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Here’s a have a look at the lifetime of Donald Trump, the forty seventh president of the United States.
Birth date: June 14, 1946
Birth place: New York, New York
Birth title: Donald John Trump
Father: Fred Trump, actual property developer
Mother: Mary (Macleod) Trump
Marriages: Melania (Knauss) Trump (January 22, 2005-present); Marla (Maples) Trump (December 1993-June 1999, divorced); Ivana (Zelnicek) Trump (1977-1990, divorced)
Children: with Melania Trump: Barron; with Marla Maples: Tiffany; with Ivana Trump: Eric, Ivanka and Donald Jr.
Education: Attended Fordham University; University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance, B.S. in Economics, 1968
As Trump advanced from actual property developer to actuality tv star, he turned his title right into a model. Licensed Trump merchandise have included board video games, steaks, cologne, vodka, furnishings and menswear.
He has portrayed himself in cameo appearances in films and on tv, together with “Zoolander,” “Sex and the City” and “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.”
Trump’s slogan, “Make America Great Again,” was first utilized by Ronald Reagan whereas he was operating in opposition to President Jimmy Carter.
For particulars on investigations into alleged Russian meddling within the 2016 election, go to 2016 Presidential Election Investigation Fast Facts.
Seventies – After school, works together with his father on residence complexes in Queens and Brooklyn.
1973 – Trump and his father are named in a Justice Department lawsuit alleging Trump property managers violated the Fair Housing Act by turning away potential African American tenants. The Trumps deny the corporate discriminates and file a $100 million countersuit, which is later dismissed. The case is settled in 1975, and the Trumps agree to supply weekly lists of vacancies to Black group organizations.
1976 – Trump and his father associate with the Hyatt Corporation, buying the Commodore Hotel, an growing older midtown Manhattan property. The constructing is revamped and opens 4 years later because the Grand Hyatt Hotel. The challenge kickstarts Trump’s profession as a Manhattan developer.
1983-1990 – He builds/purchases a number of properties in New York City, together with Trump Tower and the Plaza Hotel, and in addition opens casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, together with the Trump Taj Mahal and the Trump Plaza. Trump buys the New Jersey Generals soccer staff, a part of the United States Football League, which folds after three seasons.
1985 – Purchases Mar-a-Lago, an oceanfront property in Palm Beach, Florida. It is renovated and opens as a personal membership in 1995.
1987 – Trump’s first guide, “Trump: The Art of the Deal,” is printed. The Donald J. Trump Foundation is established with the intention to donate a portion of income from guide gross sales to charities.
1990 – Nearly $1 billion in private debt, Trump reaches an agreement with bankers allowing him to avoid declaring personal bankruptcy.
1991 – The Trump Taj Mahal information for Chapter 11 chapter safety.
1992 – The Trump Plaza and the Trump Castle casinos file for chapter.
1996 – Buys out and turns into government producer of the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants.
October 7, 1999 – Tells NCS’s Larry King that he is going to form a presidential exploratory committee and desires to problem Pat Buchanan for the Reform Party nomination. On February 14, 2000, he says that he’s abandoning his bid for the presidency, blaming discord inside the Reform Party.
January 2004 – “The Apprentice,” a actuality present that includes aspiring entrepreneurs competing for Trump’s approval, premieres on NBC.
November 21, 2004 – Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc. information for Chapter 11 chapter.
2005 – Establishes Trump University, which affords seminars in actual property funding.
February 13, 2009 – Announces his resignation from his place as chairman of Trump Entertainment Resorts. Days later, the corporate information for chapter safety.
March 17, 2011 – During an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Trump questions whether or not President Barack Obama was born within the United States.
June 16, 2015 – Announces that he’s operating for president throughout a speech at Trump Tower. He pledges to implement insurance policies that can increase the economic system and says he’ll get robust on immigration. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best…They’re sending people who have lots of problems,” Trump says. “They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.”
June 28, 2015 – Says he’s giving up the TV show “The Apprentice” to run for president.
June 29, 2015 – NBCUniversal says it is cutting its business ties to Trump and gained’t air the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants due to “derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants.”
July 8, 2015 – In an interview with NCS’s Anderson Cooper, Trump says he “can’t guarantee” all of his employees have legal status within the United States. This is in response to questions on a Washington Post report about undocumented immigrants working on the Old Post Office development website in Washington, DC, which Trump is changing right into a resort.
August 6, 2015 – During the first 2016 Republican debate, Trump is questioned a couple of third social gathering candidacy, his angle in direction of girls and his historical past of donating cash to Democratic politicians. He tells moderator Megyn Kelly of Fox News he feels he’s being mistreated. The following day, Trump tells NCS’s Don Lemon that Kelly was singling him out for attack, “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”
September 11, 2015 – Trump announces he has purchased NBC’s half of the Miss Universe Organization, which organizes the annual Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants.
December 7, 2015 – Trump’s marketing campaign places out a press launch calling for a “complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
May 26, 2016 – Secures enough delegates to clinch the Republican Party nomination.
July 16, 2016 – Introduces Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate.
July 19, 2016 – Becomes the Republican Party nominee for president.
October 1, 2016 – The New York Times reports Trump declared a $916 million loss in 1995 which could have allowed him to legally skip paying federal income taxes for years. The report relies on a monetary doc mailed to the newspaper by an nameless supply.
October 7, 2016 – Unaired footage from 2005 surfaces of Trump talking about trying to have sex with a married woman and being able to grope women. In footage obtained by The Washington Post, Trump is heard off-camera discussing girls in vulgar phrases in the course of the taping of a section for “Access Hollywood.” In a taped response, Trump declares, “I said it, I was wrong and I apologize.”
October 9, 2016 – During the second presidential debate, NCS’s Cooper asks Trump about his descriptions of groping and kissing girls with out their consent. Trump denies that he has ever engaged in such habits and declares the feedback had been “locker room talk.” After the debate, 11 women step forward to claim that they were sexually harassed or sexually assaulted by the real estate developer. Trump says the tales aren’t true.
November 8, 2016 – Elected president of the United States. Trump will be the first president who has never held elected office, a high authorities publish or a army rank.
November 18, 2016 – Trump agrees to pay $25 million to settle three lawsuits against Trump University.
December 24, 2016 – Trump says he will dissolve the Donald J. Trump Foundation “to avoid even the appearance of any conflict with my role as President.” A spokeswoman for the New York Attorney General’s Office says that the muse can not legally shut till investigators conclude their probe of the charity.
January 10, 2017 – NCS reports that intelligence officials briefed Trump on a dossier that incorporates allegations about his marketing campaign’s ties to Russia and unverified claims about his private life. The writer of the file is a former British spy who was employed by a analysis agency that had been funded by each political events to conduct opposition analysis on Trump.
January 20, 2017 – Takes the oath of workplace from Chief Justice John Roberts throughout an inauguration ceremony on the Capitol.
January 27, 2017 – Trump signs an executive order halting all refugee arrivals for 120 days and banning travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries for 90 days. Additionally, refugees from Syria are barred indefinitely from coming into the United States.
February 13, 2017 – Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, resigns amid accusations he lied about his communications with Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak. Flynn later pleads guilty to lying to the FBI.
May 3, 2017 – FBI Director James Comey confirms that there is an ongoing investigation into ties between the Trump marketing campaign and Russia throughout a listening to on Capitol Hill. Less than every week later, Trump fires Comey. The Trump administration attributes Comey’s dismissal to his dealing with of the investigation into Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s e mail server.
May 2017 – Shortly after Trump fires Comey, the FBI opens an investigation into whether or not Trump “had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests,” citing former legislation enforcement officers and others the paper mentioned had been aware of the probe.
May 17, 2017 – Former FBI Director Robert Mueller is appointed as special counsel to lead the probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, including potential collusion between Trump campaign associates and Russian officials. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein makes the appointment as a result of Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from investigations into Trump’s campaign.
May 19, 2017 – Departs on his first foreign trip as president. The nine-day, five-country journey consists of stops in Saudi Arabia, Israel, the Vatican, a NATO summit in Brussels and a G7 summit in Sicily.
June 1, 2017 – Trump proclaims that the United States is withdrawing from the Paris local weather accord however provides that he’s open to renegotiating points of the environmental settlement, which was signed by 175 countries in 2016.
July 7, 2017 – Meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in individual for the primary time, on the sidelines of the G20 assembly in Hamburg, Germany.
August 8, 2017 – In response to nuclear threats from North Korea, Trump warns that Pyongyang will “face fire and fury like the world has never seen.” Soon after Trump’s feedback, North Korea points a press release saying it’s “examining the operational plan” to strike areas across the US territory of Guam.
August 15, 2017 – After a violent conflict between neo-Nazi activists and counterprotesters leaves one useless in Charlottesville, Virginia, Trump holds an impromptu press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower and declares that there were “fine people” on both sides.
August 25, 2017 – Trump’s first pardon is granted to former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of legal contempt for disregarding a courtroom order in a racial-profiling case.
September 5, 2017 – The Trump administration announces that it is ending the DACA program, launched by Obama to guard almost 800,000 undocumented immigrants delivered to the United States as kids. Trump calls on Congress to introduce laws that can stop DACA recipients from being deported. Multiple lawsuits are filed opposing the coverage in federal courts and judges delay the end of the program, asking the federal government to submit filings justifying the cancellation of DACA.
September 19, 2017 – In a speech on the United Nations General Assembly, Trump refers to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as “Rocket Man” and warns that the United States will “totally destroy North Korea” if compelled to defend itself or its allies.
September 24, 2017 – The Trump administration unveils a third version of the travel ban, putting restrictions on journey by sure foreigners from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen. (Chad is later eliminated after assembly safety necessities.) One day before the revised ban is set to take effect, it’s blocked nationwide by a federal decide in Hawaii. A judge in Maryland issues a similar ruling. On December 4, the Supreme Court guidelines that the revised travel ban can take effect pending appeals. On June 26, 2018, the Supreme Court upholds the Trump administration’s travel ban in a 5-4 ruling along party lines.
December 6, 2017 – Trump recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and declares plans to relocate the US Embassy there.
January 11, 2018 – During a White House meeting on immigration reform, Trump reportedly refers to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries.”
January 12, 2018 – The Wall Street Journal studies that Trump allegedly had an affair with a porn star named Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels. The newspaper states that Trump’s private legal professional, Michael Cohen, organized a $130,000 cost for a nondisclosure settlement weeks earlier than Election Day in 2016. Trump denies the affair occurred. In March, Clifford sues Trump seeking to be released from the NDA. In response, Trump and his authorized staff agree exterior of courtroom to not sue or in any other case implement the NDA. The swimsuit is dismissed. A California Superior Court judge orders Trump to pay $44,100 to Clifford, to reimburse her attorneys’ charges within the authorized battle surrounding her nondisclosure settlement.
March 13, 2018 – Trump announces in a tweet that he has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and can nominate CIA Director Mike Pompeo as Tillerson’s substitute.
April 13, 2018 – Trump authorizes joint military strikes in Syria with the UK and France after reports the government used chemical weapons on civilians in Douma.
May 7, 2018 – The Trump administration announces a “zero tolerance” policy for illegal border crossings.
May 8, 2018 – Trump announces that the United States is withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal.
June 12, 2018 – Trump meets Kim in person for the first time during a summit in Singapore. They signal a four-point assertion that broadly outlines the nations’ dedication to a peace course of. The assertion incorporates a pledge by North Korea to “work towards” full denuclearization however the agreement does not detail how the international community will verify that Kim is ending his nuclear program.
July 16, 2018 – During a joint news conference with Putin in Helsinki, Trump declines to endorse the US authorities’s evaluation that Russia interfered within the election, saying he doesn’t “see any reason why” Russia could be accountable. The next day, Trump clarifies his remark, “The sentence should have been, ‘I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t be Russia.” He says he accepts the intelligence group’s conclusion that Russia meddled within the election however provides, “It could be other people also.”
August 21, 2018 – Cohen pleads guilty to eight federal charges, including two campaign finance violations. In courtroom, he says that he orchestrated funds to silence girls “in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office.” On the identical day, Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort is convicted on eight counts of federal financial crimes.
November 20, 2018 – Releases a statement backing Saudi Arabia within the wake of the homicide of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Virginia resident, killed in October at a Saudi consulate in Turkey. Khashoggi was a frequent critic of the Saudi regime. The Saudis initially denied any information of his loss of life, however then later mentioned a bunch of rogue operators had been chargeable for his killing.
December 18, 2018 – The Donald J. Trump Foundation agrees to dissolve based on a doc filed in Manhattan Supreme Court. The agreement permits the New York legal professional normal’s workplace to overview the recipients of the charity’s property.
December 22, 2018 – A partial government shutdown begins after Trump calls for lawmakers allocate $5.7 billion in funding for a border wall earlier than agreeing to signal a federal funding package deal. On January 25, 2019, the government shutdown ends when Trump signs a short-term spending measure, offering three weeks of stopgap funding whereas lawmakers work on a border safety compromise. The invoice doesn’t embrace any wall funding.
February 15, 2019 – Trump declares a national emergency to allocate funds to build a wall on the border with Mexico. The similar day, Trump indicators a border safety measure negotiated by Congress, with $1.375 billion set aside for barriers, averting one other authorities shutdown.
March 22, 2019 – Mueller ends his investigation and delivers his report back to Attorney General William Barr. A senior Justice Department official tells NCS that there shall be no additional indictments. On March 24, Barr releases a letter summarizing the principal conclusions from Mueller’s investigation. According to Barr, the proof was not adequate to ascertain that members Trump’s marketing campaign tacitly engaged in a legal conspiracy with the Russian authorities to intrude with the election.
April 18, 2019 – A redacted model of the Mueller report is launched. The first part of the 448-page document particulars the proof gathered by Mueller’s staff on potential conspiracy crimes and explains their selections to not cost people related to the marketing campaign. The second a part of the report outlines ten episodes involving doable obstruction of justice by the President. According to the report, Mueller’s choice to not cost Trump was rooted in Justice Department tips prohibiting the indictment of a sitting president. Mueller writes that he would have cleared Trump if the proof warranted exoneration.
June 12, 2019 – Trump says he could also be willing to accept information about political rivals from a foreign government throughout an interview on ABC News, declaring that he’s prepared to hear and wouldn’t essentially name the FBI.
June 16, 2019 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveils an indication on the proposed site of a Golan Heights settlement to be named Trump Heights.
June 18, 2019 – Trump holds a rally in Orlando to publicize the formal launch of his reelection campaign.
June 30, 2019 – Trump becomes the first sitting US president to enter North Korea. He takes 20 steps past the border and shakes arms with Kim.
July 25, 2019 – Trump speaks on the telephone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump asks Zelensky for a “favor,” encouraging him to talk with Giuliani about investigating Hunter Biden, former Vice President Joe Biden’s son. In the times earlier than the decision, Trump blocked nearly $400 million in military and security aid to Ukraine.
August 12, 2019 – A whistleblower information a criticism pertaining to Trump’s conduct on the Zelensky name.
September 11, 2019 – The Trump administration lifts its hold on military aid for Ukraine.
September 24, 2019 – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declares the start of an impeachment inquiry associated to the whistleblower complaint.
September 25, 2019 – The White House releases notes from the July 25 call between Trump and Zelensky. The readout incorporates a number of references to Giuliani and Barr. In response, the Justice Department issues a statement that claims Barr didn’t find out about Trump’s dialog till weeks after the decision. Further, the legal professional normal didn’t speak to the President about having Ukraine examine the Bidens, based on the Justice Department. On the identical day because the notes are launched, Trump and Zelensky meet in individual for the primary time on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. During a joint press convention after the assembly, each males deny that Trump pressured Zelensky to analyze Biden in change for support.
September 26, 2019 – The House releases a declassified model of the whistleblower complaint. According to the criticism, officials at the White House tried to “lock down” information of Trump’s telephone dialog with Zelensky. The criticism additionally alleges that Barr performed a job within the marketing campaign to persuade Zelensky that Biden needs to be investigated.
September 27, 2019 – Pompeo is subpoenaed by House committees over his failure to supply paperwork associated to Ukraine. Kurt Volker, US special envoy to Ukraine, resigns. He was named within the whistleblower criticism as one of many State Department officers who helped Giuliani join with sources in Ukraine.
October 3, 2019 – Speaking to reporters exterior the White House, Trump says both Ukraine and China ought to examine alleged corruption involving Biden and his son. NCS reports that the President had introduced up Biden and his household throughout a June telephone name with Xi Jinping. In that decision, Trump mentioned the political prospects of Biden in addition to Elizabeth Warren. Notes documenting the dialog had been positioned on a extremely secured server the place the transcript from the Ukraine name was additionally saved.
October 6, 2019 – After Trump speaks on the telephone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the White House declares that US troops will move out of northern Syria to make way for a planned Turkish military operation. The transfer marks a significant shift in American international coverage and successfully provides Turkey the inexperienced gentle to assault US-backed Kurdish forces, a associate within the struggle in opposition to ISIS.
October 31, 2019 – Trump says through Twitter that he’s changing his legal residency from New York to Florida, explaining that he feels he’s handled badly by political leaders from the town and state.
November 7, 2019 – A judge orders Trump to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit in opposition to his charity filed by the New York state legal professional normal. According to the swimsuit, Trump breached his fiduciary responsibility by permitting his presidential marketing campaign to direct the distribution of donations. In a press release, Trump accuses the legal professional normal of mischaracterizing the settlement for political functions.
November 13, 2019 – Public impeachment hearings begin and Trump meets Erdogan at the White House.
November 20, 2019 – During a public hearing, US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland says he labored with Giuliani on issues associated to Ukraine on the “express direction of the President of the United States.”
December 10, 2019 – House Democrats unveil two articles of impeachment, one for abuse of energy and one for obstruction of Congress. On December 13, the House Judiciary Committee approves the two articles of impeachment in a party line vote.
December 18, 2019 – The House of Representatives votes to impeach Trump, charging a president with excessive crimes and misdemeanors for simply the third time in American historical past.
January 24, 2020 – Makes history as the first President to attend the annual March for Life rally. Trump reiterates his assist for tighter abortion restrictions.
January 29, 2020 – Trump signs the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement into law, which replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement.
January 31, 2020 – The Trump administration announces an expansion of the travel ban to incorporate six new nations. Immigration restrictions shall be imposed on: Nigeria, Eritrea, Tanzania, Sudan, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar (referred to as Burma), with exceptions for immigrants who’ve helped the United States.
February 5, 2020 – The Senate votes to acquit Trump on two articles of impeachment. Sen. Mitt Romney is the only real Republican to vote to convict on the cost of abuse of energy, becoming a member of with all Senate Democrats in a 52-48 not responsible vote. On the obstruction of Congress cost, the vote falls alongside straight social gathering traces, 53-47 for acquittal.
May 29, 2020 – Trump announces that the United States will terminate its relationship with the World Health Organization.
July 10, 2020 – Trump commutes the prison sentence of his longtime friend Roger Stone, who was convicted of crimes that included mendacity to Congress partly, prosecutors mentioned, to guard the President.
October 2, 2020 – Trump declares that he has tested positive for coronavirus. Later within the day, Trump is transferred to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He returns to the White House on October 5.
November 7, 2020 – Days after the presidential election on November 3, NCS projects Trump loses his bid for reelection to Biden.
November 25, 2020 – Trump declares in a tweet that he has granted Michael Flynn a “full pardon,” wiping away the responsible plea of the intelligence official for mendacity to the FBI.
December 23, 2020 – Announces 26 new pardons, together with for Stone, Manafort and son-in-law Jared Kushner’s father, Charles.
January 6, 2021 – Following Trump’s rally and speech on the White House Ellipse, pro-Trump rioters storm the US Capitol as members of Congress meet to certify the Electoral College outcomes of the 2020 presidential election. A complete of 5 folks die, together with a Capitol Police officer.
January 13, 2021 – The House votes to impeach Trump for “incitement of insurrection.” He is the one president to be impeached twice.
January 20, 2021 – Trump points a complete of 143 pardons and commutations that embrace his onetime political strategist, Steve Bannon, a former high fundraiser and two well-known rappers. He then receives a military-style send-off from Joint Base Andrews on Inauguration morning, earlier than heading house to Florida.
February 13, 2021 – The US Senate acquits Trump in his second impeachment trial, voting that Trump will not be responsible of inciting the lethal January 6 riots on the US Capitol. The vote is 43 not responsible to 57 responsible, in need of the 67 responsible votes wanted to convict.
July 1, 2021 – New York prosecutors charge the Trump Organization and Trump Payroll Corporation with 10 felony counts and Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg with 15 felony counts in reference to an alleged tax scheme stretching again to 2005. Trump himself will not be charged. On December 6, 2022, both companies are found guilty on all charges.
July 7, 2021 – Trump information a proposed class-action lawsuit targeting Facebook and Zuckerberg. On January 29, 2025, Trump signs a settlement agreement ending the lawsuit that, based on a preliminary draft, requires the corporate to pay out roughly $25 million.
May 3, 2022 – The Trump Organization and the Presidential Inaugural Committee agree to pay a total of $750,000 to settle with the Washington, DC, legal professional normal’s workplace over allegations they misspent money raised for former President Donald Trump’s inauguration.
June 9-July 21, 2022 – The House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol holds eight hearings, the place it hears from witnesses together with high ex-Trump officers, election staff, those that took half within the assault and lots of others.
August 8, 2022 – The FBI executes a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, as a part of an investigation into the dealing with of presidential paperwork, together with categorized paperwork, which will have been introduced there.
August 12, 2022 – A federal judge unseals the search warrant and property receipt from the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago. The unsealed paperwork point out the FBI recovered 11 units of categorized paperwork from its search, together with some supplies marked as “top secret/SCI” – one of many highest ranges of classification, and determine three federal crimes that the Justice Department is taking a look at as a part of its investigation: violations of the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice and legal dealing with of presidency information.
November 15, 2022 – Announces that he’ll search the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
November 19, 2022 – Trump’s Twitter account, which was banned following the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, is reinstated after customers reply to an internet ballot posted by Twitter CEO and new proprietor Elon Musk. In February 2025, X agrees to pay to settle a lawsuit from Trump over Trump’s deplatforming, involving a payment of around $10 million.
December 19, 2022 – The Jan. 6 riot committee votes to refer Trump to the Department of Justice on at least four criminal charges. Four days later the panel releases its remaining report recommending Trump be barred from holding workplace once more.
February 9, 2023 – Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts are restored following a two-year ban within the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, a Meta spokesperson confirms to NCS. On March 17, 2023, YouTube restores Trump’s channel. In September 2025, YouTube agrees to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by Trump following his suspension.
March 30, 2023 – A grand jury in New York votes to indict Trump, the primary time in American historical past {that a} present or former president has confronted legal prices.
April 4, 2023 – Surrenders and is positioned beneath arrest earlier than pleading not guilty to 34 felony criminal charges of falsifying enterprise information in Manhattan legal courtroom. Prosecutors allege that Trump sought to undermine the integrity of the 2016 election via a hush cash scheme with funds made to girls who claimed that they had extramarital affairs with Trump. He has denied the affairs.
May 9, 2023 – A Manhattan federal jury finds Trump sexually abused former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll within the spring of 1996 and awards her $5 million for battery and defamation. On January 26, 2024, a jury says that Trump should pay Carroll $83.3 million in damages, the second time over the previous yr {that a} jury has awarded Carroll hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in damages from Trump for his defamatory statements disparaging her and denying her rape allegations. On August 7, 2023, a federal judge dismisses Trump’s counter defamation lawsuit in opposition to Carroll. Trump sued Carroll based mostly on her response to questions posed on NCS. Carroll was requested in regards to the verdict discovering Trump sexually abused Carroll, however didn’t rape her as outlined beneath New York legislation and as she alleged. Carroll mentioned, “Oh, yes he did.”
May 15, 2023 – A report by special counsel John Durham is released. In it he concludes that the FBI ought to by no means have launched a full investigation into connections between Trump’s marketing campaign and Russia in the course of the 2016 election. The report doesn’t advocate any new prices, regardless of strongly criticizing the company’s habits.
June 8, 2023 – Trump is indicted on a complete of 37 counts within the particular counsel’s categorized paperwork probe. In a superseding indictment filed on July 27, Trump is charged with one extra rely of willful retention of nationwide protection info and two extra obstruction counts, bringing the entire to 40 counts.
August 1, 2023 – Trump is indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington, DC, within the 2020 election probe. Trump is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to hinder an official continuing; obstruction of and try and hinder an official continuing; and conspiracy in opposition to rights.
August 14, 2023 – Trump and 18 others are indicted by an Atlanta-based grand jury on state charges stemming from their efforts to overturn the previous president’s 2020 electoral defeat. On November 26, 2025, a Georgia prosecutor drops the case.
February 23, 2024 – Judge Arthur Engoron formally orders Trump to pay $454 million, $355 million and roughly $100 million in curiosity, one week after he discovered Trump and his sons chargeable for fraud within the civil case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James. On August 21, 2025, a New York appeals upholds his liability and tosses the penalty so the case can move forward for further appellate review.
May 30, 2024 – A Manhattan jury finds Trump guilty of falsifying business records in connection to a hush cash scheme to silence grownup movie star Stormy Daniels about an affair. Trump is the primary president in US historical past to be convicted of a felony. On January 10, 2025, Trump is sentenced to unconditional discharge, which suggests he won’t be imprisoned, fined or face probation, however his conviction nonetheless stands, and he’ll enter workplace as a convicted felon.
July 1, 2024 – The Supreme Court guidelines that Trump may claim partial immunity from special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case.
July 13, 2024 – Trump is injured in a shooting throughout his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania in what the FBI says is an assassination try. One rally attendee is killed and two others are critically injured.
July 15, 2024 – Judge Aileen Cannon dismisses the classified document case against Trump. She says the appointment of particular counsel Smith violated the Constitution.
September 15, 2024 – Trump is taking part in golf at Trump worldwide Golf Club in West Palm Beach when the Secret Service spots a man with a rifle along the perimeter of the golf course. The suspect flees, however is later detained.
November 5, 2024 – Elected 47th president of the United States, incomes 312 electoral school votes.
December 14, 2024 – ABC News pays $15 million to a “presidential foundation and museum” in a settlement reached with Trump in his defamation suit in opposition to the community and anchor George Stephanopoulos. The community additionally agreed to challenge an apology.
January 17, 2025 – Launches a meme coin, a sort of extremely unstable cryptocurrency. Melania Trump launches her personal cryptocurrency on January 19.
January 20, 2025 – Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts.
October 10, 2025 – A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas goes into impact in Gaza. Trump announced the agreement in a brief Truth Social publish on October 8, saying the primary section of a US-brokered ceasefire framework would permit for the swift launch of hostages and the withdrawal of Israeli forces to an agreed level.