The People vs. Donald J. Trump
This presentation to a jury of his peers is also a handy, comprehensive reference to his crimes when you debate those somehow still on the fence about this maniac
On behalf of all decent Americans, I am calling for a citizen’s arrest.
Let us waste no more time. Let the proceedings begin. This post includes a comprehensive list of 39 separate crimes against the people of the United States. There are more, either not appearing here or not yet uncovered.
Defendant: Donald John Trump.
Charges: High crimes and treason. Nary a misdemeanor to be found because they’re all felonies. Felonious like a mafia boss, with loads of Diddy thrown in for extra effect. The worst human in the public realm.
Jury: The jury is you.
The judge in this case: Whoever happens to be wearing a nice, black, terry cloth bathroom robe while reading this.
The Prosecution’s Case
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, although I am not a lawyer by trade, I might be if I could ever remember anything.
However, I declare to you today that we’ve thrown hundreds of lawyers and prosecutors at the defendant in question and have gotten nowhere. Therefore, I’m taking over the case with my new friend, Claude AI. We have compiled a comprehensive list of crimes and accusations against the defendant, Donald J. Trump, that go back before 1990.
We will demonstrate that the defendant has committed enough crimes against the United States and its people that he should be removed from office and sent to a federal penitentiary for the rest of his days.
His many minions and enablers are also due for a reckoning, but this case will focus on the ringleader of the Trump crime family.
We have sorted his many crimes by category for the jury’s convenience. I have numbered them as evidentiary items in sequential, not chronological, order.
Virtual bailiff, please provide copious amounts of coffee or tea for our beleaguered jury. Y’all are gonna need it. That, and maybe a stiff drink or ten.
Accusations, charges, and convictions against Donald Trump since 1990
Note: Some of the reference sources are paywalled.
⚖️ CRIMINAL CONVICTION
Exhibit 1. Trump was convicted in 2024 of 34 counts of falsifying business records. A Manhattan jury found Trump guilty on all 34 New York State felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal hush-money payments made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. The trial lasted April 15 to May 30, 2024, and resulted in a conviction on all 34 charges. However, on January 10, 2025, the judge in the case issued an unconditional discharge.
His lead attorney in this case was acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who has helped turn the Department of Justice (DOJ) into Trump’s personal law firm, which the prosecution argues also violates ethical standards and practices.
📰 Wikipedia, PBS Frontline — Guide to the Criminal Cases
🔴 CRIMINAL INDICTMENTS
Exhibit 2. In 2024, Trump was indicted by the federal government on 40 counts involving the improper use and handling of classified documents. This included 32 counts of willfully and illegally retaining national defense information, 5 counts of obstruction of justice, 1 count of interfering with a federal investigation, and 4 counts of making false statements.
However, on July 15, 2024, Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee and stooge, dismissed the federal indictment by issuing a bizarre ruling that Special Counsel Jack Smith was improperly appointed. Most legal beagles have dismissed the legal basis of her ruling as ridiculous. Most likely, it was an attempt by Cannon to gain a future appointment to the Supreme Court under Trump.
His lead attorney in this case was acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
📰 Lawfare — The Trump Trials
Exhibit 3. On January 6, 2023, Trump was indicted by the federal government on four counts of election subversion. Trump was indicted on onecount of corruptly obstructing an official proceeding, one count of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, and one count of conspiracy against rights (18 U.S.C. § 241).
The indictment accused Trump and co-conspirators of spreading “lies that there had been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won,” according to the original indictment.
The lies led to the January 6, 2021, insurrection based on Capitol grounds, during which insurrectionists sought to hang Vice President Mike Pence. The insurrection resulted in seven deaths, including several police officers.
1,270 people were convicted or pleaded guilty to various crimes related to the most serious insurrection since the Civil War. Most of them were later pardoned by Trump and now roam freely to stalk Americans. Several have returned to prison after committing subsequent crimes.
The case was dismissed in December 2024 after Trump won the 2024 presidential election, in no small part because the John Roberts Supreme Court of Grift declared that actions carried out by a president while carrying out the duties of his office are immune from federal prosecution.
Further reference for members of the jury interested in learning more about the corruption of the Supreme Court:
Attention Clarence Thomas: It’s Time for Your Judicial Review
It’s a big fail that only impeachment can fix (🎁 Ruminato Gift Link 🎁)
His lead attorney in this case was acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
📰 Lawfare, CBS News — Trump’s 4 Indictments in Detail
Exhibit 4. In 2023, Trump was indicted by the state of Georgia on 13 counts of election interference. 18 codefendants were charged with election interference under Georgia RICO laws.
Trump and his codefendants were accused of coordinating an effort to thwart the certification of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. The charges were tied to Trump’s infamous recorded call pressuring Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes.”
His codefendants included:
Rudy Giuliani; John Eastman; Mark Meadows; Kenneth Chesebro; Jeffrey Clark, Jenna Ellis; Ray Smith; Robert Cheeley; Michael Roman; David Shafer; Shawn Still; Stephen Lee; Willie Floyd; Trevian Kutti; Sidney Powell; Cathleen Latham; Scott Hall; Misty Hampton.
Several of his codefendants pleaded guilty.
In addition, there were 30 unnamed co-conspirators.
📰 CBS News
A Fulton County judge threw out three charges on March 13, 2024. This ruling resulted in the following remaining charges:
2 counts of conspiracy to commit forgery in the first degree
2 counts of conspiracy to commit false statements and writings
2 counts of false statements and writings
Violation of the Georgia RICO Act, which is an act in Georgia that mimics federal RICO laws that treat defendants as members of a mafia or other organized gang engaging in conspiracy and racketeering. Members of the jury, I suggest to you that you don’t need to know what racketeering is to know that it sounds really bad, and it is.
Conspiracy to impersonate a public officer
Georgia Republicans conspired with Trump’s lead attorneys to refocus attention away from the case’s evidence to an affair between Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis and one of her assistants. The ploy was successful, even though the affair had nothing to do with the charges presented to the jury, and even though the assistant recused himself from the case.
In November 2025, a new prosecutor, under direction and pressure from Georgia Republicans, dropped the charges against all defendants, thus ending the case, using Willis’ affair as the excuse.
📰 Wikipedia, CNN — Tracking Trump’s Indictments
🟡 CIVIL LIABILITY (Civil Court or Jury Verdicts Against Trump)
Civil juries of his peers found Trump liable for sexual assault and defamation of character.
Exhibit 5. In May 2023, a civil jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll. The jury ordered him to pay $5 million in damages. He tried to stage an unsuccessful counterclaim but lost his initial appeal in December 2024.
📰 Wikipedia
The judge in the case, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, went so far as to clarify for the record that what Trump did to Carroll must be considered rape as a matter of law.
📰 PBS NewsHour — Carroll Verdict, The Washington Post
Exhibit 6. A second jury in January 2024 awarded E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in a defamation claim against Trump. The jury awarded Carroll the additional money for defamatory statements Trump made about her while he was president in 2019. Most of the award, $65 million, was for punitive damages.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the prosecution would like to take this moment to point out that much of the daily grift you saw by the Trump crime family shortly after stealing office again in 2026 was designed to cover the costs of this and other civil and liabilities imposed by the courts against Trump in this case.
We will be reviewing some of this grift in later exhibits.
📰 WBUR — The $83 Million Verdict
Exhibit 7. In 2024, a New York judge found Trump liable for general business Fraud and financial statement inflation. The case involved a scheme spanning several years to dupe banks and others with financial statements that inflated his wealth. The judge ordered him to pay $355 million in penalties (it would have risen to over $450 million with interest if not for an appeals court). The judge for the case wrote that “the frauds found here leap off the page and shock the conscience.”
📰 Fortune
In 2025, an appeals court upheld the liability verdict but voided the monetary penalty as excessive.
The prosecution contends that voiding the penalty was a mistake.
📰 NPR — Civil Fraud Penalty
🔵 Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report documented multiple instances of potentially criminal conduct but did not formally charge Trump
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report documented multiple instances of potentially criminal conduct but did not formally charge Trump, citing DOJ policy against indicting a sitting president. The special counsel’s office found substantial evidence of obstruction of justice in several instances.
Specifically…
Exhibit 8. Mueller found “substantial evidence” that Trump committed obstruction of justice when he fired FBI Director James Comey. Trump tried to use Comey’s “unwillingness to publicly state that the President was not personally under investigation” as a reason for firing him, even though Trump was, in fact, under investigation.
📰 Lawfare — Obstruction Heat Map
Exhibit 9. Mueller found “substantial evidence” that Trump committed obstruction of justice when he directed White House counsel Don McGahn to Fire Mueller. The Mueller report found substantial evidence that Trump asked White House Counsel McGahn to fire Mueller and create false documents to cover up the request.
McGahn said he was prepared to resign rather than comply.
📰 Time — Mueller Report Myths
Exhibit 10. Mueller found evidence of obstruction of justice when Trump directed Corey Lewandowski to limit the Mueller investigation. Trump directed former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to instruct the Attorney General to limit Mueller’s investigation, a step Mueller asserted “was intended to prevent further investigative scrutiny of the President’s and his campaign’s conduct.”
📰 ACS Law — Key Findings of the Mueller Report
Exhibit 11. Mueller found evidence of obstruction of justice when Trump pressured Attorney General Jeff Sessions to “Un-recuse” himself. Mueller revealed that Trump repeatedly asked the Attorney General to “un-recuse” himself from the Mueller inquiry. Mueller’s report concluded that “a reasonable inference” could be made that “the President believed that an unrecused Attorney General would play a protective role.”
Sessions was a close Trump ally when he recused himself from the inquiry.
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, I present to you former Attorney General in Thief, Pam Bondi, and her Epstein redaction extravaganza as evidence that Trump was correct about a friendly Attorney General’s protective role.
📰 ACS Law, NPR — Mueller Report Summary
Exhibit 12. Mueller found evidence of obstruction of justice when he found that Trump may have been involved with witness tampering through the use of his pardon powers. The Mueller report raised questions about whether Trump, by and through his private attorneys, offered pardons for the purpose of influencing the cooperation of Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, and an unnamed person.
📰 ACS Law, Harvard Kennedy School — Summary of the Mueller Report
Exhibit 13. Mueller found evidence of obstruction of justice when Trump pressured FBI Director Comey to drop the Flynn investigation. Mueller found that Trump asked for Comey’s loyalty and pressured him to “let this go” regarding the FBI investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and investigated whether those statements “had the tendency to impede the administration of justice.”
Per Wikipedia:
Flynn pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Flynn’s alleged false statements involve conversations he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak when Flynn was incoming National Security Advisor to President-elect Trump, and Flynn agreed to cooperate with the Special Counsel investigation as part of a plea deal.
📰 Lawfare, PBS NewsHour — Mueller Report Major Findings. Wikipedia]
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the people would like to submit as additional evidence Exhibit 13a, a report on the individual some of us refer to as President Krasnov, a Russian agent:
The prosecution believes that Trump has a long association with Russian agents, the details of which are provided in Exhibit 13a. These actions expose the defendant to charges of treason.
On April 1, 2026, he threatened again to withdraw the United States from NATO, the main bulwark against Russian aggression. The prosecution contends that if withdrawal from NATO did not require an act of Congress, he would have done so by now. This statement is supported by numerous publicly available social media posts he has made.
🟠 Jack Smith Report (2025)
The prosecution now turns the jury’s attention to Special Counsel Jack Smith, who uncovered a trove of possible crimes that Smith said would have likely resulted in a series of convictions had Trump not “won” stolen the presidency.
Specifically…
Exhibit 14. Smith discovered a conspiracy to defraud the United States and commit acts of election subversion.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Smith’s words were damning. His final report concluded that “the throughline of all of Mr. Trump’s criminal efforts was deceit — knowingly false claims of election fraud,” and that Trump would have been convicted had he not won the 2024 election.
📰 ABC News — Jack Smith Final Report
Exhibit 15. Smith concluded that Trump pressured Vice President Mike Pence to obstruct the electoral count. Smith’s report cited Pence’s handwritten notes demonstrating that “in repeated conversations, day after day, Mr. Trump pressed Mr. Pence to use his ministerial position as President of the Senate to change the election outcome.”
📰 ABC News, NPR — Jack Smith’s Election Report
Exhibit 16. Smith’s report found that Trump organized a false slate of electors. Smith’s report detailed evidence that Trump supported the organization of a false slate of electors, then allegedly told his acting attorney general to “just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican” lawmakers.
📰 CBS News — Smith Final Report
🟣 Sexual misconduct allegations
At least 27 women have publicly accused Trump of sexual misconduct since the 1980s. Most of the material presented here does not include evidence in the highly redacted Epstein Files, which are still awaiting further discovery, but have been illegally withheld from the public by former U.S. Attorney General in Thief Pam Bondi in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act (H.R. 4405).
Her dismissal, but the subsequent refusal of the DOJ to release the files in compliance with statutory requirements, is also evidence that Trump is giving the orders to violate the statute requiring their release.
This law he is violating mandates the disclosure of flight logs, internal DOJ communications, and, with specific privacy exceptions involving victims, files naming government officials and associates. The law imposed a deadline, which was never met.
The prosecution submits that Trump ordered the Department of Justice to refuse to comply with this law (even though he signed it), and that former U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and his personal attorney and now acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche have acceded to his order.
The following events involving sexual assault fall within or near a 1990–present time period. They do not include every allegation against him:
Exhibit 17. Wife Ivana Trump — Alleged Sexual Assault (1989, came to public light in the early 1990s)
Not to be mistaken for his daughter, Ivanka, who the prosecution would also like to call for testimony, Ivana was his first wife.
During their divorce deposition, his wife at the time charged that Trump “violated their bond of love” in a 1989 incident.
She later stated her use of the word “rape” was not meant in the “criminal sense.”
The prosecution maintains that she was silenced by intimidation.
📰 PBS NewsHour — Assault Allegations Recapped
Exhibit 18. Jill Harth — Groping and Attempted Rape (1992–1993) Harth filed a lawsuit in 1997 in which she accused Trump of attempted rape, alleging he “forcibly prevented plaintiff from leaving and forcibly removed plaintiff to a bedroom” at Mar-a-Lago. She further charged that Trump tried to use her as a sex slave, similar to accusations found in the Epstein Files.
According to the New York Daily News, the matter was “settled” out of court:
The case was due to go to trial on July 17 in Manhattan Federal Court, but yesterday sources familiar with the deal said Trump had agreed to a six-figure payout.
The prosecution would like to note that the referenced article from the fact-checker Snopes specifically points out that Trump was subject to several sexual assault allegations before the 2016 election, which demonstrates that they were not made to discredit his presidential campaign, since there was not yet any presidential campaign to discredit.
📰 Snopes — Trump Sexual Assault Allegations Prior to 2016
Exhibit 19. Kristin Anderson — Groping at a Manhattan Nightclub (early 1990s) Kristin Anderson told the Washington Post in October 2016 that Trump touched her through her underwear at a Manhattan nightclub in the early 1990s.
📰 Axios — Trump Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Exhibit 20. Stacey Williams — Groping in the Presence of Jeffrey Epstein (1993) In October 2024, former Sports Illustrated model Stacey Williams alleged that Trump groped her in 1993 while Jeffrey Epstein looked on, becoming the 27th person to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct.
The prosecution would like to remind the court that the Epstein Files contain significant evidence of similar episodes involving Trump.
📰 Wikipedia, Women’s Agenda — 27 Accusers]
Exhibit 21. E. Jean Carroll — Sexual Assault / Rape (1995–96) This is the case that triggered the defamation civil trials won by Carroll as outlined in Exhibits 5 and 6. The original case stems from an assault on Carroll by Trump in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room.
Corroborating testimony played a key role in all of E. Jean Carroll’s cases. For example, Lisa Birnbach, a writer and friend of Carroll’s, testified that Carroll called her the evening of the attack and provided graphic details about the assault that went far beyond what Trump was finally found liable for.
Another journalist and friend, Carol Martin, testified that Carroll told her something similar the next day.
Another witness, Jessica Leeds, a retired businesswoman, testified that she had also been attacked by Trump on an airplane.
Another, People Magazine reporter Natasha Stoynoff, testified that she had been assaulted by Trump in 2005 while covering his first wedding anniversary with Melania Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
📰 Al Jazeera — Carroll Appeal Ruling, Politico
Exhibit 22. Lisa Boyne — Forced Table-Walking and Upskirting at Dinner (Summer 1996) Boyne alleged that at a group dinner, Trump and other men forced several women to walk on top of a table, and that Trump looked up the women’s skirts and commented on their underwear and genitalia. No charges are known to have been filed.
📰 PBS NewsHour — Assault Allegations Recapped
Exhibit 23. Amy Dorris — Forced Kissing and Groping at the U.S. Open (1997) Amy Dorris alleged that Trump forcibly kissed and groped her at the 1997 U.S. Open in New York, telling The Guardian, “he just shoved his tongue down my throat.” No charges are known to have been filed.
📰 HuffPost — Running List of Accusers, The 19th News
Exhibit 24. Miss Teen USA Contestants — Dressing Room Intrusion (1997) The prosecution would like to remind the court that this incident will be familiar to anyone paying attention to the Epstein Files.
Five former Miss Teen USA contestants told BuzzFeed News in 2016 that Trump allegedly walked into the dressing room when they were changing in 1997; one claimed Trump said: “Don’t worry, ladies, I’ve seen it all before.”
📰 Axios — Trump Misconduct Allegations
Exhibit 25. Natasha Stoynoff — Forced Kissing at Mar-a-Lago (2005) As outlined in Exhibit 21, Natasha Stoynoff described an incident with Trump during which she says he forced her against a wall and tried to kiss her during an interview. She wrote a first-person account for People in October 2016.
As the court knows, this “October surprise” was ignored by voters, who were more concerned with Hillary’s emails. And possibly her laugh.
📰 ABC News — List of Trump Accusers
Exhibit 26. Jessica Drake — Unwanted Kissing and Groping (2006) Jessica Drake accused Trump during a 2016 news conference of grabbing and kissing her without consent, then offering her $10,000 to come to his penthouse hotel room in 2006.
📰 The 19th — Trump Sexual Misconduct Allegations
Exhibit 27. Summer Zervos — Sexual Assault (2007) Summer Zervos was a contestant on “The Apprentice” in 2007. At a 2016 news conference, she said Trump sexually assaulted her on two separate occasions during her time with the show. The assaults included grabbing her shoulder, kissing her aggressively, placing his hand on her breast, and thrusting himself on her.
📰 The 19th News, Time — Donald Trump Accusers
Exhibit 28. “Jane Doe” (pseudonym) — Alleged Rape at Age 13 at Epstein Party (1994) This, for now, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, is considered one of the most awful events to ever occur between a would-be president and a child, assuming it is true.
In 2016, an anonymous woman filed a lawsuit accusing both Trump and Jeffrey Epstein of raping her when she was 13 years old at underage sex parties at Epstein’s Manhattan residence in 1994.
The lawsuit was refiled several times but ultimately withdrawn before trial, after the plaintiff cited repeated threats.
The Epstein Files recently revealed that the victim was interviewed four times by the FBI. The prosecution would like to remind the court that the FBI does not interview victims four times if they don’t believe there is a legitimate accusation.
This case was made famous when it was revealed that the FBI reports in the Epstein Files indicated that the survivor testified to the FBI that she bit Trump’s penis in a bid to escape, and was hit in the head in response.
The prosecution also reminds the court that the Epstein Files are currently and actively being covered up by Trump’s personal attorney, Todd Blanche, and his former boss, Pam Bondi. This is also a crime, but the people are unable to present further evidence because the criminals involved now control the levers of justice.
📰 Wikipedia — Trump Sexual Misconduct Allegations, Department of Justice
💰Civil lawsuits over nonpayment
Your honor and members of our esteemed jury: Trump’s long journey of crime includes a persistent refusal to pay people for services and supplies.
The prosecution maintains that the pattern and scope of deceit, demonstrated by dozens of lawsuits and liens, reveal a pattern that forms into formal criminal behavior.
For example:
Exhibit 28. At least 60 lawsuits were filed against Trump and his businesses by workers and contractors alleging nonpayment, along with hundreds of liens and judgments.
The list includes everyone from restaurant and club workers to lawyers.
📰 USA Today
Exhibit 29. Since 2005, Trump businesses have also racked up at least 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act for failing to pay minimum wage or overtime.
📰 The Hill
Exhibit 30. More than 200 liens have been filed against Trump or his businesses by contractors and employees dating back to the 1980s, with claimants including dishwashers, curtain makers, chandelier shops, cabinet makers, and even Trump’s own lawyers.
📰 USA Today
Exhibit 31. During the construction of the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in 1990, Trump failed to pay at least 253 subcontractors in full or on time.
📰 USA Today
Exhibit 32. Trump allegedly bankrupted multiple contractors and suppliers because he wouldn’t pay them for services. Former New Jersey casino regulator Steven Perskie told the New York Times that Trump “put a number of local contractors and suppliers out of business when he didn’t pay them.”
📰 New York Times
🔥 War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity
During his second term in office, Trump and his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have engaged in war crimes and crimes against humanity as defined by international law and the Geneva Convention.
Exhibit 33. Trump has ordered the Pentagon and Pete Hegseth to murder at least 163 people in attacks on boats in the Caribbean and northern South America coastal waters. International law experts generally agree that the killings, with no judge, no jury, and no trial of any kind, not even a military trial, are illegal.
The prosecution submits that these are war crimes. As such, the United States must join the International Criminal Court in an official capacity and refer Trump’s war crimes to the Hague.
📰 The Guardian
Exhibit 34. Trump and Heseth kidnapped a foreign head of state. In an unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation, Trump ordered the kidnapping of a head of state, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Since that time, Trump has seized Venezuela’s oil production with the aim of consumption within the United States and profiteering by business associates of the Trump family.
Maduro is currently being held in a detention center in New York State.
📰 Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman
Exhibit 35. Trump cut off Cuba’s energy supply. Trump plunged Cuba into long periods of darkness by cutting off energy and food supplies with an inexplicable full boycott, including oil.
On February 12, the United Nations called the cutoff a violation of international law:
“It is an extreme form of unilateral economic coercion with extraterritorial effects, through which the United States seeks to exert coercion on the sovereign state of Cuba and compel other sovereign third States to alter their lawful commercial relations, under threat of punitive trade measures.”
Journalists at Decolonized Journalism note that, among other immediate health issues triggered by the oil cutoff, “32,000 pregnant women face increased risks in priority maternal care” and “Over 61,000 children under the age of one who require specialized care are expected to be significantly impacted.”
Cuba is already suffering long blackouts. Anyone who has experienced an electricity blackout in the United States can appreciate the problems that arise when that happens. Now, imagine them happening for 7–8 hours every day in a hot tropical island nation.
Trump is letting a Russian oil tanker dock in a Cuban port as this is being written, which will give the Cubans about a ten-day reprieve.
📰 United Nations UNHR, Decolonized Journalism
Exhibit 36. Trump launched an unconstitutional war on a major regional power, Iran. The constitutional approach to dealing with a reprehensible regime like Iran’s would be request Congress to authorize military action. Instead, Trump put American troops throughout the Middle East at risk by unilaterally bombing the country with Israel.
Further, Trump ordered a bombing attack that led to the killing of as many as 200 school children and has threatened to destroy the energy and water infrastructure of Iran.
He launched a separate attack on Iranian volleyball players, young girls, while testing a new weapon.
Destroying energy and water infrastructure is a war crime, as outlined by the Geneva Convention and international law. So is killing little girls.
📰 New York Times, Amnesty International, CBS News
💸 Grift
The primary accomplishment of both Trump’s first and second terms has been to accumulate family wealth, often at taxpayer expense. Unlike the more obvious patterns in the prosecution’s other exhibits, most of these exhibits do not yet include any specific criminal or civil charges, because none have been brought forward.
These exhibits rely mostly on circumstantial evidence.
Exhibit 37. Trump has used the war to engage in insider trading. 6,000 oil futures contracts worth $580 million were traded in a massive spike in trading on March 23rd related to Trump’s threat to “obliterate” Iranian energy infrastructure if Iran didn’t open the Strait of Hormuz.
The spike occurred at 6:49 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, shortly before Trump posted an announcement on his personal Twitter machine, Truth Social, also known in some quarters as True Sociopath, that he had changed his mind.
According to the Financial Times, a similar spike took place on the S. & P. 500 stock index.
At 7 am, Trump posted in all caps that negotiations were underway for a “COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION OF OUR HOSTILITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST.”
He then stated he was instructing the armed forces to halt all strikes for five days. They did not do so. But that didn’t stop the price of Brent Crude, the primary Middle Eastern oil flavor, from dropping ten percent, or from stock futures from jumping 2.5 percent.
The prosecution argues before the court that this is now a standard practice, previously used with the better-known TACO Tariffs, and part of an assisted living program for a few lucky traders with access to Trump’s inner circle.
[The prosecution formally requests testimony from Jared Kushner.]
Note: His behavior on tariffs also should be entered into evidence, but the behavior is so erratic that it would require several pages of further documentation.
📰 Financial Times, BBC News, The Times
Exhibit 38: The Qatari “Flying Palace” Grift
The oil kingdom of Qatar offered, and Trump accepted, a $400 million Boeing 747–8 as a gift to the U.S. government, which Trump said would serve as Air Force One. Critics and lawmakers raised concerns that the deal was a “personal trophy” and violated the Foreign Emoluments Clause, which prohibits federal officials from receiving gifts from foreign states.
It also raised concerns about the possibility of Trojan horse surveillance technology installed on the aircraft by a foreign nation.
The gift coincided with the Trump Organization announcing a $5.5 billion golf course deal in Qatar.
📰 NPR, CNBC, The Guardian, Barron’s
Exhibit 39: During his first term, the watchdog group Citizens for Ethics (CREW) tracked more than 3,000 conflicts of interest involving Trump’s first term in office, including (quoting CREW directly):
During the impeachment proceedings against President Trump, 55 members of Congress made a combined 78 visits to Trump properties.
President Trump has made 267 visits to the golf courses he owns and profits from.
Cabinet members have patronized Trump properties and attended events with special interests or wealthy political donors no fewer than 30 times.
Special interest groups, many that have business with the Trump administration, have hosted or sponsored 117 events at Trump properties since he took office. Political groups have held another 78 events at Trump properties.
Foreign government-tied entities have held 13 events at Trump properties, and at least 134 foreign officials have visited one of Trump’s properties.
Foreign governments have granted President Trump’s businesses 65 trademarks while he’s been in office.
The prosecution maintains that you can now add the Trump family’s involvement in cryptocurrency, such as World Liberty Financial and $TRUMP “meme coins,” to this list.
CREW says it defines conflict of interest as “ any interaction between the Trump Organization and the federal government, U.S. state governments, and foreign governments, as well as interactions between the Trump Organization and special interests that try to influence the federal government.”
📰 Citizens for Ethics
Closing Statement
The prosecution will rest its case by asking the jury one simple question: Given that the prosecution has presented 39 exhibits of evidence to prove the people’s case, what is the likelihood that none of these accusations are true?
We already know that Trump has been convicted of crimes. We know he’s been found liable in a New York civil court for rape. We know that his name appears in the Epstein files anywhere from 6,000 times to as many as a million, depending on the level of redaction in the files.
The prosecution contends that you must convict, so that he is sent to prison for the rest of his days.
Please deliver your verdict to the comment area.
Notes
Special thanks to D. Denise Dianaty for editorial help, plus fact/resource checking and verification.
This article first appeared in the Medium pub, “This America.” It has been updated.
Note that he’ll commit another crime before the end of the day. It is impossible for any human to track all of Trump’s crimes. Therefore, consider this a reasonable summary, with the understanding that there are more crimes either not appearing here or not yet documented.
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The website “Just Security” maintains a litigation tracker of lawsuits against the Trump regime. There are currently 734 cases being tracked by the organization.
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Many of my regular readers know I’m not a fan of AI in the writing domain. I made an exception. I didn’t see how it was possible to research this story without it. Claude AI, the AI I chose to do my research for me, apparently agreed. When it answered my prompt asking for information on Trump’s crimes, it began with a warning:
This is a comprehensive topic. Here is a detailed list organized by category.
I fact-checked every item and source. This was a laborious process because I don’t trust AI. I rewrote the summaries AI tried to write. AI has a weird style of writing anyway, and I like to own my writing.
The topic of Trump’s crimes is comprehensive enough that AI needs to warn me to buckle up? What’s wrong with a nation that allows this to continue?
Thanks for reading!
Thank you for this comprehensive summary. To read it all one after the other left me with not more to say right now except: UFF! Though I was aware of most of them.
When it comes to the 2024 election being stolen, I must agree with you. Both the felon and musk have made statements corroborating the theft. Even that child of musk has said everyone would be surprised when the felon won, where did a small boy hear such information? It must have been from his father and the felon’s conversations. He certainly couldn’t have come up with that information on his own.
One thing that I wish we, as citizens of this country could do, is make a citizen’s arrest, other countries have done that and succeeded.
His base, the violent ones, in particular, would do everything they could possibly do to prevent it, and it would end in civil war.