Try keeping up with the confusing labyrinth of legal matters that former President Donald Trump and his friends are currently facing or in some way involving, which he categorises as a “witch hunt.”
These are some of the significant events from this week:
Classified records: On Friday, the Justice Department formally appealed the special master’s appointment to supervise the review of records that were taken from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in August. The probe was slowed down as a result of Trump’s request for the special master, which was approved by a judge he nominated.
Congress: After concluding its last public hearing before the midterm elections, the House committee on January 6 subpoenaed him for papers and testimony. The members want Trump to address their claims that he personally encouraged the uprising in the Capitol and attempted to rig the 2020 election, which are supported by testimony from hearings. Trump responded with a 14-page tirade in which he repeated his false statements about the 2020 elections and called the committee’s investigation a “Charade and Witch Hunt.” However, he made no mention of whether he would abide by the subpoena. Check out a factual analysis of Trump’s letter.
– New York Letitia James, the state’s attorney general, is attempting to prevent Trump’s firm from transferring any assets to any companies without obtaining court authorization. The state claims that the Trump Organization formed a new organisation in Delaware the same day it was sued. James accuses Trump, his three eldest children, and his business of lying about their holdings to get low interest rates and tax breaks. Trump referred to the investigation as “the biggest witch hunt in our country’s history” during testimony before investigators earlier this year, just before invoking his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Georgia – According to two sources cited by AWN, a pro-Trump operator who was captured on camera taking part in a hack of the Georgia voting system after the 2020 election testified before the special grand jury looking into attempts to reverse the results there.
Federal grand jury hearing evidence in the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack was observed outside the Washington, DC, courthouse by two former Trump administration officials. Former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff was Marc Short. Trump ally Kash Patel served as his national security adviser.
Supreme Court – In response to Trump’s request, the court declined to get involved in the Justice Department’s investigation into the Mar-a-Lago controversy involving the secret papers.
Another case is about to come up:
City of New York – Later this month, New York City prosecutors will bring Trump’s corporation to trial for violating tax rules. Trump naturally referred to it as a “witch hunt” when the Supreme Court decided in 2020 that prosecutors may obtain his financial records.
Not every development is undesirable to Trump:
Igor Danchenko, a special counsel, is accused of lying to the FBI but the judge dismissed one of five charges against him on Friday. Danchenko served as the main source for the infamous and deficient dossier that served as the impetus for the FBI investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia after the 2016 election. Remember that Trump first began referring to the Russia inquiry as a “witch hunt.”
The Danchenko trial, which feels like a lifetime ago, is most likely the final act of special counsel John Durham’s investigation into the Russia investigation. The fact that the special counsel appointed by Trump to look into the Russia inquiry is still in place years later indicates that there will be long-lasting effects from his leadership.
It might serve as a prototype for future developments. If Republicans gain control of the House of Representatives as a result of the election in November, they have said they will shut down the January 6 committee and launch an investigation into the investigation, even though investigations into Trump’s finances and his actions in 2020 and 2021 conducted by state, city, and federal authorities would continue.
Even if Republicans take back the House and the Senate, it is safe to expect that Trump will continue to claim that elections are rigged. We do not yet know how these numerous investigations will turn up. In the 2016 election, which he won, he claimed there was significant voting fraud. He claimed that there was significant voting fraud in the 2020 election, which he officially denies losing.
We can also presume that he will keep referring to any inquiry as a “witch hunt.”
