A 12-person jury in New York on Thursday found former President Trump guilty of all 34 felony counts in his hush money trial, but he still faces 54 criminal charges in three other cases.
Trump made history as the first former U.S. president to be convicted when a jury found him guilty of falsifying business records to hide his alleged affair with porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Judge Juan Marchan set the sentencing hearing for July 11, just days before the Republican National Convention, where Trump is scheduled to formally accept the GOP’s presidential nomination.
This is just one of the legal battles facing the former president: Trump faces 54 other criminal counts, including three other indictments, but it is unclear how many of those will reach a jury before the November election.
10 charges filed in Georgia 2020 election interference case
Trump was charged along with 18 other defendants with participating in an illegal conspiracy to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia. Each defendant was charged under the state’s organized crime statute.
The former president was originally charged with 13 state felony counts by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis (Democrat), but three of those counts were dismissed by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Willis is appealing the dismissal of some of the charges after the case was derailed in part when one of Trump’s co-defendants tried to remove him from office because of his romantic relationship with the special counsel in charge of the case.
President Trump had appealed a decision that allowed McAfee to continue his trial on the condition that Willis’s ex-boyfriend, Nathan Wade, resign, and McAfee complied.
In April, McAfee rejected President Trump’s attempt to dismiss the charges on First Amendment grounds.
The judge has yet to set a trial date for the case.
Four charges in federal election interference case
Trump is facing four federal charges for pressuring state lawmakers, creating fake electors, using the Justice Department to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence and exploiting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol to stay in power after losing the 2020 presidential election.
The Supreme Court is currently considering whether Trump should be given immunity from prosecution based on claims that he acted as president, and is expected to rule by the end of June.
The appeal to the high court has left the case in virtual limbo with no trial date set, although authorities have previously indicated they want to move the case forward quickly.
If the Supreme Court allows Special Counsel Jack Smith to continue his prosecution, Trump could end up on trial in the middle of a general election.
40 charges in federal classified documents case
Trump is facing 40 federal charges in Florida alleging he improperly handled White House records after leaving office and tried to obstruct the government’s efforts to recover them.
The files allegedly contained classified national defense and weapons information, including top-secret documents.
The FBI searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in August 2022. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
In early May, Judge Eileen Cannon postponed the trial indefinitely, postponed some trial dates until late July and declined to set any trial dates.
She issued the postponement less than two weeks before the trial was scheduled to begin on May 20, citing a number of issues that needed to be resolved.
Last week, Trump falsely claimed President Biden and the FBI were prepared to “take me out” in response to an FBI search of his South Florida mansion, after the FBI said it was standard procedure for its search policies to include language authorizing the use of lethal force “only if necessary.”
Smith had asked Judge Cannon, a Trump appointee, to issue a gag order to prevent Trump from speaking out about the case in a way that could endanger law enforcement officers, but Cannon denied the request on Tuesday.
What happens next?
It is not yet clear how Thursday’s ruling will affect hearings in Trump’s other legal battles.
Trump’s lawyer, Will Scharf, said his legal team was “considering all options” in appealing the hush-money conviction.
Scharf said the team would trust the New York Court of Appeals “to understand the potential impact of the ruling on the judicial system.” Asked whether the appeal would go to the U.S. Supreme Court, Scharf said “all options are on the table.”
Former presidents can face prison time, but first-time offenders for similar crimes rarely face incarceration.
Shortly after the jury’s verdict was announced, Trump said, referring to Election Day, that “the real verdict will be handed down by the American people on November 5th.”
