Today, Red Baron read in the NYT that hours before Trump's inauguration as the
47th president of the United States, President Biden signed an executive order
on clemency before the political situation changed today.
Change is a
weak description of what may happen within the new administration. Apparently,
good old Joe took Trump's social media threads about "retribution" seriously.
Quotes of the new president were, "The whole January 6 committee
'should be prosecuted for their lies and, quite frankly, TREASON!'" Ms. Cheney
"should be prosecuted for what she has done to our country," and he suggested
that General Milley deserved execution.
President Biden wanted to
guard some of President-elect Donald J. Trump's most high-profile adversaries
by issuing pre-emptive pardons that would make it harder, if not impossible,
for the next administration to prosecute them.
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You name them ... (found on Facebook)
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Among those receiving pre-emptive pardons were Gen. Mark A. Milley, the
former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the
longtime government scientist who advised Mr. Trump during the coronavirus
pandemic; and all the members of the bipartisan House committee that
investigated the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, including former
Representative Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming.
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In 2021, Dr. Fauci sat in a congressional hearing looking like a
slapped student (©NYT)
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Predecessors who have to fear their successors' revenge is a
spectacle unworthy of democracy. Red Baron is shocked. What happens to the
America of my dreams? What did my hero of the pandemic, Dr. Fauci, do
wrong?
At a dinner last night, Mr. Trump said that "within hours of
taking office, I will sign dozens of executive orders—close to 100, in fact,"
sharply reversing federal policy on immigration, the federal workforce,
energy, and the environment, the economy and trade, gender issues and
diversity, and equity and inclusion programs.
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Ms. Vance and the freshly sworn-in president (©CNN)
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In his inauguration speech, Trump boasted, "America's Golden Age begins.
America's decline is over. I was saved by God to make America great again.
January 20, 2025, will go down in history as liberation day. "And a promise on
this very day, "We will make Martin Luther King's dream come true." Really?
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As CNN reported,
President Donald Trump signed a series of executive actions within hours
after taking office on Monday, revoking 78 of Joe Biden's policies. Among a
slew of immediate orders, Trump pardoned more than 1,000 people charged in
the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol. The "full, complete, and
unconditional" pardons extend to people who were convicted of some of the
worst crimes committed on the day of the Capitol insurrection. Trump also
declared a national emergency at the US-Mexico border, triggering the use of
Pentagon resources and personnel that will be deployed and used to build the
border wall. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is withdrawing the US from
the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization.
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