Posted on 01/18/2021 5:19:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
DONALD TRUMP has spent the two months since his electoral defeat furiously trying and consistently failing to overturn the results. Armchair psychiatrists claim that Mr Trump’s lifelong fear of being seen as a loser has inspired his battle against democracy.
But another motive is possible: at the stroke of noon on January 20th, the legal shield that Mr Trump has wielded to stave off lawsuits will vanish, exposing him to an abundance of civil and criminal legal peril.
The most serious trouble Mr Trump faces may be in his former home town, where the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance, has been investigating several possible financial crimes, including Mr Trump’s alleged hush-money pay-offs to an adult-film star and a Playboy model on the eve of the 2016 election.
Michael Cohen, Mr Trump’s former lawyer and fixer—now under home confinement for lying to Congress and other crimes, including campaign-finance violations—says his old boss directed him to pay these women, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, to prevent revelations of extramarital dalliances that could have dented his presidential run. (Mr Trump denies these allegations.)
As part of his investigation, Mr Vance subpoenaed eight years of financial records and tax documents from Mazars USA, Mr Trump’s accountant. Mr Trump sued to block the subpoena, losing in both the district and circuit courts. He appealed, and in July 2020, a 7-2 Supreme Court majority found that “the public has a right to every man’s evidence”—including the president’s. But while the justices rejected Mr Trump’s claim that presidents have total immunity from criminal investigation, they gave him a lifeline: one more chance to make less outlandish arguments against the subpoena in the lower courts. Mr Trump fared no better in the second round, but the Supreme Court proceeded to sit on a final appeal for three months,
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LOL
Who writes this crap. Some armchair journalist?
‘Cause now they can make stuff up and there will be NO JUSTICE.
Horrifying.
Charging someone 5+ years aftervthe fact?
They will hound him til his dying day.
Words fail me. The lies are poisonous, the hate is cancerous, the result is deadly for America.
Is this what he gets for being a President who went to bat of us every day while in office. What kind of a country do we live in????
The Economist is pretty much a Leftwing rag.
The Lawfare will be tremendous.
I still maintain article V is the best way out of this mess and we have nothing left to lose.
Globalist mouthpiece rag.
As with Iowa, we still do not have election results. There has been nothing to overturn. The liars will get their comeuppance at the right time and in just the right way.
Hillary, Biden, Comey, Rockhead, all got wmaway with crimes. Looks like justice only goes one way.
He has done his service to America. He should move to Poland or Hungary. They despise communists and the moslem horde. They dislike the EU. Melania is loved there and speaks the languages. He would be respected, protected and could live the cosmopolitan life he likes.
Id the people aren’t willing to over throw the government at this point then I guess that’s on them
There is absolutely nothing wrong with paying a claimant to settle potential litigation and asking for a confidentiality agreement in return. It is a standard practice in the litigation bar. But Vance thinks he can make a criminal charge out of that?
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