Administration & campaign officials criminally convicted

Disclosures

Each person counts in the term they served, whenever the case ended: Berger pleaded guilty in 2005, Bloch in 2013, and John Bolton (first-term National Security Advisor) in June 2026, to unlawful retention of national defense information, in a prosecution brought under the second Trump administration's DOJ. Gen. James Cartwright (Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, 2007–2011, serving under both Bush and Obama) pleaded guilty in 2016 to false statements in the Stuxnet-leak investigation and was pardoned by Obama in January 2017 before sentencing; he is counted in the Obama column, where his service ended and whose program the leak concerned, and his pardon is the single connected pardon in Obama's bar on the full-pardons chart. Bannon's federal conviction (contempt) came after the term for term-related conduct.

The count is by person, not by gravity: it mixes felony convictions with misdemeanor pleas (Cisneros, Berger, Crawford, Allen, Bloch and Petraeus among them). Allen pleaded guilty in 2006 to shoplifting unrelated to his office, and the judge's probation before judgment kept it off his record; he counts because the bar covers any conviction or guilty plea, as it does for Hubbell, whose fraud predated his office.

Not counted: Roger Stone and George Papadopoulos, convicted in the special counsel's Russia investigation, were campaign advisers rather than campaign leadership (Stone had left his campaign post in August 2015; Papadopoulos was a foreign-policy adviser), and Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's finance chief, held no government or campaign post. This chart counted all three until October 2026. Two of the seven Trump I officials counted (Flynn, Manafort) were later pardoned by Trump himself, as were Stone and Papadopoulos; the pardons appear on the full-pardons chart.

Confound to weigh both ways: conviction counts partly reflect who was investigated and how hard. Trump I drew a special counsel; independent counsels produced the Hubbell and Cisneros cases, and the Abramoff investigation the Griles and Safavian cases. But the convictions themselves were entered by juries and pleas, not by the investigation's existence. Historical context outside the window: Nixon's orbit produced dozens of convictions; Reagan's Iran-Contra eleven (several pardoned by Bush 41). Biden's son was convicted, family, not administration, so outside this panel's definition.