List of crimes Donald Trump has been found guilty of
Executive summary
Donald Trump has been criminally convicted once: a Manhattan jury found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records tied to payments made during the 2016 campaign, a verdict reached on May 30, 2024 [1]. That conviction remains the sole criminal guilty verdict against him amid multiple other indictments that were later dismissed or remain unresolved [2] [3].
1. The conviction: 34 counts of falsifying business records (New York hush‑money case)
In a landmark 2024 trial in Manhattan, a jury convicted Donald Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to reimbursements and accounting entries tied to a payment to Stormy Daniels, a payment prosecutors said was intended to influence the 2016 election and was recorded improperly in the Trump Organization’s books [1] [4]. News coverage and legal guides uniformly identify those convictions as coming from the New York case and describe them as falsifying business records in the first degree — the charges that produced the historic guilty verdict making him the first U.S. president or former president to be convicted of felony crimes [5] [4].
2. Sentence and legal status: conviction affirmed, punishment avoided under present circumstances
Although the jury returned guilty verdicts on all 34 counts, the practical consequences were mitigated: a judge later imposed an unconditional discharge, which affirms a criminal conviction in law while imposing no jail time, probation, or fines in the sentence handed down on January 10, 2025 [2] [6]. Media and legal reporting note that subsequent developments in presidential immunity and Trump’s return to office affected the posture of other cases and the enforcement of punishment, but the underlying New York conviction itself stands as a guilty finding by a jury [6] [2].
3. Other criminal cases: charged but not found guilty — dismissals, appeals, and political context
Beyond the New York conviction, Trump was the subject of multiple other indictments in 2023–2024 — two federal and one additional state case in Georgia — encompassing allegations ranging from mishandling classified documents to election-subversion schemes; those matters were dismissed, wound down, or remain in legal limbo, and none produced a guilty verdict against him as of the reporting cited [3] [2]. The Department of Justice and special counsels withdrew or dismissed federal charges in light of prosecutorial policy regarding a sitting president and procedural rulings, and the Georgia matter did not result in a conviction during the referenced timeframe [3] [2].
4. Defense, appeals, and competing legal narratives
Trump and his legal team have consistently denied wrongdoing and have pursued appeals to overturn the Manhattan verdict, arguing among other claims that evidence overlapped with presidential acts and that Supreme Court rulings on immunity bear on the case — arguments that have attracted amici and federal court attention; DOJ lawyers even filed positions arguing federal court consideration was appropriate in some aspects [5] [4]. Observers and outlets such as ABC News and the BBC report both the conviction and the vigorous legal challenges underway, and note that pundits and politicians frame these developments through partisan lenses [5] [4].
5. What can be stated with confidence and what remains beyond the record
Based on the available reporting, the only criminal offenses Donald Trump has been found guilty of are the 34 counts of falsifying business records in New York connected to the hush‑money scheme — no other criminal convictions of Trump are documented in the cited sources [1] [5]. Coverage also documents many additional charges and allegations that have not resulted in guilty findings, and it records political responses such as mass pardons and partisan tracking of associates, which signal how legal outcomes feed into broader public and political battles [7] [8].