00:00Kamala, you're fired. Get out. Get out. You're fired.
00:05He was impeached twice, found liable in fraud and sexual abuse lawsuits,
00:10convicted of dozens of felonies, survived two assassination attempts,
00:14and has been declared politically dead again and again.
00:18But now, the billionaire businessman Donald Trump has come back stronger than ever
00:23to be elected as the President of the United States of America for a second time.
00:28Before he rode down the golden escalator of Trump Tower to announce his 2016 White House bid,
00:34Trump was a popular figure whom few took seriously.
00:38He was famous mostly for the ruthless character he played on the reality TV show The Apprentice,
00:43as well as for developing luxury buildings and golf resorts,
00:47and for his third wife, Melania, a former fashion model.
00:50A former fashion model.
00:53So when he won the 2016 election, Trump left the world stunned.
01:00I pledge to every citizen of our land that I will be president for all Americans.
01:07And this is so important to me.
01:11His story begins in New York City in the 1970s,
01:14when he took over his father's real estate empire
01:17and launched his persona as America's most famous playboy billionaire.
01:24Behind the sheen of A-lister success, though,
01:26lay a tangled record of bankruptcies, lawsuits and eyebrow-raising loans.
01:33Trump has gone to great lengths to hide this less glamorous picture,
01:37breaking presidential tradition and refusing to release his tax returns.
01:42Totally fake news.
01:44No, actually, I paid tax.
01:46And you'll see that as soon as my tax returns.
01:50It's underwrote.
01:51They've been underwrote for a long time.
01:53The IRS does not treat me well.
01:55When several years of his returns were finally made public,
01:59it emerged that there were several years when Trump was paying
02:02almost no income tax due to business losses.
02:06In early 2024, a judge ruled that Trump and his company had unlawfully inflated his wealth
02:12and manipulated the value of properties to obtain favourable bank loans or insurance terms.
02:18He was fined $355 million plus interest.
02:22He does, however, remain exceedingly rich.
02:25He is worth no less than several billion dollars, according to Forbes magazine.
02:32Worshipped by supporters, he is considered by detractors to be a danger to the country.
02:37And he still claims falsely to have won the 2020 election.
02:42Why aren't they investigating November 3rd, a rigged and stolen election
02:50without getting to the bottom of which we will never have a fair and free democracy?
02:58Trump's life is awash with substantial legal allegations, convictions and rulings.
03:05Most recently, in May 2024,
03:08he was convicted in New York on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records
03:13to hide a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during the heat of the 2016 election.
03:21This was a disgrace. This was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge. It was corrupt.
03:28The ruling made Trump the first ever former US president convicted of a felony.
03:38He still faces three other pending criminal cases,
03:44including charges related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election,
03:50when his supporters stormed the US Capitol egged on by Trump.
03:56To his base, he is the man that constitutes a giant middle finger to every member of the
04:00establishment, from the Republican Party bigwigs to leftist Hollywood and the media.
04:08The fake news likes to say, oh, he was rambling. No, no, that's not rambling. That's genius.
04:14Forsaken by his camp after the assault on the Capitol,
04:17Trump has succeeded in regaining control of the Republican Party
04:21and to get himself reelected again by painting an apocalyptic picture of America
04:26ravaged, according to him, by galloping inflation and migrants who are poisoning
04:31the blood of the country. Trump has escalated threats against his political opponents,
04:36calling them the enemy from within, with critics accusing him of authoritarianism
04:41and of weaponising immigration for political gain. During the campaign, Democrats have
04:47relentlessly focused on Trump as a fascist who threatens democracy and women's reproductive rights.
04:54These United States of America, we are not a vessel for the schemes of wannabe dictators.
05:02They keep saying, he's a threat to democracy. I'm saying,
05:05what the hell did I do for democracy? Last week, I took a bullet for democracy.
05:12The picture of Trump face bloodied and fist raised after he was shot in July at a rally
05:18in Pennsylvania has become one of the defining images of the campaign
05:22and one of the most iconic in US political history.
05:24When he's sworn in at 78 years old, he will be the oldest person to ever become the US president.
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