Where Trump’s mounting legal troubles stand after historic second indictment

Donald Trump continued to make dubious history last week when the former president was criminally indicted for a second time — just weeks after being found liable in a civil rape and defamation trial.

The federal indictment unsealed in Florida Friday against the ex-chief executive and current Republican presidential front-runner accuses him of endangering national security by recklessly stashing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort, and then obstructing efforts to return them to the government.

The felony charges add to those Trump already faces in Manhattan related to paying off porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter.

And they come as Trump gears up for a mammoth fraud trial in a lawsuit against his family business brought by New York’s attorney general.

Despite his facing more than 70 felonies overall and the possibility of decades behind bars, Trump’s staggering legal woes could get even worse.

Here’s an update on where things stand with the most significant legal threats facing Trump, who turns 77 this week, as he seeks the White House for a third time.

Georgia investigation into Trump’s alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election

Fulton County DA Fani Willis is expected to announce charges by September related to the Trump campaign’s alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. The DA is reportedly considering racketeering counts.

A special grand jury recommended Willis pursue indictments earlier this year.

Partially-released court records show panelists rejected claims that Georgia’s election proceedings were plagued by fraud. And they believed some witnesses should face charges for lying under oath.

Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who Trump notoriously told in a caught-on-tape directive to “find” enough votes to give him the victory over Joe Biden, was among those who testified.

Justice Department probe into Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack

The DOJ is still investigating Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 insurrection of the U.S. Capitol in a probe overseen by special counsel Jack Smith, who also headed the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation.

Trump’s VP Mike Pence took the stand in April, and Smith has reportedly presented evidence from Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows.

More than 1,000 people have been charged in connection to the fatal riot, with nearly 500 receiving sentences.

Justice Department’s classified documents case

Trump is set to appear in Miami federal court on Tuesday, charged with putting the nation and its allies at grave risk. He faces 37 counts alleging he willfully retained defense secrets in violation of the Espionage Act, conspired to obstruct justice, and related offenses.

Of significant interest is whether the assigned judge, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, will remain on the case. The Trump-appointed jurist delayed the probe with widely-ridiculed rulings in his favor that were overturned on appeal by other Trump-appointed judges.

The case handed up by a grand jury Thursday cites audio recordings of Trump acknowledging he wasn’t supposed to have the trove of records he took from the White House.

It cites information gathered from multiple Trump employees and advisers alleging he went to great lengths to evade law enforcement and hang on to government records related to nuclear programs, military vulnerabilities, and plans to respond to foreign attacks.

Trump’s former lawyer, Evan Corcoran, told investigators that Trump suggested he lie to the feds or destroy the records. When that didn’t work, the feds said Trump had his White House valet and co-defendant Waltine Nauta hide the boxes from his legal team and a grand jury.

Stormy Daniels hush money case

Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsification of business records brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in a case headed to trial next March.

The former president is accused of concealing reimbursement to his fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen to hide that he’d broken election laws by paying Daniels into silence about an alleged extramarital tryst in 2006, just before he won the presidency in 2016.

Cohen went to federal prison for the $130,000 payment and is expected to be the trial’s star witness.

E. Jean Carroll’s sex abuse case

A Manhattan jury in May found Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in a Midtown dressing room in the 1990s. They agreed he defamed her after she spoke out, awarding her $5 million.

But the litigation is far from finished.

A day after the verdict, Trump repeated his defamatory statements to an audience of about 3 million in a CNN town hall.

In response, Carroll added the outrageous remarks to her initial 2019 lawsuit against Trump, which has been bogged down in appeals.

Trump is appealing the verdict in the second lawsuit, demanding a new trial or a reduction of damages.

Trump Organization fraud case

Bragg’s office secured the convictions of the Trump Organization and its long-time moneyman Allen Weisselberg on criminal tax fraud charges last year.

The 75-year-old Weisselberg served 99 days behind bars on Rikers and the company was ordered to pay $1.6 million in fines.

But the penalty will pale in comparison to what Trump’s real estate empire will owe if state AG Letitia James prevails at a civil trial set for October.

The case against Trump, his adult children, and other company executives accuses them of staggering fraud. James says they habitually misrepresented the value of assets like skyscrapers and golf courses — by hundreds of millions of dollars — to reap more favorable loans and tax breaks. She says Trump lied about his net worth to the tune of billions.

In Trump’s first deposition, he took the same strategy as his son, Eric, refusing to answer hundreds of questions by pleading the Fifth.

With Dave Goldiner