Political analysts and legal experts say that Donald Trump's legal troubles have become too much for him to overcome.
Trump and three of his adult children were accused of lying to tax collectors, lenders and insurers in a "staggering" fraud scheme that routinely misstated the value of his properties to enrich themselves.
A civil lawsuit was filed by New York's attorney general as the FBI investigates Trump's holding of sensitive government documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and a special grand jury in Georgia considers whether he and others attempted to influence state election officials after his defeat there
The former president has said that he will run for president again. The cascade of investigations could derail that bid.
Allan Lichtman, a history professor at American University in Washington, has correctly predicted every presidential election since 1984. He has too much baggage to be able to run again even if he escaped jail. I don't think he's going to get out of jail.
The CFO of the Trump Organization pleaded guilty to tax fraud.
According to the New York attorney general, Trump provided fraudulent statements of his net worth to obtain loans, get insurance benefits, and pay lower taxes. They were named as defendants.
James referred to Trump's 1987 book, The Art of the Deal, at the press conference.
Donald Trump engaged in years of illegal conduct to inflate his net worth in order to deceive banks and the people of New York. It doesn't mean that you have money that you don't have. She said it was the art of stealing.
The former president's family should be banned from running businesses in the state and he should pay at least $250 million in penalties.
She said she was referring allegations of criminal fraud to federal prosecutors in Manhattan as well as the Internal Revenue Service.
Trump referred to James as a fraud who was campaigning on a "get Trump" platform, despite the fact that she was black, in his Truth Social platform.
Critics said the suit strikes at the heart of Trump's self-portrayal as a successful property developer who made billions, host of The Apprentice and promised to apply that business expertise to the presidency.
According to a constitutional law professor at Harvard University, the civil component involves things of particular significance to Trump and his family and his organisation, namely their ability to defraud the public, to defraud banks, to defraud insurance companies. The whole Trump empire is involved in a meltdown without all of that corruption.
As a practical matter, this is going to cause more sleepless nights for Mr Trump than almost anything else.
No previous president has had so many investigations. The FBI searched Mar-a-Lago last month and seized official documents. There is a chance that Trump will be indicted for violating the Espionage Act, obstruction of a federal investigation or handling sensitive government records.
Trump often threw sand in the legal gears. He persuaded the court to appoint a judge to review the documents. Dearie seems to be far from a yes-man at this point. He told Trump's lawyers that they couldn't have their cake and eat it as well.
There is a special master in the Trump case.
The ex-president is being investigated by a state grand jury in Georgia for his alleged role in subverting that state's election result.
He is being investigated by the justice department for his involvement in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol by a mob of his supporters. The hearings of the House of Representatives committee are scheduled to resume next week.
The Trump Organization, which manages hotels, golf courses and other properties around the world, is set to go on trial next month in a criminal case accusing it of giving untaxed perks to senior executives.
A federal appeals court allowed the justice department to resume its review of classified records seized from Mar-a-Lago as part of its criminal investigation. He said that there doesn't have to be a process. You can declassify if you are the president of the US.
It is possible to think about sending it to Mar-a-Lago or anywhere else. There can be a process but it doesn't have to be.
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