Trump, who is running against Kamala Harris in 2024, has since become a convicted felon, survived an assassination attempt, and chosen a new running mate.
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Trump announced his 2024 presidential campaign in 2022 and formally accepted the nomination at the 2024 Republican National Convention in July. He replaced Pence with Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his running mate. Pence did not endorse Trump in 2024.
He continues to hold rallies and refuse to accept the result of the 2020 election in the midst of several investigations and lawsuits.
Among them, in 2022, FBI agents executed a search warrant on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, prompting a furious reaction from Trump and his allies. The search appeared to be over material that Trump brought back to Florida after leaving the White House, spurring a federal investigation linked to the Presidential Records Act.
In 2023, Justice Department prosecutors charged Trump with 37 criminal counts, alleging he withheld classified records from the government after leaving office and attempted to obstruct their return. But in July, a judge dismissed the case, ruling that appointing Jack Smith as special counsel to prosecute the case was unconstitutional. Smith has appealed.
Separately, the New York attorney general investigated the Trump Organization’s financial dealings, and court filings detailed the AG office’s accusations against the company, including improperly inflated property values. In February, after a three-month trial, a judge ordered Trump to pay $355 million in penalties in the civil fraud case. He has appealed.
In 2023, Trump was indicted and charged with 34 felony counts for first-degree falsifying business records. Trump denied all wrongdoing, pleading not guilty and accusing the probes of being politically motivated. It went to trial in April, and Trump was found guilty on all counts in the first-ever criminal trial of a former American president. Trump maintained that he is a “very innocent man.”
In 2023, as part of the DOJ’s investigation into the events before the January 6 Capitol riot, Trump was indicted for a third time and charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction, and conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted. Following the Supreme Court’s 2024 opinion that presidents hold some immunity from criminal prosecution, a new, revised indictment was filed in August. Trump has pleaded not guilty.
He has vowed to return to the White House in 2024, saying at a January 2022 rally in Texas that he would consider pardons for rioters who attacked the Capitol on January 6 if elected.
In July, Trump was wounded in an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, that killed one audience member and wounded two.
