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Jan. 6-Related Prosecutions

Prosecutions related to the January 6 events, including those that have named Donald J. Trump.

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Jan 15, 2026
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Treason accusations against Donald Trump explained

Allegations that Donald Trump committed "treason" are politically charged and legally specific: under the U.S. Constitution treason means either levying war against the United States or giving "aid an...

Jan 17, 2026
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What are the current statuses and outcomes of each criminal case against Donald Trump as of 2026?

Donald Trump entered 2026 with the legal landscape largely reshaped by election returns, court rulings, and at least one completed state prosecution: he was convicted in the New York falsifying-busine...

Jan 23, 2026
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how many laws has trump broken?

There is no single authoritative tally that answers “ broken”; publicly available reporting shows multiple criminal indictments, hundreds of civil and constitutional legal challenges to his actions, a...

Jan 17, 2026

How does Section 3 of the 14th Amendment work to disqualify candidates and what cases have invoked it?

Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment bars from federal or state office anyone who, having previously sworn an oath to support the Constitution as a public official, “engaged in insurrection or rebell...

Jan 26, 2026

Which passages of Trump’s January 6 speech were cited in court filings during his prosecutions?

Court filings in the prosecutions repeatedly point to a handful of striking passages from ’s Ellipse speech: prosecutors and many defendants cited his off-script admonition “We’re going to walk down t...

Jan 25, 2026

lies by donald trump

’s public record is marked by a prodigious volume of false or misleading statements catalogued by multiple fact‑checking projects and researchers, a pattern observers have tied to deliberate rhetorica...

Jan 24, 2026

Does Donald Trump intentionally lie?

The best public record shows a persistent pattern of and multiple lines of evidence that at least some of those falsehoods were intentional: scholarly analyses of his communications found “significant...

Jan 19, 2026

How did mainstream fact‑checking organizations document and categorize Trump’s false historical claims during his presidency?

Mainstream fact‑checking organizations documented Donald Trump’s false historical claims through large-scale databases, systematic rating systems and thematic tallies that treated repetitions, narrati...

Jan 15, 2026

How have courts treated presidential immunity claims in the classified‑documents and Jan. 6 cases?

The Supreme Court in Trump v. United States established a three‑tiered immunity framework — absolute for core constitutional acts, presumptive for other official acts within the “outer perimeter,” and...

Jan 14, 2026

Which ongoing criminal cases name Trump or his companies and what remedies (fines, forfeiture, injunctions) do prosecutors seek in each?

Public reporting shows a shifting patchwork of criminal and civil matters that have at times named Donald J. Trump personally and his businesses, but reporters and litigation trackers stress that many...