TRUMP, Donald JohnA.K.A.: “45”, “47”, “The Former / Current Guy”, “Individual 1”
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📋 Background & Biography
Donald John Trump was born into inherited wealth in Queens, New York in 1946, the fourth of five children of real estate developer Fred Trump. After attending the New York Military Academy and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, he joined his father’s real estate company before eventually building his own brand in Manhattan real estate, hotels, casinos, and a reality television career. He ran for president in 2016 as a Republican and won, becoming the 45th President of the United States. After losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden, he ran again in 2024 and won, becoming the 47th President. Along the way he also became the first U.S. president to be impeached twice, and the first former president convicted of felony crimes (34 counts, New York, 2024).
He is considered by many legal scholars, historians, political scientists, and the FBI itself to have engaged in conduct consistent with domestic terrorism — not in spite of being president, but in many cases by means of being president. The following charges are presented for the court of public opinion.
⚖️ Alleged Acts & Offenses
The following acts are presented through the lens of the domestic terrorism framework established by 18 U.S.C. § 2331 — i.e., acts dangerous to human life, intended to intimidate a civilian population or coerce/affect the conduct of government. All items are drawn from documented public record, congressional testimony, court filings, and law enforcement assessments.
COUNT 1 — Incitement of Armed Insurrection / Seditious Conspiracy (Support)
Date: November 2020 – January 6, 2021
Category: Seditious Conspiracy & Armed Insurrection | Mass Violence Against Government Facility
For weeks following his 2020 electoral loss, Trump promoted demonstrably false claims of a stolen election, summoned supporters to Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021, and at a rally at the Ellipse told an armed crowd to “fight like hell” and march to the Capitol. Knowing that a violent attack on the Capitol was underway, Trump purposely sent a social media message publicly condemning Vice President Pence at 2:24 p.m. on January 6th, and refused repeated requests over a multiple-hour period to instruct his violent supporters to disperse. Of the people charged for crimes committed on January 6th who said they were answering Trump’s calls, 120 specifically cited Trump’s remarks as the reason they went to the Capitol. The FBI and other law enforcement agencies considered the attack an act of domestic terrorism. Trump was subsequently impeached by the House for “incitement of insurrection” (acquitted by the Senate, 57–43). He was later indicted on four related federal charges, all of which he dismissed upon returning to office. He then pardoned over 1,500 people convicted in connection with the attack — including those convicted of seditious conspiracy and assaulting police officers.
COUNT 2 — Systematic Intimidation & Coercion of Civilian Institutions
Date: January 2025 – Present
Category: Organized Threats & Intimidation Campaign | Attacks on Critical Infrastructure (Institutional)
By July 2025, Trump had extracted more than $1.2 billion in settlements in a “cultural crackdown” against a variety of institutions — universities, law firms, media companies — that largely chose to settle rather than fight back. The American Bar Association filed suit in June 2025, arguing that since taking office, Trump and his administration had used the vast powers of the executive branch to coerce lawyers and law firms to abandon clients, causes and policy positions the president did not like, through a series of executive orders, letters, memos and public statements designed to damage certain firms and intimidate others. More than 150 university and college presidents signed a statement condemning “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” in education.
COUNT 3 — Unlawful Kidnapping & Detention Without Due Process
Date: March 2025 – Present
Category: Kidnapping & Unlawful Detention | Coercion of Civilian Population
Under Trump’s mass deportation initiative, the administration illegally deported individuals — including people with legal protected status and U.S. citizens — to a notoriously brutal foreign prison. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was illegally deported on March 15, 2025, despite a 2019 immigration court order specifically shielding him from removal to El Salvador due to gang persecution. At the time, he had never been charged with or convicted of any crime. A Bloomberg investigation found that approximately 90% of the Venezuelans deported in the same operation had no U.S. criminal record other than traffic or immigration violations. The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ordered the administration to facilitate his return. The administration refused for months, then upon his return, subjected him to further unlawful detention attempts to deport him to Uganda, Liberia, Ghana, and Eswatini. The administration also detained and deported United States citizens.
COUNT 4 — Building an Unaccountable Paramilitary Policing Force
Date: 2025 – Present
Category: Seditious Conspiracy | Coercion of Civilian Population | Attacks on Government Oversight
The Trump administration escalated the deployment of military troops and federal law enforcement to cities across the country, building out a national paramilitary policing force unaccountable to the public. This included placing Oregon National Guard under federal control and deploying them to Portland, which Trump falsely described as “war ravaged.” Videos emerged of federal personnel pushing civilians to the ground and assaulting journalists and protesters. A Reagan-appointed federal judge compared the masked federal forces to the Ku Klux Klan, writing: “In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”
COUNT 5 — Targeted Political Retribution Campaign Against Over 470 Individuals & Organizations
Date: January 2025 – Present
Category: Organized Threats & Intimidation | Coercion of Civilian Population | Material Support (of self)
In late November 2025, ten months into his second presidency, Reuters counted 470 people, organizations and institutions that Trump had already targeted for retribution. Trump revoked the security clearances of his Democratic opponents in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 presidential races — former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President Joe Biden, and former Vice President Kamala Harris. He ordered investigations into Democratic fundraising platforms, called for the jailing of journalists who refused to reveal sources, and repeatedly threatened to revoke broadcast licenses of news organizations he didn’t like. At least one member of Congress stated: “If a member of Congress can be intimidated by the acting U.S. attorney or the Department of Justice, what’s to stop them from going after any other American?”
COUNT 6 — Obstruction of Justice, Destruction of Oversight Infrastructure
Date: 2017–2019 (Term 1); 2025–Present (Term 2)
Category: Seditious Conspiracy | Attacks on Government Facilities/Personnel | Coercion of Government
Since taking office, Trump and his administration have usurped key congressional powers — freezing federal funds authorized by Congress, dismantling federal agencies created by Congress, and unlawfully removing Inspectors General tasked with conducting independent nonpartisan oversight. A bipartisan Senate report described it as “unprecedented action to sidestep the Constitution.” During his first term, Trump was found by Special Counsel Robert Mueller to have engaged in at least ten instances of potential obstruction of justice, was twice impeached, and directed staff to provide false statements to investigators. He was later indicted for obstruction-related offenses in connection with January 6th — all of which were dismissed after he was re-elected.
COUNT 7 — Cyberterrorism-Adjacent: Weaponized Disinformation Campaign
Date: 2020 – January 6, 2021
Category: Cyberterrorism | Organized Threats & Intimidation | Material Support (Incitement)
Using social media as a command-and-control network, Trump systematically spread false claims of a stolen election to millions of followers, ultimately mobilizing a violent mob. Researchers concluded that disinformation mobilizes and incites political violence under specific conditions, and that no sitting president before Trump had exploited social media to directly reach citizens and command specific actions in this way. Members of extremist groups explicitly referenced Trump’s posts as orders, with one Oath Keeper convicted of seditious conspiracy writing: “Trump said It’s gonna be wild!!! He wants us to make it WILD. He called us all to the Capitol.”
COUNT 8 — Pardoning Convicted Domestic Terrorists (Material Support After the Fact)
Date: January 20, 2025
Category: Material Support & Facilitation
In January 2025, shortly after returning to office, Trump issued full pardons to individuals convicted of offenses related to the January 6th attack, commuted the sentences of others, and ordered the dismissal of remaining indictments. This included those convicted of seditious conspiracy — a crime that 18 U.S.C. § 2384 defines as conspiring to overthrow the government of the United States — and those convicted of assaulting police officers defending the Capitol. He also pardoned Roger Stone (witness tampering) and Michael Flynn (lying to the FBI), both of whom had longstanding ties to the extremist groups involved in the attack.
COUNT 9 — Weaponizing the Department of Justice Against Political Enemies
Date: March 2025 – Present
Category: Organized Intimidation | Coercion of Government | Attacks on Critical Infrastructure (Legal/Democratic)
On March 14, 2025, Trump gave a norm-breaking political speech at the Justice Department’s Great Hall promising it would “expose” his enemies — described by the Associated Press as “the latest manifestation of Trump’s unparalleled takeover of the department.” By August 2025, federal judges had increasingly doubted the fundamental honesty of Justice Department lawyers, with the DOJ having repeatedly misled courts and violated court orders. Foreign diplomats described the apparent decline of the rule of law as potentially complicating transnational criminal investigations.
COUNT 10 — Seizing Control of Critical Democratic Infrastructure: Elections, Independent Agencies, Free Press
Date: 2025 – Present
Category: Attacks on Critical Infrastructure | Seditious Conspiracy | Coercion of Government
The Trump administration attempted to assert authority over elections by demanding highly sensitive voter information — including partial Social Security numbers and driver’s license numbers — from almost every state, suing nearly half of all 50 states and Washington, D.C. when they refused. He also signed Executive Order 14215, attempting to extend presidential control over independent agencies including the Federal Election Commission — challenged in federal court. He fired inspectors general, Democratic members of independent oversight boards, and conducted mass firings of federal employees in express defiance of laws prohibiting such actions. Broadcast news organizations were repeatedly threatened with license revocations.
COUNT 11 — Invocation of Wartime Powers Against Civilians in Peacetime
Date: March 2025
Category: Mass Violence / Coercion of Civilian Population | Kidnapping & Unlawful Detention
The Trump administration invoked the 1789 Alien Enemies Act — a law designed for use during declared wars against foreign nations — to deport civilians living in the United States without individual hearings or due process. Federal courts ruled this unconstitutional and issued emergency orders halting deportation flights already in the air, which the administration defied. The act was used to send individuals, many with no criminal records, to a Salvadoran mega-prison under a paid agreement — effectively rendering the U.S. government a client of a foreign detention facility for the extrajudicial incarceration of people under its care.
COUNT 12 — Dereliction of Duty as Commander in Chief During Active Attack on U.S. Capitol
Date: January 6, 2021 (the “187 Minutes of Dereliction”)
Category: Seditious Conspiracy | Armed Insurrection | Material Support
Trump had “never telephoned his Secretary of Defense that day to order deployment of National Guard, and never contacted any federal law enforcement agency to order security assistance to the Capitol Police.” During the attack’s first three hours, Trump watched the violence play out on TV, ignoring calls from allies and others to call off the mob. His White House Counsel reportedly warned aides to avoid contact with Trump and ignore any illegal orders, over concern that Trump may have committed treason. Eight people died during or in the aftermath of the attack, including police officers. Property damage exceeded $1.5 million.
🗂 Prior Conviction Record
- 2024 — New York State Criminal Court: Found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records (felony), related to hush money payments to suppress potentially damaging information during the 2016 election. Sentenced to an unconditional discharge. First U.S. president convicted of a felony.
- 2023 — U.S. Civil Court: Found liable for sexual abuse of writer E. Jean Carroll. A subsequent defamation verdict added to the judgment. Total civil liability exceeded $83 million.
- 2021 — Impeachment #2: Impeached by the House of Representatives for Incitement of Insurrection (57–43 Senate vote to convict; acquitted due to failure to reach 2/3 threshold).
- 2020 — Impeachment #1: Impeached for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress related to withholding congressionally-approved military aid to Ukraine in exchange for political investigations. Acquitted by the Senate.