6 lawsuits Donald Trump is going to have to deal with when he leaves office

[BigmanPigman]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/10/politics/donald-trump-lawsuits/index.html

Because there's been SO much legal turmoil around the President for his entire first term, I thought it might make sense to go over the pending litigation involving him and where it all stands at the moment.
1) Manhattan district attorney's office looking into financial inner workings of the Trump Organization.
2) New York state attorney general examining how Trump valued his assets.
3) Attorneys general of Maryland and Washington, DC, suing over the emoluments clause.
4) E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit.
5) Summer Zervos' defamation lawsuit
6) Mary Trump's lawsuit.

Aside from those half-dozen suits is the question of whether Trump could be charged with obstruction of justice for his attempts to impede and inhibit the investigation into the 2016 election and Russia's role in it by special counsel Robert Mueller. In a back-and-forth during congressional testimony in July 2019, Mueller, a former FBI director, suggested that he believed Trump could be charged once he left office.

It's impossible to know whether any of these pending lawsuits will ever emerge as a genuine threat to Trump. Especially when you consider that Trump has, for decades, shown a willingness to exercise absolutely every legal avenue to protect himself, muddy the waters and slow the proceedings to a crawl.

[Karadeniz]

1. Can we add voter intimidation, election interference...

[Aussie105]

2. Just do the easy thing . . .

Nail him on tax inconsistencies.

Yes, he has done things much more amoral and reprehensible, but it worked well to jail that other mob boss, Al Capone.

[lagomorph777]

3. The Constitution explicitly says you can be impeached AND indicted; they are fully separate things.

Article 1 Section 3
...

Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.

The above words were intended to prevent the perp from making a "double-jeopardy" argument. Not explicitly stated, but pretty clear to me, is that an impeachment acquittal doesn't protect the perp from indictment, any more than an impeachment conviction would. They are fully separate processes.

[BigmanPigman]

4. That's good info!