Pardon?
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🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin, James Hohmann and Aaron Blake break down President Trump's decision to pardon or commute the sentences of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol rioters, just hours after he was inaugurated for the second time.
And Trump signed a whole lot of other executive orders; Which ones definitely matter, which ones might end up mattering, and which ones probably won't?
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| 0:00.0 | Look what happened. |
| 0:02.0 | Is this crazy? |
| 0:03.7 | We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in the history. |
| 0:08.5 | Make America great a good thing. |
| 0:11.6 | How can you be against them? |
| 0:17.3 | Donald Trump is president again, and the MAGA agenda is already being implemented in big ways. |
| 0:23.1 | Welcome to Sidebar from the Washington Post. I'm Libby Casey, and I'm joined by senior political correspondent Rhonda Colvin, columnist James Holman, and senior political reporter Aaron Blake. |
| 0:33.3 | It's already been a long week, folks. It's only Tuesday. We're here just 24 hours into the second Trump presidency. And there has been such a whirlwind of breaking news from executive orders and actions to who was at the inauguration. I think this is part of the plan, though, right? It's like hit us with so much that it's a bit overwhelming to even digest it all. |
| 0:56.1 | So here's what we're going to do today. |
| 0:57.3 | We're going to break down what matters in Donald Trump's first actions here in these first 24 hours in office. |
| 1:03.8 | And what will actually happen? |
| 1:05.2 | What will go or already is going into effect? |
| 1:07.8 | What matters and might happen but could get stopped by the courts or Congress? |
| 1:12.6 | And then what parts of this will just not really have an impact? And as James has said, is more like a |
| 1:17.1 | press release, frankly, than an executive order. So let's just dive right in. James, what do you |
| 1:22.0 | think is the most impactful thing that Donald Trump did on the first day? History will remember the |
| 1:27.2 | mass clemency blanket pardons for everyone involved in January 6th. |
| 1:32.4 | The four years after he left office, after trying to overturn the election, he comes in and |
| 1:38.6 | immediately lets off 1,500 people who were involved in trying to keep him in power. |
| 1:48.5 | So, Rhonda, you know, it really is a shocking visual to think back to January 6th, four years ago, and yesterday, Donald Trump got inaugurated in the rotunda yesterday because of the |
| 1:53.7 | cold. It was moved indoors. The same rooms that were being ransacked and rioters were |
| 1:58.5 | running through and police officers were defending and running for their lives in cases. |
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