George Zander

**George Arnold Zander** (September 13 1959 - April 8 2020) was an American politician who served as the 45th President of the United States of America from January 20 2013 to his resignation on December 14 2019, as well as the Republican nominee for the 2008 and 2012 Presidential Elections.

Beginning his political career in 1994 as a Republican Senator for Washington State, George Zander won re-election in 2000 and would win re-election again in 2006 before declining to run again in 2012, instead choosing to focus on his presidential election bid. Serving in the US senate for 18 years, 12 of which he served as the senior delegate from the state, George Zander became the head of numerous different political committees over his years in office and served as Chief Whip for the Republican party in the Senate between 2001 and 2004 during the presidency of Jed Bartlett.

Securing the nomination for the Republican party ticket for the 2008 United States presidential election, Zander and his ticket partner David Salmond ultimately failed to unseat President Martin Escott but Zander returned to the Senate and four years later managed to secure the nomination alongside Senator Simon Walker going into the 2012 United States presidential election, where the ticket managed to defeat Democratic presidential hopeful Al Gore and secure the presidency.

During his presidency, George Zander embarked upon returning conservatism to the United States, focusing on key divisive issues in order to divide the Democratic party between it's progressive and moderate wings, whilst also embarking with a QAnon conspiracy wing of the Republican party to form a ring of corrupt politicians and business people in order to quash opposition to his administration, often forcing opponents to resign from their congressional seats through blackmail. Famed for it's de-funding of schools and social services, the Zander Administration instead pooled funds into defence programs of the nation and began a policy of interventionism abroad, especially in Latin America.

Ultimately President Zander's ring of criminals and politically dubious officials would lead to his downfall as a secretly conducted instigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation titled the Zander Report, which detailed accounts from staffers and opposition politicians who had received intimidation from the White House. Indicting only President Zander in the report, the FBI concluded that the president was guilty of crimes against the United States of America and as such the House of Representatives opened an Impeachment trial in November 2019. Passing along to the Senate in early December 2019, the Republican base of George Zander refused to support the president and in order to prevent receiving the dubious honour of being the first president to be convicted by Congress, Zander resigned his office (much like his predecessor Richard Nixon in 1974) and Vice President Simon Walker ascended to the presidency on December 14, 2019.

Post presidency, George Zander continued his controversial lifestyle and following the decision of the Senate to halt impeachment trials on him, Zander formed his own political party by the name of the Jeffersons, before being assassinated by a sniper at a Jefferson political rally on April 8, 2020, leading to the dissolution of the Jeffersons. George Zander is remembered as one of the most controversial and divisive presidents in American history, and was directly responsible for the beginning of a process of widescale radicalisation within the Republican party grassroots which would completely change the party by the mid-2030s.

## History

Born into a middle-class family in Seattle, Washington State, George Zander entered politics as a Republican Senator for his home state in the year 1992 and rose to become a prominent figure within the party by the 2008 Election. Having beaten several rivals for the nomination, Zander went on to be the candidate for the 2012 and 2016 elections, achieving the Presidency in 2012. As the Republican candidate for the 2008 and 2012 Presidential Elections, George Zander was elected as President of the United States of America in the 2012 election, winning by a landslide against the Democrat candidate Al Gore with 370 Electoral College votes and a popular vote of 52,999,834.

## Presidency

 Vice President

Succeeding President Martin Escott after his two terms in office, Republican presidential candidate and President-elect George Zander was sworn into office at midday on January 20, 2013 and set about revitalising the US economy in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis as part of his manifesto pledge to the United States of America, although his hard-line policies lead to mass unemployment in spite of the large economic packages being made available to the people by Congress. Having spent most of his political career rising through ranks thanks to a variety of blackmail, extortion and other illegal pressures, Zander continued using these underhand methods in office, creating a toxic atmosphere within Washington D.C. that threatened to engulf the American political system as well as bringing to power a set of devotedly loyal Republican associates, many of whom were later found to be supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theories espoused as part of the president's rhetoric, who would follow the president's orders to the letter, leading to a string of high profile assassinations and forced resignations in the winter and spring of 2014 - 15 which became known as the Black Winter.

While outwardly appearing functional, the culture of greed and competition created by Zander meant that essential issues were being overlooked in favour of divisive ones that the President himself wanted done, and as such social services and schooling trusts revived the smallest amount of funding from any federal government in American history since the years of prohibition. Having rebuilt the economy after the 2008 banking crisis during his first term in office, Zander won the 2016 election by a landslide and began compiling a second administration, this time focused on becoming the paramount global power, as opposed to the Libirachi Empire, which had extensive diplomatic relations world-wide. Taking up the aggressive strategy favoured by President Jed Bartlett, the Zander Doctrine was an aggressive interventionist strategy which saw the USA enter conflicts across the world. The many wars fought in South America helped legitimise Zander's claim that the US was the foremost nation in the world, but with the 2019 coup d'état in the Libirachi Empire and the emergence of Laura Fox's regime, Zander's administration began to crumble as the Empire began to press its diplomatic goals around the world through a variety of diplomatic means. At the same time as weakness began to show in his administration, the "Zandgate" crisis of 2019 revealed the actions of the president to the world in the "Zander Report". Faced with an impeachment trial in the senate as a result of the exposure of his ring of corrupt politicians and business people, George Zander resigned from office and was replaced by his vice president Simon Walker on December 14th 2019 at a publicly attended ceremony at Camp David.

## Post Presidency

Following his resignation from the office of president, the United States Congress dropped impeachment proceedings against George Zander on December 14, 2019. Now politically free, George Zander formed his own political party called the Jeffersons and launched an electoral campaign with the intention of running in the presidential election the following year in 2020. Zander used his platform as the leader of the Jeffersons party, named after former President Thomas Jefferson, to criticize the administration of President Simon Walker, claiming that the now president was "abandoning" the manifesto of policies that Zander had won his 2016 victory on. On April 8, 2020, George Zander was assassinated at an election rally just 4 months after leaving the presidency.

## Gallery

President George ZanderPresident Zander announces his resignation to the nationPresident Zander gives the State of the Union address in 2017George Zander looks on as his Vice President Simon Walker is sworn into office following his resignation in 2019George Zander gives a speech for the 2016 ElectionThe Zander-Walker ticket logo for 2012 - 2019
## See Also

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