Which criminal charges against Donald Trump have been dismissed or dropped as of December 2025?
Executive summary
By December 2025, the bulk of federal criminal prosecutions that had been brought against Donald Trump — including the classified-documents case and the federal election-subversion case — had been dismissed or otherwise dropped, and the last remaining state prosecution in Georgia was abandoned by the Fulton County prosecutor, leaving a tally of dozens of dismissed counts across his four major indictments [1] [2] [3]. The New York state prosecution that produced a 2024 conviction resulted in an unusual post-election outcome — an unconditional discharge rather than typical incarceration or a vacated conviction — and therefore was not “dismissed” in the same way as the other matters [4] [5].
1. Federal classified-documents case: judicial dismissal in mid‑2024
The federal prosecution alleging unlawful retention of classified documents was dismissed by Judge Aileen Cannon in July 2024 on Appointments Clause grounds, a ruling the government did not ultimately prevail in overturning before Trump’s 2024 election victory, and the dismissal stands as one of the central early-term terminations of federal charges [1] [2]. Reporting and case-tracking sources list Judge Cannon’s July 15, 2024 order as the dispositive action that removed those federal charges from proceeding at that time [1].
2. Federal election-subversion and related DOJ cases: dismissal after 2024 election
The remaining federal prosecution led by Special Counsel Jack Smith — which alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election — was dismissed by a federal judge on November 25, 2024, a decision widely reported as removing the last active federal criminal indictment at that time and characterized by courts as “without prejudice,” meaning refilement could be possible after a presidency [2] [1]. Multiple legal observers and outlets framed those dismissals as linked to the practical constraints of prosecuting a sitting president and to specific procedural defects and appellate posture following the 2024 transition [2] [6].
3. Georgia state case: prosecutor drops the final charges in late 2025
Fulton County’s election‑interference indictment — the Georgia state case that had survived various pretrial rulings and motions — was formally dropped by the local prosecutor in November 2025, an action that reporting described as the dismissal of the final criminal case against Trump and effectively ending that state prosecution without trial [3] [1]. Local court rulings earlier in the litigation had already pared several counts for specificity and constitutional reasons, and the prosecutor’s late‑2025 motion concluded what many sources called the final chapter of the Georgia litigation [1] [3].
4. The New York hush‑money prosecution: conviction followed by an unconditional discharge, not a dismissal
The Manhattan prosecution that resulted in a May 2024 conviction on 34 state counts of falsifying business records remained legally distinct: Trump was convicted at trial, and after numerous posttrial delays and the 2024 election, the sentence was converted into an unconditional discharge on January 10, 2025 — a sentencing outcome that relieved him of a custodial penalty but was not a judicial dismissal of the underlying conviction [4] [5]. Sources emphasize that the New York outcome is procedurally and substantively different from “dismissed” charges; the conviction and related appeals continued to be litigated and appealed [4] [5].
5. The arithmetic and caveats: dozens of counts dismissed, many “without prejudice,” and political context matters
Aggregating public trackers and legal summaries, outlets such as Ballotpedia report that by late 2025 some 52 criminal counts across the four indictments had been dismissed, while 34 counts produced a guilty verdict in New York — though that verdict yielded an unconditional discharge rather than a standard sentence — and many federal dismissals were entered “without prejudice,” allowing for potential refiling after Trump’s presidency [1] [2] [4]. Analysts and legal commentators note that prosecutorial withdrawals, judicial dismissals, and administrative decisions intersected with political developments (the 2024 election) and constitutional questions about charging a sitting president, creating outcomes driven as much by timing and procedure as by substantive adjudication [6] [1].