Trump ‘could be impeached’ soon, says legal insider.

• Following last week’s Mar-a-Lago raid, Trump continued to publicly attack the DOJ and FBI.
• But people close to his inner circle warn he could face criminal charges soon anyway.
• “I think he’s a target for everybody and I think he’s going to get indicted,” said a lawyer familiar with Trumpworld.

As former President Donald Trump continues to publicly attack the Justice Department and the FBI following last week’s unprecedented shooting at his Mar-a-Lago club, people close to him have told Insider they think he could face serious legal trouble.

A lawyer familiar with the Trump team’s thinking process said in an interview that the former president “likes to run the show” and “has a lot of faith in the public relations attack,” but said he may not be indicted anytime soon. Speak the way.

“He should be worried about all these investigations,” the lawyer added. “I think he’s a target for everybody and I think he’s going to be charged.”

Trump is currently at the center of several state and federal criminal investigations. At the forefront is the Justice Department’s inquiry into whether Trump violated three federal laws, including the Espionage Act, when he moved government records from the White House to Mar-a-Lago.

The department has zeroed in on the former president in a wide-ranging criminal investigation surrounding the Capitol riots and has subpoenaed several former White House officials in recent weeks. Prosecutors have subpoenaed the National Archives for all White House records they provided to the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office in Georgia is investigating whether Trump and his allies violated Georgia laws in their efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state. And in New York, the Manhattan district attorney’s office recently reached a plea deal with Trump chief accountant Allen Weiselberg, who this week pleaded guilty to more than a dozen counts and agreed to indict the Trump Organization.

But Alan Dershowitz, who represented Trump in the Senate impeachment trial, told Insider on Friday that Trump should be deeply concerned about the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into his business practices.

“Right now it’s just a civil case, but you never know,” he said. “A civilian can always turn into a criminal the way it did with Weiselberg.”

“I also believe that Trump could still run for president in 2024 even if he was indicted in one of the criminal investigations,” Dershowitz said.

As Insider previously reported, there is nothing in the Constitution that prevents someone from running for president if they are in prison after a felony conviction. Socialist candidate Eugene Debs was convicted of treason under the Espionage Act when he ran for president in 1920. And Lyndon LaRouche, who was imprisoned for mail fraud in 1988, ran for president in 1992.

If convicted of violating two of the three laws the DOJ believes it is investigating regarding the release of classified documents, Trump could theoretically launch a 2024 presidential campaign even while in prison.

But if he violates one of those laws — 18 USC Section 2071, which prohibits the concealment, removal, or alteration of government records — he can be barred from office again.

That said, legal scholars told the New York Times that even if Trump is found guilty of violating Section 2071, it is unlikely that he will be barred from running again, citing Supreme Court decisions that indicate Congress cannot override the Constitution’s presidential requirements.

A spokeswoman for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment on their current legal status. As of Friday evening, the former president was still criticizing the FBI’s search as an abuse of power, and he also said on Truth Social that his lawyers would soon make a “big Fourth Amendment question” about the raid.