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The former American president faces 19 legal proceedings, ranging from a rape charge to multiple financial scams, including attempts to bribe witnesses in the context of the last presidential election, not to mention the investigation into his involvement in the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Once again Donald Trump has tempted fate. On January 15, on the stage of his rally in Arizona, the former president spontaneously addressed his latest legal bickering, to confirm to his idolatrous public the witch hunt of which he would be the victim by the henchmen of communism and the accomplices of criminal migrants. . “I have never heard of Laetitia James”, he claimed. The latter, no less than the Attorney General, the Minister of Justice of the State of New York, recalled to her good memory on January 18, by publishing the main lines of the case which has opposed her since almost two years at the Trump Organization, the real estate empire of the same name.
To these summonses for a civil lawsuit brought by the State of New York concerning a good dozen false declarations on the value of its assets, intended to fool the tax authorities, insurers and investors, is added a new insult: a summons to appear, issued by the Senate Committee of Inquiry into the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, of four of his unofficial advisers most implicated in his spurious campaign against the alleged tru…