Trump continues to be plagued by legal woes
Post Reports
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🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
November wasn’t a great month for Donald Trump. The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for a congressional committee to examine the former president’s tax returns, ending a legal battle that has consumed Congress and the courts for years.
Meanwhile, a special counsel appointed by the Justice Department has been tasked with investigating Trump’s role in efforts to undo the results of the 2020 election, as well as possible mishandling of classified documents recovered from his Mar-a-Lago home. There are also ongoing probes against him in New York and a pending criminal investigation in Georgia.
Devlin Barrett, a reporter covering the FBI and Justice Department, runs through the status of key investigations involving the former president as well as when we could see results in any of these pending cases.
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| 0:00.0 | Trump tends to pick fights in court that when he loses, he doesn't just lose for himself, |
| 0:08.5 | he loses for the presidency. |
| 0:14.2 | Devlin Barrett covers the FBI and Justice Department for the post. |
| 0:18.8 | He's been following the many legal investigations plaguing former President Donald Trump. |
| 0:24.3 | Like, remember Trump's tax returns? The ones Democrats have wanted since the 2016 presidential |
| 0:30.8 | campaign? Just last week, the Supreme Court finally cleared the way for Congress to get |
| 0:36.2 | a hold of them. |
| 0:37.8 | Devlin says this case about Trump's taxes could have implications that go way beyond the |
| 0:43.1 | former president. But it's just one of many legal headaches. Trump is facing right now. |
| 0:49.4 | There is a school of thought among some lawyers that by losing these kinds of legal fights, |
| 0:55.5 | Trump is actually eroding the long-term authority and power of the presidency itself. |
| 1:02.2 | And I think that is another interesting way in which this case may have long-term effects |
| 1:07.8 | that have nothing to do with Trump. |
| 1:13.1 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Ella Hay Ezzaddi. It's Tuesday, November 29th. |
| 1:21.6 | Today, the status of the many legal battles Trump faces as he mounts his 2024 campaign |
| 1:29.2 | to return to the White House. |
| 1:39.2 | Just before Thanksgiving, the Supreme Court denied Trump's request to block some of his tax |
| 1:44.5 | returns from being released to a Congressional Committee. |
| 1:49.6 | And it seems like there's been calls for these tax returns to be released for years. |
| 1:55.5 | Devlin, can you bring us up to speed on where this Supreme Court ruling fits in to this |
| 2:01.0 | long-running legal battle? |
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