WASHINGTON - The closure of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. election does not mark the end of legal worries for President Donald Trump and people close to him. Other ongoing investigations and litigation are focusing on issues including his businesses and financial dealings, personal conduct, charitable foundation and inaugural committee.
Mueller charged 34 individuals and three companies. Several of those cases resulted in guilty pleas and one case went to trial, with former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort convicted in August 2018 of eight criminal counts, including bank fraud and tax fraud. Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone was indicted in January of this year and pleaded not guilty, but his trial is still pending. There are other cases involving indicted Russians that have not gone to trial.
The New York investigation has involved longtime Trump ally David Pecker, publisher of the National Enquirer tabloid newspaper, who admitted to paying McDougal for the rights to her story and then suppressing it to influence the election, an arrangement called"catch and kill." Zervos accused Trump of kissing her against her will at his New York office in 2007 and later groping her at a meeting at a hotel in California. More than a dozen women have accused Trump of making unwanted sexual advances against them years before he entered politics.
The state is seeking an order banning Trump and his three eldest children from leadership roles in any other New York charity. Trump has said the lawsuit was concocted by"sleazy New York Democrats." The state's Democratic attorney general accused the foundation of being"engaged in a"shocking pattern of illegality" and"functioning as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump's business and political interests" in violation of federal law.
The Constitution's"emoluments clause" bars U.S. officials from accepting payments from foreign governments and the governments of U.S. states without congressional approval. The lawsuit stated that because Trump did not divest himself of his business empire, spending by foreign governments at the Trump International Hotel in Washington amounts to unconstitutional gifts, or"emoluments," to the president.
Shorter reason: Democrats are sore losing cry babies.
Okay. Why?
gop thedemocrats potus remember. impeachment! a holy democratic process. for. dirty laundry bs. woa!
Two words Corruption and Coverup
its alot of dirty laundry but from impeach the russian spy and russian payroll doofus intel boss evendirtylaundry is a joke.
Yahoo please start reporting on how fake news went after the POTUS with zero evidence for two years!
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