Four indictments, 91 charges, two impeachments and one presidential term that changed the United States forever.
This is the legacy of Donald Trump, the former president of the US seeking to be re-elected in the 2024 election. Simultaneously, Trump is facing trials across the country for fraud, obstruction of justice and, most notably, his role in the January 6 2021 riots in Washington D.C.
Trump is currently leading the polls and will likely head into the election as the primary candidate for the Republican party, despite his ongoing legal battles.
However, his growing popularity is being met with resistance from Americans who refuse to let Trump curtail the law. And leading this resistance is women of colour.
In an article written last year with Cliff Albright, metoo founder Tarana Burke explained just how powerful Black women can be when it comes to changing societal and political structures, especially around election time.
“We have witnessed, time and time against, the ways in which Black women have harnessed collective community power to shape the world around them for the better,” Burke wrote. “From shaping movements to elections, Black women are political change-makers.”
The re-election of Donald Trump as the president of the US places Black women and women of colour in significant danger of his racist, sexist ideology and agenda – which is exactly why it is them leading the charge to put him out of the running for presidency.
Here are just some of the women standing up against Donald Trump ahead of the 2024 election.
Letitia James
New York Attorney General Letitia James brought forth a civil fraud trial against Donald Trump in 2022. In her case, she accused The Trump Organisation of conspiring to inflate his net worth by billions of dollars on financial statements provided to banks and insurers to make deals and secure loans.
According to James and the legal team for the Attorney General’s office, Trump’s net worth increased by up to $US2.2 billion ($AUD3.28 billion).
Today, my office will present our closing arguments in our trial against Donald Trump for financial fraud.
— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) January 11, 2024
For years, Donald Trump engaged in significant financial fraud to enrich himself and his family.
No matter how rich or powerful you pretend to be, no one is above the law.
On Thursday, lawyers representing the state of New York and Trump gave their closing arguments to the court. James made a powerful statement on X condemning Trump’s alleged behaviour.
“For years, Donald Trump engaged in significant financial fraud to enrich himself and his family,” she said.
“No matter how rich or powerful you pretend to be, no one is above the law.”
Kamala Harris
Last week on January 6 marked exactly three years since Donald Trump allegedly incited a violent attack on the Capitol building in Washington D.C. in 2021.
It was a moment that shocked the world and demonstrated the capability of Trump supporters for causing violence and literally endangering the US’ political system.
Last week, Vice President Kamala Harris posted on X remembering the day and condemning Trump for his alleged role in the attacks.
“At 12pm on January 6, 2021, Trump kicked off his rally near the White House where he called on Mike Pence to reject Joe Biden’s win,” she wrote.
“An hour later, as Republican lawmakers objected to counting the electoral ballots of Arizona, a large crowd of Trump’s supporters marched toward the Capitol.”
Extremist leaders say the mob that violently attacked the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 was led by “great patriots.”
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) January 6, 2024
Is that how you define who loves our country? pic.twitter.com/mTFnH0cmhe
In a separate post, Harris accused Trump of misleading Americans into thinking the events of January 6 2021 were nothing by peaceful.
“A mob violently attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021 using brutal force and fear to try and overturn the results of a free and fair election,” she wrote. “Trump and extremists try to mislead and gaslight by claiming it was a peaceful protest… Like we weren’t watching?”
As the 2024 election looms, Vice President Kamala Harris is also seeking the re-election of the Biden administration and seeking to defeat Trump, Biden’s main rival.
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg is the host of ABC’s program The View, and on Thursday, Republican politician Liz Cheney came on the show as a guest.
On the show, when Cheney said she hasn’t “ruled out” running as the Republican nominee for the presidency, Goldberg urged her to run to eliminate the risk that Trump poses on American democracy.
“I don’t know if the Republican party as we knew it will survive this,” Goldberg said on the show.
“If he ever gets in again, we’ll never have any more elections… he’s very clear about that. He wants to be a dictator for life!”