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Here are all the ongoing investigations and lawsuits involving Trump and his businesses

Grace Panetta   

Here are all the ongoing investigations and lawsuits involving Trump and his businesses
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  • Nearly every corner of President Donald Trump's political, business, and charitable activities are the subject of some form of investigation as 2018 comes to a close.
  • The probes that have received the most media coverage are special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the campaign finance violations to which Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in New York.
  • Trump's charity also faces civil action from New York state.
  • And the president faces a lawsuit accusing him of illegally profiting off his presidency.
  • Here are all the investigations in which Trump faces criminal and civil liability.

As of now, President Donald Trump faces over a dozen ongoing investigations into his 2016 campaign, his conduct as president, and other criminal and civil offenses relating to his alleged campaign finance violations, business practices, and his charity.

The investigation Trump publicly disparages most often as a "rigged witch hunt" and a "disgrace" is special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether the Trump campaign collaborated with Russia to tilt the race in Trump's favor.

But the one that poses the most immediate danger to Trump himself is the campaign finance probe in the Southern District of New York. In that case, federal prosecutors secured a guilty plea from his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen for paying for the silence of women who alleged affairs with Trump, a crime to which prosecutors listed Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator.

Here are all the areas currently subjected to ongoing government investigations and state-led lawsuits involving Trump:

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