Trump Calls Criminal Probe A Witchunt To Scuttle His 2024 Election Bid WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - Former President Donald Trump has alleged that the criminal investigation into the Trump Organisation was a witchunt aimed to block him from running for the 2024 presidential election. New York attorney general Letitia James had announced earlier this week that her inquiry into the billionaire-turned politician's financial dealings was 'no longer purely civil', but also criminal, working with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. 'There is nothing more corrupt than an investigation that is in desperate search of a crime,' he said in a statement posted on his newly launched 'Save America' website, in which he describes himself as President Donald J. Trump.