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Donald Trump will suddenly be vulnerable to a barrage of legal action, both criminal and civil, if he loses the presidency.
Until now, Trump has used “executive privilege” to prevent people from testifying against him, but that changes if he loses to Joe Biden, as now seems likely.
The Trump Organization is already at the center of a criminal investigation. Trump is also facing a case about his taxes.
Insiders at the White House have told the Mirror that his outbursts that the elections have been “stolen” from him are partly due to his fear of going to jail.
Harry Sandick, a former US federal prosecutor, says: “In all respects, your departure from office makes it easier for prosecutors and plaintiffs in civil cases to pursue their cases against you.
“For example, he is demanding greater protection against subpoenas in criminal cases and also in congressional subpoenas cases, [and that] it relies heavily on the fact that he is president. “
In September last year, the president’s legal team attempted to quash a subpoena from the Manhattan district attorney’s office, which had requested eight years of tax returns.
New York State attorneys are trying to determine whether the Trump Organization falsified company records regarding payments allegedly made to Playboy model Karen McDougal and pornographic film star Stormy Daniels.
In addition to the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into the Trump Organization, the reality TV star would be open to defamation lawsuits sparked by his denials of accusations by dozens of women that he sexually assaulted them.
Among them is writer E Jean Carroll, who has accused former American host Apprentice of raping her in a locker room at Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s.
When asked about her claims, Trump simply said, “She’s not my type.”
Another libel suit waiting to be heard is that of former contestant Apprentice Summer Zervos.
Shortly before the 2016 election, he accused the then candidate of kissing, groping and rubbing his genitals “aggressively” in 2007.
Trump called his accusations “fiction.” But the most serious and immediate danger to Trump is by far the criminal investigation into the Trump Organization.
The indictments cover the time the American leader was in charge, before handing over two to his son Don Jr and Eric when he was appointed president.
Prosecutors have cited documents detailing business transactions and tax records, which Trump has fought bitterly against.
On five occasions the courts have said that requests for information are valid.
In addition to the criminal investigation, the New York Attorney General is moving ahead with a civil law investigation into the Trump Organization.
They are investigating whether the company falsely valued various assets, inflating or reducing them as necessary to guarantee loans or tax breaks.
Several of Trump’s golf courses, hotels and towers are said to be at the center of the investigation.
The Internal Revenue Service, the US HMRC, is also making the rounds.
According to the New York Times, tax investigators are investigating a 55.5 million pound refund it claimed.
Maryland and Washington DC state attorneys general sued the president three years ago, alleging that he profited corruptly from the presidency by putting the interests of American citizens below his own, earning millions of dollars.
In many civil litigation, Trump has tried to avoid giving evidence, or in the alleged rape case of Carroll he refused to provide a DNA sample.
On Thursday, the Office of the United States Special Counsel opened an investigation into whether the use of the White House by the Trump campaign violated federal law.
Representative Bill Pascrell asked the watchdog to conduct an investigation, to which the agency responded that “it was not consulted on the decision to use the space within the Eisenhower executive office building as a campaign war room.”
The Hatch Act prohibits the use of federal property for campaign events.
But the Republican Party organized its election convention and many other events at the White House.
But it’s not just law enforcement agencies that are cracking down on Trump: The president’s niece, Mary Trump, is suing Donald, her sister, and her deceased brother’s estate.
She alleges fraud, saying she was deprived of her rights in the family property empire.
Some legal experts have predicted that if he loses, Trump will use his last days in office before Joe Biden’s January 20 inauguration to pardon himself of any and all federal crimes.
If it did, the decision to reopen those cases would rest with the new Biden administration.
Trump can also be convicted of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before Congress in 2016 that a president could be charged “with a crime after leaving office.”
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