Donald  Trump's  Criminal  Trials

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Donald Trump is such a chameleon that the negative nicknames keep changing as he commits another new atrocity on social media and then lies about it in multiple ways. Trump was impeached twice by Congress and McConnell's fascist Senators blocked any actual trial. Donald Trump is finally being made accountable for some of his crimes; his first serious indictment - related to the hush money payments in 2016 - was in March 2023.

"When Donald Trump's Secret Service detail 'drew straws' about who would go inside the New York City courthouse
for Trump's booking and arraignment, did the winners or the losers get the assignment ??" — G.E. Nordell

"It's like watching a train wreck in real life, but the train wreck is our democracy." — Amanda McKay, Daily Kos

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Overview  of  The  Trump  Criminal  Trials

Even among the especially well informed, five has been the magic number of criminally-tinged investigations implicating former President Donald J. Trump:

First, there is the investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) into the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago. [lead investigator Jack Smith] { see below }

Second, there is DOJ’s investigation of the effort to stymie the transfer of power following the 2020 election, including the January 6th insurrection
at the U.S. Capitol [Jack Smith] { see below }

Third is the investigation - led by Fani Willis, the district attorney for Fulton County, Georgia - into election fraud in that state, arising from Trump’s having asked
the Georgia secretary of state to 'find' enough votes to hand him an Electoral College win there. { see below }

Fourth is the set of investigations (some criminal, some civil) into Trump’s various corporate enterprises . . .
(Alvin Bragg, Letitia James each in separate probes) { see below }

Fifth is the long-running investigation that DA Bragg is leading into the alleged campaign hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. { see below }

But as it turns out, there’s a sixth: one that involves both D.O.J. and the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), and it concerns Trump's conduct
since he left office and after he was expelled from Twitter and launched his own social media platform, Truth Social. { see below }

"A Guide To The Possible Forthcoming Indictments of Donald Trump" [23 January 2023] article by David A. Graham
Despite all of the uncertainty, the information already available makes it possible to know what to watch for.

Trump legal and GOP political calendar - Sept 2023 to Nov 2024
updated by reporter Teresa M. Hannafin at the Boston Globe

		"Indicted: An In-Depth Look At Trump’s Controversies, Indictment, Hush Money Payments, and More" [2023] by John B. Welch Broad examination of the Russian collusion investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller, Trump's alleged involvement in hush money payments made to multiple women with whom he had affairs, Trump's relationship with the media, his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and his use of Twitter as a political tool; author asserts that contents are 'a balanced, unbiased account of events, with all sides of each controversy examined in detail' 45-page Kindle Edition from indep [4/2023] for $5.65 45-page Kindle Edition from indep [4/2023] for $5.46 75-page indep 9x6 pb [4/2023] for $10.67
		"The Trump Indictments: The 91 Criminal Counts Against The Former President of The United States - The Historic Charging Documents, Complete & Unabridged" [2023] Edited and with an Introduction by M.S.N.B.C. host Ali Velshi Kindle Edition from Mariner Books [9/2023] for $12.99 Mariner Books 8x5¼ pb [9/2023] for $16.19

both impeachments
December 2019 and January 2021
Donald Trump was impeached twice by Congress: first, for abuse of power and for obstruction of justice, and second, for 'incitement of insurrection';
he was acquitted in both cases by Sen. Mitch McConnell and his lockstep Republican Party without any actual trial.

Hillary Clinton conspiracy lawsuit
September 2022 to January 2023
In September 2022, U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks threw out the Florida lawsuit alleging a vast conspiracy against Trump in the 2016 presidential election, then fined his lawyer Alina Habba $50,000 to pay the legal fees of one of the defendants, Charles Dolan. In January 2023, Judge Middlebrooks ordered former President Donald Trump and lawyer Habba to pay $938,000 in sanctions to 31 other defendants, including Trump's 2016 Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. Middlebrooks wrote in a scathing ruling that "[The lawsuit] was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and . . . was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose. No reasonable lawyer would have filed it."

E. Jean Carroll defamation and battery lawsuits
since Nov 2019
former Elle Magazine advice columnist (1993-2019)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean_Carroll
Carroll's lawyer Roberta A. Kaplan (9/2020)

E. Jean Carroll  Lawsuits  Timeline mid-1990s: Donald Trump allegedly raped columnist E. Jean Carroll {E.J.C.} in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in New York City Nov 2019: E.J.C. filed a federal lawsuit against Donald Trump for sexual assault, battery, and defamation. Nov 2022: E.J.C. filed a new defamation suit after Trump said in a Truth Social post that her claims were "a Hoax and a lie" adding "This woman is not my type!". 2023 Wed April 26: Former Elle advice columnist E. Jean Carroll testified that Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room after asking her advice on buying a present. She said that they had a conversation that was "very joshing" until Trump led her into a dressing room, supposedly to try on lingerie; he pushed her in, locked the door, and then, she said, "Donald Trump raped me". Trump responded by postin that Carroll's story a "made-up SCAM". 2023 May 9: After deliberating less than three hours, a Manhattan jury found that Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll and subsequently defamed her, and ordered the former president to pay her close to $5 million; Trump is liable for $2.02 million for sexual abuse and $2.98 million for defamation. Trump refused to take the stand during the trial. The jury did not find Trump liable for rape and also declined to rule on a charge of forcible touching. Trump’s lawyer said that he would appeal as his client took to Truth Social again to decry “the greatest witch hunt of all time”. 2023 May 10: Donald Trump said during a C.N.N. town hall telecast that E. Jean Carroll was a "wack job" and that her story was "fake". 2023 Mon May 22: As part of a separate defamation suit that she filed in 2019, E.J.C. asked a Manhattan federal court for $10 million in new damages from former President Donald Trump for insults that he directed at her on C.N.N. a day after she won $5 million from Trump in her sexual abuse and defamation complaint. 2023 June 27: Former President Trump countersued E. Jean Carroll for defamation after being found liable for sexually abusing her; Carroll’s attorney said that Trump’s counterclaim is “nothing more than his latest effort to delay accountability”. 2023 Tue July 11: The Justice Department said that it will no longer shield former President Donald Trump in E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit by no longer certifying that he was acting within his presidential duties in 2019 when he denied rape allegations by Carroll, claiming that she was "not my type". The U.S. government stance gave Trump absolute immunity. D.O.J. lawyers told the presiding judge in Carroll's federal law suit that due to guidance from an appellate court and Carroll's success in a New York state defamation suit "there is no longer a sufficient basis to conclude" that Trump's comments were made out of a desire to serve the U.S. government. 2023 Mon Aug 7: U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan dismissed Donald Trump's defamation counterclaim against writer E. Jean Carroll, saying that her statement that the former president had raped her was "substantially true". After the May verdict, Carroll stated that Trump had raped her, prompting Trump to file his counterclaim. Judge Kaplan dismissed Trump's counterclaim and said that Trump's filing failed to show that Carroll made her statement out of malice. 2023 Wed Sept 6: U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that former President Donald Trump is liable for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll in 2019 when, as president, he denied her allegation that he sexually assaulted her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s; the ruling specified that the previous defamation trial related to the same allegations had established in May that Trump sexually abused Carroll, so the second trial will "be limited to the issue of damages only". Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages in the first trial; Trump denies wrongdoing and is appealing that verdict.

		"Donald Trump & E. Jean Carroll's Sexual Abuse Proceedings: The Concealed Truth Behind The Allegations of Rape and Defamation Against Donald Trump and Jury's Proceedings" [2023] by Felicia M. Collins A gripping account of the sexual misconduct allegations against former U.S. President Donald Trump, including a detailed chronology of Trump's alleged sexual misconduct over the past four decades, featuring first-hand accounts from victims who have come forward with their stories; book also covers the highly publicized sexual assault lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll against Trump, including her harrowing account of the incident 47-page Kindle Edition from indep [4/2023] for $4.99 84-page indep 8½x5½ large print pb [4/2023] for $9.99
		"E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump" [Brave New Films Oct 2024] several actors read from E. Jean Carroll’s courageous testimony with Kathryn Hahn, Ellen Burstyn, Lexi Underwood, and Regina Taylor not yet listed at IMDb, nor on the Brave New Films website (9/2024) watch 9/2024 official trailer [1:23] online at BNF's YouTube channel

Trump lawsuit against C.N.N.
October 2022 to July 2023