What’s Up With Trump’s Criminal Cases After His Win?: QuickTake

For much of his campaign to return to the White House, President-elect Donald Trump was facing four separate criminal prosecutions. Now that he’s won, prosecutors have dropped his two federal cases, and the two cases brought by states are in peril as well.

Donald Trump and attorney Todd Blanche at Manhattan criminal court in New York in May.

Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg

The New York hush-money case

Trump in May became the first former US president to be convicted of a crime after he was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, in a case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on behalf of New York state. A jury held that Trump had engaged ...