- Title: PROFILE: A look back at Donald Trump ahead of U.S. elections
- Date: 12th November 2022
- Summary: DENVER, COLORADO, UNITED STATES (FILE - OCTOBER 30, 2023) (UNRESTRICTED POOL) WIDE OF COURTROOM SESSION FROM CASE IN WHICH COURT ULTIMATELY RULED TRUMP COULD NOT BE DISQUALIFIED TOOK PLACE (SOUNDBITE) (English) ERIC OLSON, AN ATTORNEY REPRESENTING COLORADO VOTERS WHO BROUGHT SUIT SAYING: "And we are here because Trump claims, after all, that he has the right to be presiden
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- Keywords: 2020 2024 Butler Donald Trump Hillary Clinton Joe Biden Kamala Harris Republican assassination attempt debate presidential race
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- Topics: North America,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
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- Story Text: Donald Trump, 78, secured the Republican nomination in July to make his third consecutive run for the White House after losing his 2020 reelection bid.
Trump continues to repeat his false claim that Democrats stole the 2020 election as he campaigns amid unprecedented legal challenges, including a fresh U.S. indictment over efforts to subvert his loss to Biden.
In office from 2017 to 2021, he has cast his indictments in four criminal cases as a political attack, vowing "retribution" against perceived enemies and embracing increasingly dystopian rhetoric. He has also made ominous comments about "the enemy within" the United States and threatened to deploy the military domestically.
Trump became the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime in May, in New York City. He was also the first president to be impeached twice. He denies any wrongdoing.
Trump, who chose U.S. Senator JD Vance of Ohio as his running mate, has refused to commit to accepting the 2024 results or to rule out possible political violence, while he and Republicans lay the groundwork to contest a potential loss. He promised to pardon supporters imprisoned for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and threatened to prosecute election officials, donors, Google and others if he wins.
He said he would not run again if he loses.
Trump is the oldest U.S. presidential nominee and would become the nation's second oldest president. He faced two assassination attempts, one at a Pennsylvania campaign rally in July and another one in September near one of his Florida golf courses.
Trump-friendly think tanks' sweeping "Project 2025" policy agenda would target the Justice Department's independence, among other plans. Trump has sought to distance himself from the project despite his former aides' and Vance's involvement. He also wants the power to replace federal civil service workers with loyalists.
On foreign policy, Trump has vowed to fundamentally alter the U.S. relationship with NATO and to resolve the Ukraine war with possible peace talks that might require Kyiv to cede territory. He has said Hamas must be "crushed" and vowed to be tougher on Iran, but has given few details or policy proposals.
Trump has made immigration a top issue, promising mass deportations, including legal Haitian immigrants given Temporary Protected Status in Springfield, Ohio. He would end birthright citizenship and expand a travel ban on people from certain countries.
He takes credit for the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade protections, saying abortion laws should be left to the states. Trump said he does not support banning birth control.
On the economy, Trump would impose sweeping tariffs on imported goods and on specific companies and countries. He pledged to end taxes on tips and overtime, to lower corporate tax rates and to open federal lands to foreign companies and housing. He has also vowed to undo much of Biden’s climate change work.
Trump has faced criticism, including from some Republicans, for personal attacks against Harris, including over her race and gender.
Trump appointed former Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to his transition team and said he would tap billionaire supporter Elon Musk to address government efficiency.
The National Fraternal Order of Police and other police groups have also backed his election bid.
EARLY YEARS
Trump was born on June 14, 1946, the fourth of five children and the son of real estate developer Fred Trump, who specialized in building and running middle-income apartments. His parents sent him to military school at age 13 to instill discipline. He later earned an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
After taking a $1 million loan from his father in the 1970s, Trump erected his flagship building on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in 1983 and called it Trump Tower. He would put up other residential and office buildings around the city - and the world - with his name prominently affixed.
Trump cultivated an image of a successful deal-maker, but experienced chronic financial losses, bankruptcies and business failures. Trump put his name on neckties, steaks, bottled water, cologne, an airline and even a real estate "university" that a few days before his inauguration in 2017 would pay $25 million to settle fraud claims brought by students.
Starting in 2003, Trump found broader fame hosting the reality TV shows "The Apprentice" and "Celebrity Apprentice," in which each episode ended with him dramatically ousting a contestant. "You're fired," Trump would said.
In 2005, he married former Slovenian model and future U.S. first lady Melania Knauss - more than 23 years his junior. Trump had five children with his three wives.
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