The Trump investigations you should actually care about
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Publicado 2023-04-07
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Donald Trump is now the first former US President to face criminal charges. He pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.
This case involves hush money that Trump’s lawyer paid to an alleged former sexual partner. But it’s actually just one of four criminal investigations into the former president. The other three investigations focus on his behavior after the 2020 presidential election.
A Georgia team is examining Trump’s efforts to persuade Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” more Trump votes after the votes had been counted and Raffensperger had declared Joe Biden the winner.
Federal special prosecutor Jack Smith is heading up the other two investigations. One group is looking at the Trump team’s attempts to persuade officials in a handful of states where Biden won not to certify his victory, and instead to claim Trump won the state despite the vote counts.
The other federal investigation is focused on classified documents that Trump brought with him from the White House to his Florida estate after losing the 2020 election. According to reports from the Washington Post and the New York Times, when the FBI searched his estate in August 2022, they found documents related to nuclear weapons, as well as files containing information that could put US informants in the field in danger.
As president, Trump didn’t just say outrageous things, he acted in unprecedented ways. Now that he’s out of office, investigators in a variety of jurisdictions are trying to figure out if he broke the law, too.
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In addition to the four ongoing criminal investigations, there’s also a federal civil case against Trump working its way through the courts. The writer E. Jean Carroll is suing Trump for defamation and battery after she claims he raped her in the mid-1990s and then publicly said she was making the whole thing up. You can read more about that case here: bit.ly/3meJGzJ
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As a Peruvian, where all my ex presidents are jailed, in trial, or dead, it feels so weird that no former presidents have been incarcerated in the US.
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Daily reminder that if the national archives told any regular US citizen “hey you have unsecured classified documents” and they went “lol no” like Trump, they’d be in a jail cell awaiting trial.
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that phone call is still the wildest thing I have ever heard without any consequences till today. I don't believe that in any other first world country, the politician could just go on without consequences. It literally sounds like a mafia call with "you are republican"
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“When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat.” - George Carlin.
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Thanks for this simplified explanation of what is happening. It helps us international viewers understand the USA legal processes etc.
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Trump's political saga is the peak of American entertainment. Nothing from Hollywood will ever compare.
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All thanks to Gerald Ford for pardoning Nixon, the idea of jailing presidents remain "unprecedented".
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Regarding the classified documents case, it is important to say that within the White House, there is such a ridiculous amount of classified documents that it's practically impossible to keep track of them. That's why these kinds of documents kind of show up with almost all former presidents. What is unprecedented is Trump's refusal to give those documents back after they have been found.
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I actually never knew the republican state electors tried to illegally vote by mail. The irony in this is so good, it explains so much about the subsequent anti-vote-by-mail laws some state voted.
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That Trump phone call to the Georgia AG should have lit every American's hair on fire. But now we have an entire media apparatus that exists to shield Republicans from accountability.
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The classified document case is the most clear cut: we know he had them because not only has he admitted it, he's even tried to justify it. I don't get why it should be taking this long.
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Putting lifelong criminals in public office is a really bad idea.
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The "other crime", as stated in the complaint, is tax evasion and adjusting records such that an employee or second party can evade taxation. It falls under NY PL 175.10 and 175.15 "Falsifying Business Records". They don't even have to convict him of tax evasion first, just show that this was the intent.
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"We have a criminal justice system in this country, we have civil litigation, and former Presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one." - Mitch McConnell, 2/13/21
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If he is found guilty, he should be behind bars just like any person in USA..
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When you want to bring a real change and the big corporations want you down
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The real problem is the system that allows these things to happen
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South Park creators did have a hard time mocking Trump during his presidency that no matter how farfetched their jokes were, Trump would just one up it, then they just gave up
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The closing statement is what’s wrong with this whole system. “NOW that he’s out of office [power], let’s see if he did anything illegal.”
