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What happened during Trump's inauguration?
Big Monday in America. Amy Klobuchar kicked things off by subtweeting the incoming president.
So, as we inaugurate a new president and vice president, let us remember that the power of those in this room comes from the people.
President Trump was surrounded by his best tech bros, one of whom would later in the day do a few Sieg Heils. Thank you. After the speeches, the flags were raised at the White House in the Capitol building. R.I.P. R.I.P. Jimmy Carter.
Thank you, fellow citizens, and farewell.
And the president signed a bunch of executive orders, first at the arena. Could you imagine Biden doing this? I don't think so. And then back at the White House.
What is this one? Withdrawing from the World Health Organization.
Oh, that's a big one. Back in executive action on Today Explained.
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Bing, bing, bing, bong, bong, bong, bong, bing. Today explained Sean Ramos from here on January 21st, the day after many executive orders signed by our once and once again President Donald Trump. Andrew Prokop, senior political correspondent at Vox, is here to help us work through them. Andrew, what did we learn yesterday?
We learned that Trump is really going for it. He's coming out of the gate with an extremely aggressive, dubiously legal agenda on many fronts, most notably immigration, but other issues as well. And then I think we also learned some other things, which is that on certain issues, he may not be exactly sure himself what he's going to do.
Fun. OK, let's start with their big swings. Where did they focus their day one attention?
So probably the big headline from the day was Trump's massive, wide ranging pardon of the January 6th rioters. And this is something, you know, everyone knew Trump was going to do something like this. It had been discussed at length. But only a few days before Trump's inauguration, Vice President J.D. Vance went on TV and said that if you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn't be pardoned. And there's a little bit of a gray area. Trump does not share that opinion, evidently. And he went far more aggressive.
First, we have a list of pardons and commutations relating to events that occurred on January 6, 2021. Okay. And how many people is this? I think this order will apply to approximately 1,500 people, sir. So this is January 6th.
What he did was that he just separated everyone into one of two groups. First, he singled out 14 people who had been members of far-right groups, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, who were really actively plotting and were convicted of seditious conspiracy. For those guys, he didn't give them a full pardon, but he did commute their sentences and free them from prison if they were in prison. Then the other group is everyone else who was involved in other crimes at the Capitol on that day. Trump said, you are fully pardoned. So this is really a full-blown Trump endorsement and defense of the violence at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. for that to happen. Now he's making it unmistakably clear.
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