As President of the United States, Donald Trump was guilty of the following offenses, if not actual crimes:

• Repeatedly and viciously attacking the nation’s free press for daring to report his growing list of crimes and disasters, calling it “the enemy of the American people”—a phrase popularized by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin.
• Publicly siding with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin against American Intelligence agencies—such as the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency—which unanimously agreed that Russia had interfered with the 2016 Presidential election.
• Praising Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen.
• Repeatedly and enthusiastically defending Vladimir Putin, the dictator of Russia, America’s mortal enemy.
• Praising Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un.

• Using his position as President to further enrich himself, in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.
• Attacking and alienating America’s oldest allies, such as Canada and Great Britain.
• Firing FBI Director James Comey for refusing to pledge his personal loyalty to Trump—and continuing to investigate Russian subversion of the 2016 election.
• Repeatedly attacking his own Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, for not “protecting” him from agents pursuing the Russia investigation—and firing him on November 7, 2018, the day after Democrats won a majority of House seats.
• Shutting down the Federal Government on December 22, 2018, because Democrats refused to fund his “border wall” between the United States and Mexico. An estimated 380,000 government employees were furloughed and another 420,000 were ordered to work without pay.
• Attempting to fire Independent Counsel Robert Mueller III—but was talked out of it because he feared impeachment.

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• Giving highly classified CIA Intelligence to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Specifically: How Islamic State terrorists planned to turn laptops into concealable bombs.
• Repeatedly attacking Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer—after she had been targeted for kidnapping and execution by Trump’s Right-wing followers.
• Paying—on December 10, 2019–$2 million to eight charities as part of a settlement where he admitted to misusing funds raised by the Donald J. Trump Foundation. These had been used to promote his presidential bid and pay off business debts. (It’s illegal for charitable foundations to advance the self-interests of their executives.)
• Allowing a deadly virus to ravage the country, infecting (to date) 9.2 million Americans and killing more than 400,000.
• Attacking medical experts and governors who urged Americans to wear masks and socially distance to protect themselves from COVID-19.
• Urging his followers to illegally vote twice for him in the 2020 Presidential election.
• Firing Chris Krebs, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, for rejecting Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential election.

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• Refusing to accept the will of 80,117,438 voters who made former Vice President Joe Biden President-elect of the United States.
• Illegally trying to pressure state legislatures and governors to stop the certification of the vote that had made Biden the President-elect.
• Inciting his followers to attack the Capitol Building where Senators and Representatives were meeting on January 6, 2021, to count the Electoral Votes won by himself and Joe Biden. His objective: Stop the count, which he knew would prove him the loser.

One might think that record of infamy would deter most men from seeking a second term in any office—let alone the most revered office in the country: The Presidency.

Yet, as Trump himself has warned: “I’m a different kind of person.”

And he most definitely is.

On August 14, for the fourth time this year, he found himself the first ex-President to be indicted for crimes committed during his four-year administration: 2017-2021.

Trump faces 91 criminal charges across four jurisdictions: Georgia, Florida, New York and the District of Columbia. 

Here is a breakdown of the cases:

(1) Federal 2020 Election indictment (District of Columbia)

Filed on August 1, 2023, it charges Trump with four felony counts for:

• Conspiracy to defraud the United States (trying to overturn the results of the 2020 Presidential election);
• Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding (plotting to prevent the 2020 election certification);
• Obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding (blocking the certification of the 2020 election results; and
• Conspiracy against rights (plotting to deprive voters of the constitutional right to vote).

This is by far the most important case facing him, because Trump sought to deny American voters the right to vote for the Presidential candidate of their choice.

If he beats the rap, it will alert every future would-be dictator: “Trump got away with it; you can, too.”

(2) New York State indictment

Filed on April 4, 2023, it charges Trump with 34 felony counts for:

• Falsifying business records to cover up the hush money payments to porn “actress” Stormy Daniels.

The reason: To buy her silence during the 2016 Presidential race so she wouldn’t go public about their 2006 affair.

Of the four indictments he faces, this is by far the least important, with no comparison to the cases he faces in Florida, Georgia and the District of Columbia.