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TRUMP

Personal History

• Born in Queen's, New York, to real estate developer

• BS from University of Pennsylvania

• Five children from three wives

Private Sector History

• Claims turned $1 million loan from father into billion company. Research suggests series of loans totalling $140 milion (today's dollars) which weren't repaid.1

• Claimed bankruptcy six times.

• Agreed to $25 million settlement that would return student tuition in Trump University fraud case.

• Trump and his businesses have also been involved in more than 4,000 legal actions.

Public Sector History

• Elected president in 2017 no prior office.

• Removed U.S. from following agreements:

• the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with

the P5+1 and Iran (JCPOA)

• the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC)

• the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and

Regular Migration

the Global Compact on Refugees

the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)

the Paris Agreement

the World Health Organization (WHO)

the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and

Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

the Treaty on Open Skies

the Optional Protocol of the Vienna Convention

on Diplomatic Relations

• the Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations, and

Consular Rights with Iran

• and New START

• Passed 2017 tax bill. This bill was skewed so top 1 percent would receive an average tax cut of more than $60,000 in 2025.

* Lost 6.9 million jobs across presidency..2

* Left office having been impeached twice by the House of Representatives: 1) abuse of power and obstruction of Congress; 2) insurrection. The Republican controlled U.S. Senate acquitted Trump both times.

* Refused to attend the inqauration of Biden, becoming first president not to attend his successor’s inauguration since 1869.3

* Made 30,573 false or misleading claims over the four years he served as president.4

* Two studies raise concerns about Trump's psychological stability, including diagnosis of narcissism and possible dementia.5

Present Legal Situation

* Convicted of sexual assault and defamation against E. Jean Carroll, Order to pay $91.6 million (posting the amount through a bond as the judgement is appealed).

* Trump and company convicted of civil fraud for tax evasion. Ordered to pay $350 million (posting the amount through a bond as the judgement is appealed).

* Trump was convicted of thirty-four-count felony counts

for falsifying business records (hush money trial), involving porn star Stormy Daniels)..

* As of June 2024, Trump was personally charged with multiple indictments in four criminal cases:

Charged with thirty-seven felonies related to

his handling and refusal to return hundreds of

documents containing classified information.

Charged with four federal criminal counts after

attempt to overturn the 2020 election,

culminating in the January 6th insurrection.

Charged Trump and 18 others in a 41-count

indictment for election fraud in Georgia during

the 2020 election and after.6

* Has paid his legal expenses by moving over $100 million in campaign funds to cover such.7

What to Expect if Elected to Second Term

* Outlined in Time magazine what he would specifically do it reelected: :

• Carry out a deportation operation designed to remove

more than 11 million people from the country, he

would be willing to build migrant detention camps

and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and

inland.

• Let red states monitor women’s pregnancies and

prosecute those who violate abortion bans.

• At his personal discretion, withhold funds

appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers.

• Be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry

out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a

tradition of independent law enforcement that dates

from America’s founding.

• Weigh pardons for every one of his supporters

accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021,

more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been

convicted by a jury.

• Might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in

Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying

enough for its own defense.

• Would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National

Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the

White House pandemic-preparedness office, and

staff his Administration with acolytes who back his

false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.8

* Says, “I said I want to be a dictator for one day,” Day 1, of second term.9

* Encouraged Russia to invade NATO countries who hadn't paid dues10

* Engages Nazi rhetoric, suggesting he would root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country."11

* Accuses Biden of running "Gestapo Administration."12

* Continues to support Putin, Kim Jong Un, Orbán.