(Trends Wide Spanish) — Since former President Donald Trump left the White House for the last time—and went straight to Mar-a-Lago with his wife, Melania, skipping his successor’s inauguration as is customary—he has had an agenda very busy, full of lying speeches about the election, lawsuits against her in court and the attempt to fight her way back to the Republican Party candidacy.

The post-Trump White House era has been marked by an event on which the last word has not yet been said: the attack on Congress on January 6, 2021, in which a violent mob tried to stop the certification of votes. elections that gave Joe Biden the presidency. This attack on democracy has been behind a good part of Trump’s destiny since he reluctantly left his official residence in Washington.

Here, the review of some of his most outstanding moments.

1. He was saved in the second impeachment trial against him

Less than a month after leaving the Presidency, Trump was saved in the second political against him, in which he was accused of having incited the attack on Congress on January 6. Convicting him required the votes of 67 senators, and the total rose to 57 (including, notably, seven Republicans).

2. He lied and continued to lie about the election results

There was no fraud in the 2020 elections. That is a fact that the former president continued to deny after leaving power. Enough, as proof, the communiqué that he published on January 6 of this year, on the tragic anniversary of the attack on Congress. “Never forget the crime of the 2020 presidential election. Never give up!” he wrote at the end of a message in which he delved into his bogus voter fraud theories.

By then, the former president had already used for months the expression “THE BIG LIE!”

3. He left the artists’ union… before he was fired

It is not bad to remember that in addition to his political and business career, Trump had a soft spot for the entertainment industry and his foray included appearances on “Home Alone 2” and “Zoolander.”

The former president submitted in February 2021 his resignation from SAG-AFTRA, a union that represents approximately 160,000 professionals, from actors and musicians to media workers. He did so just weeks after the union’s National Board voted to have a disciplinary committee reevaluate his membership for his role in the Capitol storming.

4. He became friends with the covid-19 vaccines

Trump, with a long history of skepticism and statements without any scientific foundation regarding the covid-19 pandemic, to say the least, seems to have finally cozied up to vaccination to curb deaths.

In March 2021, two months after he left the White House, it emerged that the former president and his wife had received the vaccine in January in complete secrecy, unlike his successor who gave himself the injection in public to promote confidence in the drug. And Trump also wanted his role in the feat recognized. “Never let them forget that it was us. We did this,” he said factually of the vaccine development.

(Incidentally, in the immediate hours after Biden took office in 2021, sources familiar with the matter told Trends Wide that one of the biggest surprises the new president’s team had to digest during the transition period was what seen as a complete absence of a vaccine distribution strategy under the Trump administration, even weeks after several vaccines were approved for use in the United States).

The former president has expressed his opinion on multiple agenda items, including the crisis on the southern border and the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, to mention just two examples.

5. He was active in his party politics and battled against Liz Cheney

Trump has been active within the Republican Party, endorsing certain candidates and public offices, and fiercely criticizing others. One of his most notable clashes since leaving office was with Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, a staunch critic of the former president for his voter fraud lies who has already claimed she will not remain a Republican if Trump is the party’s nominee in 2024.

The former president spared no disqualifying words when referring to Cheney, whom he described as a “warmongering fool,” for example. Cheney held a position in the Republican leadership of the House of Representatives and was left without it precisely because of her criticism of Trump.

6. He opened his own social network

The former president is persona non grata, at least for a while longer, on three of the major social networks: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The little bird’s social network announced, after the assault on democracy on January 6, that it was permanently suspending Trump “due to the risk of further incitement to violence” (although everything indicates that with Elon Musk his return is being prepared). and Instagram and Facebook defined a suspension that, in principle, will go until at least January 7, 2023.

In February of this year, it launched its own network, similar to Twitter, called Truth Social. The former president also tried a blog, as reported by Politico, but closed it when he still had less than a month to live.

7. He faced more than a dozen pending accounts with the Justice

This period has also been marked by the lawsuits against the former president before the courts, which seem to have no end. The claims facing Trump are of all kinds and colors. Here we review, from 2021 to now, some of the most notorious.

July 2021: Trump Organization Tax Lawsuit

New York prosecutors charged the Trump Organization and the Trump Payroll Corporation with 10 felonies and Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg with 15 felonies for an alleged tax evasion scheme dating back to 2005. Trump himself is not charged. .

August 2022: Mar-a-Lago registration

The FBI executed a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound in Palm Beach, Florida, as part of an investigation into the handling of presidential documents, including classified documents, that may have been taken there. Days after the search, which took place on August 8, a federal judge ordered the publication of its affidavit. It then emerged that the agency classified 11 sets of documents in its file, including some materials marked “top secret/SCI,” one of the highest levels of classification, and identified three federal crimes that the Justice Department is examining as part of his investigation: violations of the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice, and criminal misuse of government records.

September 2022: Fraud lawsuit in New York

The New York attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Trump, three of his children and the Trump Organization, alleging they were involved in a more than decade-long fraud that the former president used to enrich himself. According to the lawsuit, the Trump Organization misled lenders, insurers and tax authorities by inflating their property values ​​through deceptive appraisals. Trump did not want to collaborate with the authorities and reiterated the argument of the witch hunt against him and his family.

October 2022: summons to testify for the attack on the Capitol

The House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 bombing on Capitol Hill announced that they have officially sent Trump a subpoena to try to force him to testify under oath and provide documents.

9. “Jewsplaning”

Among the multiple public controversies that he continued to fuel, one of the most recent was linked to the Jewish community, at a time marked by anti-Semitic expressions. Trump criticized American Jews in October for what he said was insufficient praise for their policies toward Israel, warning that they must “get their act together” before “it’s too late!” “No president has done more for Israel than I have,” Trump wrote before saying it was somewhat surprising that “our wonderful evangelicals appreciate this so much more than people of Jewish faith, especially those living in the US.”

The director of the American Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, accused Trump of “Jewsplaining” (something like giving lessons on Judaism to Jews). “We don’t need the former president, who curries favor with extremists and anti-Semites, to lecture us on the relationship between the United States and Israel. It is not a quid pro quo; it is based on shared values ​​and security interests. This ‘Jewsplaining’ is insulting and disgusting,” he wrote.

9. Stoking his candidacy… and targeting DeSantis

Behind his actions and statements, of course, he seems to be looking at 2024.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that Trump would like to return to the White House. The question of his possible candidacy (since he has to compete in the Republican primaries to win the right to run for the Presidency) has been in public discussion since the day he left the Executive.

And standing in his way is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a possible contender in the conservative primary. Trump, although he said he voted for DeSantis’s re-election in the Sunshine State in the midterms, has made it very clear to him that he doesn’t want him running for the White House. In an interview with Fox News Digital after halftime, Trump said of the governor: “I would tell you things about him that won’t be very flattering. I know more about him than anybody, other than maybe his wife.”

That was his most open threat against DeSantis, who he had already been hitting hard. At a rally in Pennsylvania the weekend before the election, Trump referred to DeSantis as “Ron DeSanctimonious.” Less than a month earlier, Trump had called a “BIG MISTAKE” (capitalized like that) for DeSantis to endorse Colorado Republican Senate candidate Joe O’Dea, who in turn had said he would “actively” oppose the former president if he ran for the White House in 2024.

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