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First Criminally Convicted US President

The first former US president to be criminally convicted, Donald J. Trump, and the historical context of presidential convictions and impeachments.

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Which U.S. presidents faced criminal convictions or prosecutions tied to their administrations?

Only one former U.S. president has been criminally convicted in modern history: Donald J. Trump, whose 2024 conviction on business-records felonies was widely described as the first conviction of a fo...