Has Donald Trump been convicted of any felonies as of December 2025?
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Executive summary
Donald J. Trump was convicted in Manhattan on May 30, 2024 of 34 felony counts of first‑degree falsifying business records related to hush‑money payments, making him the first U.S. president to be convicted of felony crimes; the conviction has remained part of the public record through 2025 even as his sentencing produced an unusual unconditional discharge on January 10, 2025 [1] [2] [3].
1. The New York conviction: what happened and where it stands
A Manhattan jury in the New York state prosecution found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records at the end of a six‑week trial that ran April 15–May 30, 2024; reporting across Ballotpedia, Wikipedia and public radio confirmed the guilty verdict and described it as a historic first for a former president [1] [2] [3]. Judge Juan Merchan denied immunity arguments tied to a separate Supreme Court decision and proceeded to sentencing, but on January 10, 2025 he issued an unconditional discharge — a sentencing outcome that left Trump convicted by the jury but not serving jail time, fines, or probation as part of that disposition [1] [2] [3].
2. How to interpret “convicted” after an unconditional discharge
The reporting makes a technical distinction: the jury’s guilty verdict constitutes a criminal conviction under New York law, and multiple outlets state Trump was “convicted” on 34 felony counts; separate court actions and sentencing choices can alter punishment without erasing the fact of conviction in the record — the January 2025 discharge removed penal consequences but did not retroactively nullify the jury’s guilty finding as described by Ballotpedia, Wikipedia and Houston Public Media [1] [2] [3]. Some commentators and partisan outlets portray the discharge as effectively ending the “felon” label politically, while legal analysts emphasize that the jury verdict and the conviction entry remain relevant to appeals and to historical record [4] [2].
3. Other criminal cases and prosecutorial outcomes through December 2025
Separate criminal matters that also drew attention were resolved differently: the Georgia racketeering case over the 2020 election was dismissed by a judge on November 26, 2025 after lengthy procedural fights including the disqualification of the Fulton County prosecutor in 2024 [5]. Across the multiple indictments Trump faced between 2023–2025, reporting indicates dozens of counts were charged in different forums but, as of late 2025, the New York falsified‑records conviction remained the singular conviction documented in major summaries of his legal troubles [1] [2] [6].
4. Political framing, legal appeals and unresolved questions
Media, partisan actors, and political officials have framed the New York conviction and its discharge in sharply different ways: state leaders and critics have used the guilty verdict as evidence of criminal accountability, while allies and conservative commentators stress the discharge and ongoing appeals or review processes to argue the conviction’s practical significance is limited or reversible [7] [4]. Courts and prosecutors continue to be active players — for instance, the Supreme Court was asked to intervene on sentencing timing and immunity issues and declined to halt the sentence on January 9, 2025, an action reported in contemporaneous summaries [1] — and as the Georgia dismissal shows, procedural rulings elsewhere shifted the overall landscape through late 2025 [5].
Bottom line
As of December 2025, the record shows Donald Trump was convicted by a New York jury of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in May 2024; that conviction remains part of the legal record even though the court later imposed an unconditional discharge at sentencing in January 2025 and other separate indictments were dismissed or paused [1] [2] [3] [5].