The former American president donald trump will face his successor on Thursday Joe Biden in a televised debate, four months before both face each other again at the polls.
These are some biographical data of the 78-year-old Republican magnate, who has the unconditional support of his followers despite the legal cases against him.
Political experience
Donald Trump had never submitted to popular suffrage before winning the 2016 presidential election against Democrat Hillary Clinton. He had commented publicly several times that he considered running for the White House. Nobody took him seriously.
Family and religion
Trump was born in 1946 into a wealthy family in New York. He grew up surrounded by luxury and rubbing shoulders with the elite. Contrary to the legend he has forged, he is not at all a self-made man.
His father built an empire in New York by building buildings. Donald Trump took the reins of the company in the 1970s with a solid financial boost and made a name for himself in American homes thanks to the reality television show “The newbie”.
He has five children from three different women, so, in theory, he is not the ideal candidate for conservative Christians.
But his constant praise of family and religious values means that he continues to be the favorite option of many evangelicals, especially because the replacement of the Supreme Court that he carried out during his mandate led the high court to annul the constitutional right to abortion in 2022. .
Fortune
His fortune has been the subject of much speculation over the years, and a judge has claimed that the former president and two of his sons inflated the assets of the Trump Organization.
But Donald Trump remains very rich. According to Forbes magazine, he has several billion dollars thanks to the real estate sector and the Trump Media and Technology Group (parent company of his social network Truth Social).
Style
Pugnacious and angry, he embodies a populism that does not hide. Donald Trump stunned the world when he was elected in 2016.
His supporters praise him and his detractors consider him a danger to American democracy and to America’s traditional alliances abroad.
He often resorts to insults and ridicule as a political weapon and insists on claiming without evidence that he has won the 2020 elections.
As the date of the elections approaches, his rhetoric hardens and he has come to call “fascists” to his opponents. He also uses dehumanizing language to talk about migrants, whom he accuses of “poisoning the blood” of the country.
Legal issues
Donald Trump is immersed in court cases, several of them involving criminal charges. Recently, he has been found guilty of accounting falsehood for payments made in late 2016 to a former porn actress to keep her silent about an extramarital relationship that she claims to have had with him in 2006.
This is the first criminal verdict against a former president in United States history. He is also charged with attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election and mishandling confidential documents.
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Source: Gestion
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