Trump's trials: Prosecutors wind down federal cases as state cases could be placed on hold

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Trump secured the smaller judgment with cash, and used a bond from Virginia-based Federal Insurance Company totaling $91,630,000 for the second judgment.
49% : With interest, Trump and his co-defendants owe nearly $489 million and face prohibitions against running a company in New York.
48% : In the meantime, Judge McAfee has also chipped away at the indictment, tossing five of the 13 counts with which Trump was originally charged.
47% : Trump was reelected as Judge Chutkan was in the process of evaluating which parts of the indictment would be covered by presidential immunity.
46% : A ruling on Trump's appeal is expected sometime over the coming months, and Trump could further appeal the decision to New York's highest court.
45% : The Supreme Court ultimately ruled in July that Trump should benefit from the presumption of immunity for any official acts undertaken while in office, and returned the case to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to determine if the allegations contain official acts.
45% : The following year, a separate jury awarded Carroll an additional $83.3 million for defamatory statements Trump made while president.
41% : When asked what the impact of a Trump election victory would be, defense attorney Steve Sadow suggested last year that the case would likely have to wait until Trump leaves office.
38% : Federal classified documents caseIn the other case brought by special counsel Jack Smith, a federal grand jury in Florida indicted Trump and his aide Walt Nauta in June 2023 on criminal charges of retaining classified documents after leaving the White House and taking steps to thwart the government's efforts to get them back.
33% : Overseeing the case for nearly a year, Judge Aileen Cannon -- who Trump nominated to the bench -- took up novel legal arguments posed by defense lawyers and delayed major rulings, preventing the case from reaching a trial.
31% : Federal election interference caseEight months after special counsel Jack Smith assumed control over the investigation into Trump's alleged election interference, a Washington, D.C., grand jury indicted Trump in August 2023 on criminal charges that he unlawfully sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election in order to remain in power -- but the case was sidelined as Trump's lawyers appealed based on presidential immunity.
31% : Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee declined to disqualify Willis if the prosecutor resigned, but the case has been paused as Trump and his co-defendants appeal the decision.
31% : E. Jean Carroll civil casesTrump owes the writer E. Jean Carroll nearly $90 million after he lost two civil trials to the former Elle magazine columnist.
30% : In July 2023, the grand jury returned a superseding indictment against Trump and Nauta, as well as Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira.
30% : New York civil fraud caseAfter a lengthy civil trial last year, a New York Judge found Trump, his adult sons, and their business associates civilly liable for committing a decade of business fraud.
27% : But as Trump nears his return to the White House following his election victory this month, his criminal and civil legal issues are beginning to fade into the background of his rapidly moving presidential transition.
27% : Trump was originally scheduled to be sentenced in July, but his lawyers sought to have the case dismissed based on the Supreme Court's new ruling on presidential immunity, arguing that the conviction relied on evidence that should be off-limits.
26% : More than a year after he was indicted in New York on criminal charges of falsifying business records, Trump was convicted by a jury in May on 34 felony counts related to a hush money payment made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in order to boost Trump's electoral prospects in the 2016 presidential election.
25% : "Smith is expected to wind down his case against Trump over the coming months due to the longstanding Department of Justice policy prohibiting the prosecution of a sitting president.
24% : Trump has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty in each criminal case, and denies all wrongdoing in the civil cases.
23% : After Trump won the election, his lawyers again pushed to have the case dismissed by arguing that sitting presidents should be immune from prosecution.
23% : In 2023, a jury awarding Carroll $5 million in damages when it found Trump liable for sexually abusing her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s then later defaming her on social media.
19% : Prosecutors have rebuffed that claim, arguing that Trump has already been convicted for entirely private conduct -- but they signaled a willingness to delay Trump's sentencing until he leaves office in 2029.
14% : Prosecutors then revised their case against Trump -- removing any allegations related to official acts, including Trump's use of the Justice Department -- and had a grand jury issue a new indictment against the former president in August.
5% : Georgia election interference caseIn August, Trump and 18 co-defendants were criminally charged in a sweeping racketeering indictment related to their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in the state of Georgia, including Trump's asking Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" the votes needed to win after losing to Joe Biden.

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