“Losing the top office is a devastating blow that no candidate will ever forget. But when America's electors deliver their verdict next week, the personal stakes for Donald Trump will be very high. “His fate will be swayed between the presidency and the threat of “prison,'' the chief believes. David Smith, The Guardian's offices in Washington, DC.
2024 US Election. President Trump or prison?
Commenters recalled how Trump balanced the line between ethics and law throughout his business and television career, facing countless investigations, legal battles, and hefty fines. His personal and professional life was “filled with scandals of extraordinary proportions,” yet he always managed to evade responsibility, Smith writes.
“He developed a reputation as a guy who could get out of trouble,” said Trump biographer Gwenda Blair.
In this context, the Guardian journalist noted, inter alia: A lawsuit over Trump University's use of fraudulent and misleading advertising, which offered real estate courses, ended in a 2016 settlement worth $25 million for the Republican candidate.
His charitable foundation has been accused of using funds for personal and business purposes, and a New York court in February ordered Trump and his company to pay $350 million in damages in a civil fraud case. Ta.
First US president to be convicted of a criminal offense
Trump had 30,000 during his four years as president, according to Washington Post calculations. He has repeatedly lied and made misleading statements about issues ranging from his inauguration numbers to the results of the 2020 election he lost.
In May, a jury in state court in Manhattan found the former president guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Trump became the first former president in U.S. history to be convicted of a criminal offense. But the case, initially described as the trial of the century, has already begun to fade from the public consciousness and played an unexpectedly small role in the election campaign, the commentary's authors said.
US elections. Donald Trump 'seems like a good con artist'
Trump has also been charged in a number of other cases, including conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 election when the former president's supporters stormed the Capitol.
He was also charged with illegally storing classified documents taken from the White House.
“With so many cases on his plate, it was widely expected that Mr. Trump would spend this election bouncing back and forth between rallies and court cases. But such legal campaigning never took place. “Because, as before, he found a way to throw sand into the wheels of justice and postpone the moment of judgment,” Smith said.
“Every time he was impeached, his polls went up.”
In his opinion, Trump has also succeeded in turning the situation around and presenting the charges against him as evidence that he is a martyr being persecuted by hidden hostile forces that allegedly control the country. It is said that he did. In this story, the threat to American democracy is not Trump but the Democratic Party.
“I don't know why, but every time he gets impeached, his poll numbers go up…Every time he gets impeached again, he uses it as further evidence that he's being persecuted. It's ridiculous, but he turned it around,” said John Bolton, Trump's former national security adviser. “It's like a good con artist.”
If Trump wins the election, he will do everything in his power to suppress the ongoing lawsuits against him. If he loses, the legal cloud will loom again, said the author of the Guardian commentary.
The Guardian previously supported Kamala Harris' candidacy in an editorial.
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