Read all of PolitiFact’s coverage on Donald Trump indictments

LAST UPDATED: April 25, 2024

PolitiFact has been fact-checking and monitoring the indictments of former President Donald Trump.

Here’s our key coverage of four indictments in one place.

Manhattan district attorney's case over Trump's business practices relating to "hush money" payment to Stormy Daniels

Indictment date: April 4, 2023

• Old altered photo of Stormy Daniels doesn’t show her arriving at Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial

• Fact-check: Trump says business records case about hush money is a "Biden trial." It’s a Manhattan trial

• Fact-check: Trump misleads on jury selection, request to Judge Merchan for time off

• Fact-check: Former President Donald Trump attended Ivanka Trump’s college graduation

• Fact-check: No, Stormy Daniels didn’t ‘exonerate’ Donald Trump

• A fact-checker’s guide to Trump’s first criminal trial: business records, hush money and a gag order

• Fact-check: Did Trump release a ‘bombshell’? No. Stormy Daniels quickly recanted this 2018 letter.

• Read the 34 felony charges in the Donald Trump indictment over the Stormy Daniels payoff 

• Stormy Daniels’ order to pay Trump in failed defamation lawsuit is unrelated to NY case 

• Timeline: What Donald Trump has said about Stormy Daniels and $130,000 payment 

• Fact-checking Trump on the Stormy Daniels case: The statute of limitations and the FEC's role 

• Fact-checking Trump’s post-indictment speech at Mar-a-Lago about Stormy Daniels payment 

• Q&A: Can Trump run for president if indicted in Stormy Daniels case? What happens if he's arrested?

Fulton County, Ga., indictment of Trump for a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.

Indictment date: August 14, 2023

• Fact-check: Did Fulton County DA Fani Willis campaign to ‘get Trump'? No, she didn’t say that

• Fact-check: 8 Pants on Fire statements by Donald Trump about Georgia 2020 election

• Read Donald Trump’s indictment in the Georgia Election Interference investigation 

• Fact-check: Donald Trump’s misleading attack ad on Fani Willis' gang member ‘relationship’ and crime 

• Here's what Donald Trump asked Georgia election officials in phone call about 2020 election 

• What did Trump say in the other phone calls to Georgia officials? 

• Donald Trump falsely claims Georgia victory in recorded call 

• Trump’s Pants on Fire comment about the Georgia election phone call 

• What was the fake elector plot by Trump allies following the 2020 election?

Federal indictment of Trump for actions around Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack and fake electors scheme
Indictment date: Aug. 1, 2023.

• The Supreme Court will decide Donald Trump’s immunity case. Here are the arguments.

• Fact-check: The criminal prosecutions against Trump are not ‘just like the Cuban regime’

• Why did it take the DOJ more than two years to indict Donald Trump in the 2020 election case?
   
• How will prosecutors show that Donald Trump knowingly repeated election fraud falsehoods?
   
• Fact-check: Donald Trump’s false and misleading responses after charges over role in Jan. 6 riot
   
• What the indictment about the 2020 election and Jan. 6, 2021, tells us about Donald Trump’s actions
• Who is Jack Smith, special counsel for Trump classified documents, 2020 election indictments?
   
• Donald Trump indictment: What to know about 2020 election, Jan. 6 investigation and charges

• What to know about 2020 election, Jan. 6 investigation and charges 

• Read Donald Trump’s indictment in the Jan. 6 investigation 

• Trump lawyer’s claim that indictment attacks First Amendment rights is dubious, experts say 

• What Donald Trump, Hunter Biden and Devon Archer have in common: a news cycle 

• What the indictment about the 2020 election and Jan. 6, 2021, tells us about Donald Trump’s actions

• What we know about the Jan. 6 committee's criminal referrals 

• What the Jan. 6 hearings revealed about Trump’s actions before and after the Capitol attack 

• What was the fake elector plot by Trump allies following the 2020 election? 

• The 2021 Lie of the Year: Lies about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and its significance 

Federal indictment of Trump, others for the handling of classified documents

Indictment date: June 9, 2023

• Read the Mar-a-Lago search warrant, what agents took 

• Read Donald Trump’s indictment in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents investigation

• 9 Trump claims about the Mar-a-Lago classified documents probe, fact-checked 

• Trump indicted in classified documents case: Here’s the timeline 

• Can Donald Trump run for president if charged and convicted of removing official records? 

• The differences in Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s classified document cases 

• Yes, Bill Clinton kept tapes in his sock drawer. Here's why Trump's case is different. 

• Fact-checking Donald Trump’s Bedminster speech following documents indictment

• Fact-check: Trump indictment involves more than 300 classified documents, not ‘a couple dozen’

• Fact-check: Trump says he ‘cooperated far more’ than Biden in classified documents cases. Pants on Fire!