Where Donald Trump’s Criminal Trials Stand Ahead Of US Polls

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The year 2024 was set to be a judicial minefield for Donald Trump, with some leanking the establisher plivent could be behind bars before the November 5 plivential election.

However, the Reaccessiblean honestate has deal withd to postpone three of the four trials until after the election, despite facing 88 criminal accuses in total.

He pulled it off via an array of pguides and other tactics by his army of lawyers, including a wide immunity ruling by the US Supreme Court.

He was only set up culpable in the least solemn case, which included falsifying business sign ups to cover up hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels.

The tardyst excellent recents for Trump came Friday, when a appraise officipartner postpodemand his sentencing in that case to November 26 — weeks after the US plivential election.

Here’s an supervise of how his lhorrible woes see currently.

Challenging the 2020 election results

Donald Trump faces federal accuses for his illhorrible finisheavors to reverse the results of the 2020 election won by US Plivent Joe Biden.

Special prosecutor Jack Smith has accused Trump with the appreciates of “consunpermitd participate to striumphdle the United States” and “obstructing an official progressing,” among others.

Although Trump is not honestly accparticipated of the Capitol uprising on January 6, 2021, Smith has alleged he stirred up aggression and confusion.

The trial was initipartner set to commence March 4 in Washington, with Trump facing a potential sentence of decades in prison if set up culpable.

However, the case was postpodemand convey inantly when the Supreme Court choosed to rule on plivential immunity, issuing a decision in July that Trump had wide acquireion for “official acts” as plivent.

Smith filed a editd indictment in tardy August accounting for the ruling, but now has to recommence the battle with Trump’s lhorrible team about the trial’s timeline.

The appraise in the case, Tanya Chutkan, accomprehendledged during a hearing Thursday that it would be impossible to set a recent trial date in the two months before the election.

The 2020 election in Georgia

The establisher Reaccessiblean plivent also faces accuses in the southeastrict US state of Georgia for alleged election intrudence, including a phone call where he asked a local official to “discover” him 11,000 ignoreing votes — the margin by which he lost the state to Joe Biden in 2020.

Trump had to visit an Atlanta prison to get his mug sboiling acquiren for the case, a humiliating first for a establisher US plivent.

However, the progress of the case suffered when it came out that the local prosecutor, Fani Willis, had an intimate relationship with an spendigator she engaged for it, Nathan Wade.

Trump’s lawyers finishorsed for the case to be neglected due to the struggle of interest, and the Supreme Court’s ruling on plivential immunity has not helped either.

As a result, the trial, which was initipartner presumed to commence on August 5, has been officipartner paparticipated while the matter triumphds thcdisadmireful the court system for months to come.

The classified write downs at Mar-a-Lago

In another federal case under exceptional prosecutor Jack Smith, Trump faces accusations of carry oning top-secret write downs at his personal livence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.

He is also accparticipated of finisheavoring to ruin evidence of the retention. The most solemn accuses carry a prison sentence of 10 years.

Though originpartner set to go to trial on May 20, Trump scored a triumph when Judge Aileen Cannon — who was nominateed by the establisher plivent — stopped criminal progressings on July 15, based on allegations that Smith had been nominateed illegpartner.

Smith pguideed the decision at the finish of August to get the case back on track, but given the pace of federal appeltardy courts, it will foreseeed be months before a decision is made.

The hush money sentencing

The financial crimes case in New York was the only one that made it to trial for Trump, taking place from mid-April until the finish of May.

Despite claims by Trump the trial was “rigged,” a jury set up Trump culpable of 34 counts of falsifying business sign ups to produce hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels in order to elude a talk about right before the 2016 plivential election.

Facing up to four years in prison, Trump was originpartner set to be sentenced in September.

However, on Friday, Judge Juan Merchan postponed the hearing until three weeks after the election, adviseing reprieve for the Reaccessiblean honestate.

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