As Donald J. Trump continues to tease his fans with a possible run for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, there are at least five potential legal cases against him in addition to the New York state civil case announced by Attorney Gen. Letitia James on Wednesday (scroll down with the far-right bar to read the center column news story). Those five other cases, according to Reuters, are …

•A New York state criminal investigation on tax fraud charges, related to the civil case. James said her office is working with investigators to share evidence.

•Mar-a-Lagogate. The Department of Justice may now continue to examine confidential documents seized from Trump’s Florida residence on August 8 (see …meanwhile…).

•Defamation case by former Elle magazine writer E. Jean Carroll, who sued in 2019 after Trump denied her rape allegations and countered that she was trying to sell books. In a letter made public Tuesday, Carroll’s attorney said she also intends to sue Trump for battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

•The House Select Committee’s investigations into whether Trump instigated the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. 

•Georgia’s election tampering probe – re: the former president’s call asking to find 11,780 more votes.

Considering Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) recent warning that any criminal indictment of Trump would unleash 1/6-style riots across the country by his followers, the New York civil case may prove the most effective in stymieing the former president’s 2024 campaign dreams. As legal scholars constantly debate what it would mean to the U.S. – Trump’s political enemies as well as his MAGA followers – to potentially see him handcuffed, the relief New York Attorney Gen. James seeks would effectively shut down his businesses, including real estate deals, and potentially cost him $250 million in damages, while exposing details of his true wealth. 

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