President Trump Arrives White House, Signs Executive Orders

• Attacks predecessor Joe Biden over pardons
• Pardons 1,500 January 6 Defendants, Commutes Six Sentences
• Signs several Executives Orders

After being sworn in as the 47th President of the United States (US) inside the capitol rotunda and signing numerous executive orders in front of a crowd of supporters at Capital One Arena in DC, President Donald Trump eventually arrived at the White House later on Monday.

His swearing in took place at an inauguration ceremony held in the Capitol due to the frigid weather today in Washington DC on Monday.

In his first speech since returning to the presidency, Trump declared that “the golden age of America begins right now”, and that he was “saved by God to make America great again”.

He also outlined the executives orders he will sign shortly, which will impose hardline immigration policies and declare a “national energy emergency”.

President Trump went further to express the hope that he is remembered as a “peacemaker”, then made clear he wants the United States back in control of the Panama Canal.

This is as out-gone President Joe Biden, made the most of his final hours as president, announcing preemptive pardons of several of Trump’s political enemies.

Hours later, Biden also commuted the life sentence of indigenous rights activist Leonard Peltier, and pardoned members of the Biden family who could have faced retaliation from Trump.

Here’s a look back at what else happened as Trump returned to the presidency:

– Trump took aim at Biden in his inaugural address, saying his government “cannot manage even a simple crisis at home”.

– The President’s inaugural address included several false or questionable claims about immigration, recent natural disasters, his support among voters and inflation.

– In unscripted remarks, Trump promised “a lot of actions” on January 6 defendants, and criticized Biden’s pardons.

– The White House, whose website that has been newly Trumpified, will withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.

– The Bidens departed the Capitol by helicopter after Trump’s inauguration, with Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff leaving in a motorcade.

Trump Pardons 1,500 January 6 Defendants, Commutes Six Sentence
President Donald Trump arrived at the Oval Office, where he signed more executive orders offering State pardon to about 1,500 defendants charged in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol and issued six commutations, the Associated Press (AP) reports.

Attacking his predecessor, Joe Biden over his last minute presidential pardons and promising ‘a lot of action’ on January 6 prosecutions, Trump, who appears to be speaking without prepared remarks, said; “I was going to talk about the things that Joe did today with the pardons of people that were very, very guilty of very bad crimes, like the unselect committee of political folks”.

On the bipartisan House Committee that investigated the January 6 insurrection as well as Biden’s decision to pardon his political enemies, the new President further said; “Why are we doing this? Why are we trying to help a guy like Milley?” referring to the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Mark Milley.

“Why are we doing Milley? He was pardoned. What he said, terrible, what he said. Why are we helping some of the people? Why are we helping Liz Cheney? I mean, Liz Cheney is a disaster. She’s a crying lunatic and crying, crying. Adam Kinzinger, he’s a super crime.”

Cheney and Kinzinger are both Republican former House lawmakers who have criticized Trump.

The President also signaled he would pardon people convicted of or facing charges over the January 6 insurrection, though did not offer details: “I was going to talk about the J6 hostages, but you’ll be happy because, you know, it’s action, not words that count, and you’re going to see a lot of action on the J6 hostages.” – With The Guardian report