Trump has been charged by the Department of Justice with the following four counts:
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A conspiracy to defraud the United States “by using dishonesty, fraud and deceit to obstruct the nation’s process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election,” according to the special counsel’s office.
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A conspiracy to impede the Jan. 6 congressional proceeding at which the collected results of the presidential election are counted and certified.
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A conspiracy against the right to vote and to have that vote counted.
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Obstruction of, and attempt to obstruct and impede, the certification of the electoral vote.
In criminally charging former president Donald Trump for his efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss, federal prosecutors allege that Trump enlisted six co-conspirators to “assist him in his criminal efforts to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election and retain power.”
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Rudy Giuliani
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John Eastman
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Sidney Powell
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Jeffrey Clark
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Kenneth Chesebro
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Unknown political consultant
Updated 8/3/2023 by Jordan Lund
Washington, D.C. - 4 felonies, January 6th Election Interference
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest <- You Are Here
(Lawyers have until 8/10 to submit requested trial dates, which will be announced on 8/28)
Trial
Conviction
Sentencing
Georgia - Election Interference
Investigation <- You Are Here
2 new grand juries were impaneled on 7/11/2023.
Indictment - July 11th to September 1st.
(Grand Jury work expected July 31 to Aug. 18)
Arrest
Trial
Conviction
Sentencing
New York State - 34 felonies, Stormy Daniels Payoff
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - March 25th, 2024
Conviction
Sentencing
Florida - 40 felonies, Federal documents charges
Investigation
Indictment
The original indictment was for 37 felonies.
3 new felonies were added on July 27, 2023.
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - May 20, 2024
Conviction
Sentencing
Other grand juries, such as for the documents at Bedminster, have not been announced.
The E. Jean Carroll trial for sexual assault and defamation, where Trump was found liable and ordered to pay $5 million before immediately defaming her again, resulting in a demand for $10 million, is not listed as it’s a civil case and not a criminal one.
Sources:
Trumps 3rd Indictment - Conspiring to Defraud the United States - 1 August 2023
NBC News: Grand jury charges Trump in 2020 election probe: Highlights
Vox: Trump was just indicted for trying to steal the 2020 election
CNN: August 1, 2023 Trump indicted in special counsel's 2020 election interference probe
Washington Post: Here are the Trump co-conspirators described in the DOJ indictment
Reason: Trump Indicted for Attempting To Overturn 2020 Presidential Election
FiveThirtyEight: All Of Trump's Indictments Could Seriously Bog Down His Campaign
Trump's Arraignment - 3 August 2023
AP: Trump is due to face a judge in DC over charges he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election
CBS News: Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges in special counsel probe
Chicago Tribune: Trump pleads not guilty to federal charges that he tried to overturn the 2020 election
The Independent: Trump appears to stumble over his name and age at arraignment
Official Documentation
This seemed to be popular information when I posted it (ahem) "elsewhere". Thought it might be welcome to have here.
If you're trying to keep track of where we're at in the Trump prosecutions:
Updated 8/1/2023
Washington, D.C. - 4 felonies, January 6th Election Interference
Investigation
Indictment <- You Are Here
Arrest
Trial
Conviction
Sentencing
Georgia - Election Interference
Investigation <- You Are Here
2 new grand juries impaneled 7/11/2023.
Indictment - July 11th to September 1st.
(Grand Jury work expected July 31 to Aug. 18)
Arrest
Trial
Conviction
Sentencing
New York State - 34 felonies, Stormy Daniels Payoff
Investigation
Indictment
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - March 25th, 2024
Conviction
Sentencing
Florida - 40 felonies, Federal documents charges
Investigation
Indictment
Original indictment was for 37 felonies.
3 new felonies were added on July 27, 2023.
Arrest <- You Are Here
Trial - May 20, 2024
Conviction
Sentencing
Other grand juries, such as for the documents at Bedminster, have not been announced.
The E. Jean Carroll trial for sexual assault and defamation where Trump was found liable and ordered to pay $5 million before immediately defaming her again resulting in a demand for $10 million is not listed as it's a civil case and not a crimimal one.
It’s more than kind of insane when you put it all together like that
And there are no mysteries here. We know he did it. We saw him do it, in some cases. We have known for years about the fake-elector scheme. We've all seen photos of the documents at Mar-a-Lago. We've heard him, on tape, begging for state officials to betray our democracy.
If the law is allowed to matter, these people are simply fucked.
If.
Yup. But the law doesn’t matter, and we’re all fucked for it.
I’ll happily be wrong here, but I don’t think I will be
Those 2 trial dates are so far in the future. He needs to be convicted and barred from holding office before the next Presidential election.
Though I do wonder at the chaos if he's convicted around June-July 2024. Only 3-4 months before the election. Is that enough time for Republicans to pivot to a new deplorable?
Even if he were convicted on all the charges we have so far, technically, none of them would bar him from office.
He could be blocked from being sworn in by, you know, being in prison, I guess. But the convictions themselves would not be blockers.
What we need is a Constitutional Amendment that bars convicted felons from higher office, and while we're at it, maybe add an age cap as well. Nobody over 70 for President, Congress, Senate, or Supreme Court.
This would be dangerous, allowing inconvenient politicians to be excluded from office through framing or selective enforcement of the law.
What we really need is a population capable of making better decisions.
Where do you propose to get one of those, and what will you do with the existing population?
If we make them felons they can’t vote. We could also do things like scapegoat them and find ways to disenfranchise them.
(The Rs have a whole history of this sorta shit. I wonder if half the reason they’ve been so bad lately is that they worry those tactics will get used against them. )
Sure, their entire lives are endless projection: “what if other people can treat us like complete shit, like we do to them?”
This is such a great comment imo.
Ets a shlippry shlope thar bod.
Educate them! As much as possible. That's being undermined now too.
The education need right now is almost beyond our reach. Weve been needing it. Itd need to be grass roots fucking re education. Some media does it, music, etc. But the younger kids need critical thinking skills most of all, and learning mindfulness, self acceptance. Like classes in real fundamental life shit that they're not getting. I don't know how much school has changed since my days. So I dunno. But tampering w schools with the books, that's just....the term fascist is spot on. DeSantis is dangerous. Someone will see him and even springboard off him deeper down the right wing rabbit hole as a politician.
Oh, no doubt about that, but which is more likely? :)
100% agreed. This is exactly what happened in Burma if I recall correctly. Democratically elected president removed from office as a result of criminal accusations - her crime was attending a gathering in contravention of covid restrictions IIRC.
It's insane to think that he could be convicted of all charges, but possibly the only thing that actually sends him to (or keeps him in) prison is losing the election and his shield to hide behind.
I think the thought is that most middle of the roads won't ever consider a criminal. There are some hardcores that won't ever flip. It's about gripping those on the teeter side of the triangle.
I don't think his chances of winning are all that good even if he had zero indictments, but let's hope they do push him out of the running with reasonable people.
He's polling pretty even with Biden at the moment. This country's voters disgust me.
The last elections had the poll analysts throwing their hands up in the air, so I am hoping those results are heavily skewed in some way and trying not to think about it.
The election isn't for 16 months, waaaay too early to take polls seriously.
Serious question because I don't fully understand the judicial process and what not. Why are the trials so far in the future?
Perfectly good question...
There are a lot of different confounding factors when you set a trial date. As much as we'd like, Trump isn't the only trial happening, so other cases have to come first.
There has also been a really big backlog on trials. Covid slowed EVERYTHING down. Here in Oregon it's so backed up, there's a class action lawsuit.
https://www.koin.com/news/oregon/suit-claims-oregonians-denied-constitutional-rights-amid-public-defender-shortage/
I can't imagine how bad it must be in New York.
The Florida trial has extra issues. The number of top secret documents means having lawyers with top secret clearances, you also have two extra defendants who have to find their own Florida based lawyers.
All the added time is to make sure the defendant gets a fair trial.
You'd think they'd rearrange their schedule some to deal with the guy who's a major national security risk.
He has a right to a speedy trail but it’s in his political interests to delay things. So in addition to all the good reasons this will take a while (like all the extra work to deal with how classified material will be used during the trail) Trump and his team will also be doing everything they can to delay things.
I feel the same way, but then any special arrangements (like rushing to trial) provide fodder for an appeal.
Really you want the legal proceedings to be extra measured and methodical.
I guess this means that yes we're headed for a situation where a GOP president can pardon Trump, but that's really a separate issue that needs to be tested by the law and by democracy.
Very worried that Trump will pardon Trump. He cannot pardon himself for the stuff in Nee York or Georgia though.
Politically, it is too bad the Stormy Daniels one comes first. He could be defending the federal charges from jail just before the election. The “porn star stuff” may not be strong enough to justify that to some people. It is going to be easy to position him as a victim of a politically motivated witch hunt.
I don't think the populace has much appetite for revolt, but surely if these criminal proceedings are derailed in any way due to the perpetrator being the president that's a democratic crisis.
I mean some of the charges he's facing involve election fraud, and the perp is just going to pardon themself? What is the point of democracy if you can have yourself fraudulently appointed president and then become immune to prosecution because you are indeed president.
Even in his first term there was the investigation into interference, which was ultimately discarded because you can't prosecute or investigate a sitting president.
I read in another article that the D.C. courts have another 800 cases just for the 1/6 rioters, that doesn't even count "normal" D.C. crime... so there are only so many days on the calendar.
A notorious gun-runner from Eastern Canada won his freedom when his trial was taking too long. He sued on a "put up or shut up" play because we have a right to a speedy trial, and since the Crown didn't think it could build a good case in time (a fast shredder ate the evidence?) it had to release the guy and void the charges.
This is a great timeline format! Thanks!
I try to keep it from most imminent to farther out. Georgia will jump to the top if something happens there, and the D.C. one will get updated when there's an arrest date.
Georgia may the most important trial. He cannot be federally pardoned for it and so a conviction in Georgia puts him in jail for real ( though I am not sure if Kemp can pardon him ).
The New York trial is the same but it is too easy to spin that trial as a witch hunt. If that is the only reason he is convicted, America is in for a bad time.
Georgia is more dangerous. The legislature there passed a law, which Kemp signed, allowing for the removal of a DA under certain circumstances.
The leading theory is that as soon as she brings charges, she'll be removed.
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-prosecutor-district-attorney-remove-discipline-dd06c56d0d0672e38ef11f4c63dda468
This is very helpful. Thank you!
It's why I do it! :)
Wow, the trials are roughly a year after the indictment/arrest? Is that normal in America or is it so long due to the special circumstances?
Are they just waiting for an availability in the court or is it to allow enough time for the lawyers to go through processes and do their job?
Yeah, it can take a while to come to trial.
Look at this psycho who just got sentenced in Idaho for killing her kids and a couple other people:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Tylee_Ryan_and_J._J._Vallow
Murders were in 2019, bodies were found in 2020. She was charged with the crimes May 25, 2021.
The trial started April 10, 2023. 2 years after being charged.
this shit is gold. Thanks bruh.
LOL, I was waiting for this update!