By Adrienne Morris
The Trump Presidency has faced game changing lawsuits. Trump was faced with thirty four felony convictions, charges of fraud, election subversion, and obstruction.
President Elect Donald Trump has become the first convicted felon to be elected as President. On November 5th, Donald Trump won the 2024 Presidential election. On January 3rd of 2025, a judge indicated that he would sentence Trump, but he would grant the president an unconditional discharge. An unconditional discharge means Trump may avoid probation or jail time and does not require him to meet any further qualifications, such as not reoffending. Regardless, Trump remains a felon.
Trump is the defendant of almost a dozen civil suits in the federal court. These lawsuits include a defamation case, eight lawsuits over Trump’s role in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol, and two cases related to the clearing of racial justice protesters from outside of the White House in 2020.
Trump has also racked up various defamation and sexual assault allegations, as well as civil lawsuits. In 2022, a New York Attorney filed a civil lawsuit against Trump, alleging a scheme in which Trump fraudulently reported the value of properties in order to either lower his tax bill or improve the terms of his loans. The court ruled that Trump must pay $355 million plus interest. Trump had another incident in Manhattan, in the 1990s. Writer Jean Carroll claimed that Trump sexually assaulted her in a department store dressing room. She sued him for defamation and battery.
In March 2023, Trump was prosecuted as a felon. It was alleged that Trump has falsified business records as a part of a scheme to pay hush money to women who said they’d had sexual relationships with Trump.
Trump has avoided punishment for his crimes many times, and even the federal court let him off easily by convicting him with no penalties. These cases may truly begin to affect his presidential image as he makes his transition this January.
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