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Former senator John Edwards was accused of the same crime; He contested the accusation by claiming that he tried to hide his affair of marital infidelity from his wife, not from voters. The trial ended with an acquittal on one charge and a hung jury on the others — and the Justice Department dropped the charges. Next steps in the journey Trump, the first former president (and president) to be formally accused of committing a crime in court, will probably have to face three more accusations that are already underway, as he campaigns for the 2024 presidential election . Two of them stem from ongoing investigations at the Department of Justice ( DoJ ). In one of them, Trump could be accused of inciting the invasion of Congress by his supporters, on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to obstruct the certification of President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 elections.
On another front, the DoJ is preparing an indictment against Trump for removing government documents from the White House, many of them classified or secret, and for obstructing justice by keeping them at his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida , for more than a year, after government authorities requested the return of the documents. The third investigation that could result in a criminal compla Special Phone Number Data int is taking place in Atlanta, Georgia, where prosecutors could accuse the former president of trying to convince, in recorded phone calls, state authorities to reverse the results of the 2020 elections in the state, so that he could be declared winner instead of Joe Biden. Judge Juan Merchan The judge assigned to preside over Trump's trial, Juan Merchan, is a veteran jurist with a reputation for being strict but compassionate, according to NBC News.
Manhattan criminal lawyer Ron Kuby told the TV station that Merchan is one of those judges who doesn't yell at lawyers and prosecutors, simple, direct and always in control of the courtroom. Former judge Barry Kamins, who is now a criminal lawyer, said Merchan, his former court colleague, displays integrity, solid knowledge of the law and an excellent temperament, even in the most difficult cases he presides over. Former President Trump, for his part, wrote on his social media platform, Social Truth, on Friday morning that Merchan is a judge who hates him and that he was "hand-picked" by the U.S. Attorney for the U.S. District of Manhattan Alvin Bragg, a Democrat. For CNN, Trump's offenses could lead the judge to issue a "gag order" — an expression that defines a judge's decision to prohibit lawyers, prosecutors, defendants and witnesses from commenting on the case in public.
On another front, the DoJ is preparing an indictment against Trump for removing government documents from the White House, many of them classified or secret, and for obstructing justice by keeping them at his private Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida , for more than a year, after government authorities requested the return of the documents. The third investigation that could result in a criminal compla Special Phone Number Data int is taking place in Atlanta, Georgia, where prosecutors could accuse the former president of trying to convince, in recorded phone calls, state authorities to reverse the results of the 2020 elections in the state, so that he could be declared winner instead of Joe Biden. Judge Juan Merchan The judge assigned to preside over Trump's trial, Juan Merchan, is a veteran jurist with a reputation for being strict but compassionate, according to NBC News.
Manhattan criminal lawyer Ron Kuby told the TV station that Merchan is one of those judges who doesn't yell at lawyers and prosecutors, simple, direct and always in control of the courtroom. Former judge Barry Kamins, who is now a criminal lawyer, said Merchan, his former court colleague, displays integrity, solid knowledge of the law and an excellent temperament, even in the most difficult cases he presides over. Former President Trump, for his part, wrote on his social media platform, Social Truth, on Friday morning that Merchan is a judge who hates him and that he was "hand-picked" by the U.S. Attorney for the U.S. District of Manhattan Alvin Bragg, a Democrat. For CNN, Trump's offenses could lead the judge to issue a "gag order" — an expression that defines a judge's decision to prohibit lawyers, prosecutors, defendants and witnesses from commenting on the case in public.