Is Trump a felon? All charges revealed

Fulton County has become the target of significant vitriol since the case was brought forth, including from Trump-faithful Rudy Giuliani, who during a June rally called Willis a “ho”. On election night, 32 polling sites in Fulton County received bomb threats including five which had to temporarily close.

Willis is facing disqualification from the case on allegations that she benefited financially from the trial due to a prior relationship with a prosecutor hired on the case. A decision on her disqualification is due in 2025. Should Willis be removed from the case it is expected that another prosecutor would not be willing to take on the case against a sitting president.

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Should the case continue, Trump cannot directly pardon himself. Only a five-person board, appointed by Governor Brian Kemp, a Republican, can. However, Kemp and Trump are reportedly not friendly, having clashed publicly over the allegations since the 2020 election.

The third and fourth active cases are federal ones are led by Special Counsel Jack Smith but are under a cloud as the US Justice Department, which is under the authority of the president, has a long-standing guideline against prosecuting a sitting president. Trump has vowed to fire Smith.

The federal cases relate to allegations that Trump conspired to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, culminating in the January 6 riot on the Capitol, as well as allegations that Trump took classified documents from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.

A number of civil cases have also been brought against Trump, including at least five cases that sought to hold the former president liable for the January 6 riot, a fraud case in which he was found liable of overstating his wealth for financial gain, and one where he was found to have sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll.

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