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Trump at the New York Military Academy in 1964

The 2016 presidential electoral vote. Five individuals besides Trump and Clinton received electoral votes from faithless electors.

Trump (far right) and wife Ivana in the receiving line of a state dinner for King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985, with U.S. president Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan

Outgoing President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office on November 10, 2016

Former Secretary of Energy Rick Perry with Zelenskyy at Zelenskyy's inauguration, May 2019

Donald Trump's official portrait before his swearing in ceremony.

Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense Kash Patel poses for his official portrait at the Pentagon on November 17, 2020

Entrance of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City

Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine was removed from her post because of her anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine, and because she disagreed with the shadow diplomacy taking place under Giuliani and President Trump.

Trump and New Jersey Generals quarterback Doug Flutie at a 1985 press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower

Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. delegation meet with President Zelenskyy in Warsaw on September 1, 2019

Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and her family with Trump on September 26, 2020

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy with Kurt Volker and Rick Perry, May 2019

Trump at a New York Mets baseball game in 2009

Fact-checkers from The Washington Post, (orange) the Toronto Star, and CNN (blue) compiled data on "false or misleading claims" and "false claims," respectively. The peaks in late 2018 correspond to the midterm elections, in late 2019 to his impeachment inquiry, and in late 2020 to the presidential election. The Post reported 30,573 false or misleading claims in 4 years, an average of more than 20.9 per day.

George Stephanopoulos described the details of the CrowdStrike conspiracy theory as "both convoluted and false".

Trump and President Bill Clinton in June 2000

Trump talks to the press in the Oval Office on March 21, 2017, before signing S.422 (the NASA Transition Authorization Act)

Trump speaks to reporters on the White House South Lawn in June 2019

Trump campaigning in Arizona, March 2016.

During a joint news conference, Trump said he was "very proud" to hear Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro use the term "fake news."

2016 electoral vote results. Trump won 304–227

Twitter activity of Donald Trump from his first tweet in May 2009 to September 2017. Retweets are not included.

Women's March in Washington on January 21, 2017

Trump signed new anti-sex-trafficking legislation on April 16, 2018.

Trump is sworn in as president by Chief Justice John Roberts

Trump pays tribute to fallen police officers on May 15, 2017

Trump speaks to automobile workers in Michigan, March 2017

Trump signs the Hurricane Harvey relief bill at Camp David, September8, 2017

Trump and group of officials and advisors on the way from White House complex to St. John's Church

Trump and Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg at the 787-10 Dreamliner rollout ceremony

Trump examines border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa, California.

Trump signs the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) alongside Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 30, 2018

Trump with the other G7 leaders at the 45th summit in France, 2019

Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visit Saint Andrew's Catholic School in Orlando, Florida, March3, 2017

Trump and Xi Jinping at 2018 G20 Summit.

April 2017 Trump rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Trump, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the 2017 Riyadh summit in Saudi Arabia

Official portrait of Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meeting with Taliban delegation in Qatar in September 2020

Trump meets Kim Jong-un at the Singapore summit, June 2018

The CBO estimated in May 2017 that the Republican AHCA would reduce the number of people with health insurance by 23 million during 2026, relative to current law.

Putin and Trump shaking hands at the G20 Osaka summit, June 2019

Drug overdoses killed 70,200 in the United States in 2017.

Trump and his third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.

Trump at the 15th Annual Opioid Takeback Day

Trump conducts a COVID-19 press briefing with members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force on March 15, 2020

Trump receives a briefing on COVID-19 in the White House Situation Room

Poland's president Andrzej Duda visited the White House on June 24, 2020, the first foreign leader to do so since the start of the pandemic.

Trump was hospitalized at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center following his COVID-19 diagnosis on October 3, 2020.

Trump boards helicopter for COVID-19 treatment on October 2, 2020

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, first day on the job

Trump discharged on October 5, 2020, from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Chad Wolf, acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security

Members of House of Representatives vote on two articles of impeachment, December 18, 2019

June 2018 protest against the Trump administration family separation policy, in Chicago, Illinois

Trump displaying the front page of The Washington Post reporting his acquittal by the Senate

Trump signs Executive Order 13769 at the Pentagon. Vice President Mike Pence (left) and Secretary of Defense James Mattis look on, January 27, 2017.

Trump at a 2020 campaign rally in Arizona

Trump returns to the White House after posing for a photo op at St. John's Episcopal Church, June 2020

2020 Electoral College results, Trump lost 232–306

Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence and President Donald Trump watch the Crew Dragon Demo-2 Falcon 9 rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi signing the second impeachment of Trump

Anti-Trump protest in Greensboro by the anti-fascist groups Democratic Socialists of America and Industrial Workers of the World

Trump speaks at the "Rally to Protect Our Elections" in Phoenix, Arizona, July 2021.

Trump and North Korea's Communist Party leader Kim Jong-un shake hands at the Korean Demilitarized Zone, June 30, 2019

Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at the welcoming ceremony for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley (left) on September 30, 2019. Outgoing chairman General Joseph Dunford (right) and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (center-right) are present.

Fact-checkers from The Washington Post, the Toronto Star, and CNN compiled data on "false or misleading claims" (orange background), and "false claims" (violet foreground), respectively.

Trump with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Oval Office, November 13, 2019

Trump with Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Washington, D.C., March 14, 2017

Robert Mueller in the Oval Office c. 2012

Tayyip Erdoğan, then the prime minister of Turkey, attended the opening of the Trump Towers Istanbul AVM in 2012.

Open hearing testimony of Fiona Hill and David Holmes on November 21, 2019

Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

Trump signs an Executive Order promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America on April 25, 2017

Gallup approval polling, covering February 2017 – December 2020
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Donald Trump's tenure as the 45th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 2017, and ended on January 20, 2021.

- Presidency of Donald Trump

Efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump to coerce Ukraine and other countries into providing damaging narratives about 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden as well as misinformation relating to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections caused a political scandal in the United States.

- Trump–Ukraine scandal

Trump enlisted surrogates within and outside his official administration, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr, to pressure Ukraine and other foreign governments to cooperate in supporting conspiracy theories concerning American politics.

- Trump–Ukraine scandal

Trump promoted conspiracy theories and made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics.

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After he pressured Ukraine to investigate Biden in 2019, he was impeached by the House of Representatives for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in December.

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Trump attempted to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations into his political rival Joe Biden, triggering his first impeachment by the House of Representatives on December 18, 2019, but he was acquitted by the Senate on February 5, 2020.

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Joe Biden

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American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States.

Results of the 1972 U.S. Senate election in Delaware

Biden and his second wife, Jill, met in 1975 and married in 1977

Biden shaking hands with President Ronald Reagan, 1984

Biden speaking at the signing of the 1994 Crime Bill with President Bill Clinton in 1994

Senator Biden accompanies President Clinton and other officials to Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 1997

Biden addresses the press after meeting with Prime Minister Ayad Allawi in Baghdad in 2004.

Biden campaigns at a house party in Creston, Iowa, July 2007

Biden speaks at the August 23, 2008, vice presidential announcement at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois

Biden being sworn in as vice president on January 20, 2009

President Obama congratulates Biden for his role in shaping the debt ceiling deal which led to the Budget Control Act of 2011.

Biden, Obama and the national security team gathered in the White House Situation Room to monitor the progress of the May 2011 mission to kill Osama bin Laden

Biden with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016

Biden with Vice President-elect Mike Pence on November 10, 2016

Biden with Barack Obama and Donald Trump, at the latter's inauguration on January 20, 2017

Biden at his presidential kickoff rally in Philadelphia, May 2019

Biden takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol, January 20, 2021

Biden meeting with Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office, June 7, 2021

Biden in a video conference with Vice President Harris and the U.S. National Security team, discussing the Fall of Kabul on August 15, 2021

Biden, UK prime minister Boris Johnson and UN secretary-general António Guterres at the opening ceremony of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow on November 1, 2021

Biden with Ketanji Brown Jackson in the Oval Office

Biden with refugees from Ukraine in Warsaw, March 2022

President Barack Obama and Biden talk with Xi Jinping, February 14, 2012

President Obama presents Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, January 12, 2017

Biden at a rally on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, February 2020

Biden and Ketanji Brown Jackson watching the U.S. Senate vote on her confirmation, April 2022.

Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris defeated incumbent president Donald Trump and vice president Mike Pence in the 2020 presidential election.

Biden remained in the public eye, endorsing candidates while continuing to comment on politics, climate change, and the presidency of Donald Trump.

The media widely interpreted this pressure to investigate the Bidens as trying to hurt Biden's chances of winning the presidency, resulting in a political scandal and Trump's impeachment by the House of Representatives.

Mike Pence

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American politician, broadcaster, and lawyer who served as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

Pence with President Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1988

Congressman Pence visits U.S. soldiers in Mosul, Iraq, in 2006.

Results of the 2012 Indiana gubernatorial election; Pence won the counties in red.

Pence was sworn in as governor of Indiana on January 14, 2013.

Governor Pence speaks at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on February 27, 2015.

Governor Pence (right) with President Barack Obama (left) and Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, February 25, 2013

Governor Pence at the dedication of a new veterans' clinic, March 30, 2016

Pence addresses supporters at a church service, September 2016.

Pence at the 500 Festival Parade in Indianapolis, 2015

Pence speaks at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, August 2016.

The Trump–Pence ticket won the 2016 presidential election with 306 of the 538 available electoral votes, later reduced to 304
due to a faithless elector.

Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence, and Major General Courtney P. Carr stand for the National Anthem.

Pence with South Korean president Moon Jae-in at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Pence (second from left) during the U.S. military raid on ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on October 26, 2019

Former Vice President and fellow Hoosier Dan Quayle and Marilyn Quayle with Pence in 2019.

Pence and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force brief the media in March 2020.

Pence and his wife Karen at the inauguration of Joe Biden

Pence speaks at the 2017 March for Life in Washington, D.C.

U.S. representative Pence (third from left) behind Governor Mitch Daniels at a 2008 press conference in Martinsville, Indiana

Pence speaks at a Tea Party rally in 2011.

Pence swears in John F. Kelly at DHS Headquarters on January 25, 2017.

Pence visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Pence and Trump with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salman on March 14, 2017

Joint press conference with the Baltic states presidents and Pence, July 31, 2017

Representative Pence with President George W. Bush

Pence speaks to police officers in Youngstown, Ohio, June 25, 2020.

Governor Pence addresses Indiana State Military at the Indiana War memorial on Veterans Day, 2014

Pence withdrew from his gubernatorial reelection campaign in July 2016 to become the running mate of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who went on to win the 2016 presidential election.

During the transition phase of the Trump administration, Pence was reported as holding a large degree of influence in the administration due to his roles as a mediator between Trump and congressional Republicans, for reassuring conservatives about Trump's conservative credentials, and his influence in determining Donald Trump's cabinet.

Pence was a key player in the Trump-Ukraine scandal and the Trump impeachment inquiry.

Donald Trump Jr.

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American political activist, businessman, author, and former television presenter.

Trump Jr. campaigning for his father in Iowa, November 2016

Trump Jr. with Kimberly Guilfoyle in July 2019

Trump Jr. speaks at the 2019 Teen Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA, 2019

He is the eldest child of Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, and his first wife Ivana Trump.

During their father's presidency, the brothers continued to do deals and investments in foreign countries, as well as collect payments in their U.S. properties from foreign governments, despite a pledge that they would not do so.

Amid the Trump–Ukraine scandal – where Trump asked the Ukrainian president to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden – Trump Jr. strongly criticized Hunter Biden, accusing him of nepotism and leveraging his father as a means to get financial benefits.

Mike Pompeo

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U.S. congressional delegation at the Halifax International Security Forum in 2014

Official portrait of Mike Pompeo as CIA Director

World War II veterans being honored at Bastille Day celebrations on July 13, 2017

Pompeo with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 29, 2018

Pompeo with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman on October 18, 2018

Pompeo with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Pompeo and Vladimir Putin met in Sochi on May 14, 2019.

Pompeo with Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, in Khartoum, Sudan, on August 25, 2020

Pompeo with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko in Kyiv, January 31, 2020

Pompeo with General Austin S. Miller in Kabul on June 25, 2019

Pompeo departs the Department of State on January 20, 2021

President Trump, joined by Pompeo and Netanyahu behind, signs the proclamation recognizing Israel's 1981 annexation of the Golan Heights, March 25, 2019.

Pompeo and Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping

Pompeo at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C.

Congressman Pompeo at FreedomWorks New Fair Deal rally outside the U.S. Capitol, April 2013

Mike Pompeo (center) with wife Susan and son Nicholas in 2018

Michael Richard Pompeo (born December 30, 1963) is an American politician, diplomat, and businessman who served under President Donald Trump as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2017 to 2018 and as the 70th United States secretary of state from 2018 to 2021.

He routinely flouted State Department norms, used his office to support Trump's re-election, supported Trump's efforts to pressure Ukraine for political favors, and fired State Department Inspector General Steve Linick, who was investigating Pompeo.

The announcement was made on the last day of the presidency of Donald Trump.

Mick Mulvaney

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American politician who served as director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from February 2017 until March 2020, and as acting White House Chief of Staff from January 2019 until March 2020.

Speaking at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.

Speaking at a campaign event for Senator Rand Paul, September 2015

He was nominated as OMB Director by President-elect Donald Trump in December 2016 and confirmed by Senate vote (51–49) on February 16, 2017.

Mulvaney was closely involved in the Trump–Ukraine scandal.

The Washington Post reported that the decision was controversial among network employees, due to Mulvaney's history within the Trump administration and its adversarial attitude towards the news media.