The legal baggage Donald Trump would bring to the White House

After FBI Director James Comey sent a letter to Congress on Friday saying that the agency would be reviewing new emails to see if they are relevant to its investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while Secretary of State, Donald Trump has wasted no time in saying the announcement should keep her from office. He called her “corrupt,” claiming the corruption is “on a scale we have never seen before.”

He added, “We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office.”

But what Trump left out is that he himself is involved in a number of legal battles that are still ongoing, some of which have court dates scheduled for just after the election. While there are differences between these lawsuits and the ongoing federal investigation into Clinton — most of the suits against Trump are civil claims — Trump would bring plenty of legal baggage into the White House....
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