Were Trump's charges all reversed?
Executive summary
Not all charges against Donald Trump were universally “reversed.” By Nov. 26, 2025, the remaining Georgia state charges were dropped after a new Fulton County prosecutor declined to pursue the case [1]; other prosecutions were dropped, paused, vacated or dismissed at different times and for different reasons by judges, prosecutors and the Department of Justice [2] [3] [4]. Available sources document convictions, dismissals, disqualifications and prosecutorial decisions — not a single blanket judicial reversal of every charge [5] [6] [3].
1. The headline: some cases ended, but by different routes
Trump’s slate of criminal matters did not all end the same way. The Georgia racketeering-style prosecution was dismissed when the new Fulton County prosecutor moved to drop charges on Nov. 26, 2025 [1]. Separately, federal special counsel prosecutions related to Jan. 6 and classified documents encountered dismissals, pauses and Department of Justice policy constraints; reporting says prosecutors “stumbled” and that some high-profile federal prosecutions were dismissed or abandoned [2] [4]. These are distinct outcomes produced by different actors — judges, appellate rulings, disqualified local prosecutors and new local prosecutors — not a unified legal reversal [3] [2].
2. What happened in Georgia: new prosecutor declined to proceed
The final criminal case in Georgia was dropped after the new prosecutor reviewed the indictment and chose not to pursue it; news outlets reported the dismissal on Nov. 26, 2025 [1]. The Georgia case had already seen earlier judicial pruning: two counts were tossed in September 2024, the original Fulton County prosecutor, Fani Willis, faced disqualification and was removed from the case in December 2024, and a judge had previously ruled on immunity issues connected to Supreme Court precedent [3] [5]. The Nov. 26, 2025 dismissal followed that fraught procedural history [3] [1].
3. Federal cases: dismissals, policy limits and legal setbacks
Federal matters were affected by both legal rulings and prosecutorial decisions. Reporting by the International Bar Association and Reuters documents that Special Counsel Jack Smith dropped or paused some cases and that DOJ policy long advised against indicting a sitting president, which complicated post-election timing and decisions [2] [4]. Reuters and other outlets chronicle a series of legal setbacks and dismissals in prosecutions brought by Trump-aligned officials seeking retaliation, underscoring that some federal charges did not survive judicial review [4].
4. New facts: convictions and vacaturs still part of the record
Not all legal outcomes were dismissals. The New York state falsified business records case produced a conviction — reporting notes a 34-count guilty verdict in May 2024 — and later sentencing and motions have followed in court; sources show that convictions and subsequent judicial actions remain part of the overall picture [5]. Ballotpedia and other trackers count convictions alongside dismissed counts when tallying the total number of charges across multiple jurisdictions [6]. Thus, the legal ledger includes both guilty verdicts and dismissed counts [5] [6].
5. Numbers matter: counts, convictions and dismissals are spread across cases
Sources compiled lists showing that across multiple prosecutions the former president faced dozens of counts — Ballotpedia noted 88 counts from 2023–2025 with a mix of convictions and dismissed charges [6]. Wikipedia’s tracking similarly records convictions, unconditional discharges, and later prosecutorial dismissals in various venues [5]. Those tallies demonstrate complexity: some charges were dismissed or dropped, some resulted in conviction, and some prosecutions were derailed by procedural issues like prosecutor disqualification [5] [6] [3].
6. Competing interpretations and implicit agendas
Media outlets and institutions frame these developments differently. Outlets like Reuters and PBS emphasize prosecutorial missteps and dismissals in the context of a broader “retribution” campaign and government stumbles [4] [1]. Other trackers and encyclopedic summaries emphasize the conviction that remain on the record and the nuance of immunity rulings [5] [6]. Readers should note potential agendas: coverage sympathetic to Trump highlights dismissed cases and prosecutorial error; critics emphasize convictions and the scope of alleged wrongdoing. Both threads appear in the available reporting [4] [5].
7. Limits of available reporting
Available sources do not mention a single, court-issued nationwide reversal that wiped clean every criminal charge against Trump; instead they document a patchwork of dismissals, disqualifications, convictions and prosecutorial choices across jurisdictions [5] [1] [4]. They do not provide a comprehensive legal ledger beyond November 26, 2025, in the excerpts provided; further developments or appeals beyond that date are not covered in the current set of documents [6] [5].
Bottom line: the record in available reporting shows multiple endings — dismissals, drops by new prosecutors, judicial rulings and at least one conviction — not a monolithic legal “reversal” of every charge [1] [5] [6].