Here’s where all the cases against Trump stand as he campaigns for a return to the White House
WASHINGTON — From charges of conspiring to overturn a lost election to illegally stashing classified documents at his Florida estate, former President Donald Trump is facing four criminal charges in four different cities as he vies to regain the White House to win.
The cases, 91 crimes in all, are moving through the courts at different speeds. Some may not go to trial this year, even though a trial will begin in a few weeks.
A look at each case:
Special counsel Jack Smith has led two federal investigations related to Trump, both of which resulted in charges against the former president.
The first charges resulting from this investigation came in June when Trump was indicted for mishandling top-secret documents at his Florida estate. The indictment alleges that Trump repeatedly enlisted aides and lawyers to help him hide data requested by investigators and arrogantly displayed a Pentagon “plan of attack” and secret map.
A superseding indictment issued in July added charges accusing Trump of asking for surveillance footage at his Mar-a-Lago estate to be deleted after FBI and Justice Department investigators visited in June 2022 brought to collect classified documents he took with him after leaving the White House. The new indictment also accuses him of illegally retaining a document he allegedly showed to visitors in New Jersey.
In total, Trump faces forty charges over classified documents. The most serious charge carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
Walt Nauta, a valet for Trump, and Carlos De Oliveira, the property manager of Trump’s Florida estate, have been accused in the case of plotting to hide surveillance footage from federal investigators and lying about it.
Trump, Nauta and De Oliveira have pleaded not guilty.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon set a trial date of May 20, 2024, although she has indicated it may be postponed.
Smith’s second case against Trump was unveiled in August when the former president was indicted in Washington on a misdemeanor charge for working to overturn the 2020 election results ahead of the violent riot by his supporters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. , 2021.
The four-count indictment includes charges of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding: the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s victory. It says Trump repeatedly told his supporters and others that he won the election, despite knowing it wasn’t true, and how he tried to convince administration officials, then-Vice President Mike Pence and ultimately Congress to overturn the legitimate results to make.
After a weeks-long campaign of lies about the election results, prosecutors allege, Trump sought to exploit the violence at the Capitol by using it as a reason to further delay the counting of votes that sealed his defeat.
In their charging documents, prosecutors pointed to a half-dozen unindicted co-conspirators, including lawyers inside and outside the government, who they said worked with Trump to overturn the election results and developed legally dubious plans to create lists of false to recruit voters in battleground states they won. by Biden.
The Trump campaign called the charges “bogus” and questioned why it took two and a half years to file them. He has pleaded not guilty.
The case was scheduled to go to trial on March 4 in federal court in Washington. But that date was canceled amid a Trump call on the legally untested question of whether a former president is immune from prosecution for official actions in the White House. Trump’s lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to intervene, but it is not clear whether the justices will do so.
Trump became the first former U.S. president in history to face criminal charges when he was indicted in New York in March on state charges stemming from hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to bury allegations of extramarital sexual encounters.
That case is expected to go to trial first, with a judge set to determine jury selection on March 25.
Trump has already pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying company records. Each charge carries a maximum prison sentence of four years, although it is not clear whether a judge would impose prison time if Trump were convicted.
The counts are linked to a series of checks made out to his lawyer Michael Cohen to reimburse him for his role in paying off porn actor Stormy Daniels, who claimed to have had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006, not long after Melania Trump gave birth was from a son. Barron. These payments were recorded in various internal company documents as being for a statutory retainer that prosecutors say did not exist.
Trump, along with 18 other people — including former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows — are accused of violating the state’s anti-racketeering law by plotting to emulate his election loss. 2020 illegally undone.
The suit, filed in August, accuses Trump or his allies of suggesting that Georgia’s Republican secretary of state could “find” him enough votes to win the battleground state; of harassing an election worker who faced false claims of fraud; an, in an attempt to convince Georgian lawmakers to ignore the will of the voters and appoint a new slate of Electoral College electors favorable to Trump.
In the months since, several defendants, including attorneys Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, have pleaded guilty.
No trial date has yet been set for Trump and the others, and the case has been consumed in recent weeks by revelations about a personal relationship between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, whose office filed the case, and an outside prosecutor who filed them hired.