Trump faced allegations of attempting to overturn his loss in 2020 through anti-democratic means after a mob of his supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, to prevent the certification of the election results based on false claims pushed by Trump that the election had been “stolen” through massive fraud.

Former President Barack Obama is being subjected to an uptick in online death threats and calls for imprisonment after the Trump administration accused him of "treason" in connection with the 2016 election.