{"id":1637396,"date":"2022-09-09T07:34:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T11:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1637396"},"modified":"2022-09-09T07:34:59","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T11:34:59","slug":"criminal-investigation-into-trump-widens-as-former-president-now-faces-several-probes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/criminal-investigation-into-trump-widens-as-former-president-now-faces-several-probes\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal Investigation Into Trump Widens As Former President Now Faces Several Probes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcriminal-investigation-into-trump-widens-as-former-president-now-faces-several-probes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1637396&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump is facing several criminal investigations, at the state and federal levels, that threaten to derail another potential run for president in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the recent news coverage surrounding the investigations has focused on the FBI\u2019s raid last month of the former president\u2019s Florida home at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<p>The raid came after federal officials had repeatedly tried to get Trump to return government documents to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) but faced stiff resistance, even though some on the president\u2019s own legal team had urged him to return the documents.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-judge-to-appoint-special-master-to-oversee-fbi-review-of-trump-records\">approved<\/a> Trump\u2019s request to appoint a special master to oversee the FBI\u2019s audit of materials seized in the raid. Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who served during the Trump administration, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trumps-former-attorney-general-bill-barr-makes-surprising-remarks-about-the-former-president\">called<\/a> the request for a special master \u201ca bit of a red herring\u201d because \u201cthere doesn\u2019t appear to be\u201d many \u201cdocuments relating to his private lawyer communications, him as an individual and his outside lawyers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/doj-intends-to-appeal-judges-special-master-order-in-trump-raid-case\">appealing<\/a> the ruling to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that the FBI needed to continue working to identify classified materials that were seized during the raid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis motion is limited to \u2026 the seized classified records because those aspects of the order will cause the most immediate and serious harms to the government and the public,\u201d the department said in its court filing.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors suggested in the filing that there might be classified information missing from the material that was seized at Mar-a-Lago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a stay, the government and the public will also suffer irreparable harm from the undue delay to the criminal investigation,\u201d prosecutors wrote. \u201cThe injunction against using classified records in the criminal investigation could impede efforts to identify the existence of any additional classified records that are not being properly stored \u2014 which itself presents the potential for ongoing risk to national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump is also facing a criminal investigation related to his business dealings in New York, a criminal investigation in Georgia over alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and a second federal investigation over the events surrounding the January 6 riot and alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>The latest development regarding the federal investigation into his alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election came on Thursday when The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/08\/us\/politics\/trump-save-america-pac-subpoenas.html\">reported<\/a> that a federal grand jury was investigating Trump\u2019s Save America PAC.<\/p>\n<p>The federal grand jury issued subpoenas seeking information about the inner workings of the organization as the former president solicited millions of dollars while making spurious claims about the election.<\/p>\n<p>The report suggested that this might be a new criminal investigation as the new subpoenas \u201cappeared to have been issued by a different grand jury than the one that has been gathering evidence about\u201d other alleged efforts by the former president to overturn the results of the election.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is believed to be looking into \u201cwhether [Save America PAC] had duped donors through misleading appeals about election fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump is facing several criminal investigations, at the state and federal levels, that threaten to derail another potential run for president in 2024. Most of the recent news coverage surrounding the investigations has focused on the FBI\u2019s raid last month of the former president\u2019s Florida home at Mar-a-Lago. 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