Donald Trump: a businessman, real estate tycoon and reality TV star to country’s first former US President to be declared a convicted felon.
Donald Trump went from being a businessman, real estate tycoon and a reality TV star to becoming the country’s first former US President to be declared a convicted felon.
And after surviving two assassination bids during his 2024 campaign, the 78-year-old remains unstoppable with American voters giving him a second term.
In the process, he shattered the dream of the Democratic Party, as well as that of millions of Kamala Harris supporters, to finally have the first woman President in the White House.
He is now the oldest person in US history to be elected president.
From the time he left office after his loss in the 2020 presidential election to his nomination as the Republican candidate in the 2024 race, Trump continued to dominate the American news cycle and the country’s psyche.
He refused to accept the November 2020 result that brought Joe Biden to the White House, and a stunned nation watched his supporters storm the US Capitol on January 6. The riots disrupted a joint session of the US Congress which was in the process of affirming the presidential election results.
His third run for the job in 2024 was characterised by a slew of indictments and criminal cases, and a conviction in a New York court — making him the first former US president to be held guilty of a crime.
A grand jury found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records. The Biden-Harris campaign said at the time that no one is above the law while Trump called the verdict the result of a “rigged” political system.
