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Which of Trump’s convictions related to Jan. 6 (if any) are felonies versus misdemeanors?
Executive summary
The January‑6‑related charges brought against Donald Trump by Special Counsel Jack Smith were felony counts — the indictment charged him with two counts of obstruction of an official proceeding and two related conspiracies, all described in the indictment as felonies [1]. Available sources do not mention any misdemeanor convictions tied to the Jan. 6 probe for Trump; reporting and legal summaries frame the Justice Department case as four felony counts [1] [2].
1. What the indictment actually charged: four felonies
The Justice Department’s indictment of Trump in the federal Jan. 6 matter charged him with four felony counts: two counts under the statute for obstructing an official proceeding and two conspiracy counts (conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy against rights), and public legal summaries repeatedly describe those as felony charges [1] [2].
2. Why those statutes are treated as felonies
Legal commentary explains that the obstruction statute used in many Jan. 6 prosecutions — 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)[3] — has been applied as a felony in hundreds of Jan. 6 cases and carries substantial maximum penalties (the statute has been used against at least hundreds of defendants and produced felony convictions) [1]. The other counts in Trump’s indictment — conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy against rights — are likewise felony-level federal statutes according to published legal overviews [1] [4].
3. No misdemeanors in the Trump Jan. 6 indictment reported in these sources
The sources provided frame Trump’s federal Jan. 6 indictment as consisting of felony counts; they do not report any misdemeanors for Trump arising from the Jan. 6 events. If you are asking whether any of his Jan. 6–related convictions (as opposed to charges) were misdemeanors, available sources do not mention any Jan. 6 convictions for Trump as misdemeanors [1] [2]. Available sources instead discuss felony charges and the special counsel’s conclusion about likely convictions absent intervening events [5].
4. Context: how these charges compare to charges against rioters
By contrast, among the roughly 1,200–1,600 people charged for Jan. 6, prosecutors used a mix of misdemeanors and felonies; early Justice Department tallies showed a substantial share of defendants faced felony counts while others faced only misdemeanors (Garland’s estimate that about 45% faced felonies and 55% faced only misdemeanors was cited in legal reporting) [2]. That contrast is often cited to underscore the difference between the majority of rioters’ charges and the federal case brought against Trump, which legal analysts treated as felony-level allegations [2].
5. What happened to Jan. 6 convictions afterward — pardons and downstream effects
Several sources document broad executive action after Trump’s 2024 election and 2025 inauguration: a sweeping Day‑One pardon and related clemency actions erased many Jan. 6 convictions and led to litigation over the scope of those pardons for unrelated crimes; reporting notes that the pardon erased convictions of “over a thousand” people in some accounts and focused the Justice Department and judicial attention on how far such pardons extend [6] [7] [8]. These actions affected many convicted rioters, but the sources do not say they altered the classification (felony vs misdemeanor) of the original charges for Trump’s indictment specifically [6] [7] [8].
6. Competing views and limitations in the record
Legal analysts such as Lawfare frame Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment as four felonies and discuss areas where those counts might be contested in court (for example, disputes over the application of §1512(c)[3]), showing there is debate about legal reach even when charges are felony-level [1]. The special counsel’s own report stated his team believed those charges would have produced convictions had the prosecution proceeded [5]. However, available sources do not include final convictions of Trump on the Jan. 6 counts in the material you supplied, nor do they report any misdemeanor findings against him tied to Jan. 6; for assertions beyond that, “available sources do not mention” them [1] [5].
7. Bottom line for your question
Based on the reporting and legal summaries provided, Trump’s Jan. 6‑related federal charges were felony counts — two obstruction counts and two conspiracy counts — and the sources supplied do not report any misdemeanor convictions for him tied to Jan. 6 [1] [2]. If you want document‑level confirmation (indictment text, charging language, or later court dispositions), the primary court filings or updated news reports would be the next sources to consult; they are not included among the sources you provided (not found in current reporting).