Con Man Or President? Inside Donald Trump's Biggest Scandals

first the nation is awaiting a potential criminal indictment of former president Donald Trump since he entered that building he was officially under arrest quiet quiet it's a fight against his rejection of Truth Trump for his part denies any wrong to it in April 2023 former president Donald Trump was arrested for 34 felonies involving his hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels he earned the

nickname Teflon Don because in the past none of his alleged crimes and Scandals seemed to stick to him now however he will potentially face the consequences for his role in instigating the January 6th Riot on the capitol hiding top secret documents in his home and trying to convince a Georgia election official to find votes for him that didn't exist April 2023 saw a first in U.S

history the indictment of a former president after being twice impeached while in office another record Donald Trump was indicted on 34 felonies involving his hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels these aren't new accusations though the alleged crimes took place in 2016 shortly before election day Trump went on to defeat Hillary Clinton in the election but before that he needed to tie up some

political Loose Ends he had an alleged affair with Daniels in 2006 and wanted to make sure it wasn't revealed as an 11th Hour Scandal potentially costing him votes so he had his lawyer slash fixer Michael Cohen paid Daniels 130 thousand dollars to make sure she didn't talk about their Affair oddly enough there's literally nothing illegal about paying off someone to keep them quiet the potential crimes

came after this hush money payment because when they had to account for that money it was logged as a legal fees payment to Cohen and that's where the felonies start to apply you aren't allowed to falsify business records like that which is a bit of a catch-22 when it comes to hush money if you're trying to secretly pay someone off for their silence you can't exactly

log it into your records as adult film star keep quiet about affair right according to the D.A Prosecuting the case Alvin Bragg the act of concealing with the payment was really for was unlawful because it constituted hiding damaging information about a presidential candidate before and after an election now jail time would potentially be more likely when it comes to things like stealing nuclear secrets one of

President Trump's final scandals as he left office was taking a bunch of top secret documents and storing them in his Mar-A-Lago home and according to the presidential records act a president is not allowed to keep presidential records and they have to turn them into the National Archives president Trump actually signed a law in 2018 that increased the penalty from one year in prison to five years

for anyone who removes and keeps classified governmental information so it's actually kind of wild that the first person we know of who might have actually committed this crime was the man who signed the law it goes without saying that if top secret documents fell into the hands of enemy countries it would be incredibly damaging and keeping them in a random room in your home where people

can Mill about is playing pretty fast and loose with the safety of this sensitive info after realizing there was a fair amount missing from the archives the National Archives and Records Administration or Nara reached out to Trump's people and asked for them to turn anything over that they had kept that resulted in a return of 184 documents some of which were in the secret and top

secret classifications at first it seemed like that would be the end of it but it turns out Trump was in possession of even more boxes and he or his people at least allegedly lied about still having them so the FBI and doj got involved got a warrant and raided Mar-A-Lago to retrieve the missing boxes in all more than thirteen thousand documents were found including some nuclear

info and other super sensitive National Security documents and since then two more classified docs have been found at other trump-based locations you know it's definitely not scandalous Behavior subscribing to our Channel just saying another trump-based location if you will is the state of Georgia where president Trump is being investigated for potentially trying to fix the presidential election of 2020. a special grand jury was convened in

January of 2023 and while we don't know the decisions they came to the Four Women of the jury admitted that several people were going to be indicted it's not clear yet whether that'll include president Trump but we know there have been numerous leaked phone calls emails and texts all of which seem to point to Trump basically asking the governor of Georgia and the election officials there

will end up facing legal repercussions for this particular Scandal another scandal from right around that time involves the riots and storming of the U.S Capitol building on January 6th since then almost a thousand people have been arrested for participating and more than 500 have been found guilty four people died on the day and 140 officers were injured and five officers died in the aftermath of the

riot four of them by Suicide and while President Trump's connection to the riots is potentially arguable it's not clear whether or not he'll be convicted or even charged with crimes related to them the January 6th report seemed to outline a clear pattern of election denial attempts to overturn it and consistently lying about the election being stolen and even in his speech down the street on January

6th Trump did call for people to head to the Capitol Building afterwards but at the same time in a classic Trump way he didn't overtly say for them to attack and storm it people familiar with Trump over the years have often pointed out his tendency to make ambiguous requests rather than demands so that makes it harder to tie a direct link to him and the actions

of others such as the riots on January 6th but as more people are being called to testify in the ongoing investigation such as former vice president Mike Pence it's possible we could be looking at charges against Trump but at this point it's anyone's guess one Scandal we don't have to make guesses about is the Trump organization's guilty charge in their recent tax Scandal the business was

convicted on 17 counts of tax fraud and some other related crimes and will be forced to pay a fine of up to 1.62 million dollars Trump didn't get directly charged for these tax evasions though his name was consistently brought up as being part of their illegal activities but since you can't charge a company with the same types of crimes as a person nor put it in

jail that will likely be the end of this particular Scandal of course one of the biggest scandals of the Trump presidency was his alleged relationship with Russia the president made it pretty clear he considered Vladimir Putin an ally even in the face of mounting evidence that that might not be the best move Ukraine Invasion but long before that there were allegations that the Trump campaign had

colluded with the Russian government to try to influence the 2016 election and that the Trump campaign had obstructed Justice when the Government tried to look into those charges the whole Scandal was an incredibly polarizing one with Trump allies feeling it was a Witch Hunt due to partisan politics and Trump foes convinced he and his campaign had acted illegally and as you probably recall ex-fbi had Robert

Mueller was brought in as special counsel to investigate all of it the final results were pretty meh for both sides the report didn't find the campaign actively sought out Russian help but that they were aware the Russians were doing it like crazy and it also didn't exonerate Trump in the campaign of obstructing justice but when Mueller was given instructions that he basically wasn't allowed to indict

a sitting president he had to say Trump kinda did obstruct justice but that Congress would need to decide what to do with that information either way I think we can all agree Robert Mueller has one of the most impressively square jaws of all time though right we can also agree that President Trump was nothing if not a unique holder of the office he was impeached twice

for starters that was an American first the second time had to do with the January 6th riots which I talked about earlier the first time was in 2019 and it involved Ukraine and their president the now Super Famous Vladimir zielinsky at the time most Americans weren't really aware of him but president Trump certainly was when he reportedly withheld an arms package we had already promised Ukraine

because he first wanted zelenski to help him out in bashing his potential presidential rival in the upcoming election Joe Biden he allegedly tried to get zelinski to help them investigate Joe and Hunter Biden and to publicly acknowledge it was a classic quid pro quo which suddenly became everyone's favorite Latin phrase for like a month mine is still in vino veritas which means in wine there is

truth but that's for another video Trump ended up getting impeached for two counts because of this one count of abusive power and one of obstruction of justice of course while his double impeachment made history some of the Trump scandals were not too dissimilar to other world leaders and U.S presidents and by that I'm referring to sex scandals that's certainly a topic we've heard a lot about

over the years though perhaps the sheer number of women who have credibly accused Trump of sexual inappropriateness ranging from things like assault and worse to non-consensual groping and kissing is what stands out regardless there have been at least 25 women who have brought various charges against the former president he also got into hot water in the court of public opinion when it came to light that

he used to go into the dressing rooms of the Miss Universe competitions which he owned Trump at one point admitted in interview with Howard Stern that he'd get away with walking into the dressing rooms when the women were naked because he owned the competition perhaps not an illegal move but a skeevy one to be sure okay all this talk of scandals has me exhausted so I

think I've earned a nap then probably some tacos because that's my happy place have some thoughts about presidential scandals pop them in the comments section but keep it kind and constructive we have gentle Hearts over here you guys