Here are some of the key investigations weighing on the one-term president as he eyes another run for the White House in 2024.
New York state's attorney general Letitia James filed a civil suit on Wednesday against Donald Trump and three of his children, accusing them of business fraud. It was the latest development in multiple civil, criminal and congressional probes into the former US president.
The 76-year-old is also being investigated for his role in last year's US Capitol attack, his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and the stashing of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence.Here are some of the key investigations weighing on the one-term president as he eyes another run for the White House in 2024:A series of explosive hearings by the House of Representatives panel probing the attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters on 6 January, 2021 offered a roadmap for potentially charging the ex-president with a crime. The politicians leading the hearings presented their case that Mr Trump knew he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, yet pressed his claims of fraud and ultimately brought his supporters to Washington for a rally that ended with a violent assault on Congress. Rioters clash with police trying to enter the Capitol building through the front doors on 6 January 2021. Rioters broke windows and breached the Capitol building in an attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election.The House select committee also uncovered evidence of alleged misconduct by Mr Trump leading up to the insurrection, including his attempt to co-opt government departments into his bid to overturn the election. The politicians' work is separate from a criminal probe that the Justice Department has launched into the unrest and the events leading up to it. Besides the legal ramifications, an unprecedented prosecution of a former chief executive would likely cause a political earthquake in a country already starkly divided along partisan Democratic and Republican lines.Mr Trump is being investigated for pressuring officials in the southern swing state of Georgia to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's 2020 victory - including a now-notorious taped phone call in which he asked the secretary of state to "find" enough votes to reverse the result. Fulton County's top prosecutor Fani Willis has assembled a special grand jury that could see Mr Trump facing conspiracy charges connected to election fraud and interference. Ms Willis has already amassed significant testimony from members of Trump's inner circle, including his former personal lawyer, ex-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.The civil suit filed by Letitia James, the New York state attorney general, against Mr Trump and three of his children - Donald Trump Jr, Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump, accuses them of overvaluing multiple assets to secure loans and then undervaluing them to minimise taxes. Ms James is seeking $250 million in penalties as well as banning Mr Trump and his children from serving as executives at companies in New York. The attorney general is also seeking to bar Mr Trump and his company, The Trump Organisation, from purchasing property in the state for five years. She also said her office was making a criminal referral to the US Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service.Local law enforcement officers are seen in front of the home of former President Donald Trump at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida on 9 August, 2022.
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