Even before leaving the presidency of the United States in January 2021, Donald Trump has accumulated inquiries into his finances, his political practices, his electoral strategies and even his respect for intelligence laws. He dismisses them all, accusing a “witch hunt” against him.
The search of the residence of Donald Trump in the state of Florida again drew attention to the various investigations involving the former Republican president.
Prosecutors and lawmakers are investigating issues ranging from his potential role in the attack on Capitol Hill to the business practices and tax returns of his family business.
Here are some of the key investigations:
Capitol invasion
A series of explosive hearings of the House panel that investigated the tragic seizure of the Capitol by hundreds of Trump supporters on January 6, 2021, offered a roadmap for potentially charging the Republican mogul with a crime.
Lawmakers noted that Trump knew he had lost the 2020 election to Democrat Joe Biden but persisted with his accusations of fraud, ultimately urging his supporters in Washington for a rally that ended with an assault on Congress that left five dead.
The House committee’s work is separate from the criminal investigation the Justice Department has launched into hundreds of others involved in the assault, though US Attorney Merrick Garland has not said whether his prosecutors are investigating Trump.
find the votes
Trump pressured election officials in the southern state of Georgia to “find” the votes he needed to beat Biden in 2020, prompting the state attorney to investigate the complaint.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis formed a special grand jury and investigators interviewed dozens of witnesses.
The investigation is now looking into the phone call to election officials and Trump’s alleged public and private pressure on authorities, including the governor, attorney general and chief investigator for the secretary of state.
Trump has defended himself, in January alleging “misconduct by the Prosecutor’s Office” at a rally in Texas (south), in which he called for a protest against “radical, cruel and racist prosecutors”, which led Willis to request a security escort reinforced by the FBI.
Trump Organization
New York state authorities have been investigating the Trump Organization’s business practices, including whether the group misled lenders and tax authorities about its real estate values.
However, in March, the prosecutor leading an investigation into the former president’s finances resigned due to the decision of the new Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, not to proceed with the prosecution against Trump.
The investigation delved into whether Trump fraudulently overvalued multiple assets to secure loans and then undervalued them to minimize taxes.
It was launched by Bragg’s predecessor, Cyrus Vance, and Bragg took over the case when he took over in January.
Prosecutor Mark Pomerantz argued that Trump is “guilty of numerous serious crimes,” according to his resignation letter published by the newspaper. The New York Times.
New York State Attorney General Letitia James is also launching a civil investigation into the Trump family conglomerate’s property valuation and tax reporting practices.
Raid on Florida residence
The FBI raid and search for documents at Trump’s Florida residence was related to the possible mishandling of classified documents that had been sent to Mar-a-Lago after he left the White House in January 2021.
Spokesmen for the National Archives said in February that they had recovered 15 boxes of documents from Mar-a-Lago and asked the Justice Department to investigate Trump’s handling of classified information.
The recovery of the boxes raised questions about Trump’s adherence to presidential records laws enacted after the 1970s Watergate scandal that require Oval Office occupants to keep records.
Trump called the search “procedural misconduct” and an attack “an attack by Democrats on the radical left who desperately don’t want me to run for president in 2024,” even though the FBI is headed by a director appointed by the FBI. the same.