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Every Crime Donald Trump Has Been Convicted Of: The Verified Record and Timeline

One case. Thirty-four felony counts. Ten contempt findings. Everything else in the pile is something other than a crime, and the difference is not a technicality.

One case. Thirty-four felony counts. That is the complete list of crimes Donald Trump has been convicted of in an American courtroom, and more than two years after the jury came back, it still stands.

Say that in most rooms and somebody gets angry. One side hears thirty-four and rounds it up into a rap sheet covering January 6, the Mar-a-Lago boxes, and Georgia. The other side hears one case out of four and rounds it down to nothing, a bookkeeping squabble a friendly court will soon erase. Neither version survives contact with the court file.

What follows is the record, not the fight about it. What a jury found, what a judge found, what got dropped and why, and what was never a criminal case at all. Every line traces to a court document or a named report I opened and read.

The conviction: 34 counts, one indictment

On May 30, 2024, a New York County jury convicted Trump on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree, under a Manhattan indictment filed in 2023. Justice Juan M. Merchan restated it in writing the following January: guilty on 34 felony counts, by a unanimous jury of twelve of his peers.

The charge is a class E felony, the lowest grade New York issues. Falsifying a business record on its own is a misdemeanor. It becomes a felony when the falsification is meant to commit or conceal another crime, and prosecutors said the other crime here was a conspiracy to promote a candidate by unlawful means.

The mechanics were plain. In October 2016, Michael Cohen paid adult film actor Stormy Daniels $130,000. Trump reimbursed him in monthly installments, booked in Trump Organization records as legal fees under a retainer agreement that did not exist. Invoices, ledger entries, checks. Thirty-four documents, thirty-four counts. Twenty-two witnesses testified and more than 500 exhibits went in.

On January 10, 2025, ten days before his second inauguration, Merchan sentenced him to an unconditional discharge. No prison, no fine, no probation, no supervision. The felony conviction stays on the record, and the sentence is that nothing happens. Merchan had flagged that outcome in advance as the only workable way to preserve the verdict and let the appeals run.

Ten more criminal findings almost nobody counts

Inside the same case sits a second set of findings that rarely makes the summaries. During trial, Merchan held Trump in criminal contempt ten separate times for violating the order restricting his public statements about witnesses and jurors. Nine violations came on April 30, 2024, at $1,000 each, the state maximum. The tenth came on May 6, with a warning that the fines were not working and jail could follow.

Merchan later put it in his own written decision, weighing Trump’s character on the motion to vacate the verdict: the court had “no choice but to find the Defendant guilty of 10 counts of Contempt.”

The timeline

• December 6, 2022. A Manhattan jury convicts two Trump Organization entities on all 17 counts of criminal tax fraud. Trump is not a defendant. The companies are fined $1.6 million in January.
• April 4, 2023. Trump pleads not guilty to the 34 counts in Manhattan. Three more indictments follow that summer.
• April 30 and May 6, 2024. Merchan finds Trump in criminal contempt ten times, $10,000 in fines.
• May 30, 2024. The jury convicts on all 34 counts.
• July 1, 2024. The Supreme Court decides Trump v. United States, granting broad immunity for official acts.
• July 15, 2024. Judge Aileen Cannon dismisses the Florida documents case, ruling the special counsel unlawfully appointed.
• November 25, 2024. Judge Tanya Chutkan dismisses the federal election case without prejudice on Jack Smith’s motion.
• December 2024. The Georgia Court of Appeals disqualifies Fani Willis.
• January 10, 2025. Merchan imposes an unconditional discharge. The conviction is final for appeal.
• August 21, 2025. New York’s Appellate Division voids the civil fraud money judgment; the fraud liability stands.
• September 8, 2025. The Second Circuit upholds E. Jean Carroll’s $83.3 million defamation judgment.
• October 27, 2025. Trump files his criminal appeal with the Appellate Division, First Department.
• November 26, 2025. Judge Scott McAfee dismisses the Georgia case in its entirety.
• February 4, 2026. Judge Alvin Hellerstein hears Trump’s third removal attempt and reserves decision.
• June 29, 2026. The Supreme Court declines to hear the $5 million Carroll appeal.
• July 8, 2026. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan orders $5.8 million released to Carroll; Trump appeals the same day.

Three cases that ended without a verdict

Trump was indicted four times in 2023. Only one reached a jury.

The federal election case in Washington charged four counts tied to the effort to overturn the 2020 result. After the 2024 election, Special Counsel Jack Smith moved to dismiss, citing the Justice Department’s long-held position that a sitting president cannot be federally prosecuted, and said outright the decision was not about the strength of the evidence. Chutkan dismissed it without prejudice on November 25, 2024.

The Florida classified documents case died earlier, on different grounds. Cannon threw it out in July 2024 over the special counsel’s appointment, never reaching the merits, and Smith later abandoned his appeal.

Georgia lasted longest. Fani Willis indicted Trump and 18 others in August 2023 on racketeering charges, then lost the case over her relationship with a special prosecutor she hired. No other prosecutor in the state would take the file. Pete Skandalakis of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia assigned it to himself and moved to drop it, writing that the alleged conduct belonged in federal court and that no sitting president could realistically be tried. McAfee signed the order on November 26, 2025: “The case is hereby dismissed in its entirety.” Four co-defendants had already pleaded guilty, and those pleas stand.

Dismissed is not acquitted. No jury weighed the evidence in any of the three, and no court found the charges false. That cuts both directions, and anyone insisting it cuts only one is selling something.

The column that is not crime

Here is where the public conversation goes off the rails. A criminal conviction requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt and produces a sentence. A civil judgment requires a preponderance of the evidence, more likely than not, and produces money. Trump has lost plenty in civil court. None of it is a conviction, because none of it was a criminal case.

E. Jean Carroll. In May 2023, a Manhattan federal jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the mid-1990s and defaming her in 2022, awarding $5 million. That jury did not find rape. In January 2024, a second jury awarded $83.3 million over his earlier statements. The Second Circuit upheld the larger award in September 2025, calling the damages “fair and reasonable.” The Supreme Court refused the $5 million appeal on June 29, and Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ordered the escrowed $5.8 million released on July 8. Trump’s lawyers appealed the payment the same day. He has denied Carroll’s account from the start and calls the suits politically driven.

The New York civil fraud case. Justice Arthur Engoron found in February 2024 that Trump, two of his sons, and his company inflated asset values for better loan and insurance terms, ordering roughly $355 million in disgorgement that topped $500 million with interest. On August 21, 2025, the Appellate Division wiped out the money while leaving the fraud liability and the injunctions in place, holding the disgorgement “an excessive fine that violates the Eighth Amendment.” Attorney General Letitia James appealed to the state’s highest court. Trump called it a total victory. Both descriptions carry part of the truth: he owes nothing right now, and he remains liable.

The Trump Foundation. In November 2019, Justice Saliann Scarpulla ordered Trump to pay $2 million to charity after he acknowledged in a signed stipulation that he breached his fiduciary duty by letting campaign staff run a veterans fundraiser through the charity. The foundation dissolved. An admission in a civil settlement is not a guilty plea, and no prosecutor charged him.

The company was convicted. He was not charged.

One more conflation: in December 2022, a Manhattan jury convicted the Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corporation on all 17 counts of a fifteen-year scheme to hide executive compensation from tax authorities. Merchan fined the two entities $1.6 million, the statutory maximum. Trump was never a defendant. Longtime finance chief Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty separately and served five months.

His company has a criminal record. That is a fact about the company, and stating it as a fact about him is wrong the same way calling a civil verdict a conviction is wrong.

Where the 34 counts stand today

Two tracks are running at once. The direct appeal sits with the Appellate Division, First Department, where Trump’s lawyers filed a 96-page brief in October 2025 arguing that presidential immunity barred key evidence, that federal campaign finance law preempted the state theory, that the jury was never required to agree on the underlying crime, and that Merchan should have recused. Their framing is blunt: the case “should have never seen the inside of a courtroom.” As of publication, the court has not scheduled argument.

The second track tries to move the case out of state court entirely. Hellerstein has denied removal twice. The Second Circuit sent it back in November 2025 for a closer look at whether immunized official acts crept into the trial evidence. At the February 4 hearing, Hellerstein sounded unconvinced, telling Trump’s lawyers they had sought “two bites at the apple,” and said he would rule in writing. He has not yet.

Until an appellate court says otherwise, the verdict is the verdict. A conviction under appeal is still a conviction.

Why a New Hampshire paper is counting

New Hampshire voted on this before the record existed. The first-in-the-nation primary ran on January 23, 2024, and Republicans here handed Trump an eleven-point win over Nikki Haley. The jury came back 128 days later. Nobody in a booth in Northfield or Laconia that January had this file, because most of it had not happened yet.

That is the ordinary condition of voting, and why precision matters more afterward, not less. This state goes first again in 2028, and Granite Staters will again be the first voters asked to weigh a candidate’s record, armed with whichever version of it is loudest in their feeds.

The gap between convicted and liable is not lawyer trivia, either. It runs through cases this paper covers every month. An officer who fabricates a report faces a criminal charge, while a department that loses a civil rights suit writes a check and admits nothing (as we reported in June). A parent who cannot cover a filing fee never gets a ruling at all (the price of proof). The state presumes you know every law on its books and cannot say how many there are (nobody can count them). Same courthouse, different burdens, different consequences. The words are not interchangeable, and swapping them is how people end up certain about things that are not so.

The whole scoreboard

One criminal case reached a jury. Thirty-four felony convictions came out of it, on appeal and intact. Ten criminal contempt findings and $10,000 in fines sit beside them. Two federal prosecutions and a state racketeering case ended without trial, none on the merits. A stack of civil losses is real, expensive, and not criminal. A company he owns carries its own conviction.

Anyone telling you it is more than that is padding the number. Anyone telling you it is less is erasing one. The file is public and it is not long. Read it before you argue about it.

— Dexter Dow, Granite State Report

Fact check

Editor’s note. Every factual claim above was checked against a primary court record or a named news report, and every hyperlink in this piece was opened and confirmed live on July 20, 2026. Two items carry ATTRIBUTED status because they describe the absence of a ruling rather than a filed document; both can change without notice, and readers should confirm current appellate status before relying on them. The Manhattan District Attorney’s May 30, 2024 press release is cited in text but not linked, because that site blocks automated retrieval and the link could not be verified during this run. Nothing in this article asserts a legal conclusion beyond what a court has already found, and characterizations by Trump’s counsel are identified as their characterizations. Corrections are published in place, dated, and never quietly edited: granitestatereport@gmail.com.