Is Trump totally cleared of 34 felonies charge

1. What the New York case produced: guilty verdicts, then an uncommon discharge

A New York jury found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records relating to hush-money payments, and he was later sentenced—but the judge issued an “unconditional discharge,” a sentence that leaves the convictions intact while imposing no fines, jail time, or probation ^{[1] [4]}. PBS explains that an unconditional discharge is “relatively rare” in a case that produced 34 felony convictions and that the legal status after the discharge remains that he is a convicted felon even though he will face no further penalties under that sentence ^[1].

2. What “cleared” could mean — conviction vacated, sentence erased, or charges dropped

There are several legally distinct outcomes that people compress into “cleared”: a conviction vacated on appeal, a full acquittal, expungement or pardon, or prosecutors dropping charges before trial. The sources record a conviction followed by discharge (New York), and separate prosecutorial decisions elsewhere (Georgia) that ended some state prosecutions; they do not report a court erasing the New York verdict as of the cited materials ^{[4] [1] [3]}. Available sources do not mention a New York court having vacated or erased all 34 convictions (not found in current reporting).

3. The Georgia case and the later dismissal of charges

In Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutors charged Trump in a separate election-related matter; after ethics questions and disqualification issues involving the local district attorney, the case was taken over by Pete Skandalakis, who later announced he would not pursue the case and the court dismissed it in its entirety—effectively dropping those state charges ^{[2] [3]}. That dismissal applies to the Georgia indictment, not to the New York falsifying-business-records convictions ^[3].

4. Appeals, federal questions and continuing litigation

Reporting shows Trump pursued appeals and other legal strategies after convictions and sentences. Some appeals created procedural developments—e.g., courts reconsidering venue or jurisdiction questions—but the cited sources indicate the New York verdict remained a point of litigation and that DOJ special counsel actions in other matters were affected by presidential status; they do not show a definitive, retroactive erasure of the New York convictions in the materials provided ^{[3] [5]}. Where sources note later prosecutorial drops (Georgia), they tie to changes in who would or could prosecute, not to a judicial nullification of the New York jury’s verdict ^{[2] [3]}.

5. How media and political language can conflate outcomes

Some outlets and political actors use shorthand—“cleared,” “dismissed,” “pardoned”—to describe very different legal realities. The New Yorker and TIME emphasize the 34 felony convictions as a central fact of the New York trial while other outlets report prosecutors later abandoning or dismissing separate cases ^{[6] [5] [3]}. That mixing of jurisdictions and legal terms creates public confusion; the sources show different outcomes in different forums rather than a single, uniform legal erasure of the 34-count conviction ^{[6] [3]}.

6. What remains unanswered in the current record

Available sources do not report a court order that vacated or entirely nullified the New York jury’s 34 convictions, nor do they report a presidential pardon that would directly alter state convictions; they do report an unconditional discharge imposed by the judge and later prosecutorial decisions in Georgia to drop charges ^{[1] [2] [3]}. For a definitive legal status update—e.g., whether an appeal later vacated those New York convictions or a pardon affected them—consult the specific court dockets or updated official filings beyond the cited reporting (not found in current reporting).

Bottom line: reporting in the provided sources documents the May 2024 guilty verdict on 34 counts in New York and an unusual unconditional discharge that imposed no further punishment ^{[1] [4]}, and it separately documents that Georgia prosecutors later dropped their case ^{[3] [2]}. None of the supplied sources shows a single, authoritative action that “totally cleared” Trump of the 34 New York felony convictions (not found in current reporting).