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Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th President of the United States, has been described as nationalist and right-wing populist with his current views being business nationalist and ultraconservative. Trump has variously described himself as "common sense" and nationalist. Prior to 2016, he at times identified with the Democratic Party.
SourceIn the United States, electoral fraud, or voter fraud, involves illegal voting in or manipulation of United States elections. Types of fraud include voter impersonation or in-person voter fraud, mail-in or absentee ballot fraud, illegal voting by noncitizens, and double voting. The United States government defines voter or ballot fraud as one of three broad categories of federal election crimes, the other two being campaign finance crimes and civil rights violations.
SourcePresidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 2024. The Republican ticket of former president Donald Trump and Ohio junior senator JD Vance defeated the Democratic ticket of incumbent vice president Kamala Harris and Minnesota governor Tim Walz. The incumbent president, Joe Biden of the Democratic Party, initially ran for re-election, easily sweeping aside a challenge from Democratic representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota in the Democratic primaries to become the party's presumptive nominee.
SourceAfter Democratic nominee Joe Biden won the 2020 United States presidential election, Republican nominee and then-incumbent president Donald Trump pursued an unprecedented effort to overturn the election, with support from his campaign, proxies, political allies, and many of his supporters. These efforts culminated in the January 6 Capitol attack, described by multiple sources as a self-coup d'état attempt. Trump and his allies used the "big lie" propaganda technique to promote false claims and conspiracy theories asserting that the election was stolen by means of rigged voting machines, electoral fraud and an international conspiracy.
SourceProject 2025 (also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project) is a political initiative published in April 2023 by the Heritage Foundation with the goal of reshaping the U.S. federal government by consolidating executive power in favor of right-wing policies. It constitutes a policy document that suggests specific changes to the federal government, a personnel database for recommending vetting loyal staff in the federal government, and a set of proposed executive orders for the U.S. president to implement those policies. The project's policy document Mandate for Leadership calls for the replacement of federal civil service workers by people loyal to "the next conservative president" and for taking partisan control of the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Commerce (DOC), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
SourceDuring his first term as President of the United States, Donald Trump made tens of thousands of false or misleading claims. During the first two-and-a-half years (January 2017–June 2019), the Toronto Star tallied 5,276 false claims, an average of six per day. Across all four years, fact-checkers at The Washington Post documented 30,573 false or misleading claims, an average of 21 per day.
SourceDuring his second term as president of the United States, Donald Trump has made numerous false or misleading claims.
SourceThere is significant academic and political debate about the extent to which the United States has embodied authoritarianism during the Trump presidencies. Many scholars classify the US as a hybrid "proto-authoritarian" or competitive authoritarian regime, as opposed to being a healthy democracy or a highly centralized authoritarian regime. This is the result of significant democratic backsliding, which accelerated during Donald Trump's first presidency, plateaued during Joe Biden's presidency, and accelerated again during Trump's second presidency at a faster, unprecedented rate.
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