What happens to Trump's legal cases?

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00:00For Donald Trump's lawyers, winning the presidential election was key in terms of the multiple

00:04legal challenges he faces.

00:06He was found guilty in May for falsifying business records in connection with hush money

00:11payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.

00:15Sentencing was put back to after the election and will take place on the 26th of November.

00:20If Donald Trump was sentenced, one could imagine, in an abstract way, that he would be sent

00:27to prison before taking office, after being elected.

00:30In practice, this is highly unlikely.

00:33Legally it's possible.

00:34In practice, we can't imagine it.

00:37Donald Trump is being sued in two other cases.

00:40The first concerns his alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

00:45The other concerns his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the

00:49White House.

00:50Both of those cases were filed by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith.

00:54Trump indicated before his win that he wanted to fire the Special Prosecutor.

01:01He will be appointing the new Attorney General, and the Attorney General appoints all the

01:05U.S. attorneys throughout the country.

01:08They'll make it all go away, I guarantee you, relatively fast, too.

01:14Discussions are already underway with a view to halting the proceedings.

01:19Even if sentenced at the end of these trials, Trump would have the option of granting himself

01:23a presidential pardon, which would be unprecedented in American legal history.

01:28Lastly, Trump faced his criminal charges in the state of Georgia for attempted electoral

01:33fraud there in 2020.

01:35His lawyers say the trial will not take place before the end of his term of office, so as

01:39not to interfere with his duties as president.

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