WASHINGTON Donald Trump bankrupted casinos and become the biggest presidential loser since Herbert Hoover , but the Jan. 6 investigations move into the courts lets him operate in his one area of proven expertise: using them to stall and delay.

And with the congressional probe almost certain to end if Republicans retake the House next autumn, the former president could well bury details of his attempt to overthrow U.S. democracy by just running out the clock with his lawsuits.

This is Trump 101, in terms of delaying and grinding out legal actions that affect him, said Michael Cohen, Trumps longtime lawyer and fixer who served time in federal prison for helping Trump make preelection hush-money payments in 2016 to women who said theyd had affairs with Trump.