Trump Facing Setbacks in Other Probes as New York Case Continues

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This week, Donald Trump is going to be in big trouble as he has to go to court in New York on Tuesday over a crime he committed during his 2016 election campaign. Besides this, there are also investigations going on against him everywhere else – from Atlanta to Washington – that might cause more problems. This means it won’t be easy for him at all to win the next presidential elections.

In the past month, it became obvious that Trump has a hard time in Washington. Several judges made decisions which prevented Trump and his team from stopping certain people close to him – including his lawyer and former VP – from giving grand jury testimony about important things that happened.

A decision has been made by the Justice Department which will allow investigators to question people involved with Donald Trump. This means that no criminal charges are being brought, but the officials will be able to learn more about any wrong-doings at Trump’s house in Florida and whether he or his team tried to affect the US presidential election.

Randall Eliason, a former federal prosecutor and a George Washington University law professor said that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will have lots to say when discussing about an attempted insurrection.

The person in charge of the law in Atlanta is still looking into whether or not Trump and his friends succeeded in reversing his loss in the Georgia election. Earlier this year, a group of special judges said some people may have lied under oath and should be punished for it.

The former president was never asked to talk to the special grand jury, so he cannot be accused of lying. However, this report does not mean that Trump cannot be charged for other things, and his behavior in Georgia made it more difficult for him because everyone knew about it.

This investigation is very important, especially because it focuses on a former president. It’s unusual how many things need to be kept secret, which is different from the last investigation when Trump was president and they were looking into whether his campaign in 2016 had cheated with Russia to win the election.

Ty Cobb, a lawyer from the White House, tried to finish the investigation quickly by having staff members give interviews voluntarily rather than being forced with subpoenas. He said in an interview that if he could get both cooperation and maintain executive privilege it would help speed things up and be good for the president and country. This way, they were able to provide all the needed information faster.

When Trump was in office, he was protected from an investigation because the Justice Department said that you cannot accuse a president of a crime while they are in office. Now that Trump is not president anymore, his protection has been taken away and questions have been asked to people close to him by prosecutors. So far, Trump’s lawyers have tried to stop this but they haven’t succeeded.

Last month, someone really important in the D.C federal court said that Trump’s lawyer must answer more questions to a group of people called the grand jury in an investigation taking place at Mar-a-Lago. Before this, his lawyer had refused to answer the group’s questions by saying he couldn’t because of attorney-client privilege, but prosecutors insisted that he should still say more.

A group of people said that special rules can allow prosecutors to make a lawyer tell information if they show a judge that their client was doing something bad. Judge Beryl Howell then made a decision that the lawyer, Corcoran, had to come to court in one week.

Last week, a special judge, James Boasberg, said Mike Pence (our former Vice President) needs to answer questions in an investigation run by the Justice Department. This investigation is looking into the events that tried to change the results of the election.

A judge recently disagreed with Donald Trump’s team which tried to say that the Vice President, Mike Pence, should not have to answer questions about what happened on January 6th when a big group of Trump supporters took over the U.S Capitol. But, the Judge did agree with Pence’s lawyers who argued that for constitutional reasons, he cannot be asked any questions about it.

Someone from the Trump team did not want to comment on this story, but they said a statement about a ruling which affects Vice President Pence. The Justice Department was trying to remove the rights of Attorney-Client privilege and executive privilege, which both protect important discussions between people that make decisions.

Recently, a judge has ordered some people who used to work with Donald Trump (like Stephen Miller and Robert O’Brien), to give testimony in court, even though the Trump team said they couldn’t because of something called “executive privilege”. This means that the investigations into what happened have found important things.

But it may not be so easy to win a criminal case. This is because the criteria for making a decision about executive privilege or attorney-client is lower than the criteria for winning a trial.

“This means it would be very difficult to say that they have an absolute evidence which can help them win in court,” said Eliason.

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