Former President Donald Trump was indicted for the fourth time Monday, when prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, brought 13 charges against the former president for his alleged efforts to overturn the state’s vote in the 2020 presidential election.


What You Need To Know

  • Former President Donald Trump has been indicted four times this year

  • He has until Aug. 25 to face the election interference charges against him in Fulton County, Georgia

  • Next year, he will be on trial in cases accusing him of making hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, making defamatory remarks against magazine writer E. Jean Carroll and conspiring to overturn the 2020 election

  • The proposed trial date for special counsel Jack Smith's case is less than two weeks before the Iowa GOP presidential caucus

Trump is already embroiled in legal battles from three other indictments against him this year: for allegedly making hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, for allegedly illegally retaining classified documents at his Palm Beach estate and for allegedly conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. He is also the frontrunner in the GOP 2024 presidential contest.

Following are the key dates for Trump as he simultaneously navigates his presidential campaign and legal battles.

Sept. 6: Former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants will be arraigned in the Georgia election interference case.

Jan. 6: The three-year anniversary of the riot at the U.S. Capitol is Jan. 6. Following Trump’s election defeat, a mob of the former president’s supporters attacked and illegally entered the building, destroying property and assaulting law enforcement in 2021 on the date the Electoral College vote was being certified.

Jan. 15: The Iowa Republican Party will hold its caucus, the GOP’s first nominating contest in the 2024 presidential race.

Jan. 15: The trial in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against the former president is set to begin in New York. The trial follows a previous jury verdict that found Trump liable of sexually abusing the magazine writer in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s and then defaming her by publicly calling her a liar. The Jan. 15 trial will determine whether Trump should pay $10 million for defamatory comments he made about Carroll in June 2019 after she first accused him of raping her.

March 4: U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said that the federal government's election conspiracy case against the former president will begin. In August, Trump was charged with conspiring to defraud the government, conspiring to disenfranchise voters and obstructing a congressional proceeding in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Special counsel Jack Smith's team estimates the Washington, D.C., trial should take no longer than six weeks.

March 5: More than a dozen states will hold their primary elections for the presidential nomination on Super Tuesday.

March 25: The trial over Trump’s alleged hush-money payment to Daniels is set to begin in New York. Trump is accused of falsifying business records for the $130,000 his former attorney Michael Cohen arranged to pay Daniels in exchange for her silence about an affair the two are alleged to have had prior to the 2016 election.

May 20: The criminal trial over Trump’s alleged illegal retention of classified documents begins in Florida. The federal indictment accuses the former president of withholding and concealing classified and top-secret documents at his club and private residence, Mar-A-Lago. Trump is facing 40 counts, including multiple violations of the Espionage Act for withholding documents involving national security. He is also charged with conspiring to obstruct justice and making false statements.

July 15-18: The Republican National Convention is held in Milwaukee, where Trump could formally receive the party's nomination for the third time.

Nov. 5, 2024: If he wins the GOP nomination, Trump would run against the Democratic nominee in the general election.