What’s Up With Trump’s Criminal Cases Now That He’s Been Reelected?
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For much of his campaign to return to the White House, President-elect Donald Trump was facing four separate criminal prosecutions. Now that he’s won, prosecutors have dropped his two federal cases, and the two cases brought by states are in peril as well.
Trump in May became the first former US president to be convicted of a crime after he was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, in a case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on behalf of New York state. A jury held that Trump had engaged in fraud to conceal a $130,000 payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election to keep her quiet about an alleged sexual encounter a decade earlier.