Following George Floyd's death in May 2020, widespread protests and resulting riots led to numerous casualties, national curfews, and significant property damage estimated to be between $1 and $2 billion.
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), test scores in math and reading for the 2022-2023 school year are worse than in the 2019-2020 school year, when schools closed due to COVID-19.
The federal prosecution alleges that Trump was bent on retaining his position of power through a scheme that sought to undermine a fundamental function of the U.S. federal government—the execution of the process for “collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election."