Analysis: Once again, Trump appears to evade a legal trap
that the prosecutors with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office who were leading the investigation into the Trump Organization had resigned from their positions. This appears to be downstream from skepticism expressed by the new head of that office, Alvin Bragg, who was elected last November and assumed the position in January. Those resignations don’t mean the probe is dead, but they certainly suggest that the investigation might want to make sure its will is in order.
For example, he announced his candidacy in 2015 while facing a fraud lawsuit brought by the state of New York centered on his short-lived real estate program called Trump University. That suit and a few related ones were settled shortly after Trump won the 2016 election. While he was president, New York began another probe, looking at activity related to his nonprofit organization, the Trump Foundation. Ultimately, Trump was fined and the foundation ordered to shut down.
Much of his presidency was centered on a different, more dramatic investigation: the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. That began in late July 2016, with the opening of an FBI investigation called. When Trump fired the director of the FBI in May 2017, the investigation was handed over to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
As president, Trump’s power was twice threatened by impeachments brought by the Democrat-led House. The first centered on his efforts to leverage federal power in an effort to get Ukraine to announce an investigation into Joe Biden. The second, which lasted only a few weeks, was a response to his role in the violence that erupted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In both cases, Republicans in the Senate declined to convict him on the charges passed by the House.
There are a number of open probes into Trump’s behavior and actions at this point, including the two in New York centered on his private business. There’s also the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, which could
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