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The charges filed Tuesday against former President Trump over alleged illegal hush money payments to adult performer Stormy Daniels are just the first of several criminal and civil cases that could snag Mr. Trump in the coming months.
Mr. Trump faces a rape claim, charges of election interference and federal probes into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He’s also accused of stealing classified documents, among a litany of other legal challenges:
Georgia election interference
While Mr. Trump battles Manhattan’s liberal District Attorney Alvin Bragg over hush money charges that some legal experts say are legally weak, Mr. Trump’s staunchest critics are focused on what they see as a far more serious criminal probe in Fulton County, Georgia. That’s where District Attorney Fani Willis is investigating Mr. Trump for election interference following the 2020 presidential election.
A grand jury recently recommended perjury charges in the case. But the list of who should be charged, as well as other charges the grand jury recommended, which could include racketeering and solicitation of election fraud, have not been made public and could hit the former president.
Georgia officials started investigating Mr. Trump’s post-election involvement in February 2021 after Mr. Trump’s call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger in the days after the election.
Mr. Trump called Mr. Raffensberger upset over his narrow loss to Mr. Biden in Georgia, which he thought was related to election integrity issues. The state’s final vote tally showed President Biden ahead by only 11,779 votes.
