CNN ā Donald Trump has been reelected to the White House as a convicted felon who is awaiting sentencing in his hush money case in New York and still working to stave off prosecution in other state and federal cases.
Itās an extraordinarily unique position for him to be in: Never before has a criminal defendant been elected to the nationās highest office, just as an ex-president had never been criminally charged until last year.
Trump has said multiple times he plans to fire special counsel Jack Smith and end the federal cases against him for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election and mishandling classified documents.
As of Wednesday, Smith is in active talks with Justice Department leadership about how to end the federal cases against Trump, a DOJ official familiar with the discussions told CNN.
āIt clearly paid off to aggressively push to delay these cases as long as possible,ā said Jessica Levinson, a constitutional law professor at Loyola Law School.
In the meantime, a judge in New York is set to sentence the former president later this month after holding off on handing down the punishment ahead of Election Day to avoid any appearance of affecting the outcome of the presidential race ā though Trumpās lawyers are expected to ask the judge to put off the sentencing now that heās the president-elect.
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