As Donald Trump’s lawyers try to block the White House from releasing records to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, the former president faces a flurry of other investigations that could come to a head in the coming weeks and the new year.<\/p>\n
That includes two major state criminal investigations \u2014 one in New York and one in Georgia \u2014 and lawsuits concerning sexual assault allegations, a fight over an inheritance and questions of whether he should be held personally liable for inciting the insurrection.<\/p>\n
Trump has long dismissed the investigations as nothing more than a politically motivated \u201cwitch hunt\u201d that began with the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. But while Trump has spent most of his life dodging legal consequences, he is no longer shielded by the protections against indictment enjoyed by sitting presidents. And any charges \u2014 which would be the first against a former president in the nation’s history \u2014 could affect both his businesses and his future political prospects as he mulls running for a second term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As Donald Trump’s lawyers try to block the White House from releasing records to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, the former president faces a flurry of other investigations that could come to a head in the coming weeks and the new year. That includes two major state criminal investigations \u2014 one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1223,1224,759],"class_list":{"0":"post-230757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-investigation","10":"tag-white-house"},"yoast_head":"\n