The Supreme’s did NOT absolve the guy out of civil suit actions….
And there ARE a whole LOT of them going BOTH ways at others and at HIM….
Those against him are to the tune of over a half Billion Dollars….
The Jan. 6-related suits are only a portion of Trump’s legal hangover. Also looming are massive civil judgments rendered against him over the past year: $450 million he owes to New York state over what a judge concluded was pervasive fraud in his business empire there and about $97 million he owes to New York writer E. Jean Carroll in suits she brought relating to her claim that he raped her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s. (Trump is appealing all those cases.)
Trump is also a defendant in other long-running lawsuits, including one seeking to hold him accountable for unleashing federal law enforcement agents on Black Lives Matter protesters and another claiming he defamed the wrongly accused “Central Park 5” during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris in September.
Adding to the unwieldy heap of litigation are a slew of suits Trump himself has filed in recent years, accusing media organizations, his political opponents and others of spreading defamatory stories about him or otherwise treating him unfairly.
Some viewed those cases as publicity stunts aimed at boosting his campaign to return to the White House, but now Trump faces the potential of being forced to give sworn testimony. As he tries to fill out his administration and launch his promised policy agenda, those depositions — and the sessions he’ll need with lawyers to prepare for them — could be a significant distraction….
image…The Atlantic
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