Donald Trump
President
43 findings
What the labels mean
- ConvictedA criminal jury found them guilty.
- Found liableA civil jury ruled against them.
- Court ruledA judge ruled against them or their policy.
- Watchdog foundAn inspector general, Congress's auditors at the GAO or UN investigators.
- AdmittedThey acknowledged it, or their own government's records and court filings show it.
- On recordSomething they said or did in public.
- ReportedNews reporting they deny or haven't confirmed.
- AllegedAccusations in lawsuits, complaints or from sources. Unproven.
Verdicts and rulings 16
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Found liable
A jury found he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll.
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.
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Found liable
A second jury ordered him to pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her while he was president.
The damages cover what he said about Carroll in 2019. A federal appeals court upheld the verdict in September 2025. His appeal is now at the Supreme Court; Carroll’s response is due October 30, 2026.
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Convicted
A jury convicted him on 34 felony counts, making him the first convicted felon to serve as president.
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.
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Court ruled
An appeals court threw out the roughly $500 million penalty in his civil fraud case but kept the fraud finding.
The appeals court called the money penalty an excessive fine, but it left in place the finding that he inflated his wealth to get better loans, and it kept the ban on him and his sons serving as officers of New York companies for a few years. The case is still on appeal.
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Court ruled
He fired 17 inspectors general without the notice the law requires. A judge called it obvious that he broke the law.
Inspectors general are the watchdogs inside each agency. The law requires 30 days’ notice to Congress before firing one. He gave none. The judge still declined to reinstate the eight who sued.
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Court ruled
He publicly told his attorney general to prosecute James Comey and Letitia James. A judge threw out both indictments.
He posted to “Pam” that “JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!” Lindsey Halligan, his former personal lawyer, was installed as a US attorney and indicted them both. A judge ruled her appointment unlawful and dismissed the cases, and two grand juries then refused to indict Letitia James again.
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Court ruled
The Supreme Court struck down his emergency tariffs, 6 to 3.
Trump holds up his “Reciprocal Tariffs” chart in the Rose Garden as Commerce Secretary Lutnick looks on, April 2, 2025. White House photo by Daniel Torok Chief Justice Roberts wrote that the emergency-powers law he used doesn’t authorize tariffs. That took down the “Liberation Day” tariffs. Two months earlier the Court had also refused to let him send the National Guard into the Chicago area.
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Court ruled
He paid $25 million to settle Trump University fraud claims, and a judge ordered him to pay $2 million for misusing his charity.
He paid $25 million to settle fraud claims from Trump University students, without admitting wrongdoing. A New York judge later ordered him to pay $2 million for misusing his foundation, including a fundraiser she said was “designed to further Mr. Trump’s political campaign.” The foundation agreed to dissolve.
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Court ruled
He tried to fire a Federal Reserve governor. The Supreme Court stopped him, 5 to 4.
He moved to fire Lisa Cook in August 2025 over mortgage-fraud allegations she denies and has never been charged with. Chief Justice Roberts wrote that the government’s position “would in effect transform the Federal Reserve’s for-cause protection into at-will employment.” In August 2026 the White House told Cook he was again “considering” removing her.
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Court ruled
The Justice Department subpoenaed the Fed chair. A judge said “a mountain of evidence” suggests it was to pressure him over interest rates.
Chief Judge James Boasberg blocked the subpoenas: “A mountain of evidence suggests that the Government served these subpoenas on the Board to pressure its Chair into voting for lower interest rates or resigning.” Fed chair Jerome Powell had said the threat of charges was a consequence of the Fed setting rates on its best judgment “rather than following the preferences of the President.” The Justice Department dropped the investigation in April 2026; the White House said it was being moved to an inspector general.
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Court ruled
A judge held his administration in contempt for deporting the same asylum seeker twice, against three court orders.
Judge Stephanie Gallagher ordered the man returned. In August she had found DHS in civil contempt for repeatedly deporting young asylum seekers protected by a 2019 settlement; court filings say at least 107 of them were removed. No DHS response was reported.
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Court ruled
He signed orders punishing law firms he singled out. Judges struck them down as unconstitutional.
Judge Beryl Howell called the Perkins Coie order “an unprecedented attack.” Judge Richard Leon ruled the WilmerHale order “must be struck down in its entirety as unconstitutional.” Trump’s order had accused Perkins Coie of “dishonest and dangerous activity.”
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Court ruled
A judge ruled he broke the law by using troops for policing in Los Angeles.
Judge Charles Breyer found a “top-down, systemic effort” to use the military for law enforcement, in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, warning of “creating a national police force with the President as its chief.” The White House called him “a rogue judge” and said it would appeal.
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Court ruled
His administration tried to stop California from counting roughly 20,000 mail ballots a week before the midterms. A federal appeals court refused, 2 to 1.
The administration claimed the ballots went to “likely” noncitizens and hasn’t explained how it built its list. Al Jazeera reports the Justice Department has sued 30 states and DC for voter rolls and lost 26 of those cases without winning any.
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Court ruled
A judge ruled his freeze of Harvard’s grants was illegal and said it “used antisemitism as a smokescreen.”
Judge Allison Burroughs found the administration unlawfully froze nearly $2 billion and “used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault” on the country’s top universities. She had earlier blocked his ban on foreign students entering to attend Harvard. The White House called it “egregious” and said it would appeal.
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Court ruled
Two weeks before the midterms, a judge ordered his administration to stop its noncitizen-voting investigations in nine states, saying voters’ fears “are well understood as intimidation.”
Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin called the lists of voters to check “voluminous and unreliable.” She paused the order briefly to allow an appeal. DHS said, “We have no plans to question or investigate people we believe to be U.S. citizens.”
Watchdog findings 2
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Watchdog found
UN investigators found reasonable grounds to believe the US strike on an Iranian school was a war crime. Local officials say 120 children died.
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.”
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Watchdog found
A UN expert says US strikes on alleged drug boats, which have killed at least 223 people, “plausibly constitute crimes against humanity.”
UN special rapporteur Ben Saul counted 68 boats struck between September 2025 and August 2026 and rejected the administration’s claim that the strikes are self-defense. The administration says it is in an armed conflict with “narco-terrorists.”
Admitted or on record 17
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On record
He called the Epstein files “the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax.” Four months later Congress passed a law requiring their release, and he signed it. His Justice Department released only part of them by the deadline.
The House voted 427 to 1, and he signed the bill the next day. The law gave the Justice Department until December 19, 2025. It posted part of the files that day, and the main release came six weeks later. In it, NPR found that a news article Steve Bannon had sent Epstein had Trump’s face blacked out.
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On record
“Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything.”
Recorded on an Access Hollywood bus in 2005 and published in 2016. He called it “locker room banter.” More than 20 women have publicly accused him of sexual assault or misconduct. He denies every one.
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On record
On his first day back, he pardoned about 1,500 people charged over January 6, including people convicted of beating police.
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.
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On record
He pardoned the founder of Binance after Binance ran a $2 billion deal through his family’s crypto coin.
Changpeng Zhao had pleaded guilty to failing to maintain an effective anti-money-laundering program. Before the pardon, Binance had used World Liberty Financial’s stablecoin (a crypto token pegged to the dollar) for a $2 billion investment from an Abu Dhabi fund. CNN reported that Binance lobbied for the pardon.
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On record
He accepted a jet with a $400 million list price from Qatar’s royal family, to fly as Air Force One.
He said it would be “stupid” to turn down a free plane, and that it would go to his presidential library afterward. By August 2026, the Washington Examiner reported, the library pledge appeared to have been walked back.
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On record
He said his ballroom would be “near it but not touching it,” meaning the White House. Then he tore down the East Wing.
The price went from $200 million to $300 million, paid for by donors including Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and Google. The National Trust for Historic Preservation asked him to pause for the reviews the law requires.
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On record
After a weak jobs report, he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
He removed Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer after the July 2025 report revised earlier gains down, and accused her, without evidence, of manipulating the numbers. “We need accurate Jobs Numbers,” he wrote. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers: “There’s no conceivable way that the head of the BLS could have manipulated this number.”
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On record
After Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air, he said networks that criticize him should maybe lose their licenses.
FCC chairman Brendan Carr had said, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” and ABC suspended the show within hours. The next day Trump said, “I would think maybe their license should be taken away. It will be up to Brendan Carr.”
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On record
Six Democrats told troops they can refuse illegal orders. He called it seditious behavior, “punishable by DEATH!”
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.”
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Admitted
Thirty-three people died in ICE custody in 2025, the most in any calendar year on ICE’s own list, which goes back to 2018.
Trump, DeSantis and Noem tour cages of bunk beds at the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site in the Florida Everglades, July 1, 2025. DHS photo by Tia Dufour The next-highest calendar year is 2020, with 18; 2024 had 11. ICE’s page lists 24 more deaths in 2026 through August 23. Counted by ICE’s fiscal year, which starts in October, fiscal 2026 already has 36. ICE says “Any death that occurs in ICE custody is a significant cause for concern.”
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On record
On a third term: “I’m not joking.” “There are methods which you could do it.”
The Constitution bars anyone from being elected president more than twice. Five weeks later he told NBC a third term is “something that, to the best of my knowledge, you’re not allowed to do.”
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On record
He said he “could be” seeking $230 million from his own Justice Department.
He filed two claims, over the Russia investigation and the 2022 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. He said “I’m not looking for money. I’d give it to charity or something” and that it was “awfully strange to make a decision where I’m paying myself.” The department said officials “follow the guidance of career ethics officials.”
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On record
Asked about pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: “I’m allowed to do it.”
“I’m allowed to do it, but it’s something I have not thought about,” he said. Maxwell is serving 20 years for sex trafficking.
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On record
He sued CBS over a 60 Minutes edit. Paramount, CBS’s parent, agreed to pay $16 million toward his library while its merger awaited FCC approval. Three weeks later the FCC approved it.
Paramount said the suit was “completely separate from” the merger review. The FCC approved the deal 2 to 1 after Skydance agreed to an ombudsman for bias complaints and no diversity programs. Dissenting Commissioner Anna Gomez called it “cowardly capitulation.” ABC had already agreed to pay $15 million toward his library to settle a separate suit.
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On record
At a rally in Iowa: “I think I have the right to run again.”
He was talking about a third term. He also repeated his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen: “they cheated us on the second one.” He also said, “I’m not 100% sure, but I think the law says that I’m not allowed to run again.”
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On record
In 1992, about a girl at Trump Tower reported to be 10, he told a TV camera: “I am going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it?”
He was 46. He had asked one of a group of young girls whether she was “going up the escalator”; she said “yeah.” The footage, shot for an Entertainment Tonight Christmas segment, resurfaced five days after the Access Hollywood tape. A December 1992 Chicago Tribune wire brief described a separate exchange outside the Plaza Hotel: two girls in a youth choir told him they were 14, and he said, “Wow! Just think,” and “in a couple of years I’ll be dating you.” No response from him to either was reported.
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On record
He told Howard Stern he went backstage at his pageants while contestants were undressed, because “I’m the owner of the pageant and therefore I’m inspecting it.”
“Before a show, I’ll go backstage and everyone’s getting dressed,” he said in an April 2005 interview, which CNN released in 2016. “No men are anywhere.” He added, “You know, they’re standing there with no clothes,” and “I sort of get away with things like that.” He owned the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants at the time. Bridget Sullivan, a former Miss New Hampshire, said he walked through the dressing rooms at the 2000 Miss USA pageant: “We were all naked.” In May 2016 his campaign called her story and those of several other beauty queens “totally false.”
Reported and alleged 8
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Reported
NPR found that Epstein files naming him were missing from the public release.
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.
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Reported
A 1992 tape shows him partying with Epstein at Mar-a-Lago, the two of them talking as he gestures at women on the dance floor.
FBI evidence photo of a desk in Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse during the July 6, 2019, search. Among the framed photos is one of Trump, a woman and Epstein. FBI, via the Justice Department's Epstein release Hosted by NBC News. NBC reports he is seen gesturing to a woman and appears to say to Epstein, “Look at her, back there. … She’s hot,” though “exactly what they say is difficult to understand.” Asked about Epstein in July 2019, after Epstein’s arrest and days before the tape surfaced, he said, “I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him,” and that he “wasn’t a fan.”
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Reported
A birthday letter to Epstein bearing his name has a sketch of a naked woman and ends, “May every day be another wonderful secret.”
The Wall Street Journal reported the letter, and House Oversight released the page from Epstein’s 50th-birthday album. He says he didn’t write it. He sued the Journal for $10 billion; in April 2026 a federal judge dismissed the suit for failing to show actual malice and let him file an amended complaint. The ruling didn’t decide who wrote the letter.
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Reported
Reuters counts at least $2.3 billion flowing to his family from crypto since he took office.
Most of it came from World Liberty Financial token sales and the $TRUMP memecoin, a joke-themed crypto token. Separately, investors in Trump-linked crypto lost about $2.3 billion; the two figures measure different things and don’t mean the family took investors’ money dollar for dollar. The Wall Street Journal also reported that a firm backed by the UAE’s national security adviser bought 49% of World Liberty for $500 million, in a deal signed four days before the inauguration. The US later approved advanced AI chip sales to a company that same official chairs.
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Reported
The top 220 buyers of his memecoin got dinner with the president. They spent $394 million.
That’s about $1.79 million a seat on average, according to the blockchain firm Nansen. The White House said, “The President is working to secure GOOD deals for the American people, not for himself.”
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Reported
The FBI blacked out his name in the Epstein files it reviewed for release, Bloomberg reported.
Bloomberg’s Jason Leopold reported that FBI reviewers redacted Trump’s name, and those of dozens of other public figures, under privacy exemptions because he was a private citizen when the 2006 investigation began. Being named in the files does not mean being accused of wrongdoing. No FBI, Justice Department or White House response was reported.
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Alleged
The FBI confirmed it made training videos for reviewing the Epstein files. A journalist’s sources say the videos taught agents to log his name for redaction.
Allison Gill wrote that the FBI’s response to her records lawsuit confirmed the videos exist. Her anonymous sources say agents were trained to log his name; The New Republic, summarizing her reporting, wrote that they were told to “use an Excel spreadsheet to log Trump’s name, the page number, and the document.” The FBI’s court description of nine training videos does not mention Trump, and the videos haven’t been released.
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Reported
His family company promised not to make deals with foreign governments. It then signed a golf resort deal in Qatar and broke ground on a $1.5 billion resort in Vietnam during tariff talks.
AP reported the Qatari partner’s state ownership appears to break the company’s own pledge; the Trump Organization says its contract is with a Saudi developer. Eric Trump broke ground in Vietnam while Vietnam was negotiating over a threatened 46% tariff.