“To see a former and potential future president of the U.S. confront all these legal issues at once is bizarre,” said a former chair of the New Hampshire Republican Party. Rape case places Trump in legal jeopardy. Politically, he’s thriving:
Joe Tacopina, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump, leaves the federal courthouse in Manhattan on Thursday, April 27, 2023.
Carroll’s harrowing testimony, a visceral demonstration of Trump’s legal peril, has emphasized the surreal nature of the divide. Trump is the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. But he has also been indicted on 34 felony false records charges and in Carroll’s case faces a nine-person jury that will determine whether he committed rape decades ago.
But the investigations could cause Trump real harm. If he is convicted in Manhattan, where he pleaded not guilty to 34 felony charges of falsifying business records, he could face up to four years in prison. Criminal charges in Georgia and Washington could come with steeper punishments. And the New York attorney general’s lawsuit against him — which accused him of deceiving lenders and insurers by fraudulently overvaluing his assets — could exact a heavy financial toll.
“This was not locker room talk,” Shawn Crowley, one of her lawyers, said on the first day of the trial. “It’s exactly what he did to Carroll and to other women.” Those other women, named by Crowley as Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff, are expected to testify for Carroll.
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