Donald Trump: What are the other criminal cases the ex-president is facing?
The former US president's hush-money and classified documents cases have now been resolved - but he still faces charges related to the 6 January riots and election interference in Georgia.
Monday 15 July 2024 19:59, UK
A judge has thrown out a case against Donald Trump in which the former president was accused of illegally holding on to classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
The dismissal means two of the four criminal cases Trump had been facing have now been resolved - after the 78-year-old became the first ex-president to be criminally convicted when he was found guilty in his hush money trial in May.
Here we take a look at the two remaining criminal cases facing Trump and the details of the two that have now come to an end.
Neither of the two remaining criminal cases have trial dates set, making it unlikely they will start before the November election.
January 6 riot (criminal and civil)
Following the January 6 riots at the US Capitol building, Trump was charged with conspiracy to defraud the US government and witness tampering in relation to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election result.
Jack Smith, the special counsel behind the criminal case - who has a reputation for winning trials against war criminals, mobsters, and corrupt police officers - alleges the former president's lies "fuelled" the deadly insurrection in 2021.
The charges do not yet affect Trump from a practical standpoint, as nothing prevents criminal defendants from campaigning or taking office if they are convicted.
However, how it will affect the US public's decision whether or not to vote for him is less clear.
Trump appeared in court in Washington DC in August 2023 and pleaded not guilty to the four charges against him.
They are: conspiracy to defraud the US; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of, and attempt to obstruct, an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights.
The trial had been due to start on 4 March 2024, but it was postponed and a new date has not yet been set.
Meanwhile, Democratic politicians and police officers who defended the Capitol are seeking civil damages from Trump for harm they say they suffered during the insurrection, which aimed to stop Congress' certification of current president Joe Biden's victory.
Georgia electoral fraud (criminal charges)
Trump was formally booked on 13 charges at Georgia's Fulton County jail in August 2023, but three of the counts were later thrown out.
While he was there, he had his mugshot and fingerprints taken before being released on bail.
It came off the back of a 100-page indictment against him and 18 of his associates, accusing them of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election result in Georgia.
The former president is charged with offences including forgery and racketeering.
The three counts that were thrown out related to allegations that he tried to get Georgia officials to violate their oaths of office.
Among those indicted alongside Trump in Georgia are his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
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The election result in Georgia was memorably close, triggering two recounts, but ultimately Mr Biden won by 11,779 votes - or 0.23% of the five million cast.
It was certified by both Georgia's Republican governor Brian Kemp and secretary of state Brad Raffensperger. But instead of accepting it, Trump set about a campaign to prove he was the rightful winner.
Classified documents (criminal)
Trump also faced charges over classified documents he allegedly took from the White House, including deleting CCTV footage of his staff moving boxes at his Florida home.
However, a judge threw out this case against him on 15 July 2024.
Special Counsel Jack Smith, who also charged Trump in relation to the 6 January Capitol riots, was leading the prosecution in relation to this case.
However, Florida-based US District Aileen Cannon, who was nominated by Trump, agreed with the former president's defence lawyers that Mr Smith was unlawfully appointed to his role and did not have the authority to bring the case.
The judge also ruled that Mr Smith's office was improperly funded by the Justice Department.
Mr Smith's team vigorously contested the arguments made by Trump's defence team during hearings before Ms Cannon last month.
Trump had been accused of risking some of the country's most sensitive security secrets by taking them from the Capitol to his Mar-a-Lago estate.
Details on the US nuclear weapons programmes, potential vulnerabilities of the US and its allies, and plans for retaliatory military attacks were in some of the documents, the federal indictment said.
'Hush money' (criminal)
Trump was at the centre of a scheme to cover up "hush money" payments to buy the silence of a porn star in the days before the 2016 election.
When revelations by Stormy Daniels of a sexual liaison with Trump threatened to upend his presidential campaign, he directed his lawyer to pay her $130,000 (£100,000) to keep her quiet.
The payment buried the story, and Trump was later elected to be the 45th president of the United States.
In a historic decision, a New York jury found him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records to commit election fraud.
Ms Daniels claimed she had a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 and planned to sell her story 10 years later, just before the 2016 election.
Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer and fixer, testified that, upon learning that Ms Daniels planned to sell her story, Trump told him: "This is a disaster, a total disaster. Women are going to hate me."
Paying hush money is not illegal - the crime was the way in which Trump reimbursed Cohen and the reason the money was paid.
After Trump was elected president, he repaid Cohen $420,000 (£324,000) which accounted for the $130,000 and other payments and bonuses, "grossed up" to account for tax liability.
The repayment was made in a series of cheques, which were recorded as legal expenses.
That was the crime - the falsification of business records, aggravated by the reason for it - the effort to conceal from voters a negative story that could have harmed Trump's election chances.
The former president was set to be sentenced on 11 July but this was later postponed until September,
Trump faces a maximum sentence of four years in prison, though others convicted of the same crime often receive shorter sentences, fines or probation.
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How has Trump tried to claim immunity in his cases?
On 1 July 2024, the US Supreme Court sent Trump's claim he is immune from prosecution for his actions while president back to a lower court.
This relates to the 6 January case, where while still president he encouraged his supporters to gather at Congress to oppose the approval of Mr Biden's 2020 election win.
In a historic 6-3 ruling, the justices said for the first time that former presidents have absolute immunity from prosecution for their official acts, but no immunity for unofficial acts.
But instead of deciding for themselves, the justices ordered lower courts to work out precisely how to apply their decision to Trump's case.
The lower court must now decide whether he was acting officially or privately.
It comes months after a US appeal court ruled in February that Trump does not have presidential immunity and could be prosecuted in relation to the Capitol riots case.
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What about the civil cases?
In addition to the criminal cases, Trump has also fought two civil cases - where another party that is not the state brings him to court.
In May 2023 a jury in New York concluded that he sexually assaulted writer E Jean Carroll and then defamed her. He was ordered to make one payment to her of $5m (£3.9m) and a second of $83.3m (£64m).
In February 2024 he was fined $354.9m (£274m) by a judge in New York for inflating his wealth in order to secure easier terms on bank loans. He called the judgment a "manifest injustice".