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Donald Trump falsely claimed he won the 2020 presidential election. In the months afterwards, the story backing up those claims warped and changed. Four years on, that lie has become something far bigger and more dangerous.

After the 2020 election, Donald Trump searched for any plan that would allow him to retain control of the White House. We look at the theory that the riot on January 6th 2021 was based on and why Trump's supporters thought it might work.

US Presidential Elections rely on thousands of people coming together to scrutinise and certify the results. So what happens if they refuse to certify, for political reasons? What could it mean for election day 2024?

Trump has promised pardons for the 6 January 2021 riots. 8 months before, a very similar mob stormed a different government building. Armed men, furious about an extension of COVID lockdowns, stormed the state capitol in Lansing, Michigan.

Many thought Trump's denial of the 2020 election result would disqualify him from another run for US president. Now, he's preparing to return to the White House but this presidency is set to look very different to his last.

Donald Trump was blocked on many social media sites after Jan 6, 2021. It was designed to stop it happening again. But it found him powerful allies and fostered Trump's comeback, one that would send him all the way back to the White House.