When Donald Trump left the White House in January 2021 at the end of his first presidential term, he climbs back to the highest office in the country to be out of the consultation of many political observers.
Two weeks earlier, fueled by Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election had been stolen, his supporters had attacked the U. S. Capitol to block Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s victory. The Jan. 6 occasions were at the time as “universally terrible,” former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, host of the Megyn Kelly show, Frontline says in the new documentary Trump.
“The idea of his return to the presidency wasn’t even an option from a distance,” Kelly explains in the documentary. “A general imoption for all Trumps. “
The above video from Trump’s Gos Back explores how, in the years since Jan. 6, 2021, that “total impossibility” has become true, despite legal and political challenges.
The entire documentary will be released on Jan. 21, the day after Trump’s inauguration. Correa at key moments throughout President Trump’s life and career, adding the accusation and conviction that followed his first term, and how, in the words of Peter Baker of the New York Times, “that would have destroyed the career of any other politician, seemed just for him and to embrace him.
As the above video recounts, after leaving office, Trump was found liable for sexual abuse. His company, the Trump Organization, was convicted of felony crimes including tax fraud. Trump himself was indicted four times: for his role in Jan. 6 and efforts to overturn the 2020 election, for his handling of classified documents, and for his involvement in a “hush money” scheme for which he was ultimately convicted on 34 felony counts.
“The day you’re being arraigned and fingerprinted and mug-shotted — for most people, that’s a bad day. But for Donald Trump, it was an opportunity,” Trump biographer Marc Fisher says in the video. “All of these raids, all of these prosecutions, only fed his presentation of himself as a victim, as a martyr, as someone who is there to take these bullets on behalf of Americans.”
Calling the trial that led to his conviction for the crime of May 2024 “false” and “shameful”, Trump, who denied any representable act in all cases opposed to him, “the genuine verdict will be on November 5 through The people “.
Then, with his biggest comeback on the way, a watershed moment came here for Trump: surviving genuine bullets while the target of an assassination attempt at a July 2024 crusade rally.
“The strength of your character and the fight within you is tested in moments like that,” Brooke Rollins, Trump’s pick for agriculture secretary in his new administration, says in the video.
Trump’s return to the White House was consolidated that day, according to Hogan Gidley, secretary of the White House, the first Trump administration.
“To watch that man stand up, raise his fist and look at the crowd and yell, ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’ Gidley tells FRONTLINE. “In that moment I said, ‘He just won the election.’”
For the full story, watch Trump’s return. The documentary is in the vast archives of a report on Trump over nearly a decade, adding the 2024 election, the double biography of Trump and his Democratic opponent, Kamala Harris, as well as new insider interviews and new White House startup led after Trump’s election in the 2024 victory. While examining how Trump’s Historical Go Back had roots dating back decades, the documentary gives a valuable insight into his technique to life and politics as he begins his moment.
Trump’s Comeback will be available to watch in full starting Jan. 21, 2025, at 10/9c. Watch on PBS stations (check local listings), at pbs.org/frontline, in the PBS App or FRONTLINE’s YouTube channel. The documentary will also be available on the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel. Trump’s Comeback is a FRONTLINE Production with Kirk Documentary Group, Ltd. The director is Michael Kirk. The producers are Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser and Vanessa Fica. The writers are Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser. The reporters are Vanessa Fica and Brooke Nelson Alexander. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.