The Guardian’s Washington bureau chief, David Smith, explains how Donald Trump won a second term and what he intends to do with it. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Today, the political comeback of Donald Trump.
And what happens next.
If 2016 was a leap into the unknown, this time America knew exactly who it was voting for.
We've got a verdict.
Ari Melbur.
We are looking at count one, guilty.
Count two, guilty.
Jury in New York finding Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E.
Jean Carroll.
We love this guy.
He says, you're not going to be a dictator, are you?
I said, no, no, no.
Other than day one, we're closing the border and.
And we're drilling, drilling, drilling after that.
I'm not a dictator.
That sounds to me like you're going back to the.
Four years ago he was a man defeated, railing against rigged elections from his home in Palm Beach.
But despite everything, the impeachments, January 6, the criminal convictions, he has risen from the political dead.
The first man in 150 years to be voted out as president and then returned to the White House again.