After he's gone

If and when Trump leaves the White House, his legal troubles really begin.

Now that Donald Trump is reportedly talking about refusing to leave the White House after Biden is inaugurated - not gonna lie, I’d cash in my RRSPs to watch that on pay-per-view - it’s worth revisiting Jane Mayer’s New Yorker article from November about the lawsuits and even criminal prosecutions awaiting Trump once he’s out of office:

Two of the investigations into Trump are being led by powerful state and city law-enforcement officials in New York. Cyrus Vance, Jr., the Manhattan District Attorney, and Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, are independently pursuing potential criminal charges related to Trump’s business practices before he became President. Because their jurisdictions lie outside the federal realm, any indictments or convictions resulting from their actions would be beyond the reach of a Presidential pardon. Trump’s legal expenses alone are likely to be daunting. (By the time Bill Clinton left the White House, he’d racked up more than ten million dollars in le…