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All eyes are on former President Donald Trump, who has launched another White House bid.
Prosecutors, investigators and lawmakers in Washington, DC, New York, Georgia, Florida and across the United States are among those interested in what Trump has to say about the myriad legal issues facing the former president, his business and his allies.
Multiple federal and state investigations are ongoing regarding the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, his handling of sensitive government documents and his family business.
Trump and his company deny any wrongdoing or criminality in all matters, state and federal, and has aggressively maintained his innocence. Trump has also won dismissals of two lawsuits this week in cases brought by his niece and his former attorney.
His legal concerns deepened considerably on Friday, when Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to oversee the Justice Department criminal investigations into the retention of national defense information at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago report and parts of the January 6, 2021, insurrection.
Here’s an updated list of notable investigations, lawsuits and controversies:
The Supreme Court on Tuesday dealt a massive defeat to Trump, paving the way for the Internal Revenue Service to hand over the former president’s tax records to the Democratic-led House.
A federal appeals court sided with a House Ways and Means Committee request – originally made in 2019 – to obtain the returns, upholding a ruling from a Trump-nominated district court judge.
Trump appealed to the Supreme Court, which rejected his appeal with no noted dissents.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat, first sought the tax returns from the IRS in 2019, and the agency, under the Trump administration, initially resisted turning them over. The case moved slowly until 2021, when, under the Biden administration, the Justice Department changed its legal posture and concluded the IRS was obligated to comply with the committee’s request.
The Justice Department investigation continues into whether documents from the Trump White House were illegally mishandled when they were brought to Mar-a-Lago in…
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