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DONALD J. TRUMP

(FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES)

• For the first 234 years of the nation’s history, no American president or former president had ever been indicted. That changed in 2023. Over a five-month span, former President Donald Trump was charged in four criminal cases. Together, the indictments accused him of wide-ranging criminal conduct before, during and after his presidency. One of those indictments has now led to the first criminal conviction of a former president; the other three remain pending. This is POLITICO’s guide to the four Trump criminal cases.
• On May 30, 2024, Trump became the first U.S. president to become a convicted felon. After a six-week trial that sidelined him from his campaign to regain the White House, he was found guilty of falsifying business records in connection with a payoff to Stormy Daniels, a porn star who claimed she had a sexual encounter with him.
• On March 30, 2023, a Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Trump. Five days later, local prosecutors unveiled the criminal charges: 34 felony counts of violating a New York law on corporate record-keeping.