The scope of the lawsuits to which the former president is exposed this time and their possible consequences far exceed what he has had to face in the past.
Washington Correspondent
The investigations that threaten Trump are not the first of his political career. The former president even seemed to have developed an almost supernatural ability to escape the consequences of his transgressions. From Special Prosecutor Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 campaign to the two impeachment proceedings against him, his presidency had been marked from beginning to end by these potential run-ins with the law. But the Senate had twice acquitted him, and Mueller could not find evidence that his campaign colluded with Moscow’s efforts to confuse the 2016 election.
Already during his professional career, Trump had become famous for the number and frequency of legal actions in which he had been embroiled. One of his biographers had nicknamed him “the Man of 3,500 trials”. In the world of real estate in Manhattan, in the world of casinos in Atlantic…