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Donald Trump is almost a year out from the 2024 presidential election — during which he will potentially face six trials. Here’s a look at where things stand with the myriad of legal challenges confronting the former president while he’s on the campaign trail:
On Friday, a timeline was set for the first trial he’ll face in the New York attorney general’s sweeping fraud case against his family real estate business.
Trump, his adult sons, Eric and Don Jr., and various associates at the Trump Organization will go on trial in Manhattan Supreme Court on Oct. 2 in a case expected to last almost three months. The AG is seeking $250 million in her lawsuit —vwhich accuses Trump and his executives of wildly inflating the value of company assets to secure better loan and insurance terms and boost his net worth — and to severely restrict the Trumps’ business prospects in New York.
On Wednesday, Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that E. Jean Carroll won’t need to prove Trump defamed her again when they go to trial for the writer’s second case against Trump, set to begin on Jan. 15.
The trial will actually cover the first lawsuit she brought against him in 2019, when the then-president accused her of lying about him sexually assaulting her in a Midtown changing room in 1996. It was delayed by arguments that presidents had a legal right to be shielded from lawsuits.
Trump lost Carroll’s other case in May, with jurors swiftly finding him liable for defamation and sexual abuse, awarding her $5 million in damages.
Kaplan’s Wednesday ruling determined those remarks President Trump made about Carroll were “substantially the same” as what he said after his time in power and that jurors should only be tasked with deciding whether he owes Carroll more money. She’s demanding $10 million.
The first criminal case filed against Trump is still on track for trial on March 25.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has accused him of 34 felonies for paying his former lawyer Michael Cohen under the table to disguise reimbursement for a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election that violated election laws.
Trump’s federal election interference case is set to start in D.C. on March 4, a day before the Super Tuesday presidential primary, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled last month.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s 45-page indictment, filed in August, accuses Trump and six unnamed co-conspirators of working to overturn the election in a sweeping plot. The trial will play out steps from the Capitol building where the nation saw thousands of his supporters violently try to prevent Congress from certifying President Biden’s win on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and 17 others were charged last month under Georgia’s powerful RICO statute with trying to subvert the state’s 2020 presidential election results.
Two of Trump’s co-defendants, Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell, are expected to go on trial Oct. 23. Trump and the others are fighting to delay their cases being heard.
On Friday, a bombshell report revealed the special grand jury recommended indicting Sen. Lindsey Graham for his role in the alleged election interference conspiracy. But Fulton County DA Fani Willis decided not to pursue charges.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has set a May 20, 2024, trial date in the classified documents case. This image, contained in the indictment against former President Donald Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla.Trump was charged with 37 felonies in Florida in June in a historic indictment accusing him of disclosing highly sensitive national secrets within classified documents he stashed in bathrooms and ballrooms at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
He’s accused of haphazardly hoarding classified information about nuclear programs, defense and weapons capabilities of both the U.S. and foreign nations.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon has set a May 20, 2024, trial date in the case.
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