Former US President Donald Trump, who is seeking re-election in the 2024 presidential election, has faced legal challenges in a series of lawsuits. Overview:

The US Federal Police (FBI) raid last August on Trump’s private home in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, made headlines around the world. Investigators seized nearly 11,000 government documents, including numerous classified documents that Trump received from the White House at the end of his term in January 2021.

In November, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed prosecutor Jack Smith as special prosecutor, and cases are now open. According to media reports, one of the accusations deliberate keeping of national defense secrets in violation of the anti-espionage law, false statements and one Conspiracy to obstruct justice. Trump is scheduled to appear in federal court in Miami on Tuesday.

Special Counsel Smith is also investigating Trump’s role in the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack. The question is whether the then President held criminal responsibility for the bloody attack on the US Congress. Hundreds of radical Trump supporters stormed the Capitol as Democrat Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election would be confirmed there.

Trump has previously urged his supporters to march to the Capitol and fight “whatever”. Last December, the House investigation committee on the attack on the Capitol Building recommended that the judiciary take criminal action against Trump for, among other things, inciting or aiding and abetting a riot.

columnist and Author E Jean Carroll Trump accused her of raping her in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman luxury mall in New York in the 1990s. The 79-year-old made the allegation public for the first time in 2019, when Trump was president. Trump dismissed the allegations as false and stated that Carroll was not his “type”.

Carroll, who wrote for a long time in Elle magazine, first sued Trump for this. defamation. Last November, Carroll also sued the former president. alleged rape Trump was convicted of sexual assault but not found guilty of rape.

in connection with shut up pay money back to the past Porn actress Stormy Daniels Prior to the 2016 presidential election, Trump was the first former president in US history to be convicted at the end of March. Manhattan Attorney General, Republican Forgery of commercial documents in 34 cases. At a historic court hearing in early April, Trump pleaded not guilty. The process is unlikely to begin until the beginning of next year.

in the US state Georgia In the wake of the 2020 presidential election, the judiciary believes that Trump and his allies to spoil the election result.. Among other things, Trump famously asked Georgia electoral officer Brad Raffensperger in a famous phone call to “find” the votes needed for a victory in the southern state. Therefore, Trump can be charged with conspiracy in connection with election fraud or election interference.

The so-called grand jury submitted a final report in which indictments were proposed in several cases, according to the chairman of the laity – but it is unclear who it was against. Now the responsible prosecutor, Fani Willis, has to decide on the continuation of the trial.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James indicted Trump and her three eldest children in September 2022 financial fraud. The family holding company, the Trump Organization, is said to have deceived tax authorities, banks, and insurance companies for years to gain advantages such as exaggerating or underestimating real estate ownership. James is seeking a $250 million fine.

in a separate prosecution for tax evasion The Trump Organization was fined $1.6 million in January. Allen Weisselberg, the business empire’s longtime chief financial officer, was sentenced to five months in prison and a fine of more than $2 million. Trump himself was not blamed.