{"id":372,"date":"2023-08-28T17:08:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seyyahizcilik.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2023-09-24T12:01:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T12:01:55","slug":"trumps-4-indictments-ranked-by-the-stakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seyyahizcilik.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/28\/trumps-4-indictments-ranked-by-the-stakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s 4 indictments, ranked by the stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Donald Trump at the Iowa State Fair on August 12, 2023. | Brandon Bell\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A quick guide to Trump\u2019s 4 indictments and why they matter.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s legal web<\/a> has grown more tangled than ever. The former president is facing 91 criminal charges across four jurisdictions \u2014 Georgia, Florida, New York, and the District of Columbia. He has three trial dates set for 2024 so far. And all this is unfolding as he runs for the presidency again.<\/p>\n

The cases \u2014 involving allegations of attempted election theft, mishandling classified documents, and hush money payments \u2014 have grown so sprawling that it\u2019s tough for anyone but the most die-hard political obsessive to follow them in detail.<\/p>\n

But in some, the stakes \u2014 for our democracy and for Trump personally \u2014 are higher than others.<\/p>\n

The two prosecutions about Trump\u2019s efforts to overturn Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s 2020 victory (in DC and Georgia) both come with the possibility of serious criminal penalties. They also have enormous implications for the future of American elections, and for whether Trump or someone like him will respect the results next time around.<\/p>\n

The classified documents prosecution, in Florida, is also significant in that it involves sensitive intelligence material. However, prosecutors have presented no evidence that this sensitive material leaked out from Trump\u2019s possession. The prosecution is mainly about his efforts to defy the government\u2019s demands that he return the documents.<\/p>\n

Then, in the New York case, Trump is charged with falsifying business records related to hush money payments he\u2019d made. The core violation here is, basically, that the Trump Organization logged these payments improperly as \u201clegal expenses.\u201d This is not the highest-stakes issue in the world. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s all a lot to keep track of, so in this guide, we\u2019ll walk through the charges and potential sentences in each prosecution in more detail<\/a>, and we\u2019ve ranked the indictments in order of importance based on the stakes and potential implications of each case.<\/p>\n

1) Federal 2020 election<\/a> case (District of Columbia)<\/h3>\n

How important is this indictment? <\/strong>Very important. As Vox\u2019s Nicole Narea previously explained<\/a>, this case \u201cwill legally define what a politician is able to do to reverse a defeat.\u201d It\u2019s likely to be the first of Trump\u2019s cases to go to trial. The outcome of this case could have major implications for the 2024 election<\/a> and every race that follows: If Trump isn\u2019t held accountable for the actions he took on January 6 and leading up to it, he and others could try to pull the same schemes in the future. <\/p>\n

Ultimately, this case has a significant bearing on the future of US democracy. <\/p>\n

Number of charges: <\/strong>Four felony counts. They include: <\/p>\n