Trump sets out to erase Biden's legacy with pardons and orders immediately after taking office
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Donald Trump signed orders for increasing border security, designating drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, limiting birthright citizenship and freezing new regulations.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump issued pardons for participants in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, including those convicted of assaulting police, in his first official action after returning to the White House as the country’s 47th president on Monday.
The pardons of about 1,500 people fulfilled Trump’s promise to release supporters who tried to help him overturn his election defeat four years ago. Another 14 people had their sentences commuted.
“These are the hostages,” he said while signing the paperwork in the Oval Office.

  • futatorius@lemm.ee
    14·
    12 hours ago

    This is actually scary.

    We know who they are, and we know justice was not done. Don’t be scared. Be ready.

    All I can think is that his slathering hordes will now assume, rightly or not, that they can do whatever they want in his name and they’ll get pardoned.

    That was exactly the message: commit acts of violence against democracy, get impunity.

    I assumed that once in office he would just go full throttle on grifting and forget about his campaign promises.

    Trump was put in to create chaos and division. His purpose is the weaken the United States and to destroy anything that benefits the American people, replacing it with performative cruelty and scams. If you assumed differently, you weren’t paying attention the first time.