Trump Is TIME's Person of Year, Kari Lake to Lead VOA, Biden's Mass Clemency | Dec. 12, 2024

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

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On today’s Top News in 10, we cover President-elect Donald Trump made a historic visit to the New York Stock Exchange, ringing the opening bell while celebrating his selection as TIME's Person of the Year for the second time. Accompanied by his wife Melania, Trump received an enthusiastic welcome from the Wall Street crowd. Former Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake has been tapped to lead Voice of America in the incoming Trump administration. Trump also announced several diplomatic appointments, including new ambassadors to Colombia, Argentina, and the Organization of American States. President Joe Biden granted clemency to 1,500 individuals in the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. This comes just days after his controversial pardon of his son Hunter Biden. The Heritage Foundation's John Malcolm discusses the implications of these pardons and the possibility of future preemptive pardons. Additional headlines: DOJ inspector general reveals new details about FBI informants on Jan. 6, 2021. Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema block key NLRB appointment in surprise vote. Conservative historian Lee Edwards dies at 92. Keep Up With The Daily Signal Sign up for our email newsletters: https://www.dailysignal.com/email Subscribe to our other shows: The Tony Kinnett Cast: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-tony-kinnett-cast Problematic Women: https://www.dailysignal.com/problematic-women The Signal Sitdown: https://www.dailysignal.com/the-signal-sitdown Follow The Daily Signal: X: https://x.com/DailySignal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailysignal/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheDailySignalNews/ Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@DailySignal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/DailySignal Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/TheDailySignal Thanks for making The Daily Signal Podcast your trusted source for the day’s top news. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform and never miss an episode.

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0:00.0	President-elect Donald Trump makes a triumphant visit to Wall Street as he celebrates Times'
0:06.2	Person of the Year honor.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Rob Louie, and this is The Daily Signal's Top News in 10 for Thursday, December 12th,
0:14.0	2024.
0:20.0	Donald Trump made history at the New York Stock Exchange this morning just hours after receiving a major recognition from Time magazine.
0:29.6	It represented a remarkable turn of events for Trump, who left office four years ago at a low point, only to mount one of the greatest political comebacks in American
0:38.2	history. Trump rang the opening bell on Wall Street for the first time in his career, a tremendous
0:43.7	honor, according to the New York native. With two large Time magazine covers behind him, Trump was
0:49.6	all smiles as he celebrated the person of the year recognition for the second time. He was previously
0:55.2	honored in 2016, although he said this one was better. Times editor-in-chief, Sam Jacobs, said
1:01.4	the magazine honored Trump because of his historic comeback. In an appearance on the Today Show,
1:06.8	Jacob said Trump has reshaped the American presidency and is reordering American politics.
1:12.9	Trump spoke with CNBC's Jim Kramer on the floor of the Stock Exchange with his wife, Melania, by his side.
1:18.8	Well, I think I've always said, you know, to me, stock market is very all of it.
1:22.2	You know, all of it together. It's very important.
1:24.3	It's an honor to be here in New York Stock Exchange.
1:26.5	I sort of joked that I actually
1:28.6	bought the building across the street because the Stock Exchange was here. It's a big deal.
1:32.0	40. It's a nice building. 40 Wall Street. So, look, we're going to do things, I think,
1:37.3	that haven't been really done before. We're going to be cutting taxes still further. You see,
1:41.7	know, we got it down to 21%. We're going to bring it down even below that. You pay 21 if you don't build here and meaning your product or whatever
1:49.4	it is you're building. And if you do, we're going to try getting it down to 15 percent,
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