
All the legal turbulence surrounding Trump sparked an intense debate in 2018 over whether an American president has the power to forgive himself.
“I have the absolute right to forgive myself,” he wrote on Twitter, referring to legal experts.
“But why should I (forgive myself) if I have done nothing wrong,” he added.
It showed that the experts did not agree at all on the question of “self-forgiveness.” Some argued that such a thing should be tried in court and would likely lead to lengthy legal proceedings. Others argued that Trump should be brought to justice if he even tried.
No president has tried to forgive himself. Then comes Richard Nixon, who resigned in 1974 after the Watergate scandal. He was pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford, for “crimes he may have committed against the United States during his tenure as president.”
Now a similar scenario is mentioned with the aim of saving Trump’s skin.
The idea is for Trump to allow Vice President Mike Pence to take over as president, as the new president pardons the old one.
As installed president, Joe Biden will also have the power to forgive Trump. It is unknown how he, and Mike Pence, see that matter.
