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 victory
06 Jan 2021
He was impeached by a bipartisan majority in the House, but the Senate fell 10 votes short of convicting him -
Pressured Georgia's Secretary of State to illegally "find 11,780 votes" that would overturn Joe Biden's 2020 victory in the state
15 Mar 2021
According to the recording of a conversation between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger obtained by The Washington Post -
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 2023
According 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 possession
27 Jul 2023
According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith
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Remained closely tied to his namesake company 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 office
12 Jan 2017
According to voluminous reports filed by mainstream media outlets
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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 club
09 Jun 2023
According 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 2023
According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith -
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 club
09 Jun 2023
According 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 possession
09 Jun 2023
According 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 pageant
09 Oct 2016
According 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 entered
09 Oct 2016
According 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 after he demanded to sit next to her at a large dinner party
18 Apr 2016
According to firsthand witness accounts in an investigative report by The Boston Globe
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Forced American Dream Calendar Girls vice president Jill Harth into Ivanka's bedroom at Mar-a-Lago and grabbed her "intimate private parts" and tried to kiss her without her consent which made her so nauseated that she "vomited profusely" while he was engaged to his soon-to-be wife Marla
18 Apr 2016
According to firsthand witness accounts in an investigative report by The Boston Globe
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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 Maples
09 Dec 2019
According to a book excerpt from "All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator" exclusively published by Cosmopolitan magazine
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Paraded teenage girls -- the majority who were only fifteen and 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 2019
According to a book excerpt from "All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator" exclusively published by Cosmopolitan magazine -
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 making
05 Sep 2016
According 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 baldness
17 Oct 2016
According to a sworn court deposition by Ivana Trump at which she hedged that it wasn't rape in the "criminal sense" although friends said she described it to them as such right after it happened -
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 remorse
23 Dec 2020
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Pardoned the wife of disgraced Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter who pleaded guilty to stealing campaign contributions for personal use
23 Dec 2020
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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 2004
18 Feb 2020
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Pardoned former Army lieutenant Michael Behenna who was convicted of murdering an unarmed Iraqi detainee and then ordering his subordinates to lie and say that the detainee had been released after Republican Governor Mary Falin and state AG Mike Hunter personally intervened on his behalf
06 May 2019
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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 caucuses
24 Dec 2020
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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 victory
30 Mar 2023
According to reporting by numerous outlets over a yearslong period -
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 authorities
09 Aug 2022
According 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+ women
25 Jun 2015
According to multiple sources and reported on by multiple major outlets -
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 election
04 Nov 2016
According 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 sentence in prison for raking in $2.3 million in bribes from defense contractors
20 Jan 2021
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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 agreement
27 Nov 2018
According to an interview Trump gave with the New York Post -
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 services
23 Dec 2020
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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 campaign
18 Feb 2020
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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 2020
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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 Tillis
20 Jan 2021
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Pardoned former Republican Rep. Rick Renzi who served two years in prison for corruption giving credence to a public relations campaign he led baselessly accusing the DOJ of wrongfully imprisoning him
20 Jan 2021
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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 Giuliani
18 Feb 2020
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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 men
15 Nov 2019
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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 bombmaker
15 Nov 2019
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Pardoned his former campaign aid George Papadopoulos who lied to the FBI about his many interactions with top Russian intelligence officials -- at the height of the 2016 Presidential campaign -- 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 place
22 Dec 2020
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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 concluded
20 Jan 2021
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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 first
26 Nov 2020
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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 instead
22 Dec 2020
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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 2020
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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 sentence
22 Dec 2020
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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 projects
23 Dec 2020
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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 border
20 Jan 2021
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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 him
23 Dec 2020
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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 after inexplicably breaking his plea deal by lying to investigators about information potentially damaging to Trump
23 Dec 2020
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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 of
15 May 2019
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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 State
09 May 2018
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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 land
10 Jul 2018
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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 it
31 May 2018
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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 crime
27 Aug 2017
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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 1996
04 Nov 2019
According to a civil lawsuit filed in New York
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Fondled a model's breasts backstage at a lingerie show using the pretense of "examining" the bra's fabric
21 Oct 2019
According to a book excerpt from "All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator" published by Cosmopolitan magazine
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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 Melania
07 Oct 2016
According 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 2016
According to multiple collaborated witnesses in an investigative report by The New York Times -
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 that
02 Aug 2015
According to reporting of the interview by The Daily Beast
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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 were
18 Oct 2016
According to a report by the Chicago Tribune
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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 individually
09 Dec 2019
According to a book excerpt from "All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator" exclusively published by Cosmopolitan magazine
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17 Jan 2018
According to a report 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 Melania
24 Jun 2019
According to statements reported on by the alleged victim
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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 time
17 Jul 2019
According to unearthed video rebroadcast by NBC News
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Walked in the dressing room at the 2006 Miss USA contest and gawked at Miss North Carolina Samantha Holvey "like a piece of meat," which left her "shocked and disgusted" that he felt he could just waltz backstage and watch women getting dressed
19 Dec 2017
According 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 Miss Arizona Tasha Dixon feel "very physically vulnerable" because she and other contestants weren't given a chance to cover up first
11 Oct 2016
According to firsthand witnesses and reported by multiple major outlets
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Grabbed Miss Washington Cassandra Searles's bottom and asked her to come to his hotel room to presumably have sex while he was married to Melania
17 Jun 2016
According to a report by Yahoo News
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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 2016
According to an exclusive report by Finnish paper Ilta-Sanomat
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Kissed adult film star Jessica Drake and two other women without their consent inside his private hotel suite and then offered Drake $10,000 to stay and presumably have sex with him less than a year after he married Melania
22 Oct 2016
According to a press conference conducted by Drake and her lawyer
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Kissed Fox News TV host Juliet Huddy on the lips instead of cheek around the time he and Melania married
08 Dec 2017
According to an exclusive report by Page Six
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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 he then said "you know we’re going to have an affair, don’t you?" just before Melania walked in to do a joint interview on their recent wedding and marriage
12 Oct 2016
According to six corroborating witnesses in an exclusive report by People
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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 2016
According to multiple collaborated witnesses in an investigative report by The Palm Beach Post
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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 him
20 Oct 2016
According to statements reported on by the alleged victim
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Shoved his tongue down aspiring actress Amy Dorris's throat and groped her without consent when she was away from view of her boyfriend in his box at the 1997 US Open Tennis Championships while he was still married to Marla Maples
17 Sep 2020
According to an exclusive report by The Guardian
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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 Maples
14 May 2016
According to over 50 women in an investigative report by The New York Times
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Grabbed and kissed a Mar-a-Lago guest on the side of her mouth right after she was able to deflect just enough to prevent him from kissing her on the lips -- directly in front of her husband -- to which he bristled "oh, come on" while he was married to Marla Maples
16 Oct 2016
According to multiple collaborated witnesses in an investigative report by The Guardian
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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 2016
According to a report by Huffington Post
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Digitally penetrated model Kristin Anderson through her underwear for upwards of 30 seconds without saying a word as he sat next to her in a booth at a New York nightclub while he was married to Ivana
14 Oct 2016
According to multiple collaborated witnesses in an investigative report by The Washington 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 Melania
14 Oct 2016
According to multiple collaborated witnesses in an investigative report by The New York Times
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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 Ivana
14 Oct 2016
According to multiple collaborated witnesses in an investigative report by The New York Times
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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 Melania
25 Feb 2019
According to court documents filed in Florida
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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 Melania
17 Jan 2017
According to court documents filed in New York
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Allegedly raped writer E. Jean Carroll after he forcibly pushed her against a dressing room wall inside a department store while he was married to Marla
21 Jun 2019
According to a firsthand account from E. Jean Carroll and corroborated by friends who recalled her telling the story after it happened and deciding to keep quiet at the time out of fear
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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 painful
17 Oct 2016
According 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 themselves
12 Oct 2016
According to four contestants of the pageant and reported on by BuzzFeed News
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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 2018
According to an exclusive interview and corroborating sources published by In Touch magazine -
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 time
09 Oct 2019
According to a book excerpt from "All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator" exclusively published by Esquire magazine
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Pushed American Dream Calendar Girls vice president Jill Harth against a wall in Ivanka's childhood bedroom at Mar-a-Lago and then "kissed, fondled, and restrained" her from leaving and only stopped when she yelled "stop it" while he was engaged to his soon-to-be wife Marla
18 Apr 2016
According to firsthand witness accounts in an investigative report by The Boston Globe
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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 hotel
02 Mar 1990
According to voluminous news reports of the affair at the time
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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 sex
16 Feb 2018
According to documents obtained exclusively by The Wall Street Journal
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Had sex with famous adult-film star Stormy Daniels without a condom and asked her to 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 son
25 Mar 2018
According to multiple statements by Stormy Daniels and collaborated by her friend
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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 laws
09 Nov 2018
According to an exclusive report by The Wall Street Journal
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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 secure
22 Nov 2017
According 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 room
07 Feb 2023
According to former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller
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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 -- $110,000 in total -- by a judge who held him in contempt
14 Feb 2023
According 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"
26 Sep 2023
According to a pre-trial ruling by the judge overseeing his NY fraud 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 campaign
18 Dec 2020
According to a formal FEC complaint filed by the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center -
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 approval
08 Apr 2022
According 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 Archives
05 Feb 2022
According 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 seeStaff 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 them
09 Jun 2023
According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith
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Shared top-secret secrets about U.S. nuclear submarines well after he left the Presidency 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 shared these secrets with at least 45 other people including foreign officials, his employees, and journalists
05 Oct 2023
According 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 Trump
19 Sep 2023
According 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 2023
According 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 people
07 Jul 2023
According 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 2023
According 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 him
30 Jun 2017
According 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 investigators
22 May 2023
According 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 House
24 Dec 2020
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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 2023
According to firsthand accounts by Stephanie Grisham in an interview with CNN -
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 2020
According to multiple experts on the law and government regulations -
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 2020
According to his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen in a book published by Melville House -
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 committee
12 Jul 2022
According to the 1/6 Select Committee
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Pardoned former Rand Paul aide Jesse Benton who was convicted of giving a 73K bribe to an Iowa state senator in exchange for his endorsement of then Presidential candidate Ron Paul following a request by Republican Sen. Rand Paul
24 Dec 2020
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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 authorities
18 Jun 2022
According to a speech he gave that was covered by multiple outlets -
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 residence
13 Mar 2019
According to the text of two emails obtained by CNN -
Intentionally 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 investigators
22 Mar 2023
According to multiple sources and reported on by multiple major outlets
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17 Jan 2018
According to a report by Newsweek Magazine
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Had a six-month tryst with Playboy Playmate Barbara Moore while his fiancée Marla Maples was pregnant with their daughter Tiffany
17 Apr 2018
According to an exclusive interview with Moore with The Daily Mail also collaborated by a friend who watched them have sex
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Tried to convince model Christie Brinkley to fly out to Aspen with him in his private jet and persisted even after she flatly said no while he was married to Ivana
05 Feb 2018
According to an interview Brinkley 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 Ivana
14 Nov 2017
According 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 contest
09 Dec 2019
According to a book excerpt from "All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator" exclusively published by Cosmopolitan magazine
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Solicited Playboy Playmate Brande Roderick for sex and constantly used vulgar and salacious terms to describe his feelings for her during her stint on Celebrity Apprentice and while he was married to Melania
26 Oct 2016
According to three former Apprentice employees in an investigative report by The Daily Beast
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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 pressured her to have sex before being rebuffed at the same time he was engaged to Marla Maples
18 Apr 2016
According to firsthand witness accounts in an investigative report by The Boston Globe
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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 Melania
08 Oct 2016
According to audio obtained and exclusively published by The Washington Post
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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 Marla
09 Apr 2018
According to an exclusive interview broadcast by Spanish-language channel Telemundo
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Exclaimed "you're not too old and not too young. That's just great!" when 17-year-old model Barbara Pilling told him her age
09 Jul 2018
According to a special report aired by the BBC
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Boasted “I am going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it?” after walking past a very young girl he had just randomly crossed paths with
18 Oct 2016
According to a resurfaced video of the interaction reported by multiple major outlets
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Repeatedly demeaned and sexually harassed female staff and contestants on "The Apprentice" over a yearslong period
03 Oct 2016
According to more than 20 former crew members, editors, and contestants in an investigative report by the Associated Press
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Made his way down a line of models participating in an event and felt their bodies before guessing their dress size
21 Oct 2019
According to a book excerpt from "All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator" published 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 Melania
13 Sep 2017
According to a firsthand account of the kiss by the alleged victim
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Allegedly had group sex with an adult-film star and a young woman inside an exclusive sex club run by the Mafia while he was married to Ivana
18 Oct 2019
According to a book excerpt from "All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator" published by The Daily Beast -
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 funding
15 Mar 2023
According to multiple sources in an investigative report by The Guardian -
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 Melania
22 Aug 2018
According to an exclusive interview on 60 Minutes
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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 dark
13 Jan 2019
According 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 countries
28 Feb 2019
According 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 account
25 Jul 2017
According to a Tweet he posted on his official account -
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 safety
09 Sep 2019
According to multiple top officials in the Trump Administration and first reported on by CNN -
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 calls
24 Oct 2018
According to both current and former US officials and reported on by The New York Times -
Shared an image taken from a highly secretive spy satellite that could have helped adversaries better understand US spy capabilities to his Twitter followers
18 Nov 2022
According to a declassified document obtained by NPR
Donald Trump Administration Scandals
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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 resident
06 Mar 2022
According to an investigative report by The New Yorker -
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 insurrection
20 Sep 2023
According to a book excerpt first reported by The Guardian
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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 divorce
12 Jun 2018
According to divorce papers filed by his estranged wife
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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 misconduct
26 May 2022
According to testimony given by one of his top aides to the January 6th select committee -
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 he lied to federal agents when they questioned him about it
09 Jun 2023
According to charging documents filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith -
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" alcoholic
16 May 2023
According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets -
Refused to pay his staffer Noelle Dunphy $1 million in promised wages which he kept telling her "would have to be deferred and her employment kept secret" until divorce proceedings he was going through at the time concluded, but never paid her even after his divorce was finalized
16 May 2023
According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets -
Incessantly called his aide Noelle Dunphy 306 times over a two-week period -- 103 of which were made in back-to-back days -- to keep tabs on her and make sure she wasn't speaking to anyone without his explicit approval
15 May 2023
According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets -
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 information
15 May 2023
According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets -
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 sex
15 May 2023
According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets -
Demanded his staffer Noelle Dunphy undress for him during almost all of their videoconferences during which he often pleasured himself under a bed sheet
15 May 2023
According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets -
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 remotely
15 May 2023
According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets -
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 2023
According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets -
Perry Hooper Jr. [Trump Campaign AL Co-Chair]Grabbed a restaurant hostess's breasts, kissed her neck and shoved his pelvis into her before she was able to break free from his grip then taunted her by boasting that he'll "get away with it" because he's a member of a politically connected family while also married with three children
23 Aug 2022
According to charging documents filed by local police
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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 purposes
26 Sep 2023
According to excerpts from a book by former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson
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Was sued for $1.36 million by his former lawyers -- one of which was a longtime friend -- for an outstanding legal bill of which he paid off only $214k since 2019
18 Sep 2023
According to a lawsuit filed against him by his former attorneys -
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 lives
30 Aug 2023
According to a federal judge who found him liable for defamation
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Lawyer Boris EpshteynIncessantly grabbed two young women's breasts, crotch, and other parts of their body without consent -- even cornering one in a way that made her feel "super uncomfortable" -- at an Arizona night club
10 Aug 2023
According to an exclusive report by The Arizona Republic
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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 2023
According to a civil lawsuit filed by former employee Noelle Dunphy reported on by mainstream outlets -
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 presidency
08 Jun 2023
According to three former top aides to Meadows reported on by Murray Waas in an exclusive report published on Substack
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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 home
21 Mar 2018
According to an exclusive report by New York Magazine
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Lawyer 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 best
20 May 2023
According to an exclusive interview Parlatore gave to CNN