Donald Trump's U.S. election victory not only catapults him back to the White House but grants him a reprieve from looming court battles and soaring legal bills.
As U.S. president, the 78-year-old Trump can make the federal criminal cases facing him vanish and see the state cases put on hold until he leaves the Oval Office four years from now.
Trump pledged during the election campaign against Vice President Kamala Harris to fire Jack Smith, the special counsel who filed federal charges against him, "within two seconds" of taking office.
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