Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
Legacy media has called Donald Trump’s win in the Iowa Caucus a “landslide victory” and a “historic win.” Theoretically both statements are true: Trump did beat his two closest opponents, Florida Gov.
Ron DeSantis and Trump’s own former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley by nearly 30 points. And the win was historic in the sense that no other failed president has chosen to run again after being voted out of office.
It’s also historic in that Trump is currently under indictment in several criminal and civil court cases. His fraud trial just ended in New York last week.
His latest defamation trial with E. Jean Carroll, the Emmy-winning writer Trump was found liable of raping, began Jan. 16. While Trump challengers DeSantis and Haley moved on to further campaigning, Trump was sitting in a New York courtroom listening to his attorney, Alina Habba, say that Trump’s rape victim was seeking attention as a defense against her client’s repeated defamation of Carroll. “She likes her new brand,” Habba said of Carroll.
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