Trump Told Team He's Running For President Again To Keep From Being Indicted For Crimes: REPORT
19.07.2022 - 03:31
/ perezhilton.com
Some men are born great. Some have greatness thrust upon them. And some men seek great positions to avoid legal consequences. According to sources close to Donald Trump, he’s the latter this time around.
If you haven’t been following the ex-President’s many, many legal entanglements, here’s a breakdown of what he’s currently facing:
Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia are investigating tampering in the 2020 election. Trump allegedly pressured Secretary of State
Brad Raffensperger to “find” the votes he needed in a phone call. Trump toadies
Lindsey Graham and
Rudy Giuliani have already been subpoenaed. Several lawsuits, including
E. Jean Carroll‘s. She accused Trump of raping her back in the ’90s. It’s too long for the statute of limitations, but when he publicly declared she was “totally lying” he opened himself to a defamation suit. New York attorney general
Letitia James is looking into whether the
Trump Organization committed fraud by falsely reporting the value of their assets. (That case was on its way to deposition by the family before the untimely loss of
Ivana at the last minute.) And of course the federal government is investigating January 6. Over 80 people have already been charged for the attack on the US Capitol Building. If it’s proven Trump had a reasonable expectation his followers would commit violence but stayed the course anyway, telling them to stop the certification of the election… well, that could be as serious a charge as sedition and seditious conspiracy.
Teflon Don has managed to avoid any actual convictions or prison time so far. Trump was able to delay the defamation lawsuit against him by Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos after denying her sexual assault allegation — so long that she