Donald Trump Scandals - The Ultimate List
There is credible evidence that Donald Trump has committed several crimes including rape, unlawful possession of classified material, inciting the January 6th insurrection, attempting to overthrow the 2020 election, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, bank fraud and tax fraud.
Donald Trump has several sex scandals including rape, sexual assault, harassment, spying on women, groping, predatory behavior, extramarital affairs & inappropriate comments about minors including his daughter Ivanka.
There are countless examples of corruption and abuse of power by Donald Trump with many rising to the level of National and even historic scandal. It's almost impossible for a politician -- let alone a President -- to have so many corrupt dealings in this day and age.
Other Donald Trump Scandals
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Incited the January 6th insurrection on the Capitol by fomenting a large crowd into a frenzy and directing them to do whatever they can to stop the certification of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential victory06 Jan 2021He was impeached by a bipartisan majority in the House, but the Senate fell 10 votes short of convicting him
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Grabbed Mar-a-Lago resident Karen Johnson by her vagina and pulled her behind a tapestry where he kissed and fondled her without consent while knowing Melania was upstairs at the same time09 Oct 2019According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Allegedly paid for group sex with an adult-film star and a young looking teenager of unknown age inside a secret Times Square sex club run by the Mafia while he was married to Ivana18 Oct 2019Firsthand account from mobster and self-proclaimed eyewitness John Tino, Deemed credible enough for publication by authors Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy
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Grabbed and fondled a model’s breasts under the guise of "inspecting" her bra’s fabric backstage at a lingerie show while he was married to Marla21 Oct 2019According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Forced American Dream Calendar Girls vice president Jill Harth into Ivanka's bedroom at Mar-a-Lago and "kissed, fondled, and restrained” her without consent which made her so nauseated that she "vomited profusely" while he was engaged to his soon-to-be wife Marla16 Apr 2016According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Digitally penetrated model Kristin Anderson through her underwear for up to 30 seconds without consent as he sat next to her in a booth at a New York nightclub while he was married to Ivana14 Oct 2016According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Moved his hands up the skirt of first-class passenger Jessica Leeds "like an octopus" that had "40 zillion hands" and also groped her breasts in an incident she described as an "assault" that she only escaped from by retreating to a seat in coach while also married to Ivana14 Oct 2016According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pressured Georgia's Secretary of State to illegally "find 11,780 votes" that would overturn Joe Biden's 2020 victory in the state15 Mar 2021According to the recording of a conversation between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger obtained by The Washington Post
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Secretly gave Russian President Vladimir Putin extremely rare Covid-19 test machines for his personal use at a time they were desperately needed all throughout the United States possibly to curry favor with Putin or as a reward for his 2016 election interference that helped put him in office08 Oct 2024According to exclusive reporting by veteran journalist Bob Woodward in his book "War"
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Tightly hugged and kissed two Adult Film actresses that fellow Adult Film actress Jessica Drake brought with her to his hotel room without their consent less than a year after he married Melania22 Oct 2016According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Illegally claimed $168 million in business losses on his Chicago property by using dubious accounting tactics to write off his massive losses on the project on both his 2008 and then again on his 2010 tax returns11 May 2024According to an exclusive joint report by The New York Times and Pro Publica
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Promised to pardon his personal aide and "body man" Walt Nauta if he was convicted of lying to the FBI about his knowledge of Trump's illegal retention of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago if he becomes President again22 Apr 2024Firsthand account from a confidential witness who spoke with the FBI about their interactions with Trump
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Routinely demeaned female "Apprentice" contestants by "rating" them on the size of their breasts and saying which ones he wanted to have sex with03 Oct 2016Firsthand accounts by producer Katherine Welker, 2004 Apprentice contestant Kristi Frank whose breasts were objectified by Trump, 2005 Apprentice winner Randal Pinkett, 2010 Apprentice contestant Gene Folkes & 22 former Apprentice contestants and crew members
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Directed 24-year-old female "Apprentice" contestant Poppy Carlig to twirl in front of him so he could gawk at her body03 Oct 2016Confirmed by Carlig and several cast membets
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Asked one female "Apprentice" contestant what breast size she had and whether they were natural or augmented and asked other female contestants to wear shorter dresses that showed more of their cleavage on the show03 Oct 2016Firsthand account from former "Apprentice" contestant Gene Folkes
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Openly discussed which female "Apprentice" contestants he’d like to have sex with -- sometimes with the woman present -- while also goading male contestants into participate by asking them questions like "you’d f*ck her, wouldn’t you? I’d f*ck her"03 Oct 2016Firsthand accounts by producer Katherine Welker, 2004 Apprentice contestant Kristi Frank whose breasts were objectified by Trump, 2005 Apprentice winner Randal Pinkett, 2010 Apprentice contestant Gene Folkes & 22 former Apprentice contestants and crew members
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Incessantly made inappropriate and lewd comments about an "Apprentice" camerawoman's buttocks and body and often stopped production to look at the camera she was operating over a period of more than 2 years03 Oct 2016Firsthand accounts by producer Katherine Welker, Former "Apprentice" employees German Abarca, Rebecca Arndt & six former crew members, Corroborated by two crew members who said the victim told them how uncomfortable Trump's comments made her
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Allegedly forced two young girls aged 12 and 13 to perform oral sex on him and to engage in lesbian sex in front of him at a sex party hosted by Jeffrey Epstein while he was married to Ivana23 Jun 2016
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28 Sep 2021Firsthand account from Grisham in a book published by premier company HarperCollins, Corroborated by her then-boyfriend who was also a Trump aide
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Offered to pay adult film star Jessica Drake $10,000 if she agreed to come to his hotel room and presumably have sex with him which she declined while also being married to Melania22 Oct 2016Firsthand account from Drake, Photographed with Trump at a golf tournament the day of the alleged incident
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Was found liable to pay writer E. Jean Carroll an additional $83 million -- $65 million in punitive damages and 18.3 million in reputational and emotional damages -- after he continued to repeatedly defame her long after a previous jury awarded her $5 million in defamation damages26 Jan 2024According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Compromised classified information on notecards used to brief him during phone calls with international leaders by using the backs to write every day to-do lists to his personal assistant who was uncleared to access classified information and, unaware, also kept them in her unsecured office in Mar-a-Lago until eventually noticing classified markings and alerting the FBIStaff Notes: How astoundingly lazy and incompetent can someone be at the same time? He couldn't be bothered to have his assistant order blank cards to use instead of ones with classified info carelessly lying around his office?18 Sep 2023According to an exclusive report by ABC News
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Ordered a Mar-a-Lago maintenance worker to move and hide 64 boxes filled with highly classified and sensitive information after receiving a subpoena that ordered him to return all government documents in his possession27 Jul 2023According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith
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Remained closely tied to his namesake company which ended up raking in at least $7.8 million from 20 different foreign governments throughout his Presidency by having his sons run it instead of placing it in the hands of a neutral arbiter which violated decades of norms and traditions that were in place to prevent a President from profiting off the office04 Jan 2024According to an exclusive report by The New York Times
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Showed and discussed a top-secret military map that he illegally retained when he left the White House which laid out a "plan of attack" against Iran to a writer, publisher and two staffers who did not have security clearances at an insecure location at his Bedminster golf club09 Jun 2023According to can audio recording during which he admitted on tape that the map was "highly confidential" and that he "could have declassified" it when he was President but "now I can't"
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Pressured his personal attorney Evan Corcoran to lie to investigators about classified documents illegally in his possession and further asked, "what happens if we just don't respond at all or don't play ball with them"09 Jun 2023According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith
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Showed a classified map detailing a secret military operation he illegally retained when he left the White House to a staffer of his PAC after admitting that he shouldn't be showing it to anyone and telling the staffer not to get "too close" to it while meeting with him at his Bedminster golf club09 Jun 2023According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith
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Ordered his personal aide and "body man" Walt Nauta to move and hide 64 boxes filled with highly classified and sensitive information after receiving a subpoena that ordered him to return all government documents in his possession09 Jun 2023According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith
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Hugged Miss New Hampshire Bridget Sullivan “just a little low" on her backside in a way a "creepy uncle" would do at a party promoting the 2000 Miss USA pageant09 Oct 2016According to an exclusive report by BuzzFeed News
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Walked in the dressing room of the 2000 Miss USA pageant when all the contestants were naked in a way Miss New Hampshire Bridget Sullivan described as "really shocking" because they weren't given a chance to cover up before he entered09 Oct 2016According to an exclusive report by BuzzFeed News
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Immediately "started right in on the groping under the table" of American Dream Calendar Girls vice president Jill Harth and grabbed her "intimate private parts" after he insisted on sitting next to her at a large dinner party18 Apr 2016According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Illegally entered the Trump Plaza hotel suite of a world-famous model who wouldn't return his phone calls intruding on her and her boyfriend while they were naked in bed, promptly left slamming the door and then angrily lashed out that he hates "sloppy seconds" when they confronted him about it soon afterwards in the lobby presumably out of jealousy that she had rejected him for another man all while being married to Marla Maples09 Dec 2019Firsthand account from the model's boyfriend at the time who was with her when Trump entered the room
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Paraded teenage girls aged fourteen to sixteen-years-old down a yacht's staircase and had them individually dance for him while he lapped everything up in a way one former model later described as "objectifying" and "gross"09 Dec 2019Firsthand account from then fourteen-year-old model Shawna Lee
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Refused to publicly release his tax returns before the 2016 election and while he was President which broke over forty years of precedent meant to show that the President does not have any financial conflicts of interest that could affect his decision making05 Sep 2016According to voluminous reports filed by mainstream media outlets
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Sexually assaulted his wife Ivana Trump -- 16 months since the last time they had sex -- in a way she later described to her friends as "rape" because he blamed her for painful side effects from a plastic surgery procedure she recommended he undertake to help cover his baldness17 Oct 2016According to a sworn court deposition by Ivana Trump although friends said she described it to them as such right after it happened
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Pardoned former border agent Gary Brugman who served a two-year prison sentence for violently striking two detained undocumented immigrants who were complying with orders posing no threat of which he defended his actions instead of expressing remorse23 Dec 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned the wife of disgraced Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter who pleaded guilty to stealing campaign contributions for personal use23 Dec 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned a Republican House candidate and QAnon conspiracy theorist who was a major Trump backer and previously served two years in prison for her role in an organized auto theft ring back in 200418 Feb 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned former Army lieutenant Michael Behenna who was convicted of murdering an unarmed Iraqi detainee and attempting to cover it up after Republican Governor Mary Falin and state AG Mike Hunter personally intervened on his behalf06 May 2019According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Honored a request from Senator Rand Paul to pardon two aides who worked on his father Ron's 2012 Presidential campaign and were convicted for bribing a state senator $73,000 to change his vote in the Iowa caucuses24 Dec 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Baselessly accused a wide swath of election officials and everyday citizens of a myriad of election crimes without any evidence while he himself committed actual election crimes like pressuring the Georgia Secretary of State to throw out thousands of legally cast ballots, making illegal campaign finance payments to cover up sex scandals and inciting an insurrection against the US Government to overturn Joe Biden's decisive election victory30 Mar 2023According to reporting by numerous outlets over a yearslong period
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Riled up crowds at rallies with chants of "lock her up!" after the FBI discovered a small number of classified files accidentally stored on Hillary Clinton's secure home server, but then intentionally took 300+ documents ranging from standard classified to the most sensitive top secret storing them in insecure locations at Mar-a-Lago and subverted multiple efforts to return them to authorities09 Aug 2022According to multiple sources and reported on by all major outlets
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Fearmongered that Mexico was bringing "crime" and "rapists" into the United States while at the same time having himself been credibly accused of rape and sexual assault by 25+ women25 Jun 2015According to multiple sources and reported on by multiple major outlets
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Violated campaign-finance laws by paying former Playboy Playmate of the Year Karen McDougal $150,000 in hush money to keep her from going public about an extramarital affair they had by orchestrating a convoluted payment scheme involving his lawyer Michael Cohen and the tabloid National Enquirer a week and a half before the 2016 election04 Nov 2016According to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal
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Pardoned notorious former Republican Rep. Duke Cunningham who served an eight-year prison sentence for raking in $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors20 Jan 2021According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Publicly signaled he would pardon his former campaign manager Paul Manafort if he refused to cooperate with the Mueller investigation after it was reported Manafort repeatedly lied to federal investigators in violation of his earlier plea agreement27 Nov 2018According to an interview Trump gave with the New York Post
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Rewarded Dutch attorney Alex van der Zwaan with a pardon after he refused to cooperate with the Mueller investigation and served a 30-day sentence for lying to the FBI about his work with top Trump adviser Rick Gates and an individual tied to Russian intelligence services23 Dec 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Rewarded business executive Paul Pogue who served three years' probation for failing to pay over $400k in taxes with a pardon months after his son and daughter-in-law donated $238,541 to Trump's reelection campaign18 Feb 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned four Blackwater security contractor criminals after serving only a little over a year of long sentences (three 15-year and one life) for murdering 14 Iraqi civilians and injuring 20 more of which George W. Bush's appointed commander of the Iraq war at the time General Petraeus called "hugely damaging, an action that tells the world that Americans abroad can commit the most heinous crimes with impunity"30 Dec 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned former Republican Rep. Robin Hayes who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his role in a $1.5 million bribery scheme following a request from Republican Senator Thom Tillis20 Jan 2021According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned former Republican Rep. Rick Renzi who served time in prison for corruption giving credence to a public relations campaign he led that baselessly accused the DOJ of wrongfully imprisoning him20 Jan 2021According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned former New York police commissioner and vocal Trump supporter Bernard Kerik who illegally received over $250,000 from a company with suspected connections to organized crime four years after his prison sentence concluded after lobbying from his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani18 Feb 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned former Army lieutenant Clint Lorance after serving only 6 years of a 19-year sentence for the war crime of ordering the shooting of two unarmed Afghanistan men15 Nov 2019According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned former Army Major Mathew Golsteyn before his trial started for the premeditated murder of an unarmed and detained Afghan man because they suspected him of being a bombmaker15 Nov 2019According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned his former campaign aide George Papadopoulos who lied to the FBI about his many interactions with top Russian intelligence officials who claimed they had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton that could help the Trump campaign and used the occasion to lash out at Special Counsel Robert Mueller for prosecuting him in the first place22 Dec 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned Republican mayor of Mettawa, IL and brother of famed NFL player Brian Urlacher who was charged with being a leader of a multi-million dollar illegal offshore sports gambling ring led by the Chicago mob after personally meeting with the former player at the White House and before the case against his brother had concluded20 Jan 2021According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Rewarded former national security adviser Michael Flynn with a pardon after he stopped cooperating with investigators following his guilty plea for lying to the FBI over his communications with top Russian officials before he was sentenced and without consulting with the Justice Department first26 Nov 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Commuted former Republican Rep. Steve Stockman's ten-year prison sentence after serving only two years for stealing $1.25 million meant for a charity but using it for personal expenses and to fund his campaign instead22 Dec 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned former Rep. Chris Collins as a reward for being the first member of Congress to endorse his 2016 campaign resulting in him only serving 10 weeks of a 26-month prison sentence for insider tradingStaff Notes: Not a coincidence he happened to get pardoned. The message is if you are loyal to Trump, he will return the favor.22 Dec 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned former Rep. and early 2016 campaign supporter Duncan Hunter who admitted to stealing campaign contributions for personal use days before he was set to begin his 11-month prison sentence22 Dec 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned his son-in-law's father Charles Kushner who served 14 months in prison in the early 2000's for illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering 14 years after he concluded his sentence which benefits his namesake company by making it much easier for them to secure financing for major projects23 Dec 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned his former top-adviser Steve Bannon before his case went to trial for stealing one million dollars from donors to an online charity fundraiser to build a wall on the Mexico border20 Jan 2021According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned his senior adviser Roger Stone as a reward for him refusing to testify against Trump after publicly bashing the US Attorneys who prosecuted the criminal obstruction and witness tampering case against him23 Dec 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Rewarded his 2016 campaign chairman Paul Manafort with a pardon after he served less than two years of his 7-year sentence for breaking his plea deal by lying to investigators about information potentially damaging to Trump23 Dec 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned personal friend Conrad Black who published a fawning book with a title calling him a "President Like No Other" and previously served time for scheming to siphon off millions of dollars from the newspaper company he was CEO of15 May 2019According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned Navy sailor Kristian Saucier who illegally took photographs of classified areas inside a nuclear submarine after he and his lawyers baselessly compared his illegal actions to Hillary Clinton using a private server to send and receive emails during her time as Secretary of State09 May 2018According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Rewarded Arizona real estate developer Mike Ingram who donated $10,000 to a Trump super PAC a week prior by pardoning two men he advocated for: convicted arsonists Dwight and Steven Hammond who intentionally set a fire on their property to destroy evidence of their illegal poaching that got out of control and spread to federal land10 Jul 2018According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned radical rightwing filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza six years after his conviction of making illegal campaign contributions after Senator Ted Cruz personally lobbied for it31 May 2018According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pardoned Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio after he was convicted of contempt of court for racially profiling and illegally detaining people of Latino descent before he would be sentenced for his crime27 Aug 2017According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Was found liable to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages for defamation and battery for "sexual abuse" at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York City in 199610 May 2023Jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation after a civil trial
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Kissed a close friend of CNN's Erin Burnett "almost on her lips" without her consent and later invited her into his office alone where he showered her with compliments and gave her his personal cell number presumably in an attempt to have an affair while married to Melania07 Oct 2016According to a corroborating witness and exclusively reported by CNN
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Asked Miss Universe Brook Lee "Don’t you think my daughter’s hot? She’s hot, right?" as they watched a then 16-year-old Ivanka helping on stage during the 1997 Miss Teen USA pageant in an incident she described thinking at the time as "That’s just weird. She was 16. That’s creepy."14 May 2016Corroborated by Miss Universe Brook Lee
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Said he "wasn't interested" in "beautiful" 12-year-old Paris Hilton which is weird and creepy that a grown adult feels the need to qualify a statement like that02 Aug 2015Interview on the Howard Stern Show
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Told two 14-year-old girls singing Christmas carols with their youth choir that he'll be dating them in a "couple of years" after he asked them how old they were18 Oct 2016Caught on video
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Walked in on teenage girls as young as fourteen-years-old changing in the dressing room of the 1992 Look of the Year contest in a way one contestant described as him taking a "slow stroll" as he stopped and gawked at each teenager individually09 Dec 2019According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Had a monthlong affair with tennis player Gabriela Sabatini that began when she was just 19-years-old while he was married to Marla Maples and having an affair with Ivana17 Jan 2018Report by Newsweek Magazine
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Kissed "Apprentice" contestant Jennifer Murphy on the mouth without her consent outside of an elevator at Trump Tower the same year he married Melania24 Jun 2019Firsthand account from Jennifer Murphy, Voted for Trump
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Kissed journalist Faith Daniels on the lips right in front of the paparazzi without her consent while he was dating future wife Marla Maples at the time17 Jul 2019According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Walked in the dressing room at the 2006 Miss USA contest and gawked at Miss North Carolina Samantha Holvey while she was partially dressed in a bathrobe19 Dec 2017According to an exclusive report by NBC News
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Walked in the dressing room of the 2001 Miss USA pageant when most of the contestants were naked or topless which made then 18-year-old Miss Arizona Tasha Dixon feel "very physically vulnerable" because she and other contestants weren't given a chance to cover up first11 Oct 2016According to firsthand witnesses and reported by multiple major outlets
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Repeatedly grabbed Miss Washington Cassandra Searles's buttocks and asked her to come to his hotel room to presumably have sex while he was married to Melania17 Jun 2016Firsthand account from Searles
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"Really grabbed" Miss Finland 2006 Ninni Laaksonen's bottom as they both were sitting backstage at the Late Show with David Letterman which left her "disgusted"27 Oct 2016According to an exclusive report by Finnish paper Ilta-Sanomat
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Tightly hugged and kissed Adult Film star Jessica Drake without her consent inside his hotel suite while wearing his pajamas and later that night offered her $10,000 to return to his suite to eat dinner and presumably have sex with him less than a year after he married Melania22 Oct 2016According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Kissed Fox News TV host Juliet Huddy on the lips instead of cheek around the time he and Melania married08 Dec 2017According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Pushed journalist Natasha Stoynoff against a wall and shoved his tongue down her throat in a private room at Mar-a-Lago for a minute until she managed to break away and told her "you know we’re going to have an affair, don’t you?" moments before a pregnant Melania walked in to do a joint interview on their recent wedding and marriage12 Oct 2016Confided in a work colleague the next day
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Grabbed photographer's assistant Mindy McGillivray's bottom without her consent at Mar-a-Lago and then "looked away quickly" of which the photographer recalled her saying at the time, "Donald just grabbed my ass!"12 Oct 2016According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Grabbed yoga instructor Karena Virginia's chest and scoffed "Don't you know who I am?" after she reflexively pulled away from him20 Oct 2016According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Shoved his tongue down aspiring actress Amy Dorris' throat and groped her in a way she felt like an "octopus was hugging" her when she was away from view of her boyfriend in Trump's box at the 1997 US Open Tennis Championships while he was married to Marla Maples17 Sep 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Kissed 21-year-old Miss USA contestant Temple Taggart "directly on the lips" without her consent on two occasions that made her say to herself "Oh my God, gross!" while he was married to Marla Maples14 May 2016Firsthand account from Taggart
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Grabbed and kissed Mar-a-Lago guest Cathy Heller on the side of the mouth without consent and nearly caused her to lose balance as she tried to deflect his advances while being married to Marla16 Oct 2016Firsthand account from Heller, Confirmed by close friend Susan Klein whom Heller confided in soon after the alleged incident and a relative who was at the event and witnessed Trump being aggressive with her from a distance, Confided in close friends about the incident before it became public
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Looked up women's skirts and pointed out who was and wasn't wearing underwear after a line of scantily clad women walked across his restaurant table of which model Lisa Boyne said was the "most offensive scene I’ve ever been a part of"13 Oct 2016According to a report by Huffington Post
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Kissed receptionist Rachel Crooks on the mouth without her consent outside of an elevator at Trump Tower after recently marrying Melania14 Oct 2016According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Grabbed the hand of and kissed campaign worker Alva Johnson on the mouth even after she tried to turn her head away while he was married to Melania25 Feb 2019According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Thrust his crotch on Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos and forcibly kissed her without consent inside a Beverly Hills Hotel suite he asked her to visit ostensibly to talk about future employment opportunities at the same time he was married to Melania24 Oct 2019According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Allegedly raped writer E. Jean Carroll after he forcibly pushed her against a dressing room wall inside the Bergdorf Goodman department store while he was married to Marla21 Jun 2019According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Violently yanked out a fistful of Ivana Trump's hair because she recommended a plastic surgeon to remove a bald spot in a procedure that he did not know would be painful17 Oct 2016According to a sworn court deposition by Ivana Trump
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Barged in on teenage girls as young as fifteen-years-old changing in the dressing room of the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant and told the girls "don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before" as the girls scrambled to cover themselves12 Oct 2016Corroborated by
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Pleaded with Stormy Daniel's friend and fellow adult film star Alana Evans to come to his hotel room to presumably join them for sex mere months after getting married to Melania, but she turned him down because he's no "Brad Pitt" or "Mark Wahlberg"14 Feb 2018Firsthand account from Evans during an exclusive interview with Megyn Kelly Today
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Engaged in a long affair with Marla Maples without his first wife Ivana finding out by among other things secretly housing her at his Atlantic City hotel02 Mar 1990Trump brought Marla as his date to a public event while he was still married to Ivana
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Had sex with former Playboy Playmate of the Year Karen McDougal dozens of times without using a condom over a monthslong period that began a mere 8 weeks after his wife Melania gave birth to their son Barron and also tried to offer her money after the first time they had sex16 Feb 2018Firsthand account from McDougal during an exclusive interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Told her sister and close friends about the affair when it was happening, Kept a journal detailing the affair in real time
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Had sex with famous adult-film star Stormy Daniels without a condom and had her spank his bare bottom with a Forbes magazine with his face on the cover in his hotel suite after meeting her at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe while his wife Melania was home with their infant son25 Mar 2018Firsthand account from Daniels during an exclusive interview on 60 Minutes, Trump secretly paid her $130,000 through his lawyer Michael Cohen to keep quiet about their affair days before the 2016 Presidential election
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Illegally paid adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in hush money to keep her from going public about an extramarital affair they had by directing his personal lawyer Michael Cohen to pay her off and agreeing to reimburse him in monthly installments one month before the 2016 election in violation of campaign-finance laws09 Nov 2018According to charging documents filed by state officials
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Shared highly classified information with Russia's Foreign Minister given by Israel in confidence about an undercover mission to penetrate ISIS fighters developing undetectable bombs of which a retired former intelligence officer noted how damaging this was in that ally countries would now "think twice before sharing sensitive information" with the USA because Trump cannot be trusted to keep the information secure22 Nov 2017According to multiple Administration officials and reported on my numerous media outlets
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Granted Melania Trump access to the White House Situation Room during a highly secretive US military raid targeting an ISIS leader in a clear breach of rules prohibiting people who lack the proper security clearance from entering the room07 Feb 2023Melania wrote about the incident in her memoir
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Refused to comply with a subpoena from NY Attorney General that demanded he turn over certain business records and was fined $10,000 a day and $110,000 in total by the judge who held him in contempt14 Feb 2023According to a final ruling by an appeals court
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Defrauded banks in New York by vastly overinflating the value of his assets by as much as $3.6 billion dollars in order to obtain more favorable loan terms in a scheme a judge overseeing his case described as "persistent and repeated fraud" and was ordered to pay a $355 million fine and prohibited from conducting business in New York state for three years26 Sep 2023According to a final ruling issued by the judge overseeing the case
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Funneled hundreds of millions of dollars through two shell companies connected to his son-in-law to hide its spending during the 2020 Presidential campaign18 Dec 2020According to a formal FEC complaint filed by the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center
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Failed to disclose gifts he received from foreign governments in 2020 in a clear violation of the Constitutional ban explicatively prohibiting Presidents from accepting gifts from foreign leaders without Congressional approval08 Apr 2022According to an official report from the State Department
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Unlawfully destroyed official documents in burn bags and by ripping them up and flushing them down the toilet in violation of a federal law that mandates all of a President's records must be sent to the National Archives05 Feb 2022According to an investigative report by The New York Times
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Stored top-secret and classified documents he illegally took with him to Mar-a-Lago at the conclusion of his term in his unsecured office, bathroom, bedroom, ballroom and storage room in plain view for tens of thousands of guests and potential US adversaries to see and lied to his own attorneys about his knowledge of any classified documents in his possession which resulted in his lawyer unwittingly submitting a false sworn certification of that fact to federal investigatorsStaff Notes: Bedroom's and bathroom's almost always lock from the inside, which means any classified documents stored in these areas could have been easily accessible to any number of people who had access to them09 Jun 2023According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith
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Clandestinely spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin as many as seven times after he left office, during which time he possessed highly classified national security documents he illegally took with him when he left the White House and realistically could have shared with Putin08 Oct 2024According to exclusive reporting by veteran journalist Bob Woodward in his book "War"
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Commuted the life sentence of a drug kingpin who was imprisoned for his role in the killing of an undercover police officer and who was later sent to jail after being convicted for strangling his wife26 Jan 2021According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Asked wealthy oil executives to spend $1 billion to elect him in 2024 and promised to throw out environmental regulations designed to combat global climate change on "Day 1" as a reward if he were to return to the White House09 May 2024According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Criticized the jury in his criminal hush-money case during an interview in violation of a gag order imposed by the judge and was fined $1,000 and warned that his next violation may result in jail time07 May 2024According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Blatantly and repeatedly violated a gag order which prohibited him from verbally attacking witnesses, jurors and family members of court staff in his New York hush money trial and was ordered to remove all posts that ran afoul of the gag order and pay a $9,000 fine by the judge who held him in contempt30 Apr 2024According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Placed his hands on runway model NaKina Carr in the "most inappropriate places" like her hip, buttocks or "on the boob. Every time" and would also "immediately put his mouth" her without first asking for consent or giving her a chance to move her mouth away from his while he was married to Ivana21 Oct 2019According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Allegedly forced a thirteen-year-old girl to manually stimulate him until he ejaculated at a sex party hosted by Jeffrey Epstein while he was married to Ivana23 Jun 2016Corroborated by rape of the two young girls in sworn testimony, Trump's ex-wife Ivana privately confided to multiple friends that he raped her
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Ordered his personal aide and "body man" Walt Nauta and Mar-a-lago manager Brian Butler to transfer up to 15 boxes of likely classified information Trump illegally had in his possession to his residence in New Jersey at the very time representatives from the DOJ were meeting with his lawyers to get back the documents he illegally retained12 Mar 2024Former Mas-a-Lago manager Brian Butler
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Allegedly tied a thirteen-year-old girl to a bed and raped her at a sex party hosted by Jeffrey Epstein and struck her in the face with his open hand after she pleaded with him to stop while he was married to Marla23 Jun 2016Corroborated by "Tiffany Doe" who was hired by Epstein to recruit underage girls for sex
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Lied to potential investors about receiving millions of dollars in secret payments from a company to promote their new video phone on his TV show by promising them his endorsement of the product was "not for any money"01 Jan 2024According to a civil lawsuit filed by former investors of the company
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Pardoned a convicted drug smuggler who had connections with his son-in-law Jared Kushner's family after only serving two and a half years of his ten-year sentence and who was later arrested for assaulting his wife and father-in-law26 Nov 2023According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Shared top-secret and highly sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines including the number of nuclear warheads they can carry and how close they can get to Russian submarines without being detected with Australian billionaire and Mar-a-Lago member Anthony Pratt who went on to share what Trump told him with at least 45 other people including foreign officials, his employees and journalists over a year after he left the Presidency05 Oct 2023According to an exclusive report by ABC News
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Urged his longtime personal assistant to lie to federal authorities investigating his illegal retention of classified documents by telling her point-blank "you don't know anything about the boxes" which CNN chief legal analyst Elie Honig characterized as "textbook obstruction of justice" and "textbook witness tampering" that has the protentional to be "really devastating" for Trump19 Sep 2023According to an exclusive report by ABC News
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Brazenly called for the former Lt. Governor of Georgia to refuse to testify before a grand jury criminally investigating him for trying to overturn the 2020 election results in the state which multiple legal experts characterized as "witness tampering in real time"14 Aug 2023According to a Truth Social post written by Trump and reported by mainstream outlets
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Pushed the IRS to open investigations on FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page in violation of a federal law that prohibits a President from "directly or indirectly" ordering the IRS to investigate or audit individual people07 Jul 2023According to a sworn statement by former White House chief of staff John Kelly
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Was possibly complicit in having a surveillance video storage room "accidentally" flooded in a failed attempt to cover up crimes with classified documents (the FBI recovered incriminating video anyways), or it is a total coincidence that a maintenance worker -- not just any worker but one who previously helped Trump's aide move boxes with classified documents -- would be careless enough to drain a pool damaging a room at a $200k initiation fee resort that contained additional videos the FBI had an active subpoena forStaff Notes: It could actually be a coincidence, but how does a worker make such an egregious mistake at such an expensive resort? And of all the rooms to be flooded, it's the surveillance storage room. And also, right during when the FBI was actively looking to get more videos presumably as they found additional new dates to subpoena video footage from. And the same worker previously helped Trump's aide move boxes with classified documents.05 Jun 2023According to an exclusive report by CNN
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Directed three top White House officials to repeatedly call and threaten Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski that a negative article about their private lives would be published in the National Enquirer unless they call him and personally apologize for their negative coverage of him30 Jun 2017According to both the anchors who reported Trump's actions in the Washington Post
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Pushed the Justice Department to keep open a political investigation looking into the Clinton Foundation long after it became abundantly clear no wrongdoing was found by investigators22 May 2023According to an exclusive report by The New York Times
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Commuted convicted fraudster Phillip Esformes' sentence after he had only served less than two years of his twenty-year sentence for a massive healthcare fraud following a public relations campaign his well-connected family waged with the Trump White House24 Dec 2020According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Objectified an aide to press secretary Stephanie Grisham by having her sent to his office aboard Air Force One so that he and other men could "look at her ass," which concerned Grisham to the point that she made sure the staffer was never alone with Trump again because she was "really nervous about what could happen"10 May 2023Firsthand account from Grisham in a book published by premier company HarperCollins
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Gave his 2020 Republican acceptance speech from the White House lawn in what one expert described as an “abomination” that “may be the most visible misuse of official position for private gain in America’s history”28 Aug 2020According to multiple experts on the law and government regulations
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Attended a risque Las Vegas show where exotic dancers urinated on each other with a Russian oligarch of which his lawyer at the time Michael Cohen recalled him watching “with delight”06 Sep 2020Firsthand account from Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen
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Personally attempted to contact a 1/6 Committee witness presumably to pressure them to not disclose any damaging information about him when they testified before the committee12 Jul 2022According to the 1/6 Select Committee
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Strongly hinted that he would pardon people convicted of crimes related to the 1/6 insurrection by saying he'll be "looking at them very, very seriously," but only if they didn't cooperate with authorities18 Jun 2022According to a speech he gave that was covered by multiple outlets
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Communicated through close intermediaries to his personal lawyer Michael Cohen that he would pardon him if he didn't cooperate with prosecutors and provide them with potentially damaging information about his business and financial dealings days after the FBI raided Cohen's office and residence13 Mar 2019According to the text of two emails obtained by CNN
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Had an affair with model Kylie Bax that started when she was only 20-years-old and he was nearly 50 while he was married to Marla Maples17 Jan 2018Report by Newsweek Magazine, Avid Trump supporter and defender
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Had a six-month tryst with Playboy Playmate Barbara Moore while his fiancée Marla Maples was pregnant with their daughter Tiffany17 Apr 2018Firsthand account from Barbara Moore in an interview published by The Daily Mail, Trump supporter
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Tried to and failed to convince model Christie Brinkley to fly out to Aspen with him on his private jet and persisted even after she flatly said no while he was married to Ivana05 Feb 2018Firsthand account from Brinkley in an interview she gave to Porter magazine and first reported by The Sunday Times
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Poured a glass of wine down journalist Marie Brenner’s back because he was angry about an unflattering story she wrote profiling him and hiss first wife Ivana14 Nov 2017According to statements reported on by the victim
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Barged in on teenage girls -- some as young as fifteen-years-old -- changing in the dressing room of the 1991 Look of the Year contest in a way one contestant described as leaving her feeling "really uncomfortable" because there was "no need for him to be back there," but contestants were afraid to complain because they didn't want to hurt their chances of winning the contest09 Dec 2019According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Solicited adult magazine model Brande Roderick for sex and constantly used vulgar and salacious terms to describe his feelings for her during her stint on Celebrity Apprentice while he was married to Melania26 Oct 2016Corroborated by tree former Apprentice employees
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Entered 22-year-old American Dream Calendar Girls model Lauren Petrella's private room at Mar-a-Lago without her permission, laid on her bed until she entered and then tried to get her to have sex with him before being rebuffed at the same time he was engaged to Marla Maples18 Apr 2016Detailed in a sworn deposition in an unrelated lawsuit filed against Trump
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Solicited TV host Nancy O'Dell to have sex with him and persisted even after she rebuffed all his advances only a few months after he married Melania08 Oct 2016Caught on audio
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Tried and failed to have sex with Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado while he owned the pageant company and made disrespectful comments about her and her weight including calling her "Miss Piggy" at the same time he was married to wife Marla09 Apr 2018Firsthand account from Miss Universe Alicia Machado in an interview published by Telemundo
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Asked 17-year-old teenage model Barbara Pilling out for a dinner date while he was still married to Ivana and then exclaimed "you're not too old and not too young. That's just great!" when she told him her age14 Mar 2020Firsthand account from Barbara Pilling in a report aired by The Guardian
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Said he was going to be dating a very young girl he had just randomly crossed paths with in ten years when she still would have been a teenager18 Oct 2016Caught on video
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Made his way down a line of models participating in an event and felt their bodies before guessing their dress size21 Oct 2019Firsthand account from model NaKina Carr, Confirmed by multiple unnamed eyewitnesses verified by Cosmopolitan Magazine
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Grabbed and kissed journalist Katy Tur on the cheek without her consent and before she had time to duck out of the way at the same time he was married to Melania13 Sep 2017According to news reports from credible media outlets
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Accepted two loans totaling $8 million for Trump Media from a shadowy entity closely associated with Russian oligarchs at the same time the company was on the verge of dissolution for lack of funding15 Mar 2023According to multiple sources in an investigative report by The Guardian
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Tried and failed to seduce Stormy Daniels one year after their first sexual encounter in his suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel after he supposedly invited her there to talk about future employment opportunities at the same time he was married to Melania22 Aug 2018Firsthand account from Daniels during an exclusive interview on 60 Minutes, Trump secretly paid her $130,000 through his lawyer Michael Cohen to keep quiet about their affair days before the 2016 Presidential election
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Confiscated the notes taken by a staffer who interpreted a meeting between himself and Vladimir Putin and ordered them to not divulge details of the conversation even to senior members in his Administration, which former deputy secretary of state Strobe Tallbott said gave Putin "much more scope to manipulate Trump" because senior Administration officials are left in the dark13 Jan 2019According to current and former officials and reported on by The Washington Post
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Ordered that his son-in-law Jared Kushner receive a top-secret security clearance over the objection of national security and intelligence officials who recommended he be denied clearance due to his business ties in foreign countries28 Feb 2019According to an investigative report by The New York Times who
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Divulged the existence of a secret CIA program that armed and trained fighters aiming to topple Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad from power on his Twitter account25 Jul 2017According to a Tweet he posted on his official account
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Discussed highly sensitive and classified intelligence with Russia's Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the US that worried US officials so much they secretly extracted one of its most senior covert intelligence assets inside of Russia out of fear for their safety09 Sep 2019According to multiple top officials in the Trump Administration and first reported on by CNN
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Used an unsecured private cell phone to speak with friends and acquaintances even after repeated warnings from US intelligence officials that Chinese and Russian spies were listening in on his calls24 Oct 2018According to both current and former US officials and reported on by The New York Times
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Shared an image taken from a highly secretive spy satellite that could have helped adversaries better understand US spy capabilities to his Twitter followers18 Nov 2022According to a declassified document obtained by NPR
Donald Trump Administration Scandals
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Mark Meadows [Fmr. Trump Chief of Staff]Unlawfully destroyed official documents in burn bags -- to the point that his wife complained to top Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson that "all of his suits smell like a bonfire" -- and flushed others down the toilet in violation of a federal law that mandates all of a President's records must be sent to the National Archives presumably to cover up some sort of misconduct26 May 2022According to testimony given by one of his top aides to the January 6th select committee
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Walt Nauta [Trump "Bodyman"]Hid boxes filled with classified and highly sensitive government documents after his boss Donald Trump was subpoenaed for them which were later found when the FBI executed a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago and then lied to federal agents when they questioned him about it09 Jun 2023According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith
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Mark Meadows [Fmr. Trump Chief of Staff]Removed more than a thousand pages of classified documents from the White House on Trump's orders and was seen putting them in the trunk of his car late at night on the final evening of his presidency08 Jun 2023According to three former top aides to Meadows reported on by Murray Waas in an exclusive report published on Substack
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Drank alcohol "all day and night" despite having serious professional responsibilities including being a lawyer for Donald Trump according to his aide Noelle Dunphy who had a job to make sure he was a "functioning" alcoholic16 May 2023According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets
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Refused to pay his staffer Noelle Dunphy $1 million in promised wages and repeatedly made excuses to avoid payment until he eventually refused to pay her outright16 May 2023According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets
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Discussed classified and sensitive information with Donald Trump on speakerphone while his aide could hear and gave the same aide unfettered access to his email accounts that also contained confidential and highly sensitive information15 May 2023According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets
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Coerced his staffer Noelle Dunphy into having sex with him multiple times and to participate in BDSM sex acts -- often after she was unable to consent due to being intoxicated -- and creepily told her that he thinks of her "as my daughter" while they were having sex15 May 2023According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets
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Demanded his staffer Noelle Dunphy undress for him during almost all of their videoconferences during which he often pleasured himself under a bed sheet15 May 2023According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets
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Demanded his staffer Noelle Dunphy to work "naked, in a bikini, or in short shorts with an American flag on them" that he purchased for her to wear when she was in the office and also when she worked from home remotely15 May 2023According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets
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Forced staffer Noelle Dunphy to perform oral sex multiple times including while he was on the speakerphone with Trump and once after pulling out his erect penis saying he couldn't get any work done until "you take care of this"15 May 2023According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets
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Perry Hooper Jr. [Trump Campaign AL Co-Chair]Grabbed a restaurant hostess's breasts, kissed her neck and shoved his pelvis into her and then taunted that he'll "get away with it" because he's a member of a politically connected family while also married with three children23 Aug 2022According to charging documents filed by local police
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Mark Meadows [Fmr. Trump Chief of Staff]Registered to vote from NC mobile home he never visited in violation of state law that says it's illegal to vote from an address where you are not a legal resident06 Mar 2022According to an investigative report by The New Yorker
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Donald Trump Jr. [Trump's Oldest Son]Sensually kissed model and influencer Bettina Anderson at least three times on the mouth during what one witness described as "definitely" a date at a busy restaurant while also being engaged to MAGA firebrand Kimberly Guilfoyle15 Sep 2024According to an exclusive report by the Daily Mail
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Mark Meadows [Fmr. Trump Chief of Staff]Gave a highly classified binder of FBI documents relating to the 2016 Trump-Russia investigation to two sympathetic right-wing media personalities for propaganda purposes26 Sep 2023According to excerpts from a book by former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson
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Slipped his hand under Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson's blazer and skirt after wrapping his arms around her backstage during Trump's rally just before the 1/6 insurrection20 Sep 2023According to a book excerpt first reported by The Guardian
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Was sued for $1.36 million by his former lawyers including one who was a longtime friend for an outstanding legal bill of which he paid off only $214k since 201918 Sep 2023According to a lawsuit filed against him by his former attorneys
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Lost a defamation lawsuit by Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and her daughter for spreading a conspiracy theory that they cast thousands of fraudulent votes for Biden after which despicable zealots made their lives a "living nightmare" with racist and sexist threats, MAGA thugs pushed their way into a family home looking for them and Ruby was forced to vacate her home for 2 months under advice from the FBI which left them both traumatized and fearful for their lives30 Aug 2023According to a federal judge who found him liable for defamation
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Boris EpshteynGroped two young women's breasts, crotches and other parts of their bodies without consent and continued to assault them even after they told him to stop after he cornered them inside his booth at an Arizona night club where an employee reported he had spent "like fifty grand" on drinks that night10 Aug 2023Allegedly according to reporting from credible media outlets
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Donald Trump Jr. [Trump's Oldest Son]Had a monthslong affair with Celebrity Apprentice contestant Aubrey O'Day after meeting her on set while his pregnant wife Vanessa was with their two young children at home21 Mar 2018According to an exclusive report by New York Magazine
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Timothy ParlatoreQuit defending Donald Trump because fellow lawyer Boris Epshteyn "was not very honest" and behaved as a gatekeeper who prevented other lawyers from giving Trump the legal advice they thought was best20 May 2023According to an exclusive interview Parlatore gave to CNN
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Discussed an alleged scheme to sell pardons for $2 million each claiming he would split it evenly with Donald Trump (or possibly keep it all for himself) and asked a woman who worked closely with him if she knew anyone who would be interested and for them to work with him directly instead of publicly via “normal channels”16 May 2023According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets
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Openly engaged in an extramarital affair with a married woman twenty years younger than him and even spent a night with her at a posh resort five days before his wife filed for divorce12 Jun 2018According to divorce papers filed by his estranged wife