Over his four years out of office, Donald Trump was indicted in four different jurisdictions. In one of those cases, the hush money case in New York, he was convicted on 34 criminal counts, with the others left in various states of limbo.
But now that Trump is president, his legal jeopardy has disappeared. The New York conviction was allowed to stand without any real punishment for Trump. At the same time, the two federal cases in Florida and Washington were dismissed, and the Georgia racketeering case remains in doubt.
The president says it would have been “very dangerous” for him had he lost the 2024 election. https://t.co/35aqEKmFnO
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 20, 2025
This week, the president seemed to acknowledge that had he not won the election last year, he would probably have gone to jail.
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Winning the election, Trump said this week at a Miami investment summit, kept him from “a very nasty life,” as reported by The Daily Beast.
“If I lost it would have been very, very bad,” Trump said at the conference. ““They were going after me at levels nobody’s ever seen before… It was dangerous, actually. Very dangerous.”
At the Miami event, sponsored by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Trump was also asked how he would spend a year off.
“What I’m doing now is the most exciting job in the world. It’s a hard job, not an easy job, it’s a nasty job,” he said.
Also at the event, Trump praised Saudi Arabia, calling it “a special place with special leaders.”
Trump gives a shoutout to Saudi Arabia, which he describes as “a special place with special leaders” pic.twitter.com/csik0Tnfm2
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 19, 2025
CBS News, on the occasion of the Miami speech, drew attention to Trump’s connections to the Saudi regime, which has been accused of murdering dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who lived in the United States, in 2018.
“The president’s speech came a day after the U.S. and Russia held talks in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on how to end the war in Ukraine, and the administration is seeking Saudi Arabia’s cooperation on a range of issues, including the war in Gaza,” CBS reported. “Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman vowed to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over the next four years in a phone call with Mr. Trump shortly after he took office in January.”
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