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Peril Ahead: Donald Trump faces an array of legal trouble when he leaves office: His Presidential Immunity Runs Out on January 20, 2021
The Economist ^ | 01/18/2021

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,

(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; deepstate; immunity; lawsuits; trump; trumptroubles; trumpunperson; uniparty
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1 posted on 01/18/2021 5:19:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

u n i t y

LOL


2 posted on 01/18/2021 5:20:53 PM PST by DoughtyOne (2021: Notice the Communists have lists of things to do 2016: Notice Mitch and Paul didn't.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Armchair psychiatrists claim that Mr Trump’s lifelong fear of being seen as a loser has inspired his battle against democracy.

Who writes this crap. Some armchair journalist?

3 posted on 01/18/2021 5:21:00 PM PST by McGruff (Remain calm, stay in your homes and wear a mask.)
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To: SeekAndFind

‘Cause now they can make stuff up and there will be NO JUSTICE.

Horrifying.


4 posted on 01/18/2021 5:21:05 PM PST by madison10 (Democracy dies in darkness.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Charging someone 5+ years aftervthe fact?


5 posted on 01/18/2021 5:21:12 PM PST by sauropod ("No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain)
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To: SeekAndFind

They will hound him til his dying day.


6 posted on 01/18/2021 5:21:49 PM PST by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: SeekAndFind

Words fail me. The lies are poisonous, the hate is cancerous, the result is deadly for America.


7 posted on 01/18/2021 5:22:04 PM PST by Shady (WHO MURDERED ASHLI BABBITT? )
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To: SeekAndFind

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????


8 posted on 01/18/2021 5:22:10 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: SeekAndFind
consider the source.
THIS is from Germany the country that tried to FIX
US elections in cahoots with Serbia, Spain, Vatican,
Malta, al Qaeda, MI-6, CCP, Iran and others that should
get justice for f'ing with America after WARNING, KNOWINGLY.

Pres. Trump - Do Not Try Us


9 posted on 01/18/2021 5:22:18 PM PST by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced" )
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To: McGruff

The Economist is pretty much a Leftwing rag.


10 posted on 01/18/2021 5:22:58 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Lawfare will be tremendous.


11 posted on 01/18/2021 5:23:07 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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12 posted on 01/18/2021 5:24:38 PM PST by dontreadthis
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It is not enough to steal the election from him. They must hound him for the rest of his life. I am almost looking forward to the time we can line up these bastards up against the wall. Of course it is their plan to do this to us first.

I still maintain article V is the best way out of this mess and we have nothing left to lose.

13 posted on 01/18/2021 5:24:40 PM PST by Nateman (Keep Liberty Alive! Article V)
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To: Gene Eric

Globalist mouthpiece rag.


14 posted on 01/18/2021 5:26:05 PM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


15 posted on 01/18/2021 5:26:31 PM PST by Fester Chugabrew (No audit. No peace.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hillary, Biden, Comey, Rockhead, all got wmaway with crimes. Looks like justice only goes one way.


16 posted on 01/18/2021 5:27:04 PM PST by Fido969 (,i.)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


17 posted on 01/18/2021 5:28:14 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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We are dealing with a ruthless wealthy upper class cadre of fascist cosmopolitan elites that run the Democrat party. They want total control of everything. The opposing upper class cadre in the GOP just wants a few tax cuts and would be willing to give the Dems everything they want to get them. They are feckless, duplicitous and treacherous. They both deserve to pay more taxes and I mean lot more.
18 posted on 01/18/2021 5:28:40 PM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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Id the people aren’t willing to over throw the government at this point then I guess that’s on them


19 posted on 01/18/2021 5:30:48 PM PST by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: SeekAndFind
Trump needs to hire better lawyers than he had for the election.

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?

20 posted on 01/18/2021 5:31:28 PM PST by colorado tanker
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