Donald Trump was elected President of the United States in November 2016, so he was able to occupy the Oval Office as “Leader of the Free World” from 2017 to January 2021. The long legal ordeal of the Republican politician actually began during his term in office: It is a historical record that he was impeached twice in the House of Representatives by a Democratic majority to remove him from office.
Trump was impeached in 2019 on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of justice, and in 2021 on charges of incitement of sedition. In connection with the siege of the Capitol building on January 6. The former real estate mogul has only faced two former presidents, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton It happened Removal attempts in 1868 and 1998. But as is the case in these cases, the Senate did not find the president guilty during the proceedings against Trump, so none of them were removed from presidential office.
Fines of more than half a billion dollars
However, during his first common law impeachment, Trump had to worry about filing not just one, but two civil documents: Both cases began in 2019, and the rulings issued in recent weeks, which are not legally binding, require the politician to pay… . Large sums of money.
