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Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an
American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States
from 2017 to 2021.
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Trump received a Bachelor of Science degree in
economics from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1968.
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His father
made him president of the family real estate business in 1971.
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Trump renamed it the Trump Organization
and reoriented the company toward building and renovating skyscrapers, hotels,
casinos, and golf courses.
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After a
series of business failures in the late 1990s, he launched side ventures,
mostly licensing the Trump name.
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From 2004 to 2015, he co-produced and hosted the
reality television series The Apprentice.
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He and his businesses have been plaintiffs or
defendants in more than 4,000 legal actions, including six business
bankruptcies.
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As
president, Trump ordered a
travel ban on citizens from
several Muslim-majority countries,
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He diverted military funding toward building a wall
on the U.S.–Mexico border, and implemented a family separation policy.
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He
appointed Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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He reacted slowly to the COVID-19 pandemic, ignored or contradicted many
recommendations from health officials
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He used political pressure to interfere with testing
efforts, and spread misinformation
about unproven treatments.
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Trump is
the only U.S. president to have been impeached twice, in 2019 for abuse of power and obstruction
of Congress after he pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden, and in 2021 for incitement of insurrection. The
Senate acquitted him in both cases.
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Trump lost the 2020 presidential election
to Biden but refused to concede. He falsely claimed widespread electoral fraud
and attempted
to overturn the results.
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On January 6, 2021, he urged his supporters to
march to the U.S. Capitol, which many of
them attacked.
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Trump supported and took credit for the repeal of Roe
v. Wade. Scholars and historians rank
Trump as one of the worst presidents in American history.
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Since leaving office, Trump has continued to dominate
the Republican Party and is their nominee again in the 2024 presidential election.
In May 2024,
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In May
2024, a jury in New York found Trump
guilty on 34 felony counts of
falsifying business records related to a hush money
payment to Stormy Daniels in an
attempt to influence the 2016 election, making him the first former U.S.
president to be convicted of a crime.
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He has been indicted in three other jurisdictions on
54 other felony counts related to his mishandling
of classified documents and for efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential
election.
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In civil proceedings, Trump was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation in 2023, defamation
in 2024, and financial
fraud in 2024.
Education
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He attended
the private Kew-Forest
School from kindergarten
through seventh grade.
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At age 13, he entered the New York Military Academy,
a private boarding school.
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In 1964, he
enrolled at Fordham University. Two years later, he transferred
to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,
graduating in May 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in economics.
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In 2015,
Trump’s lawyer threatened Trump’s colleges, his high school, and the College Board with legal action if they released
his academic records.
Family
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In 1977, Trump married Czech model Ivana
Zelníčková.
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They had three children: Donald Jr. (born 1977), Ivanka
(1981), and Eric (1984).
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The
couple divorced in 1990, following Trump’s affair with actress Marla Maples.
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Trump and Maples married in 1993 and divorced
in 1999.
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They
have one daughter, Tiffany (born 1993), who was
raised by Maples in California.
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In 2005, Trump married Slovenian model Melania Knauss. They have one son, Barron (born 2006)
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Trump has often said he began his career with “a
small loan of a million dollars” from his father and that he had to pay it
back with interest.
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He was a
millionaire by age eight, borrowed at least $60 million from his father,
largely failed to repay those loans, and received another $413 million
(2018 dollars adjusted for inflation) from his father.
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In 2018, he
and his family were reported to have committed tax fraud, and the New York State Department of
Taxation and Finance started an
investigation.
Real Estate
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Starting in
1968, Trump was employed at his father’s real estate company, Trump Management,
which owned racially segregated middle-class rental housing in New York City’s
outer boroughs.
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In 1971, his father made him president of the company
and he began using the Trump Organization as an umbrella
brand.
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Between 1991 and 2009, he filed for Chapter
11 bankruptcy protection for six of his businesses: the Plaza
Hotel in Manhattan, the casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey,
and the Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts
company.
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Trump
obtained rights to develop Trump Tower, a mixed-use skyscraper in Midtown
Manhattan. The building houses the headquarters of the Trump Corporation and
Trump’s PAC and was Trump’s primary residence
until 2019.
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In 1988, Trump acquired the Plaza Hotel with a loan
from a consortium of sixteen banks. The hotel filed for bankruptcy protection
in 1992, and a reorganization plan was approved a month later, with the banks
taking control of the property.[61]
In 1995, Trump defaulted on over $3 billion of bank loans, and the lenders
seized the Plaza Hotel along with most of his other properties in a “vast
and humiliating restructuring” that allowed Trump to avoid personal
bankruptcy.[62][63]
The lead bank’s attorney said of the banks’ decision that they “all agreed
that he’d be better alive than dead.
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In 1996,
Trump acquired and renovated the mostly vacant 71-story skyscraper at 40 Wall Street, later rebranded as the Trump
Building In the early 1990s.
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Trump’s last major construction project was the
92-story mixed-use Trump International Hotel and
Tower (Chicago) which opened in 2008.
Casinos
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In 1984,
Trump opened Harrah’s at
Trump Plaza, a hotel and casino,
with financing and management help from the Holiday
Corporation It was unprofitable,
and Trump paid Holiday $70 million in May 1986 to take sole control In
1985, Trump bought the unopened Atlantic City Hilton Hotel and renamed it Trump
Castle Both casinos filed
for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1992.
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Trump bought a third Atlantic City venue in 1988, the
Trump Taj Mahal.
It was financed with $675 million in junk
bonds and completed for $1.1 billion, opening in April 1990.
Trump filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1991.
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In 1995, Trump founded Trump Hotels & Casino
Resorts (THCR), which assumed ownership of the Trump Plaza. THCR purchased the
Taj Mahal and the Trump Castle in 1996 and went bankrupt in 2004 and 2009,
leaving Trump with 10 percent ownership.[68]
He remained chairman until 2009.
Clubs
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In 1985, Trump acquired the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. In
1995, he converted the estate into a private club with an initiation fee and
annual dues.
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The Trump Organization began building and buying golf courses
in 1999. It owns fourteen and manages another three Trump-branded courses
worldwide.
Side Ventures
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From 1986 to 1988, Trump purchased significant blocks of shares in various public
companies.
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1988, Trump purchased the Eastern Air Lines Shuttle,
financing the purchase with $380 million (equivalent to $979 million
in 2023 in loans from a syndicate of 22 banks.
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From 1996 to 2015, Trump owned all or part of the Miss
Universe pageants, including Miss
USA and Miss Teen USA.
Trump University
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In 2004,
Trump co-founded Trump
University, a company that sold
real estate seminars for up to $35,000.
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In 2013, the State of New York filed a
$40 million civil suit against Trump University, alleging that the company
made false statements and defrauded consumers.
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Internal documents revealed that employees were
instructed to use a hard-sell approach, and former employees testified that
Trump University had defrauded or lied to its students.
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Shortly after he won the 2016 presidential
election, Trump agreed to pay a total of $25 million to settle the three
cases.
Legal Affairs and Bankruptcies
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According
to a review of state and federal court files conducted by USA Today in 2018, Trump and his businesses
had been involved in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions
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During the
1980s, more than 70 banks had lent Trump $4 billion. After his corporate
bankruptcies of the early 1990s, most major banks, with the exception of
Deutsche Bank, declined to lend to him. After the January 6
Capitol attack, the bank
decided not to do business with Trump or his company in the future.
Film and Television
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Trump made cameo appearances in many films and
television shows from 1985 to 2001
Presidential Campaign and Election 2016
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Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015.
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Trump twice refused to say whether he would accept the result of the election.
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Trump helped bring far-right fringe ideas and organizations into the mainstream.
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Trump did not release his tax returns, contrary to the practice of every major candidate since 1976 and his promises in 2014 and 2015 to do so if he ran for office.
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On November 8, 2016, Trump received 306 pledged electoral votes versus 232 for Clinton, though,
after elector defections on both sides, the official count was ultimately 304 to 227.
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Trump also was the only president who neither served in the military nor
held any government office prior to becoming president.
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Trump was inaugurated on January 20, 2017. During his
first week in office
Domestic Policy
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Trump took office at the height of the longest economic expansion in
American history,[210] which began in 2009 and continued until February 2020, when the COVID-19 recession
began.
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In December 2017, Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 passed by Congress without Democratic votes. It reduced tax rates for businesses and individuals, with business tax cuts to be permanent and individual tax cuts set
to expire after 2025.
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And set the penalty associated with the Affordable Care Act‘s individual mandate to $0.
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The Trump administration claimed that the act would not decrease government revenue, but 2018 revenues were 7.6 percent lower than projected.
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Despite a campaign promise to eliminate the national debt in eight years, Trump approved
large increases in government spending and the 2017 tax cut.
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As a result, the federal budget deficit increased by almost 50 percent, to nearly
$1 trillion in 2019.
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Under Trump, the U.S. national debt increased by 39 percent, reaching $27.75 trillion by the end of
his term, and the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio hit a post-World War II high.
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Trump also failed to deliver the $1 trillion infrastructure spending plan on which he
had campaigned.
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Trump is the only modern U.S. president to leave office with a smaller workforce than when he took office, by 3 million
people.
De – Regulation
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In 2017, Trump signed Executive Order 13771, which directed that, for every new regulation, federal agencies “identify” two existing regulations for elimination, though it did not require elimination.
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He dismantled many federal regulations on health, labor, and the environment, among others, including a bill that made it easier for severely mentally ill persons to buy guns.
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During his first six weeks in office, he delayed, suspended, or reversed ninety federal regulations, often “after requests
by the regulated industries”.
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The Institute for Policy Integrity found that 78 percent of Trump’s proposals were blocked by courts or did not prevail over
litigation.
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During his campaign, Trump vowed to repeal and
replace the Affordable Care Act.
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In office, he scaled back the Act’s implementation through executive orders.
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Trump expressed a desire to “let Obamacare fail“;
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Their pleading would have eliminated health insurance coverage for up to 23 million Americans, but was unsuccessful.
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During the 2016 campaign, Trump promised to protect funding for Medicare and other social safety-net programs, but in January 2020, he expressed willingness to consider cuts to them.
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In response to the opioid epidemic, Trump signed legislation in 2018 to increase funding for drug treatments but was widely criticized for failing to make a concrete strategy. U.S. opioid overdose deaths declined slightly in 2018 but surged to a record 50,052 in 2019.
Social Issues
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Trump barred organizations that provide abortions or abortion referrals from receiving federal funds.
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He said he supported “traditional marriage” but considered the nationwide legality of same-sex
marriage “settled”.
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His administration rolled back key components of the Obama administration’s workplace protections against discrimination of LGBT people.
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Trump’s attempted rollback of anti-discrimination protections for transgender patients in August 2020 was halted
by a federal judge after a Supreme Court ruling extended employees’ civil rights protections to gender identity and sexual orientation.
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Trump has said he is opposed to gun control, although his views have shifted over time.
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After several mass shootings during his term, he said he would propose legislation related to guns, but he abandoned that effort in November 2019.
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His administration took an anti-marijuana position, revoking Obama-era policies that provided protections for states that legalized marijuana.
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Trump is a long-time advocate of capital punishment.
Under his administration, the federal government executed 13 prisoners, more than in the previous 56 years
combined and after a 17-year moratorium.
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In 2016, Trump said he supported the use of interrogation torture methods such as waterboarding.
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In June 2020, during the George Floyd protests, federal law-enforcement officials controversially used less lethal weapons to remove a largely peaceful crowd of lawful protesters from Lafayette Square, outside the White House.
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Trump then posed with a Bible for a photo-op at the nearby St. John’s Episcopal Church,
with religious leaders condemning both the treatment of protesters and the
photo opportunity itself.
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Many retired military leaders and defense officials condemned Trump’s proposal to use the U.S. military against
anti-police-brutality protesters.
Pardons and Commutation
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Trump granted 237 requests for clemency, fewer than all presidents since 1900 with
the exception of George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush.
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Only 25 of them had been vetted by the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney;
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The others were granted to people with personal or political connections to him, his family, and his allies, or recommended by celebrities.
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In his last full day in office, Trump granted 73 pardons and commuted 70 sentences.
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Several Trump allies were not eligible for pardons under Justice Department rules, and in other cases the department had opposed clemency.
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The pardons of three military service members convicted of or charged with violent crimes
were opposed by military leaders.
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Trump’s proposed immigration policies were a topic of bitter debate during the campaign. He promised to build a
wall on the Mexico–U.S. border to restrict illegal movement and vowed that Mexico would pay for it.
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He pledged to deport millions of illegal immigrants residing in the U.S. and criticized birthright citizenship for
incentivizing “anchor babies“.
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As president, he frequently described illegal immigration as an “invasion” and conflated immigrants with the
criminal gang MS-13.
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Trump attempted to drastically escalate immigration
enforcement, including implementing harsher immigration enforcement policies
against asylum seekers from Central America than any modern U.S. president.
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From 2018 onward, Trump deployed
nearly 6,000 troops to the U.S.–Mexico border to stop most Central American migrants from seeking asylum.
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In 2020, his administration widened the public charge rule to further restrict immigrants who might use government benefits from getting permanent residency.
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Trump reduced the number of refugees admitted to record lows. When Trump took office, the annual limit was 110,000; Trump set a limit of 18,000 in the 2020 fiscal year and 15,000 in the 2021 fiscal year.
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Additional restrictions implemented by the Trump administration caused significant bottlenecks in processing refugee
applications, resulting in fewer refugees accepted than the allowed limits.
Travel Ban
Following the 2015 San Bernardino attack, Trump proposed to ban Muslim foreigners from entering the U.S. until stronger vetting systems could be implemented. He later reframed the proposed ban to apply to countries with a
“proven history of terrorism”.
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On January 27, 2017, Trump signed Executive Order 13769, which suspended admission
of refugees for 120 days and denied entry to citizens of Iraq, Iran, Libya,
Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen for 90 days, citing security concerns.
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The order took effect immediately and without warning, causing chaos at airports. Protests began at airports the next day, and legal challenges resulted in nationwide preliminary injunctions.
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A March 6 revised order, which excluded Iraq and gave other
exemptions, again was blocked by federal judges in three states. In a decision in June 2017, the Supreme Court ruled that the ban could be enforced on visitors who lack a “credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States”
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The temporary order was replaced by Presidential
Proclamation 9645
on September 24, 2017, which restricted travel from the originally targeted
countries except Iraq and Sudan, and further banned travellers from North Korea
and Chad, along with certain Venezuelan officials.
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After
lower courts partially blocked the new restrictions, the Supreme Court allowed
the September version to go into full effect on December 4, 2017, and
ultimately upheld the travel ban in a ruling in June 2019.
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The Trump
administration separated more than 5,400 children of migrant families from
their parents at the U.S.–Mexico border.
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A sharp increase in the number of family separations
at the border starting from the summer of 2017.
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In April 2018, the
Trump administration announced a “zero
tolerance” policy whereby adults suspected of illegal
entry were to be detained and criminally prosecuted while their children
were taken away as unaccompanied alien minors.
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The policy was unprecedented in previous
administrations and sparked public outrage.
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Trump falsely asserted that his administration was merely
following the law, blaming Democrats, despite the separations being his
administration’s policy.
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Although
Trump originally argued that the separations could not be stopped by an
executive order, he acceded to intense public objection and signed an executive
order in June 2018, mandating that migrant families be detained together unless
“there is a concern” of a risk to the child.
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On June 26,
2018, Judge Dana Sabraw concluded that the Trump administration had “no
system in place to keep track of” the separated children, nor any
effective measures for family communication and reunification.
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Sabraw
ordered for the families to be reunited and family separations stopped except
in limited circumstances.
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After the order, the Trump administration separated
more than a thousand migrant children from their families.
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The ACLU
contended that the Trump administration had abused its discretion and asked
Sabraw to more narrowly define the circumstances warranting separation.
Trump
Wall and Government Shut Down
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In 2018,
Trump refused to sign any appropriations
bill from Congress unless
it allocated $5.6 billion for the border wall.
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Resulting in the federal government partially
shutting down for 35 days from December 2018 to January 2019. The longest U.S. government shutdown
in history.
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Around 800,000 government employees were furloughed
or worked without pay.
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Trump and
Congress ended the shutdown by approving temporary funding that provided
delayed payments to government workers but no funds for the wall.
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The shutdown
resulted in an estimated permanent loss of $3 billion to the economy,
according to the Congressional Budget Office.
About half of those polled blamed Trump for the shutdown, and Trump’s approval
ratings dropped.
Personnel
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Trump
administration had a high turnover of personnel, particularly among White House
staff.
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By the end of Trump’s first year in office, 34
percent of his original staff had resigned, been fired, or been reassigned.
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As of early
July 2018, 61 percent of Trump’s senior aides had left and 141 staffers
had left in the previous year.
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Both
figures set a record for recent presidents—more change in the first 13 months
than his four immediate predecessors saw in their first two years.
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Notable early departures included National Security
Advisor Michael Flynn (after just 25 days), and Press Secretary Sean
Spicer.
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Close personal aides to Trump including
Bannon, Hope Hicks, John
McEntee, and Keith Schiller quit or were forced out.
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Some later returned in different posts.
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Trump publicly disparaged several of his former top
officials, calling them incompetent, stupid, or crazy.
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On May 9,
2017, Trump dismissed
FBI director James Comey.
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At a private conversation in February, Trump said he
hoped Comey would drop the investigation into Flynn. In March and April, Trump
asked Comey to “lift the cloud impairing his ability to act” by
saying publicly that the FBI was not investigating him.
Judiciary
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Trump appointed 226 Article
III judges, including 54 to the courts of appeals and three to the Supreme Court: Neil Gorsuch, Brett
Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.
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His
Supreme Court nominees were noted as having politically shifted the Court to
the right.
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In the
2016 campaign, he pledged that Roe v. Wade would be overturned
“automatically” if he were elected and provided the opportunity to
appoint two or three anti-abortion justices.
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He later took credit when Roe
was overturned in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization; all three of his Supreme
Court nominees voted with the majority.
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Trump
disparaged courts and judges he disagreed with, often in personal terms, and
questioned the judiciary’s constitutional authority.
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His
attacks on the courts drew rebukes from observers, including sitting federal
judges, concerned about the effect of his statements on the judicial independence and public confidence in
the judiciary.
COVID-19 pandemic
Initial Response
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The first
confirmed case of COVID-19 in the U.S. was reported on January
20, 2020.
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Trump initially ignored persistent public health
warnings and calls for action from health officials within his administration
and Secretary Azar.
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Throughout January and February he focused on
economic and political considerations of the outbreak.
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In February
2020 Trump publicly asserted that the outbreak in the U.S. was less deadly than
influenza, was “very much under
control”, and would soon be over.
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On March 19, 2020, Trump privately told Bob
Woodward that he was deliberately “playing it down, because
I don’t want to create a panic”.
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On March 6, Trump signed the Coronavirus
Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act,
which provided $8.3 billion in emergency funding for federal agencies.
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Trump
refused to admit any mistakes in his handling of the outbreak, instead blaming
the media, Democratic state governors, the previous administration, China, and
the WHO.
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The daily coronavirus task force briefings ended in late
April, after a briefing at which Trump suggested the dangerous idea of
injecting a disinfectant to treat COVID-19; the comment was widely
condemned by medical professionals.
Investigations
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There were
ten federal criminal investigations, eight state and local investigations, and
twelve congressional investigations.
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Trump sued the banks, Mazars, and committee chair Elijah
Cummings to prevent the disclosures.
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In May, DC
District Court judge Amit
Mehta ruled that Mazars must comply with the subpoena, and judge Edgardo
Ramos of the Southern
District Court of New York ruled that the banks must also comply.
Russian
Election Interference
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In January
2017, American intelligence agencies—the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA, represented by the Director of
National Intelligence—jointly
stated with “high
confidence” that the
Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election to favor the
election of Trump.
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That includes investigating the nature of any links
between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian
government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and
Russia’s efforts.
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Many suspicious links
between Trump associates and Russian officials and spies
were discovered and the relationships between Russians and “team
Trump”, including Manafort, Flynn, and Stone, were widely reported by the
press
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Members of
Trump’s campaign and his White House staff, particularly Flynn, were in contact
with Russian officials both before and after the election.
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Trump and his allies promoted a
conspiracy theory that Ukraine, rather than Russia, interfered in the
2016 election—which was also promoted by Russia to frame
Ukraine.
Muller Investigation
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n May 2017,
Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Mueller special counsel for the Department
of Justice (DOJ),
ordering him to “examine ‘any links and/or coordination between the
Russian government’ and the Trump campaign”.
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He privately told Mueller to restrict the
investigation to criminal matters “in connection with Russia’s 2016
election interference”
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In March 2019, Mueller gave his
final report to Attorney General William
Barr which Barr purported to summarize in a letter to Congress.
A federal court, and Mueller himself, said Barr mischaracterized the
investigation’s conclusions and, in so doing, confused the public.
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Trump
repeatedly claimed that the investigation exonerated him; the Mueller report
expressly stated that it did not.
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Members of Trump’s campaign and his White House
staff, particularly Flynn, were in contact with Russian officials both before
and after the election.
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Several
Trump associates pleaded guilty or were convicted in connection with Mueller’s
investigation and related cases, including Manafort] and Flynn.
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Cohen said he had made the false statements on behalf
of Trump.
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In February 2020, Stone was sentenced to 40 months in
prison for lying to Congress and witness tampering. The sentencing judge said
Stone “was prosecuted for covering up for the president”.
First Impeachment
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In August
2019, a whistleblower filed a
complaint with the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community about a July 25 phone call between
Trump and President of Ukraine Volodymyr
Zelenskyy, during which Trump
had pressured Zelenskyy to investigate CrowdStrike and Democratic presidential
candidate Biden and his son Hunter.
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The whistleblower said that the White House had
attempted to cover up the incident and that the call was part of a wider
campaign by the Trump administration and Trump attorney Rudy
Giuliani that may have included withholding financial aid from Ukraine
in July 2019 and canceling Pence’s May 2019 Ukraine trip.
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House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi initiated a formal impeachment inquiry
on September 24.
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Trump then confirmed that he withheld military
aid from Ukraine, offering contradictory reasons for the decision.
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On September 25, the Trump administration released a
memorandum of the phone call which confirmed that, after Zelenskyy mentioned
purchasing American anti-tank missiles, Trump asked him to discuss
investigating Biden and his son with Giuliani and Barr.
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The
testimony of multiple administration officials and former officials confirmed
that this was part of a broader effort to further Trump’s personal interests by
giving him an advantage in the upcoming presidential election.
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In October, William B. Taylor Jr.,
the chargé
d’affaires for Ukraine, testified before congressional committees that soon
after arriving in Ukraine in June 2019, he found that Zelenskyy was being
subjected to pressure directed by Trump and led by Giuliani.
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According to Taylor and others, the goal was to
coerce Zelenskyy into making a public commitment to investigate the company
that employed Hunter Biden, as well as rumors about Ukrainian involvement in
the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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He said it
was made clear that until Zelenskyy made such an announcement, the
administration would not release scheduled military aid for Ukraine and not
invite Zelenskyy to the White House.
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On December 13, the House Judiciary Committee
voted along party lines to pass two articles of impeachment: one for abuse
of power and one for obstruction of Congress.
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After debate, the House of Representatives impeached Trump on both articles on December 18.
Impeachment Trial in the Senate
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Trump
displaying the headline “Trump acquitted”
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During the trial in January 2020, the House
impeachment managers cited evidence to support charges of abuse of power and
obstruction of Congress and asserted that Trump’s actions were exactly what the
founding fathers had in mind when they created the impeachment process.
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Trump’s lawyers did not deny the facts as presented
in the charges but said Trump had not broken any laws or obstructed Congress.
They argued that the impeachment was “constitutionally and legally
invalid” because Trump was not charged with a crime and that abuse of
power is not an impeachable offense.
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On January
31, the Senate voted against allowing subpoenas for witnesses or documents. The
impeachment trial was the first in U.S. history without witness testimony.
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Trump was acquitted of both charges by the Republican
majority.
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Senator Mitt Romney was the only Republican who voted
to convict Trump on one charge, the abuse of power.
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Following his acquittal, Trump fired impeachment
witnesses and other political appointees and career officials he deemed
insufficiently loyal.
2020 Presidential Campaign
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Breaking with precedent, Trump filed to run for a
second term within a few hours of assuming the presidency. He held his first
reelection rally less than a month after taking office]
and officially became the Republican nominee
in August 2020.
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Trump
campaign advertisements focused on crime, claiming that cities would descend
into lawlessness if Biden won Trump repeatedly misrepresented Biden’s positions
and shifted to appeals to racism.
2020 Presidential Elections
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Starting in
the spring of 2020, Trump began to sow doubts about the election, claiming
without evidence that the election would be rigged,
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And that the expected widespread use of mail
balloting would produce massive election fraud.
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When, in August, the House of Representatives voted
for a $25 billion grant to the U.S. Postal Service for the expected surge
in mail voting, Trump blocked funding, saying he wanted to prevent any increase
in voting by mail.
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He
repeatedly refused to say whether he would accept the results if he lost and
commit to a peaceful
transition of power.
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Biden won the election on November 3, receiving
81.3 million votes (51.3 percent) to Trump’s 74.2 million (46.8
percent) and 306 Electoral College votes to Trump’s 232.
False Claims of Voting Fraud
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At 2 a.m.
the morning after the election, with the results still unclear, Trump declared
victory..
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After Biden was projected the winner days later,
Trump stated that “this election is far from over” and baselessly
alleged election fraud.
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Trump and his allies filed many legal
challenges to the results, which were rejected by at least 86 judges in both
the state and federal courts, including by federal judges
appointed by Trump himself, finding no factual or legal basis.
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Trump’s
allegations were also refuted by state election officials.
·
After Cybersecurity
and Infrastructure Security Agency director Chris
Krebs contradicted Trump’s fraud allegations, Trump dismissed him on
November 17.
·
On December 11, the U.S. Supreme Court
declined to hear a case from
the Texas attorney general that asked
the court to overturn the election results in four states won by Biden.
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Trump withdrew from public activities in the weeks
following the election.
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He initially
blocked government officials from cooperating in Biden’s presidential transition.
·
After three
weeks, the administrator of the General Services Administration
declared Biden the “apparent winner” of the election, allowing the
disbursement of transition resources to his team.
·
Trump still did not formally concede while
claiming he recommended the GSA begin transition protocols.
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Trump did not attend Biden’s inauguration.
January 6 Capitol Attack
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January 6,
2021, while congressional certification of the presidential election results was taking place in the U.S.
Capitol, Trump held a noon rally at the Ellipse, Washington, D.C. He called for the
election result to be overturned and urged his supporters to “take back
our country” by marching to the Capitol to “fight like hell”.
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Many supporters did, joining a crowd already there.
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The mob broke into the building, disrupting
certification and causing the evacuation of Congress.
·
During the
violence, Trump posted messages on Twitter without asking the rioters to
disperse.
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At 6 p.m., Trump
tweeted that the rioters should “go home with love & in peace“,
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calling
them “great patriots” and repeating that the election was stolen.
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After the mob was removed, Congress reconvened and
confirmed Biden’s win in the early hours of the following morning
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According to the Department of Justice, more than 140
police officers were injured, and five people died.
·
On March
2023, Trump collaborated with incarcerated rioters on a song to
benefit the prisoners, and, in
June, he said that, if elected, he would pardon many of them.
Second Impeachment
·
On January
11, 2021, an article of impeachment charging Trump with incitement
of insurrection against
the U.S. government was introduced to the House.
·
The House voted 232–197 to impeach Trump on January
13, making him the first U.S. president to be impeached twice.
·
Ten Republicans voted for the impeachment—the most
members of a party ever to vote to impeach a president of their own party.
·
On February
13, following a five-day
Senate trial, Trump was acquitted
when the Senate vote fell ten votes short of the two-thirds majority required
to convict;
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seven Republicans joined every Democrat in voting to
convict, the most bipartisan support in any Senate impeachment trial of a
president or former president.
·
Most Republicans voted to acquit Trump, although some
held him responsible but felt the Senate did not have jurisdiction over former
presidents (Trump had left office on January 20; the Senate voted 56–44 that
the trial was constitutional)
Post Presidency (2021 till Present)
·
At the end
of his term, Trump went to live at his Mar-a-Lago club and established an
office as provided for by the Former
Presidents Act. Trump is entitled to live there legally as a club employee
·
Trump’s false claims concerning the 2020 election were commonly referred
to as the “big lie” in the press and by his critics.
·
In May 2021, Trump and his supporters attempted to
co-opt the term, using it to refer to the election itself.
·
The
Republican Party used Trump’s false election narrative to justify the imposition of new voting
restrictions in its favor. As late
as July 2022, Trump was still pressuring state legislators to overturn the 2020
election.
·
Unlike other former presidents, Trump continued to
dominate his party; he has been described as a modern party
boss.
FBI Investigation
·
When Trump
left the White House in January 2021, he took government materials with him to
Mar-a-Lago.
·
By May 2021, the National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA) realized that important documents had not
been turned over to them and asked his office to locate them.
·
In January 2022, they retrieved 15 boxes of White
House records from Mar-a-Lago. NARA later informed the Department of Justice
that some of the retrieved documents were classified material.
·
The Justice
Department began an investigation and sent Trump a subpoena for additional
material.
·
Justice Department officials visited Mar-a-Lago and
received some classified documents from Trump’s lawyers, one of whom signed a
statement affirming that all material marked as classified had been returned.
·
On August
8, 2022, FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago to recover government documents and
material Trump had taken with him when he left office in violation of the Presidential
Records Act, reportedly including
some related to nuclear weapons.
·
The search warrant indicates an investigation of
potential violations of the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice laws. The
items taken in the search included 11 sets of classified documents, four of
them tagged as “top secret” and one as “top secret/SCI”,
the highest level of classification.
·
On November 18, 2022, U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland
appointed federal prosecutor Jack Smith as a
special counsel to
oversee the federal criminal investigations into Trump retaining government
property at Mar-a-Lago and examining Trump’s role in the events
leading up to the Capitol attack.
Criminal Reference by the House Jan 6 Committee
·
On December 19, 2022, the United
States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack
recommended criminal charges against Trump for obstructing an official proceeding,
conspiracy to defraud the United States, and inciting or assisting an
insurrection.
Federal and State Criminal Indictments
·
In December
2022, following a jury trial, the Trump Organization was convicted on 17 counts of
criminal tax fraud, conspiracy, and falsifying business records in connection
with a tax-fraud scheme stretching over 15 years.
·
In January 2023, the organization was fined the
maximum $1.6 million, and its chief financial officer Allen Weissenberg
was sentenced to jail and probation after a plea deal. Trump was not personally
charged in the case.
·
In June 2023, following a special counsel investigation,
a federal grand jury in Miami indicted Trump on 31
counts of “willfully retaining national defense information” under
the Espionage Act, one count of making false statements,
and one count each of conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding government
documents, corruptly concealing records, concealing a document in a federal
investigation and scheming to conceal their efforts.[651]
He pleaded not guilty. A superseding indictment the following month added three
charges.
·
The judge
assigned to the case, Aileen Cannon, was appointed to the bench by
Trump and had previously issued rulings favorable to him in a past civil
case, some of which were
overturned by an appellate court.
·
She moved slowly on the case, indefinitely postponed
the trial in May 2024, and dismissed it on July 15, ruling that the special
counsel’s appointment was unconstitutional.
·
On August
26, Special Counsel Smith appealed the dismissal.
·
On August 1, 2023, a Washington, D.C., federal grand
jury indicted Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
·
He was charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S., obstruct the certification of
the Electoral College vote, and deprive voters of the civil right
to have their votes counted, and obstructing an official proceeding.
Trump pleaded not guilty.
·
Later in
August, a Fulton
County, Georgia, grand
jury indicted Trump on 13 charges, including racketeering, for his efforts to
subvert the election outcome in Georgia; multiple Trump campaign officials were
also indicted.
·
Trump
surrendered, was processed at Fulton County Jail, and was
released on bail pending trial.
·
He pleaded
not guilty.
·
On March 13, 2024, the judge dismissed three of the
13 charges against Trump.
Criminal Conviction in 2016 Campaign Fraud Case
·
During the
2016 presidential election campaign, American
Media, Inc. (AMI), publisher of
the National
Enquirer, and a company set up
by Cohen paid Playboy model Karen McDougal and adult film actress Stormy Daniels for keeping silent about their
alleged affairs with Trump between 2006 and 2007.
·
Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to breaking campaign
finance laws, saying he had arranged both payments at Trump’s direction to
influence the presidential election.
·
Trump denied the affairs and said he was not aware of
Cohen’s payment to Daniels, but he reimbursed him in 2017.
·
Federal
prosecutors asserted that Trump had been involved in discussions regarding
non-disclosure payments as early as 2014.
·
Court documents showed that the FBI believed Trump
was directly involved in the payment to Daniels, based on calls he had with
Cohen in October 2016.
·
Federal
prosecutors closed the investigation in 2019, but in 2021, the New York
State Attorney General’s Office and Manhattan
District Attorney’s Office opened a
criminal investigations into Trump’s business activities.
·
The Manhattan DA’s Office subpoenaed the Trump Organization
and AMI for records related to the payments and Trump and the Trump
Organization for eight years of tax returns.
·
In March 2023, a New York grand jury indicted Trump
on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records
to book the hush money payments to Daniels as business expenses, in an attempt
to influence the 2016 election.
·
The trial
began in April 2024, and in May a jury convicted Trump on all 34 counts.
Sentencing is set for November 26, 2024.
Civil Judgements Against Trump
·
In
September 2022, the attorney general of New York filed a civil fraud case
against Trump, his three oldest children, and the Trump Organization. During
the investigation leading up to the lawsuit, Trump was fined $110,000 for
failing to turn over records subpoenaed by the attorney general. In an August
2022 deposition, Trump invoked his Fifth
Amendment right against self-incrimination more than 400 times.
·
The presiding judge ruled in September 2023 that
Trump, his adult sons and the Trump Organization repeatedly committed fraud and
ordered their New York business certificates canceled and their business
entities sent into receivership for dissolution.
·
In February 2024, the court found Trump liable,
ordered him to pay a penalty of more than $350 million plus interest, for
a total exceeding $450 million,
·
and barred
him from serving as an officer or director of any New York corporation or legal
entity for three years.
·
Trump said he would appeal the verdict.
·
The judge
also ordered the company to be overseen by the monitor appointed by the court
in 2023 and an independent director of compliance, and that any
“restructuring and potential dissolution” would be the decision of
the monitor.
·
In May 2023, a New York jury in a federal lawsuit
brought by journalist E.
Jean Carroll in 2022 (“Carroll II”) found Trump liable for sexual
abuse and defamation and ordered him to pay her $5 million.
·
Trump asked for a new trial or a reduction of the
award, arguing that the jury had not found him liable for rape.
·
He also
separately countersued Carroll for defamation.
·
The judge for the two lawsuits ruled against Trump
writing that Carroll’s accusation of “rape” is “substantially
true”.
·
Trump
appealed both decisions. In January 2024, the jury in the defamation case
brought by Carroll in 2019 (“Carroll I”) ordered Trump to pay Carroll
$83.3 million in damages.
·
In March, Trump posted a $91.6 million bond and
appealed.
2024 Presidential Campaign
·
In November
15, 2022, Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024
presidential election and set up
a fundraising account.
·
In March 2023, the campaign began diverting 10
percent of the donations to Trump’s leadership PAC. Trump’s campaign had paid
$100 million towards his legal bills by March 2024.
·
In December 2023, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled
Trump disqualified for the Colorado Republican primary for his role in inciting
the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress.
·
In March
2024, the U.S. Supreme Court restored his name to the ballot in a unanimous decision, ruling
that Colorado lacks the authority to enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which bars insurrectionists from
holding federal office.
·
During the campaign, Trump made increasingly violent
and authoritarian statements.
·
He also
said that he would weaponize the FBI and the Justice Department against his
political opponents, and used harsher, more dehumanizing anti-immigrant
rhetoric than during his presidency.
·
He mentioned “rigged election” and
“election interference” earlier and more frequently than in the 2016
and 2020 campaigns and refused to commit to accepting the 2024 election
results.
·
Analysts for The New York Times described this
as an intensification of Trump’s “heads I win; tails you cheated”
rhetorical strategy.
·
On July 13,
2024, Trump’s ear was grazed by a bullet in an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler Township, Pennsylvania.
·
The campaign declined to disclose medical records.
·
Two days later, the 2024 Republican National Convention
nominated Trump as their presidential candidate, with Senator JD
Vance as his running mate.
Public Image
·
In the C-SPAN
“Presidential Historians Survey 2021”, historians ranked Trump as the
fourth-worst president.
·
He rated lowest in the leadership characteristics
categories for moral authority and administrative skills.
·
The Siena
College Research Institute‘s 2022
survey ranked Trump 43rd out of 45 presidents.
·
He was ranked near the bottom in all categories
except for luck, willingness to take risks, and party leadership, and he ranked
last in several categories.
·
In 2018 and 2024, surveys of members of the American Political Science Association
ranked Trump the worst president in American history.
·
In Gallup’s
annual poll asking Americans to
name the man they admire the most.
·
Trump placed second to Obama in 2017 and 2018,
·
tied with
Obama for first in 2019,
·
and placed first in 2020.
·
Since Gallup
started conducting the poll in 1948, Trump is the first elected president not
to be named most admired in his first year in office.
False and Misleading Statements
·
As a
candidate and as president, Trump frequently made false statements in public
remarks to an extent unprecedented in American politics.
·
His falsehoods became a distinctive part of his
political identity.
·
Trump’s false and misleading statements were
documented by fact-checkers, including at The Washington Post, which
tallied 30,573 false or misleading statements made by Trump over his four-year
term.
·
Trump’s
falsehoods increased in frequency over time, rising from about six false or
misleading claims per day in his first year as president to 39 per day in his
final year.
·
Some of Trump’s falsehoods were inconsequential, such
as his repeated claim of the “biggest inaugural crowd ever“.
·
Others had
more far-reaching effects, such as his promotion of antimalarial drugs as an
unproven treatment for COVID-19, causing a U.S. shortage of these drugs and panic-buying in Africa and South Asia.
·
Other misinformation, such as misattributing a rise
in crime in England and Wales to the “spread of radical
Islamic terror”, served Trump’s domestic political purposes. Trump
habitually does not apologize for his falsehoods.
Misogyny and Allegation of Sexual Misconduct
·
Trump has a history of insulting and belittling women
when speaking to the media and on social media.
·
He made
lewd comments, disparaged women’s physical appearances, and referred to them
using derogatory epithets.
·
At least 26 women publicly accused Trump of rape,
kissing, and groping without consent; looking under women’s skirts; and walking
in on naked teenage pageant contestants.
·
Trump has denied the allegations.
·
In October
2016, two days before the second
presidential debate, a 2005
“hot mic” recording surfaced in which Trump was
heard bragging about
kissing and groping women without their consent, saying that:
·
“when you’re a star, they let
you do it. You can do anything. … Grab ’em by the pussy.”
·
The incident’s widespread media exposure led to
Trump’s first public apology during the campaign and caused outrage across the
political spectrum.
Popular Culture
·
Trump has been the subject of comedy and caricature
on television, in films, and in comics.
·
He was
named in hundreds of hip hop songs from 1989 until 2015;
·
Most of these cast Trump in a positive light, but
they turned largely negative after he began running for office.
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