Trump's criminal status

Factually - Donald Trump was convicted in a New York state criminal trial on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records connected to a Stormy Daniels hush-money payment, a verdict delivered in late May 2024 that made him the first former or sitting U.S. president to carry a felony conviction on the public record. The conviction remains part of the record while multiple appeals are active and courts have recently given avenues to challenge or seek to erase that conviction; sentencing in state court produced an unconditional discharge in January 2025, and appellate decisions since have left the conviction legally contested but not vacated as of the most recent reporting.