How many criminal convictions does Donald Trump have as of November 2025 and what were the charges?
Executive summary
As of November 26–27, 2025, available reporting shows Donald Trump had one recorded criminal conviction — 34 felony counts of first‑degree falsifying business records in New York — from a May 30, 2024 jury verdict; that conviction remained on the books after sentencing to an unconditional discharge on January 10, 2025, though federal and appellate challenges continued [1] [2] [3]. Multiple other criminal prosecutions previously charged Trump with roughly 80–88 counts across four cases, but the Georgia case was dropped on November 26, 2025 and federal cases had various procedural developments [4] [5] [6].
1. The one conviction: New York “hush‑money” verdict and sentence
A Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on May 30, 2024 of 34 felony counts for falsifying business records tied to payments allegedly made to silence Stormy Daniels; that verdict made him the first U.S. president to be convicted of a felony [1] [2]. Judge Juan Merchan later imposed an unconditional discharge on January 10, 2025 — a sentence that, by definition in reporting, carried no jail time, probation, or fines — leaving the conviction on the record while appeals and constitutional questions continued [1] [2] [3].
2. The bigger picture: charged but not convicted in other cases
Across four separate criminal proceedings (two federal, two state), Trump was charged with roughly 80–88 criminal counts in total; many news summaries and databases enumerate those counts but distinguish between charged counts and convictions [4] [7] [8]. The other major matters included a federal classified‑documents case and the federal Jan. 6 election‑related indictment; reporting in late 2025 describes those matters as having been dismissed, paused, or subject to ongoing appeals, not as additional convictions [1] [9].
3. Georgia election case: last state case dropped November 26, 2025
Fulton County’s prosecution of Trump over the 2020 election aftermath had been paused, saw the original prosecutor disqualified, and was taken up by a new prosecutor; on November 26, 2025, the new prosecutor Pete Skandalakis announced he was dropping all charges against Trump and others in that Georgia matter, ending what some outlets called “the last remaining criminal case” against the president [5] [6]. That development removed a multi‑count state indictment from the active list of prosecutions but is reported as a dismissal rather than a finding of guilt [5] [6].
4. Appellate and federal interventions affecting the New York conviction
Following the 2024 verdict, the Supreme Court’s July 2024 decision about presidential immunity prompted new legal arguments claiming evidence inadmissible; federal courts ordered additional review of whether the New York case should have been in federal court and the U.S. government asked that the conviction be thrown out in November 2025 [3] [10]. These filings and appeals mean the New York conviction’s final legal status remained contested in late 2025 even though the conviction itself had not been vacated in the reports cited here [3] [10].
5. How reputable outlets frame counts vs. convictions
Major compendia (People, Ballotpedia, Britannica) tally total counts charged — commonly cited as “around 80–88” — and separately note the singular conviction of 34 counts in New York; reputable summaries emphasize that charges do not equal convictions and that appeals and procedural outcomes can change legal status over time [4] [7] [11]. Opinion pieces and analyses highlight broader questions — such as immunity or political implications — but those commentaries do not add new convictions beyond the New York verdict [8].
6. Limitations, outstanding questions, and what reporting does not say
Available sources in this dataset do not report any additional criminal convictions for Trump after the New York verdict and its January 10, 2025 unconditional discharge; they instead report dismissals (Georgia) or ongoing appeals and reviews (federal and New York appellate activity) [6] [3] [10]. Sources do not, in this collection, provide a final appellate determination that vacated the New York conviction before November 27, 2025 — if you want confirmation of any court rulings issued after November 26, 2025, those are not found in current reporting here (not found in current reporting).
Bottom line: based on the sources provided, Trump had one criminal conviction on the books — 34 felony counts of falsifying business records from the Manhattan trial — while other indictments accounted for roughly 80–88 charged counts in total but did not produce additional convictions as of late November 2025 [1] [4] [6].