2020 US presidential elections

Former US president Donald Trump prepares to speak at a rally at the Canyon Moon Ranch festival grounds on January 15, 2022 in Florence, Arizona. The rally marks Trump's first of the midterm election year with races for both theUS Senate and governor in Arizona this year. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)

January 17, 2022, 1:25 am

At Arizona rally, Trump stirs racial tensions, repeats claim of stolen election

Former US president falsely claims white people being denied vaccines, sent to back of line for therapeutics; indicates he won’t endorse candidates who accept 2020 results

By Agencies

US Capitol Police try to hold back rioters outside the east doors to the House side of the US Capitol, on January 6, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

January 6, 2022, 11:55 pm

Fuzzy memories and partisan divisions blur commemoration of January 6

The violent culmination of a bid to delegitimize the 2020 US election and block its certification has morphed into partisan accounts of what actually happened

By Jake Coyle

Vice President Mike Pence presides over a joint session of Congress as it convenes to count the Electoral College votes cast in November's election, at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., stands at right.(Saul Loeb/Pool via AP, File)

January 6, 2022, 3:59 am

What if? How top Democrats grappled with chance that Pence would object to Biden win

Key lawmakers say path was unclear and that US remains vulnerable to attempts to undermine democracy, reliant on poorly written, vague laws governing transition of power

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

Members of the House of Representatives gather in the chamber to vote on creation of a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, at the Capitol in Washington, on June 30, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

January 2, 2022, 7:41 am

After months of work, House panel probing Jan. 6 insurrection readies to go public

The nine lawmakers — seven Democrats and two Republicans — on the congressional committee are planning televised hearings and reports to bring their findings into the open

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

US President Donald Trump arrives on the South Lawn of the White House after a trip to Texas, Washington, Jan. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

December 12, 2021, 12:25 pm

US Capitol riot probe gets coup plan presentation from Trump chief of staff – report

PowerPoint handed to US House investigation reportedly suggests several options for then-president to pursue to derail Congress’s January 6 certification of Biden’s election win

By TOI staff and AFP

In this file photo taken on September 29, 2020, then-US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in the first presidential debate at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. (WIN MCNAMEE / AFP)

December 1, 2021, 7:56 pm

Trump tested positive for COVID just before Biden debate — chief of staff’s book

While then-US president tested negative soon after positive test, got all-clear from doctor, he wound up getting so sick days later that he had to be hospitalized, memoir recalls

By AFP

In this January 6, 2021, photo, violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump scale the west wall of the the US Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

November 22, 2021, 6:21 pm

US joins annual list of ‘backsliding’ democracies after 2020 election fraud claims

Trump’s accusations of fraud without evidence are being replicated by leaders in countries across the globe, including Israel, Myanmar and Peru, says think tank

By Marc Preel

In this October 8, 2019 file photo, a woman types on a keyboard in New York. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

October 16, 2021, 10:49 am

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has key role in state-backed hack surge, Google warns

Tech giant says Tehran group targeted campaign staffers in US 2020 election; used phishing attacks as well as trying to upload a malware app to Play Store

By TOI staff

In this December 5, 2020 file photo, US President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally for Senate Republican candidates, in Valdosta, Georgia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

October 7, 2021, 10:21 pm

US Senate report details Trump’s all-out bid to undo election results

Former president’s extraordinary steps brought the Justice Department to the brink of chaos as he ‘grossly abused the power of the presidency,’ according to findings

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, Eric Tucker and Colleen Long

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, January 12, 2021 in Washington. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

July 31, 2021, 12:46 am

Trump pressured Justice head to ‘just say election was corrupt’

Handwritten notes show that acting AG Jeffrey Rosen refused, telling president that with no evidence found, DOJ ‘won’t snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election’

By AFP

US President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu take part in an announcement of Trump's Middle East peace plan in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC on January 28, 2020. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

July 8, 2021, 4:58 am

Trump reportedly saw Netanyahu’s congratulations to Biden as ‘ultimate betrayal’

New book by Michael Wolff says that even though Israeli leader waited 12 hours to acknowledge Biden’s election win, Trump felt that he ‘owed’ him and had ‘sold out’

By TOI staff

Former US vice president Mike Pence speaks at the annual Hillsborough County NH GOP Lincoln-Reagan Dinner, June 3, 2021, in Manchester, New Hampshire. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

June 26, 2021, 3:22 pm

Pence defends certifying US election results in strongest yet rebuttal of Trump

‘There’s almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president,’ ex-VP says

By Michael R. Blood and Jill Colvin

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu leads a meeting of right-wing parties in the Knesset on June 14, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

June 18, 2021, 6:51 pm

Netanyahu knows he’s no victim of election fraud. So why peddle the claim?

There’s more to the opposition leader’s rejection of the new government’s legitimacy than Trumpian denial. Victimhood, he well knows, has its uses

By Haviv Rettig Gur

Supporters of US President Donald Trump during a rally for evangelical supporters at the King Jesus International Ministry, Jan. 3, 2020, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

April 11, 2021, 1:13 am

Trump held steady among believers at the ballot, lost the nonreligious vote

Support for former Republican president declined in 2020 election among atheists, agnostics, and those who identify as religiously unaffiliated

By Ryan Burge

Elliot Resnick, the editor-in-chief of the Jewish Press, among the Capitol rioters on January 6, 2021. (Screen capture: YouTube)

April 8, 2021, 9:24 pm

Editor of Orthodox NY weekly Jewish Press identified as January 6 Capitol rioter

Longtime Trump supporter Elliot Resnick spotted in online video of US Capitol breach; he later wrote about the violent riot without disclosing his participation

By Shira Hanau