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Key terms explained as Trump faces multiple criminal proceedings

2024-01-11 00:00:00.0 独立报-美国政治原网页

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Donald Trump appears to be on course to win the Republican nomination for president this year, at least according to the polls, but is running against a backdrop of unprecedented legal chaos that could yet derail his campaign.

The candidate, already the first president in American history to be impeached twice, also became the first to face criminal charges last April when he was indicted in New York on accusations that he had falsified his business records to conceal “hush money” payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign to stay silent about their extramarital affair a decade earlier.

He was indicted on three more occasions last year, accused of hoarding classified documents belonging to the US government in Florida and of attempting to overturn the 2020 election in two separate cases in Washington DC and Fulton County, Georgia.

The former commander-in-chief is also battling other civil lawsuits relating to his business practices and personal history and has denied all possible charges against him, arguing that, in any case, a president should be granted absolute immunity from prosecution to enable them to go about their duties and make difficult decisions in the Oval Office without fear of subsequent legal reprisals.

Mr Trump’s hard-working attorneys are meanwhile also contesting the decision by the states of Colorado and Maine to remove him from their ballot papers in agreement with Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which stipulates that anyone who was sworn an oath of office and then violated it by “engaging in insurrection” cannot run again, an explicit rebuke over his role in stoking the deadly riot at the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

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All of which has amounted to a blizzard of litigation and you would be entirely forgiven for feeling snowed-under by it all.

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