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President Trump’s democracy-bending final months in office

By Photos by the New York Times

Feb. 1, 2021

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President Donald Trump watches a military plane flyover at Mount Rushmore in Keystone, S.D., on July 3.
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President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), left, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in Washingotn in July. The two men now leading the Republican Party usually align during political crises. But the Trumpian chaos splintering the G.O.P. is not only testing McCarthy and McConnell — it’s also highlighting their differences in how to handle the former president and hampering a united strategy for retaking Congress next year.
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President Donald Trump during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Nov. 3. A New York Times examination of 77 democracy-bending days shows how a lie that President Donald Trump had been grooming for years finally overwhelmed the Republican Party and was propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers, political organizers, financiers and right-wing media.
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President Donald Trump at a campaign event on behalf of Georgia's then Republican senators, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, at an airport in Valdosta, Ga., on Dec. 5. Trump and the Republican Party raised $255.4 million in the eight-plus weeks following the Nov. 3 election, new federal filings show, as he sought to undermine and overturn the results with unfounded accusations of fraud.
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President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Valdosta, Ga., on Dec. 5.
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Protesters outside the Supreme Court in Washington on Dec. 8. Many Republican grass-roots donors were drawn in by former President Donald Trump's false promises and "stop the steal" message after the November election.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) joins President Donald Trump onstage at a rally in Dalton, Ga., on Jan. 4. As more far-right Republicans take office and exercise power, party officials are promoting unity and neutrality rather than confronting dangerous messages and disinformation.
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President Donald Trump addresses a rally to protest the presidential election results, in Washington on Jan. 6. At least 19 state and local elected officeholders from across the country attended the rally and, in some cases, stormed the Capitol.
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President Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, to travel to the border wall in Texas on Jan. 12. Campaign finance reports show that as Trump raked in tens of millions by falsely arguing that he had won the election, only a tiny fraction of the funds were being spent on actual legal efforts.
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump depart the White House on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20.

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