Newsweek - In one of his first acts as president, Donald Trump has chosen to grant immediate Top Secret security clearances to several individuals, intended to amend a "backlog" created under the Biden administration. According to the announcement, Trump has ordered his White House Counsel, the president's top legal adviser, to craft a list of personnel who will be "immediately granted" access to Top Secret and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) for a period of six months. These individuals are also set to receive "access to the facilities and technology necessary to perform the duties of the office to which they have been hired."
Newsweek - President Donald Trump has floated the possibility of sending U.S. troops into Mexico to combat the country's powerful drug cartels. Trump's comments came in response to a question about whether he would consider deploying U.S. special forces to target cartels if they were designated as foreign terrorist organizations. "Could happen," he said in the Oval Office after his inauguration. "Stranger things have happened."
Trump made more than 20 false claims in his Inauguration Day remarks
A good summary of Trump's bad executive orders
Trump ordered the US to withdraw from the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate agreement
Trump supporters who stormed US Capitol begin to leave prison after day one pardon action
Trump seeks to designate drug cartels as
foreign terrorist organizations
Trump issues an executive order to
suspend the US TikTok ban.
Donald Trump was accused
of corruption as he returned to the White House days after launching a
multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency
meme coin. Former government ethics officials and presidential experts said the
venture amounted to a “shameful” conflict of interest....“There are shameful
and major conflicts of interest with respect to his family business benefiting
from his cryptocurrency policies,” said James Thurber, the founder and former
director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies... Trump has
pledged to transform the US into the crypto capital of the world, ending a
crackdown pursued by officials under Joe Biden and taking an altogether looser
approach to regulation of digital currencies. Leading cryptocurrencies
including Bitcoin have surged in value
since his election victory last November.
Trump signed executive actions aimed at
some of his boldest promises, including reinterpreting
the 14th Amendment to mean those born in the U.S. don’t
get automatic citizenship.
NPR - Everyone charged in connection with Jan. 6, whether they pleaded guilty or lost at trial, whether they assaulted cops or not, whether they were found to be violent extremists or not, they are all getting relief from Trump,” NPR’s Tom Dreisbach says. TMembers of the incoming administration said this would not happen. Vice President JD Vance told Fox News this month that people who assaulted police shouldn’t be pardoned. Trump has essentially undone the largest single criminal investigation in the history of the Justice Department, Dreisbach adds.essentially undone the largest single criminal investigation in the history of the Justice Department, Dreisbach adds.
Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, a pledge by participating nations to work together to keep global temperatures from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. In recent years, the U.S. pledged billions of dollars to funds that assist developing nations with climate adaptation and mitigation, which Trump objected to in the executive order.
Other executive orders call for: the federal recognition of only two sexes; requiring all federal workers to return to in-office work, and revoking Joe Biden’s landmark executive order on AI safety
President Donald Trump has rescinded former President Joe Biden's executive order 14087, which was put in place to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Americans.
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