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2025-01-21 Home Front: Politix
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Trump Pardons 1,500 J6'ers in Executive Order, and much more
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[X] The same information for those who prefer to read rather than watch and listen:
…His order directs the Bureau of Prisons to release everyone tonight.
Trump pardons ALL Jan 6 rioters and declares Mexican drug cartels 'terrorists' in first White House press conference
I don't know if anybody watched ABC News Live this afternoon, but if you did I hope you saw what I saw.
President Trump was reading and signing Executive Orders, listening to a reporter's question, context switching to conversationally answer another question and directing the stage staff, "... give me another one". Simultaneously. In realtime. Establishing eye contact with everyone.
We haven't seen that in a looong time. If ever.
| A prime example of the busy executive doing all the things at once. Multitasking, they call it. |
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump spent his first session back in the Oval Office signing executive orders to pardon all January 6 defendants and declare dangerous Mexican drug cartels as 'terrorists' while finding a letter written to him by Joe Biden.
Trump said he was pardoning about 1,500 defendants and issuing six commutations. He also directed the attorney general to seek dismissal of about 450 pending criminal cases against Jan. 6 defendants.
The pardons fulfill Trump's promise to release supporters who tried to help him overturn his election defeat four years ago.
'These are the hostages,' he said while signing the paperwork in the Oval Office.
After hours spent celebrating his new administration, Trump invited the press to his first Oval Office appearance.
Trump found a letter from Biden in the Resolute desk, but only after a journalist reminded him to look for it.
While signing a series of executive orders, a reporter asked Trump if he'd received a letter. Trump said he didn't know and checked the desk drawers, holding up the letter for the cameras.
'Maybe we should all read it together,' Trump said before setting it aside. He said he'll read it himself before sharing it publicly.
He signed an initial flurry of executive orders at Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, where thousands of his supporters gathered to celebrate an inaugural parade that was moved indoors due to the cold.
The president signed several other orders, including one overhauling the refugee admission program to better align with American principles and interests and another declaring a 'national emergency' at the U.S.-Mexico border, while designating drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
Trump said he favored legal immigration as he signed orders declaring a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border, suspending refugee resettlement and ending automatic citizenship for anyone born in the U.S.
He acknowledged an imminent legal challenge to overturning birthright citizenship, which has been enshrined in the U.S. Constitution since 1868.
Trump said automatic citizenship was 'just ridiculous' and that he believes he was on 'good (legal) ground' to change it.
'That's a big one,' he bantered with reporters while signing an order declaring the border emergency.
Trump said immigrant labor was needed for investment that he anticipates will accompany higher tariffs.
Trump has also signed an executive order beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.
It was the second time in less than five years that he's ordered the country to withdraw from the organization, despite it being a move many scientists fear could roll back decades-long gains made in fighting infectious diseases like AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
Experts also warn it could weaken the world's defenses against dangerous new outbreaks capable of triggering pandemics.
Trump continued to riff and answer questions from reporters in the Oval Office as he signs another round of executive action.
The president said he could place 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting Feb. 1. He declined to give a date on China tariffs.
Trump has talked extensively about his tariff plans and his affection for the levies on imported goods during his multiple public remarks today.
He then revoked protections for transgender troops set by Biden.
The number of transgender troops known to be serving is possibly from around 9,000 to potentially as many as 14,000.
The Department of Defense has referred queries on the number of transgender troops to the individual services, and because of the different ways transgender troops can identify and whether or not they have received medical procedures, there is no one database that tracks them.
As he sat down to sign executive orders, Trump was asked which former president he would call for advice.
He responded that Bill Clinton was a 'very interesting politician' and said he had a 'great political sense.'
Trump said Clinton was 'disrespected' and 'not used properly.'
Trump was also asked about his friendly chat with former President Barack Obama during former President Jimmy Carter's state funeral.
'We were having some crazy conversations,' he said.
Trump discussed the war between Russia and Ukraine and says he'll talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin soon.
Earlier, Trump turned his rally at a downtown Washington arena into a signing ceremony as he grabbed his pen and issued multiple executive actions to institute major policy changes.
Trump officially halted over 78 Biden-era executive orders, announced a regulatory freeze preventing bureaucrats from issuing regulations until the Trump administration has full control of the government and a freeze on all federal hiring except for military and a few other essential areas.
He also ordered a requirement that federal workers return to full-time in-person work, a directive to every department and agency to address the cost of living crisis, and announced withdrawal from the Paris climate treaty.
Trump also signed a government order restoring freedom of speech and preventing censorship of free speech and one ending the 'weaponization of government against the political adversaries of the previous administration'
Some of the orders he signed first including a Biden border bill, a regulatory freeze and a freeze on federal hiring.
On his first day, Trump rescinded 78 orders and actions signed by Biden. Among Trump's rescissions was a Biden order that canceled some of the orders signed by Trump during his first term.
As the American Bar Association notes, the orders do not require congressional approval and can't be directly overturned by lawmakers. Still, Congress could block an order from being fulfilled by removing funding or creating other hurdles.
Trump orders 90-day pause in foreign development assistance, likely impacting Palestinians
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump has ordered a 90-day pause in foreign development assistance pending assessments of efficiencies and consistency with his foreign policy.
“All department and agency heads with responsibility for United States foreign development assistance programs shall immediately pause new obligations and disbursements of development assistance funds,” reads the executive order signed by Trump just hours after he took office for a second term.
It is not immediately clear how broad the order is and what programs, countries, non-governmental organizations and international organizations would be affected by the move. It is also unclear what funding could be cut given the US Congress sets the federal US government budget.
The move would likely impact US aid to the Palestinians, which was cut by Trump during his first term. The executive order echoes a return to the approach Trump took during his first term in office between 2017 and 2021.
Another Trump order targets foreign nationals who ‘support designated terrorists’
[IsraelTimes] An executive order signed by US President Donald Trump appears to target, among others, foreign nationals participating in anti-Israel protests that have swept throughout the country since Hamas’s October 7 onslaught. The Executive Order Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Threats states that the government must be “vigilant” in issuing visas to foreign nationals and ensure that those approved “do not intend to harm Americans or our national interests.”
The order requires the US government to ensure that foreign nationals “not bear hostile attitudes toward its citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles, and do not advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security.”
Trump campaigned on cracking down on the anti-Israel protests, particularly those on college campuses, but it is not yet clear how exactly he’ll go about doing it, given free speech laws in the US.
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