Donald Trump, who is running for president again in the 2024 election, is now a convicted criminal.
Hours before President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021, Trump and his family flew to Florida, where he currently resides at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach.
Trump announced his 2024 presidential campaign on November 15, 2022. He continues to hold rallies and call the 2020 election into question amid several ongoing investigations.
The New York attorney general is investigating the Trump Organization’s financial dealings, and court filings detail the AG office’s accusations against the company, including improperly inflated property values. In March 2023, he was indicted and charged with 34 felony counts for first-degree falsifying business records. Trump denied all wrongdoing, pleading not guilty and accusing the probes of being politically motivated. It went to trial in April, and on Thursday, Trump was found guilty on all counts in the first-ever criminal trial of a former American president. Trump maintained that he is a “very innocent man.”
In August 2022, FBI agents executed a search warrant on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, prompting a furious reaction from Trump and his allies. The search appeared to be over material that Trump brought back to Florida after leaving the White House, spurring a federal investigation linked to the Presidential Records Act. In June 2023, Justice Department prosecutors charged Trump with 37 criminal counts, alleging he withheld classified records from the government after leaving office and attempted to obstruct their return. Trump entered a not-guilty plea at the time.
Another ongoing investigation by the House of Representatives’ January 6 Select Committee includes subpoenas to Trump allies and administration officials who communicated with the president in the days and months preceding the attack on the Capitol in 2021. In August 2023, Trump was indicted for a third time and charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction, and conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted as part of the Department of Justice’s investigation into the events leading up to the January 6 Capitol riot.
Trump has vowed to return to the White House in 2024, saying at a January 2022 rally in Texas that he would consider pardons for rioters who attacked the Capitol on January 6 if elected, The New York Times reported.