Donald Trump

**Donald Trump** (June 14, 1946 - May 20, 2021) was an American businessman and television personality who served as the 45th President of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

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Trump became the first president in U.S. history to be indicted, and he died shortly after his indictment in May 2021 at the age of 74.

## President of the United States (2017-2021)

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## Later life (2021)

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After his presidency ended on January 20, he retired to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. As established by the Former Presidents Act, he established an office there to handle his post-presidential activities.

On February 22, one month and two days after he left office, he was convicted at his second impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate for incitement of insurrection, racketeering, bribery, and abuse of power. Soon after, President Johnson, his Attorney General, Doug Jones, and the Justice Department of the United States, launched a federal investigation into his tax returns, financial records, business records, and presidential records, while the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, the Attorney General of New York, Letitia James, and the District Attorney of New York County, Cyrus Vance Jr., launched their own investigation into it as well. The Senate also passed a resolution preventing Trump from receiving the benefits that former U.S. presidents receive under the Former Presidents Act, including a $200,000 per year pension, and a $1,000,000 travel budget.

On March 5, the investigation launched by President Johnson and the Justice Department gained access to and disclosed Trump's tax returns and business records to the public, which revealed that Trump successfully evaded paying income taxes for ten years before he ran for President through several tax loopholes, and according to financial records that were documented during his presidency, he secretly was given $50,000,000 from Ukraine, and $100,000,000 from Russia through potential bribes, which he used for personal interests and for private grants to several pharmaceutical companies that engaged in profiteering and fraud before and during the healthcare crisis of 2020. It was also revealed that Trump had evaded paying business taxes and had engaged in money laundering from various sources while running the Trump Organization, along with many of his businesses and casinos. Trump attempted to deny these documents, claiming they were falsified documents created by, "the Deep State," as an excuse to prosecute him, despite no evidence of those documents being falsified, and he also attempted to obstruct the administration of justice and interfere with the court proceedings to delay or prevent any possible verdict that might have led to indictments or any possible criminal charges for himself or for his closest allies.

Nikki Fried, the Governor of Florida, launched an extensive investigation into Trump's business records and his financial records on March 6, and two days later, the investigation revealed more evidence of money laundering and tax evasion. The Supreme Court of the United States opened the case involving Trump's potential bribes with Ukraine and Russia on March 9, and on that same day, the New York Supreme Court opened the case involving Trump's business records and tax returns. Trump refused to show up for court nor testify under oath not only in the New York Supreme Court, but also the Supreme Court of the United States.

On March 12, the New York Supreme Court, along with the Supreme Court of the United States, ruled Trump guilty of all charges, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison on three counts of money laundering, six counts of tax evasion, incitement of insurrection, abuse of power, two counts of bribery, obstructing the administration of justice, and failure to appear in court. When the Palm Beach Police Department showed up to Mar-a-Lago to arrest him, Trump reportedly resisted arrest and conspired with some of his closest Secret Service agents to arrest any police officer on the property on the grounds of breaking and entering, which even led to some of his Secret Service agents killing up to six police officers in a shootout at Mar-a-Lago. Thirty additional police officers arrived to Mar-a-Lago, along with the West Palm Beach SWAT team, but many of them were arrested by the Secret Service, and twelve more police officers were killed by Secret Service agents, along with one Secret Service agent, Michael E. Polk Jr., who was killed by a SWAT officer during the shootout. It was later uncovered that during this time, some other members of the Secret Service secretly escorted Trump to the Detachment Hotel, a bunker complex on Peanut Island, Florida, approximately six miles from Mar-a-Lago. Four hours later, Trump and his Secret Service detail were tracked down hiding in the Detachment Hotel bunker complex on Peanut Island by the Florida National Guard by direction of Governor Fried, along with the Palm Beach Police Department. Trump and his Secret Service agents reportedly attempted to resist, but eventually, he, along with his Secret Service agents, were all arrested on the scene. After an extensive investigation into the incident, "resisting arrest," along with two counts of conspiracy were added to Trump's criminal charges. He was incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary, Administrative Maximum Facility (USP Florence ADMAX), a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. Trump was last captured on camera in the early hours of the morning on March 13, where he was being escorted on a plane from the Palm Beach International Airport that was bound for Florence, Colorado. Trump remained at the ADX Florence prison facility for the final sixty-eight days of his life.

On May 20, 2021, Trump was found dead in his cell at the age of 74 at 6:40 AM. According to officers present at the building at the time of his death, Williams might have died in his sleep at some point during the early hours of the morning, because he was last observed alive through a live security camera at 12:00 AM midnight on May 20, where he was reportedly lying in his bed, moving around slowly in apparent disorientation. His cause of death was, at first, thought to be, and even reported by various news outlets, as a heart attack, but after an autopsy was conducted on his body, it was revealed that the cause of his death was not a heart attack, but rather, from dehydration. An unconfirmed report by the prison facility revealed that Trump started to dehydrate himself on May 12, eight days before his death, but this report was never proven to be accurate as the prison facility refused to show security camera footage of Trump during his final days alive.

Members of Trump's family, including his son, Donald Trump Jr., and his daughter, Ivanka Trump, declined to have a state funeral for Donald Trump, and instead chose to have his body cremated. His ashes are still kept by several members of his family to this day.

In 2023, it was revealed that the security camera footage showing Trump's final days alive was leaked to the public, showing up to 1,637 hours of footage from March 13 until May 20, the period of time Trump spent in the ADX Florence prison facility.

## See also

* United States v. Trump
* 2021 Mar-a-Lago shooting
* Death of Donald Trump