in his four years as president.

Now that he has left office those shields have fallen away

and he faces a mountain of legal troubles as a private citizen.

He is the first president ever to be impeached twice and will

be tried by the Senate for inciting the mob that stormed

the US Capitol building.

Impeachment carries no criminal penalties.

Ordinarily, the main punishment would be removal from office.

But Trump has already left the White House.

He does face the threat of being banned

from holding public office again if the Senate convicts him.

A ban would prevent him from running for president again

in 2024.

It's unclear whether the Senate, which

is divided 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans,

will go that far.

Two-thirds of the Senate, 67 votes,

are needed to convict Trump.

A separate vote on banning him from office

would follow a conviction.

Trump has less support among Republican senators

than he did during his first impeachment,

but we don't know if the party will

turn on him in sufficient numbers to convict.

The mob was fed lies.

They were provoked by the president

and other powerful people.

Some Republicans are arguing that impeachment is designed

for people who are still in office,

and so therefore Trump cannot be convicted because his term has

ended.

However, there is historical precedent

for officials to face an impeachment trial even

after leaving their positions.

But impeachment may be the least of his worries.

Impeachment, witch hunt, impeachment.

As President Trump was immune from arrest and indictment

he also had the might of the Department of Justice

behind him.

Now, he's just a private citizen,

albeit a wealthy one with years of experience of court battles.

The primary threat he faces is a criminal investigation

into his tax affairs by the Manhattan District Attorney

Cyrus Vance.

As president, he battled to stop Vance

from accessing his tax records.

But now that he has left office that investigation

is set to accelerate.

He's also dealing with a pair of significant civil cases.

One is a civil probe by the New York Attorney General Letitia

James into Trump's businesses.

The second is a lawsuit filed by the Washington, DC Attorney

General Karl Racine, 2017 inauguration.

Then there are the lawsuits brought by private individuals,

like a defamation case against Trump

brought by E Jean Carol, a writer who

claims that he raped her.

He has denied the claim.

Hanging over all of this is the prospect

that the Department of Justice, under Joe Biden's

administration, could investigate

Trump on a variety of issues, like possible obstruction

of justice, campaign finance violations,

or an examination of his role in whipping up

the crowd that attacked Congress earlier this month.

Michael Sherwin has already indicated that Trump's role

could be investigated.

So now I'd like to invite John's wife, Jamie, to join us

as I grant John, I'm not sure you know this, a full pardon.

As president, Trump claimed the absolute power

to pardon himself.

In the end, he did not do so.

The last president to leave under a similar cloud

of potential legal liability, Richard Nixon,

was pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford.

Joe Biden, now president, has said he will not

do the same for Trump.