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The Rich Zeoli Show

Donald Trump Defends Decision to Pardon Those Arrested for January 6

The Rich Zeoli Show

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4.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4: 6:05pm- Speaking from the Roosevelt Room of the White House, President Donald Trump held a press conference announcing OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank, and several other companies will invest $500 billion to build the nation’s artificial intelligence infrastructure. While taking questions from the press, Trump defended his decision to pardon people arrested for their actions on January 6, claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin “never would have gone into Ukraine” if he had been president at the time, and recapped his experience on Inauguration Day. Plus, what was in the letter Joe Biden wrote him and left in the Oval Office desk? 6:20pm- On Monday night, President Donald Trump pardoned 1,500+ Americans arrested for a series of crimes related to events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021 and commuted the sentences of 14 others. Rich notes that several things can be true at once: some of those arrested acted abhorrently, but the Department of Justice was overly aggressive with prosecutions. 6:40pm- REPLAY: Congressman Jeff Van Drew—United States Representative for New Jersey’s 2nd Congressional District—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to recap Inauguration Day in Washington D.C., the Laken Riley Act, and President Donald Trump’s Day 1 executive orders which included a pause on the development of offshore wind farms in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans! Rep. Van Drew explains “it’s a great day for the Jersey Shore.”

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0:00.0

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0:05.4

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0:11.7

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0:15.8

All right.

0:16.5

We're going to take you right back to the White House.

0:18.6

President Trump has already taken more questions in the last 24

0:22.2

hours than Joe Biden did in four years. It's amazing. Uh, truly, truly amazing to me. So, uh, let's go back

0:31.1

to President Trump. We'll pick it up right where we left off, live from the White House. Go ahead.

0:36.2

But, uh, the hostages are starting to come back. Oh, if I weren't here, they wouldn't be back ever.

0:44.5

They would have never come back. They would have all died. If this were done a year earlier,

0:49.1

if Biden would have done this deal a year and a half, two years ago, or frankly, it should

0:55.2

have never happened.

0:55.9

October 7th should have never happened.

0:57.8

Nobody should be dead.

1:00.0

But through weakness, they allowed it to happen, and then it was a disaster from them.

1:04.2

But you go back just six months ago, many of these young people were living.

1:08.4

You know, young people don't die like that.

1:10.5

They're just dying. And young people were living you know young people don't die like that they're just dying

1:11.3

and uh young people aren't dying at 22 and 23 years old they don't die but now they're dying

1:18.3

and you wonder why they're dying they're being killed and they have been killed but they say

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