In New York—where Trump is already a convicted felon—the crime of what we normally think of as extortion is called “coercion.” “Coercion in the Third Degree ,” a misdemeanor, occurs when someone:

Donald Trump, famously, was indicted four times in four separate jurisdictions during the four years he was out of office. Thanks to a combination of the slowness of the prosecutions, the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity,