After having deposited, on Monday, a guarantee of 175 million dollars with the American courts, avoiding the prospect of legal seizures of his assets, Donald Trump will be able to return to the campaign for the presidential elections in November.
The former Republican president will be in Michigan and Wisconsin this Tuesday, two decisive states to win against Joe Biden. Until now, Trump had held only one rally since his duel with his Democratic successor was confirmed. He should, according to his team, engage in a full-blown attack on Biden's migration policy, "Biden's bloodbath at the border" between the United States and Mexico, as he puts it. If for the November election, the polls for the moment show Donald Trump as the winner in this state, the election should, as always, be played out in a pinch. Same thing in Wisconsin.
First criminal trial on April 15
By putting the spotlight on his campaign, Donald Trump also wants to forget his legal setbacks. The security deposit of 175 million prevents him from possible disastrous images of legal seizures of his assets after his conviction to 454 million dollars in fines for financial fraud in February. Donald Trump was sentenced in mid-February to $454 million in fines with his sons Eric and Don Jr., for financial fraud within their real estate empire Trump Organization. They were accused of having inflated the assets of their real estate assets, such as the Trump Tower or the 40 Wall Street building in New York, to the tune of several billion dollars throughout the 2010s to be granted larger loans. favorable from the banks. After the conviction, New York State Attorney General Letitia James threatened to launch legal seizures to recover the value of the fine, citing the building at 40 Wall Street.
But he is not done with justice. His first criminal trial begins on April 15 in a case of hidden payments to cover up embarrassing affairs in 2016, including $130,000 to buy the silence of a former porn star about an alleged relationship that Donald Trump denies. At the end of this trial, Donald Trump theoretically faces up to a prison sentence if he is found guilty, an unprecedented scenario for an American presidential candidate.
The former president must also be tried in two cases, in Georgia and in federal court in Washington, for his alleged illegal attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, and in another case of handling classified documents upon his departure from the White House in 2021. But the holding of trials in these three cases before the presidential election is uncertain, after several postponements due to appeals filed by Donald Trump's lawyers.