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Stay Tuned with Preet

Pardon My Executive Orders

Stay Tuned with Preet

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Politics, Government, News

4.832.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

How is President Trump already using executive orders to advance his policy goals in his brief time in office? Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance discuss in an excerpt from the CAFE Insider podcast. In the full episode, Preet and Joyce discuss:  – Trump’s executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship; – Trump’s pardons for all January 6 defendants and commutations for members of extremists groups convicted of seditious conspiracy; and – President Biden’s preemptive pardons granted to his family members, members of the January 6 Committee, Gen. Mark Milley, and Dr. Anthony Fauci. CAFE Insiders click HERE to listen to the full analysis. To become a member of CAFE Insider head to cafe.com/insider. You’ll get access to full episodes of the podcast and other exclusive content. Subscribe to our YouTube channel. This podcast is brought to you by CAFE and Vox Media Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey folks, Preet here. Donald Trump is back in the White House, and his first day in office

0:07.9

was a whirlwind. He issued a flurry of executive orders and granted pardons to the January 6 rioters.

0:15.3

Trump's return, of course, marks the end of Joe Biden's presidency. Before leaving office, Biden also issued a series of pardons,

0:23.5

including from members of his family,

0:25.6

members of the January 6th committee,

0:27.6

and Dr. Anthony Fauci.

0:29.7

Joyce Vance and I discuss all that and more

0:31.7

on a new episode of the Cafe Insider podcast.

0:35.4

If you're a member of Cafe Insider,

0:39.9

head to the insider feed or click the link in the show notes of this podcast to hear the full analysis. Stay tuned, listeners, stick around for an

0:46.0

excerpt from our conversation. If ever there was a time to be informed by facts and logic and what's

0:52.2

true, it's now. And you can do that by subscribing to Cafe Insider.

0:56.8

To become a member, head to cafe.com slash insider.

1:01.3

You can try the membership for just $1 for one month.

1:04.5

That's cafe.com slash insider.

1:07.9

Now, on to the show.

1:16.5

So we could, Joyce, we could talk about pardons all day,

1:23.5

but there's lots of other stuff that is probably more important to the lives of people in the country. Donald Trump promised and delivered on this promise that he was going to sign.

1:29.3

I forget what the exact metric is, but I think it was a veritable shitload of executive orders.

1:35.2

I think shitload is more than a bushel with great fanfare, right? In the arena, there was a,

1:41.6

there was a desk. Then he signed a bunch of them in the Oval Office, and they were, you know, pre-written. He got to move on. We should explain to people what an executive order is and what it is not. An executive order is something that a president can sign has authority to issue. It does not supplant or override

2:04.5

the Constitution. It does not supplant or override enacted federal law. It operates mostly where

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