What specific criminal charges have been filed against Donald Trump as of December 2025?
Executive summary
As of December 2025, reporting shows Donald Trump was indicted across four separate criminal matters between 2023 and 2025, charged with a total of roughly 80–88 criminal counts across those cases; he was convicted in the New York state “hush‑money” case on 34 counts (later given an unconditional discharge on Jan. 10, 2025) and the remaining federal and Georgia cases were ultimately dismissed or dropped after his 2024 election victory and prosecutorial changes (summary across sources) [1] [2] [3].
1. The four‑case frame: where the charges came from
Reporters and compilers of the record identify four separate criminal prosecutions filed against Trump between 2023 and 2025: a New York state case about falsified business records connected to payments to Stormy Daniels; a Georgia state case about an alleged conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election in Fulton County; and two federal prosecutions — one in Washington, D.C., tied to alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election and another in the Southern District of Florida tied to alleged mishandling of classified documents — together accounting for the bulk of the indictments [1] [4] [5].
2. The New York “hush‑money” indictment: 34 counts, guilty verdict, then discharge
The New York indictment charged Trump with 34 counts of first‑degree falsifying business records tied to alleged payments made to suppress stories during the 2016 campaign; a jury convicted him on all 34 counts on May 30, 2024, and a judge later issued an unconditional discharge of his sentence on January 10, 2025, according to multiple summaries of the docket and news coverage [2] [5] [1].
3. The federal election obstruction case in D.C.: four charges, dismissal after 2024 election
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Washington, D.C., indictment accused Trump in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 election; reporting and case summaries indicate the federal election obstruction prosecution included counts such as conspiring to defraud the government and corruptly obstructing an official proceeding. After Trump won the 2024 election, the special counsel moved to dismiss the case without prejudice under Department of Justice policy about prosecuting sitting presidents, and a judge approved dismissal in November 2024 [2] [4].
4. The classified‑documents federal case and the Florida indictment
Reporting on the Southern District of Florida prosecution shows an indictment in mid‑2023 (and a superseding indictment in July 2023) charging Trump and co‑defendants over retention of classified documents and related obstruction allegations; some federal proceedings were later dropped or stayed after the 2024 election and subsequent legal maneuvering, and commentators note the two federal cases were effectively dismissed after Trump’s victory [5] [4] [3].
5. The Georgia election case: charges, pause, disqualification and ultimate dismissal
Fulton County prosecutors initially charged Trump and others with a slate of state crimes alleging a conspiracy to subvert the 2020 Georgia election results; the case was paused amid litigation about the prosecutor’s conduct, the prosecutor (Fani Willis) was disqualified by a Georgia appeals court, and in late November 2025 a Fulton County judge dismissed all remaining charges after the new prosecutor declined to pursue them [2] [6] [3].
6. Totals, convictions and dismissals: competing tallies in the record
Compilations differ slightly on counts: Ballotpedia and several compendia put the aggregate at about 88 counts across the four prosecutions, with 34 convictions in New York and the balance—roughly 52 counts—eventually dismissed or dropped by late 2025 [1]. Other summaries describe “more than 80” total counts and repeatedly note that the two federal prosecutions were dismissed after the 2024 election [7] [5].
7. How election results and prosecutorial decisions changed the docket
All sources emphasize a single structural fact: Trump’s 2024 election victory and Justice Department policy barring prosecution of a sitting president transformed the practical landscape — Special Counsel Smith and other federal authorities moved to dismiss pending federal prosecutions, and newly appointed or elected prosecutors reviewed and in some cases dropped state charges [4] [3] [5].
8. Limits, open questions and why counts shifted over time
Available sources document convictions, dismissals, disqualifications and dropped appeals, but they also show that procedural moves (appeals, disqualification rulings, prosecutors’ choices) — not fresh jury determinations on guilt for each charge — drove the final disposition of many counts [2] [8]. Sources do not provide a single unified charging list with every count text quoted here; for point‑by‑point charging language, court indictments and filings would be the primary documents [1].
Sources cited: summaries and case chronologies from Ballotpedia and Wikipedia, contemporary news synthesis from AP/Politico and legal coverage from Lawfare and others, as noted above [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [7] [6] [8].