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The Trump investigations you should actually care about
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The Trump investigations you should actually care about

The Criminal Investigations of Donald Trump

This transcript discusses the four criminal investigations against former US President Donald Trump. It explains how criminal investigations work in the US and provides details on each investigation.

Hush Money Investigation

  • New York State has charged Trump with falsifying business records in the first degree.
  • Prosecutors allege that he repeatedly and fraudulently falsified New York business records to conceal criminal conduct that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election.
  • Evidence includes a bank statement from Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, showing that he withdrew funds in October of 2016 to pay an adult film actress to stay quiet about an affair she had with Donald Trump a few years earlier.
  • A year later, after Trump had won the presidency, he wrote several checks to reimburse Cohen. In his accounting records, Trump designated these as payments for legal services which isn't exactly accurate.

Georgia Election Interference

  • There is a phone call between Donald Trump and Brad Raffensperger, the Secretary of State of Georgia. The top elections official in Georgia.
  • If they magically came up with 11,780 Trump votes that didn't actually exist that would have been enough to steal the election in Georgia.
  • A special grand jury in Georgia has heard the evidence and recommended multiple indictments.
  • District Attorney Fani Willis may take things further.

Federal Special Counsel Investigation

  • Federal special counsel Jack Smith’s team is looking into similar questions regarding fake electors.
  • The state's electors cast their votes for whoever won the most votes in their state.

Conclusion

  • Lawyers have been gathering evidence since January 2021 when Donald Trump left office.
  • There are four separate criminal investigations against Trump, and each one is in a different phase of the process.
  • The evidence gathered will be presented to a grand jury who will decide if there is enough evidence to issue an indictment.
  • If indicted, Trump can plead guilty or not guilty. If he pleads not guilty, the case goes to trial and a jury hears the evidence and has to come to a unanimous decision one way or the other.

Trump's Legal Troubles: What You Need to Know

This transcript discusses the legal troubles that former President Donald Trump is facing.

Efforts to Overturn Election Results

  • Security prevented them from entering, so they signed a document in the basement of the state's Republican headquarters.
  • Trump's team led similar efforts in six other states where Biden won. A grand jury in DC has been hearing evidence for months but hasn't voted yet.

FBI Raid at Mar-a-Lago

  • The same special prosecutor is also looking into a fourth case against Trump.
  • An inventory list from the raid shows that dozens of documents labeled classified, confidential, and top secret were found.
  • Some of these documents involved nuclear information and intelligence that could have exposed certain US informants or sources. The intelligence community considered this important stuff that should not have been at Mar-a-Lago.

Grand Jury Hearing Evidence

  • A grand jury in DC is still hearing all this evidence.

Unprecedented Presidential Behavior

  • As president, Donald Trump acted in ways that no president ever had before. Now that he's no longer in office it's time to figure out if any of that unprecedented behavior was also illegal and what to do about it.
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The four criminal investigations into the former president, explained Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Donald Trump is now the first former US President to face criminal charges. He pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. This case involves hush money that Trump’s lawyer paid to an alleged former sexual partner. But it’s actually just one of four criminal investigations into the former president. The other three investigations focus on his behavior after the 2020 presidential election. A Georgia team is examining Trump’s efforts to persuade Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” more Trump votes after the votes had been counted and Raffensperger had declared Joe Biden the winner. Federal special prosecutor Jack Smith is heading up the other two investigations. One group is looking at the Trump team’s attempts to persuade officials in a handful of states where Biden won not to certify his victory, and instead to claim Trump won the state despite the vote counts. The other federal investigation is focused on classified documents that Trump brought with him from the White House to his Florida estate after losing the 2020 election. According to reports from the Washington Post and the New York Times, when the FBI searched his estate in August 2022, they found documents related to nuclear weapons, as well as files containing information that could put US informants in the field in danger. As president, Trump didn’t just say outrageous things, he acted in unprecedented ways. Now that he’s out of office, investigators in a variety of jurisdictions are trying to figure out if he broke the law, too. Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter Vox is an explanatory newsroom on a mission to help everyone understand our weird, wonderful, complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. Part of that mission is keeping our work free. You can help us do that by making a gift: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@voxdotcom Check out our articles: https://www.vox.com/ Listen to our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts