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US President Donald Trump will lose the legal protections that prevent lawsuits when his term ends.

See you in court: the lawyers waiting for Trump

Donald Trump faces a blizzard of lawsuits and even the potential threat of jail when he leaves office next year, as he will lose the legal protections afforded to a sitting president.

  • David Millward

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A supporter of President-elect Joe Biden holds a sign referring to President Donald Trump outside the Pennsylvania State Capitol, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Harrisburg, Pa., after Biden defeated Trump to become 46th president of the United States. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Trump will tarnish own achievement if he refuses to accept defeat

You’d think that Trump and his allies would take solace in knowing that he saved the nation from a radical progressive agenda, which a Democratic sweep would have delivered.

  • Tom Switzer
President Donald Trump and former White House insider Michael Cohen.

Trump a 'cheat' who idolised Putin, mocked Nelson Mandela: Cohen book

The US President's former lawyer also alleges that media figures ran deliberate misinformation campaigns against Trump's political rivals.

  • Ashley Parker and Rosalind S. Helderman
Former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Appeals court keeps Michael Flynn case alive, won't order dismissal

The decision keeps the matter at least temporarily alive and rebuffs efforts by both Flynn's lawyers and the Justice Department to force the prosecution to be dropped.

  • Eric Tucker
Former special counsel Robert Mueller.

US Senate will call Mueller to testify on Russia probe

Senator Lindsey Graham said he will make the former special counsel front a Senate Judiciary Committee, after Mueller penned an op-ed rebuking critics of his investigation.

  • Catie Edmondson
Robert Mueller.

Mueller breaks silence following Roger Stone commutation

The former special counsel investigating Russian ties in the 2016 Trump election campaign has defended the work of his team after Trump gave clemency to Roger Stone.

  • Devlin Barrett
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Michael Flynn, former US national security adviser.

‘Never seen anything like this’: Experts question Flynn case surprise

The case against Michael Flynn had become a political cause for Trump and his supporters and Trump had signalled a pardon. But the AG short-circuited it.

  • Charlie Savage
Michael Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser as a result of his post-election contacts with Kislyak.

In surprise move, US Justice Department drops case against Michael Flynn

For the past three years prosecutors maintained that Flynn lied to the FBI in a January 2017 interview about his dealings with the Russian ambassador.

Roger Stone, pictured arriving  for his sentencing at federal court in Washington, has been sentenced to 40 months in prison.

FBI releases tweets between Roger Stone and Julian Assange

The records reveal the extent of communications between the two. Assange's Wikileaks published Democratic emails hacked by Russians during the 2016 US presidential election.

  • Eric Tucker, Colleen Long and Michael Balsamo
A US federal judge has sharply rebuked Attorney-General William Barr's handling of Robert Mueller's Russia report.

'Misleading': Federal judge sharply rebukes Barr's handling of Mueller report

The scolding was unusually blunt, with the judge saying the Attorney-General had appeared to make a "calculated attempt" to influence public opinion about the report in ways favourable to Trump.

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