What will happen to the four criminal cases against Donald Trump after his re-election?

Former Republican President Donald Trump faces four criminal cases, one pending trial and another awaiting sentencing. However, all could turn a corner with their re-election. What implications would his mandate have on the proceedings against him?

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With Donald Trump elected, special prosecutor Jack Smith evaluates how to conclude the two federal cases against the Republican, Well, in the United States, sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted.

In a process pending trial, Trump is accused of interference in the 2020 election, including the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. The other was sparked by the discovery of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence.

Both will be influenced by the ruling of the Supreme Court, which determined that presidents and former presidents have partial immunity for official acts carried out during their term. This is what Santiago Torrijos, a Colombian lawyer on Trump’s defense team, explained to Noticias Caracol en vivo.

“What we must now demonstrate within the framework of that strategy is that the actions taken by then-President Trump in 2020 were absolutely legal actions. “They were actions that ensured the preservation of constitutional election procedures,” commented Santiago Torrijos, lawyer.

According to Nicolás Lloreda, lawyer and former Colombian ambassador to Canada, Trump’s re-election would mark the end of these cases.

“Because the reality is that once Trump chooses a Minister of Justice, an Attorney General who is going to appoint him, who has a majority in the Senate to appoint him, that prosecutor Smith’s role will most likely end, it will leave him without a job and will probably ask that the Prosecutor’s Office withdraw those accusations against the president,” Lloreda said.

The former president faces two other processes at the state level. In Georgia, for the alleged attempt to manipulate the vote in the last elections.

And in New York he was convicted of falsifying business records for bribes paid to porn actress Stormy Daniels. However, the Colombian judge Juan Merchán postponed the sentence until November 26, in order not to interfere in the electoral process. A decision that will be unprecedented.

“Never before in history has it happened that there is a criminal process underway with a sentence ad porte to be pronounced by the judicial authorities when the president is logically already an elected president,” said Trump’s lawyer.

Lloreda assures that Trump will also have an advantage in state cases.

“It is very likely that the president will manage to postpone them indefinitely and say, as long as he is president, these cases cannot be moved nor can they advance,” Nicolás Lloreda pointed out.

Thus, everything indicates that, of the four cases that Trump faces, two would be concluded and two would be suspended.

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