34 felony counts.2 civil verdicts.30 court rulings.

A federal civil jury in Manhattan found him liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, then defaming her, and awarded her $5 million. The jury didn’t find rape under New York’s narrow penal-law definition. Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote that she had proved rape “as many people commonly understand” the word, and that “the jury found that Mr. Trump in fact did exactly that.” The Supreme Court turned down his appeal in June 2026 and his request to reconsider on August 17. He has paid the $5 million and still denies it.

A Manhattan jury convicted him of falsifying business records to cover the hush money paid to Stormy Daniels. Justice Juan Merchan sentenced him to an unconditional discharge: no jail, no fine, no probation, and the conviction stands. In August 2026 a federal judge refused for the third time to move the case to federal court, calling the request a “second bite at the apple.” His state appeal is pending.

NPR found 53 pages missing from the public Epstein database. They cover a woman’s 2019 account to the FBI. She said Epstein introduced her to Trump around 1983, when she was about 13, and that Trump sexually assaulted her. The allegation is uncorroborated, and he denies it; the White House called it “completely baseless.” After NPR asked, the Justice Department posted 16 of the pages, saying they had been “incorrectly coded as duplicative.” NPR says 37 are still missing.

The video featured Sens. Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin and four House members. He also reposted comments saying they should be hanged. His press secretary, asked whether he wanted to execute members of Congress, said “No.”

The strike hit a school in Minab in the opening hours of the war with Iran; local officials say 156 died, 120 of them children. The UN mission found the US acted recklessly on outdated targeting data. Trump first said “that was done by Iran”; the US Central Command commander later said preliminary findings “correlated” it with a US strike. The White House says “the United States does not target civilians.”

More than 140 officers were hurt that day. He commuted the 18-year seditious conspiracy sentence of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and pardoned Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who got 22 years.

He posted that pets had been “abducted and eaten.” Springfield police said there were “no credible reports.”

The day after the shooting, while it was still under investigation, he said the officer is “protected by absolute immunity.” Video doesn’t make clear whether her car hit the officer.

He had posted that killing cartel members is “the highest and best use of our military.” Republican Sen. Rand Paul called his reply “a despicable and thoughtless sentiment.”

“Trannies” is a slur for transgender people, whom he has barred from serving. Six weeks earlier, at a military fundraiser at the Iowa State Fair, he said, “At the Department of War, we do training, not trannies.” At Quantico he also went after “anti-American losers in our media” and called their reporting on the Iran war “treason, actually.” No response from him or the Pentagon to criticism of the slur was reported.

His daughter with producer Jennifer Rauchet was born in 2017. His second wife, Samantha, filed for divorce about a month later. He later married Rauchet and has never disputed any of it.

She reported it to Monterey police in 2017. Prosecutors declined to charge him, and he says it was consensual. He disclosed the payment, made under a nondisclosure agreement, to Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Ten current and former Fox employees told NBC News they worried about his drinking; two said that more than a dozen times they smelled alcohol on him before he went on air. A whistleblower complaint at a veterans’ group he ran said he was drunk at work events to the point of being carried out. His former sister-in-law’s sworn affidavit described episodes of heavy drinking, and CNN, citing one source, reported his ex-wife told the FBI, “He drinks more often than he doesn’t.” He says he never had a drinking problem and promised senators “there won’t be a drop of alcohol on my lips” in office.

The Washington Post reported that Hegseth gave a spoken order to “kill everybody.” He calls that “patently ridiculous.” The admiral in charge told lawmakers Hegseth’s order was to kill all 11 people aboard, who were on a target list, but that he got no order to kill survivors. Hegseth said he watched the first strike and then “moved on to my next meeting.” As of May 2026, AP counted at least 199 people killed in the boat-strike campaign.

Those sources described “conspicuous inebriation and unexplained absences.” Six said meetings got pushed later because of drinking the night before. According to the magazine, his security detail had trouble waking him more than once, and at one point asked for equipment to break into a building when he wouldn’t answer. He says “I’ve never been intoxicated on the job,” and he’s suing the magazine for $250 million.

He fired agents who had worked on Jack Smith’s investigation of Trump. Brian Driscoll, the FBI’s former acting director, is suing, saying Patel told him his own job depended on the firings. Patel denies taking orders on firings.

Video of Patel celebrating with the gold-medal hockey team in Milan, where he flew on a government jet, went public; Trump “conveyed his displeasure in a conversation with him,” according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to NBC. Patel posted, “yes, I love America and was extremely humbled.” The White House said Trump “has full confidence in his Administration.”

Doctors at a Lubbock hospital treated children for vitamin A toxicity during the 2025 outbreak. Three people died, none of them vaccinated.

Then he canceled 22 mRNA vaccine projects worth about $500 million.

He also acknowledged that large studies of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, found no link.

Habeas corpus is the right to challenge your detention in court. He said a lot depends on “whether the courts do the right thing or not.”

Plenary means complete. Cornell’s legal dictionary defines plenary power as “complete and exclusive authority over a particular subject matter,” limited only by the Constitution. Two days earlier, Judge Karin Immergut had ruled the president had no legal or factual basis to send the National Guard into Portland. Miller said the administration had appealed, then cited Title 10 of the US Code, which doesn’t contain the phrase. He stopped mid-sentence and sat silent on camera for about 15 seconds. The anchor called it a technical difficulty and went to a break; after it, Miller didn’t repeat the phrase.

He said it after Charlie Kirk’s killing. On Kirk’s show days earlier he had promised to use “every resource we have” at the Justice Department and Homeland Security against what he called “a vast domestic terror movement,” which he said meant organized doxxing campaigns, riots and street violence.

Border Patrol agents killed Pretti in Minneapolis. Videos verified by NBC show no weapon in his hand; they appear to show an agent taking a holstered pistol from him, which he had a permit to carry, just before he was shot. Three days later Miller said they were “evaluating why the CBP team may not have been following that protocol,” without saying which one.

The agents posed as businessmen who wanted government contracts in a second Trump term, and he appeared to agree to help. Trump’s Justice Department closed the case; Patel and Blanche said it found “no credible evidence of any criminal wrongdoing.” He was never charged and says there’s “nothing to it.”

As deputy attorney general, Blanche questioned her in Tallahassee in late July 2025. Officials didn’t explain the transfer. Maxwell is serving 20 years for sex trafficking. In the released transcript, Maxwell said, “I never witnessed the President in any inappropriate setting in any way.”

He said it while releasing 3.5 million Epstein pages, and declared the review finished. Rep. Ro Khanna said the release was incomplete.

The files show contact from 2009, emails arranging drinks and calls in 2011, a family lunch on the island in December 2012, a joint stock purchase days later, and emails into 2018. He told a Senate subcommittee, “I did not have any relationship with him.” Republican Rep. Thomas Massie and Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna both said he should resign.

After a nine-day trial, Judge William Young found “by clear and convincing evidence” that Rubio and Noem acted “intentionally to chill the rights to freedom of speech and peacefully to assemble” of noncitizen scholars. He found they meant to terrorize pro-Palestinian noncitizens “into silence because their views were unwelcome.” Government witnesses testified no such policy exists. The administration has appealed.

He said it when asked about reports of 300 revoked visas, at a press conference where he was also asked about Tufts student Rumeysa Öztürk, detained after co-writing an op-ed. A court later found “there is no evidence that Öztürk did anything but co-author an op-ed” criticizing her university’s position on Israel.

Sen. Chris Murphy asked, “Will you or will you not implement court orders?” Mullin said he would enforce the law and the Constitution, and: “If we didn’t think courts were politicized, then I would probably be able to answer that.”

At his confirmation hearing he said, “Those words probably should have been retracted. I shouldn’t have said that.” Asked whether he would apologize to Pretti’s family, he said, “I haven’t seen the investigation.”

Bloomberg found pledges made on his behalf in 2007 for houses in Bedford Hills, New York, and Provincetown, Massachusetts. Mortgage experts saw “no sign of wrongdoing or proof of fraud,” and Bank of America never expected him to live in both.

“We want to put them in trauma,” he said in a speech recorded before Trump’s second term. He didn’t respond to ProPublica.

In September 2026 the GAO said withholding funds past their expiration “subverts both the constitutional process for enacting federal law and Congress’s constitutional power of the purse.” It has found violations of the Impoundment Control Act, the law that bars a president from withholding money Congress approved, across agencies in 2025 and 2026, including that the NIH “violated the ICA by withholding funds from obligation and expenditure.”

He said it about ABC over Kimmel’s remarks after Charlie Kirk’s killing. Nexstar pulled the show and ABC suspended it. Republican Sen. Ted Cruz said “what he said there is dangerous as hell.” Carr has denied it was a threat.

The licenses weren’t due until 2028 at the earliest, according to a source who told NBC the move was fast-tracked after Kimmel joked about Melania Trump. The FCC says it’s about Disney’s diversity programs, “not any speech.” FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez called it “unprecedented, unlawful, and going nowhere.”

He’s the one who added The Atlantic’s editor to the Signal chat about the Yemen strikes. Five weeks later he was out as national security adviser. Then Trump nominated him to the UN.

Bloomberg published a transcript of an October 2025 call in which Witkoff advised Yuri Ushakov that Putin should call Trump before Zelensky’s visit, congratulate him and call him a “man of peace.” TIME couldn’t independently verify it. Republican Rep. Don Bacon: “He should be fired.” Trump: “That’s what a dealmaker does.”

Judge Richard Gergel voided the termination of the Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant Program as “unlawful” in June, then in July ordered the EPA to resume paying after it argued no further action was required. The EPA says it is “working to comply.”

Whistleblower Erez Reuveni’s complaint says Bove told staff the department might need to tell the courts “fuck you” and “ignore any such order.” At his hearing Bove said, “I have never advised a Department of Justice attorney to violate a court order,” and that he had “no recollection of saying anything of that kind.”

Judge Dale Ho wrote that it looked like “dismissal of the Indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions,” and dismissed the case for good so it couldn’t be used as leverage. The acting US attorney resigned rather than drop it. Bove told the court, “There is no quid pro quo.”

Politico reported group-chat texts calling Martin Luther King Jr. “the 1960s George Floyd.” His lawyer suggested the texts might be manipulated but didn’t say they were fake. Ingrassia said he lacked “enough Republican votes at this time.”

ProPublica found both loans with the same bank. The White House said, “The bank, not the Secretary, determined and classified both mortgages as primary residences.”

The same book claimed she’d met Kim Jong Un. She hadn’t, and the publisher took it out. Of the book, she said, “I’m not retracting anything.”

Videos verified by NBC appear to show an agent taking a holstered gun from Pretti before he was shot on his knees. He had a permit to carry. Seventeen days earlier, within hours of an ICE officer killing Renee Good, Noem called Good’s actions “an act of domestic terrorism.”

About $143 million went to a company formed days before it got the work. Republican Sen. John Kennedy told her, “My research shows you did not bid them out.” DHS called the reporting defamatory. The Justice Department is now investigating whether her top adviser, Corey Lewandowski, profited from DHS contracts, CBS reported. He hasn’t been charged, says he hasn’t been contacted, and denies wrongdoing.

A Justice Department and FBI memo said there was no “incriminating ‘client list.’” She said she had meant the files in general.

Halligan had indicted James Comey and Letitia James. Both cases were thrown out.

He said “My heart goes out to you,” and afterward answered critics: “Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired.” The ADL said he “made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute.”

The GAO found about $27.4 billion came from contracts that were never canceled, and 108 of the 264 leases DOGE counted were already ending before DOGE existed. DOGE didn’t answer the GAO’s questions. Early on, its “wall of receipts” counted an $8 million contract as $8 billion.

Eighty-three percent of its programs were cut and the rest were folded into the State Department. The projection comes from a study in The Lancet.

She later said Trump “was saying the same thing that I said.”

He said that while in office he planted a fake story inside the FBI to catch a leaker. He said it on a podcast after leaving.

Judge Sara Ellis wrote that “Bovino admitted in his deposition that he lied multiple times about the events that occurred in Little Village that prompted him to throw tear gas at protesters.” He and DHS had said a rock hit him first; he later admitted the rock hit him after he threw the gas. He says his agents’ force has been “more than exemplary.”

“I’m gonna gas. Get back. Gas is coming,” he can be heard saying in video shot by Ben Luhmann at Mueller Park.

PolitiFact rated it False; the aid group said it used no US money for condoms in Gaza, and a USAID report found no contraceptive funding for Gaza.

Asked where she passed the bar, she said, “I went to China.” She then confirmed she took the California bar and didn’t pass, and blamed “misinformation around the fact that I labeled myself a lawyer.” The White House called her “uniquely qualified and whip smart.” She was out after five days; an official said she was “transitioning into a new role.”

DHS called Martinez a “domestic terrorist.” Prosecutors dropped her charges. Her lawyer says surveillance video shows no cars in front of the agent’s vehicle.

The probe grew out of a referral from DHS’s inspector general. His lawyer says he “has not been contacted” and “denies any wrongdoing.” Asked about it, Trump said of his people: “If they’re not going to be honest, they have to be prosecuted.”

The report found a trip was reassigned “to provide an official business justification for Chavez-DeRemer’s personal travel.” It did not find she broke federal law. Her lawyer noted that and said she is proud of her service.

Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick flagged “fundamental misstatements of the law” made to the grand jury that “may rise to the level of government misconduct”; AP noted Halligan was the only prosecutor who presented it. A week later both her indictments were dismissed because she was unlawfully appointed. Bondi vowed an “immediate appeal.”

He said people his group couldn’t charge should be publicly shamed. Justice Department protocols say officials generally shouldn’t comment on ongoing investigations.

Chief Judge Matthew Brann found she had acted “without lawful authority since July 1, 2025,” and a federal appeals court agreed. Bondi called it a “flawed” decision and kept her on as an adviser.

“Don’t get in my way,” he said, and “I have never read a book on leadership.” DHS’s spokesperson said it “sounds like a productive first meeting.”