{"id":2001162,"date":"2023-08-15T11:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T15:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-whos-who-in-all-of-the-former-presidents-legal-dramas\/"},"modified":"2023-08-15T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T15:50:08","slug":"donald-trump-indicted-whos-who-in-all-of-the-former-presidents-legal-dramas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-whos-who-in-all-of-the-former-presidents-legal-dramas\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump indicted: Key players in ex-president&#8217;s legal battles"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fdonald-trump-indicted-whos-who-in-all-of-the-former-presidents-legal-dramas%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=2001162&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--><h2>Former President Donald Trump Faces Legal \u2063Battles Across Multiple States<\/h2>\n<p>Former President\u2064 Donald Trump\u2064 is currently embroiled in four criminal\u200d cases and \u200cfacing\u2062 five indictments, involving four judges, two \u2063district attorneys, and one special counsel. These \u2064legal \u2062battles span across \u2062two \u200cdifferent states and the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Georgia Indictment: The\u200c Biggest Case of Fani Willis&#8217; Life<\/h3>\n<p>On Monday night, Trump received his fifth indictment since March from Fulton \u200dCounty, Georgia. The indictment\u200b includes 13 counts, such as felony racketeering and numerous conspiracy charges, among a total of 41 \u200bcounts involving 18 others. \u200bJudge Scott McAfee \u200bhas been\u2063 assigned to \u2062the\u200c case.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Furthermore, three other judges, \u200cone special counsel, and one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/family-disgusted-with-judges-treatment-of-man-who-allegedly-killed-their-kid-in-dui-crash\/\" title=\"Family outraged by judge's handling of DUI crash that claimed their child's life.\">district\u200d attorney<\/a> are preparing to hear or plead their cases against the former\u2063 president in the coming year.<\/p>\n<h2>Overview of Donald Trump&#8217;s\u2064 Legal Cases<\/h2>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take \u200ca closer look at each of the \u2064cases:<\/p>\n<h3>Case 1:\u200d Manhattan &#8211; Alvin Bragg and Juan \u2063Merchan<\/h3>\n<p>In March, Trump was indicted on 34 felony counts\u200d in Manhattan, New York. \u200dThe charges revolve around \u200bthe falsification of\u2063 business records\u2062 to\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-whos-who-in-all-of-the-former-presidents-legal-dramas\/\" title=\"Donald Trump indicted: Key players in ex-president's legal battles\">facilitate hush money payments<\/a> to adult film star \u2064Stormy\u2064 Daniels during the 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan District Attorney\u200d Alvin Bragg and his \u2062team\u2064 made history by being the first to bring\u200b an\u200c indictment against a former president. Bragg, a Democrat, \u2062has faced criticism from Trump, who repeatedly \u200dtries to discredit the investigation by highlighting Bragg&#8217;s association with liberal donor\u200b George Soros.<\/p>\n<p>New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan will\u2063 preside over Trump&#8217;s\u200d business fraud indictment. \u200cTrump requested Merchan&#8217;s recusal, arguing that the judge&#8217;s previous involvement in a tax \u200bfraud\u2063 trial against the Trump \u200cOrganization and his daughter&#8217;s ad \u200dcompany&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/miranda-devine-ex-hunter-business-partner-tony-bobulinski-takes-on-the-biden-machine\/\" title=\"Miranda Devine: Ex-Hunter Business Partner Tony Bobulinski Takes on the Biden Machine\">potential financial benefit<\/a> from the case would compromise his impartiality. However, Merchan rejected the\u200b recusal request,\u200b setting up a \u2063contentious environment for the trial scheduled \u2063on March 25, 2024.<\/p>\n<h3>Case 2: DOJ,\u200b Classified\u200b Documents\u200c Investigation -\u200c Jack Smith and Aileen Cannon<\/h3>\n<p>In June, a grand \u200cjury \u2062in\u200b Florida indicted Trump on 37\u2062 counts, including violations of the Espionage Act, \u2062related to the mishandling of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brad-slager-did-mark-zuckerberg-prove-the-fbi-created-the-russian-disinfo-narrative-on-hunters-laptop\/\" title=\"Brad Slager: Did Mark Zuckerberg Prove the FBI Created the \u201cRussian Disinfo\u201d Narrative on Hunter\u2019s Laptop?\">classified documents discovered<\/a> at\u200c Mar-a-Lago.\u200d Special counsel Jack \u2063Smith\u200d later released a superseding indictment, bringing the total charges against Trump to\u200c 40.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans\u200b have expressed concern over the FBI raid at Trump&#8217;s Florida home and the steady stream of information from FBI whistleblowers. Trump has criticized Smith, accusing him of election interference and prosecutorial \u200cmisconduct. However, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, appointed by Trump in\u200c 2020, will oversee \u200bthe \u200ccase, \u200bpotentially providing\u2063 an\u200c advantage to the former \u2062president. The trial is set for May 20, 2024.<\/p>\n<h3>Case 3: DOJ,\u200b Jan. 6 Investigation &#8211; Jack Smith\u200c and Tanya Chutkan<\/h3>\n<p>Trump is also\u2064 under investigation\u2063 by special\u200c counsel Jack\u200b Smith for his involvement in \u2062the efforts to overturn the 2020 election, \u200dwhich led to the January 6, 2021, riot at\u200c the U.S. Capitol. The\u2064 indictment was issued on August 1\u200b in \u2062Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have criticized \u200cU.S. District \u2064Judge \u200cTanya Chutkan, \u2063an \u2063appointee of Barack Obama, for her perceived bias in issuing harsher sentences \u200bfor those involved in the January 6 riots. Trump has frequently attacked Chutkan on social media, accusing her of being highly partisan and unfair. Chutkan has responded by placing a protective order on the case to limit\u200b public disclosure of evidence.\u200c The trial date is yet\u2063 to be scheduled.<\/p>\n<h3>Case 4:\u2064 Georgia &#8211; Fani Willis and\u200c Scott McAfee<\/h3>\n<p>Fani\u200d Willis, the first black\u2062 woman to lead the Fulton County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/radical-cultural-change-coming-to-america\/\" title=\"Radical Cultural Change Coming to America?\">district attorney<\/a>&#8216;s office, recently released criminal charges against Trump. She has faced backlash\u200b from the former president and his allies, many of whom were also named\u200c in the indictment.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has launched a barrage of attacks \u2063against Willis, calling her\u200b an &#8220;out of control and very\u2063 corrupt&#8221; district attorney who is \u200ctargeting him. Judge Scott McAfee, appointed \u200bby Gov. Brian Kemp, will preside over the \u2063case. Willis \u200caims to have the trial \u200cwithin the next six months, \u200dbut the trial date will ultimately be determined by McAfee.<\/p>\n<p>As\u200d these legal battles unfold, the former president finds himself entangled in a complex web\u2064 of court proceedings, with each case presenting its own unique challenges and \u2064dynamics.<\/p>\n<p><em>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">here<\/a> \u200c to read more from\u200c The Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump is embroiled in multiple legal battles, facing four criminal cases and five indictments. These cases involve four judges, two district attorneys, and one special counsel across two states and the Justice Department. Trump&#8217;s latest indictment in Fulton County, Georgia, marks his fifth since March, with charges including 13 counts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2001163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}