People are gobsmacked after seeing Donald Trump’s entire record of convictions and allegations

Donald Trump’s time in the spotlight has been filled with one controversy after another. Even after becoming the first American president ever convicted of serious crimes, millions of voters still chose him for a second term in 2024. This has left many scratching their heads about how someone with so many legal problems could return to the White House. 

Earlier this year, a New York court found Trump guilty of falsifying business records to hide payments to a porn star before the 2016 election. The jury agreed he broke the law 34 separate times in this scheme. Trump, never one to accept blame, called the whole trial a “witch hunt” and insisted he did nothing wrong. 

The sexual misconduct accusations against Trump paint an ugly picture stretching back decades. More than twenty women have come forward with stories ranging from unwanted touching to outright assault. These include a former Miss Washington who says Trump grabbed her backside without permission, and a woman who claims he groped her on an airplane in the 1980s. While Trump denies every single accusation, the sheer number of similar stories from different women over many years makes some people wonder. 

Trump’s business career has been just as messy. He’s had to pay out millions to settle various lawsuits. There was the time he got in trouble for allegedly refusing to rent apartments to Black tenants. Then there was the embarrassing case where he had to refund money to people who took his “Trump University” courses that promised to teach real estate secrets but apparently didn’t deliver. More recently, he got fined for using money from his charity to help his political campaign instead of helping people in need. 

As president, Trump made history again by getting impeached not once, but twice. First for pressuring Ukraine to dig up dirt on a political rival, then later for his role in the violent January 6th attack on the Capitol building. While he wasn’t removed from office either time, these impeachments remain a stain on his record. 

When you lay out all these issues side by side – the criminal convictions, the sexual misconduct claims, the shady business deals, and the unprecedented impeachments – it’s no wonder many Americans are shocked. Some joke darkly that you’d need several pages just to list all his scandals. Others worry about what it says about the country that someone with this background can still win the highest office. 

Yet despite it all, Trump maintains a strong base of supporters who either don’t believe the accusations or simply don’t care. His ability to survive scandal after scandal has become legendary in American politics. As his second term continues, one thing seems certain – the debates about his conduct, both past and present, aren’t going away anytime soon.