Trump sets his army free
The News Agents
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4.2 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump's first 48 hours in the White House have been frenetic. His decision to pardon 1,500 January 6th rioters - including militia leaders and those plotting violent insurrection - has stunned even Republican lawmakers who witnessed the violence on Capitol Hill four years ago. The new President has chalked up a series of easy early wins with a blitz of executive orders, but some Americans are already expressing alarm about his instructions to government departments to investigate his political enemies. Is the shock and awe approach of the new administration underlaid by a targeted erosion of America's democratic safeguards?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.5 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.8 | Withdrawing from the World Health Organizations. |
| 0:13.9 | Ooh, that's a big one. |
| 0:15.8 | We don't want to have transgender operations for everyone. |
| 0:25.6 | Would you think about bordering U.S. Special Forces into Mexico to take them out? Could happen. |
| 0:27.6 | When you're a rich person, you like to take a shower. |
| 0:30.6 | 38 gallons does it last very long. |
| 0:33.6 | I believe in the sanctity of the vote. |
| 0:36.6 | The Democrats didn't because they cheated like dogs. |
| 0:40.3 | It's a fish that's doing poorly anyway, but I said, |
| 0:43.3 | how are you protecting the Delta smelt by not giving it water? |
| 0:46.3 | It's a fish. |
| 0:48.3 | He's water. |
| 0:49.3 | Nobody can answer that question. |
| 0:51.3 | I thought he was a very dumb person, but I used him well because every time people saw me |
| 0:57.0 | come into a meeting with John Bolton standing behind me, they thought that he'd attack |
| 1:02.0 | them because he was a war monger. |
| 1:04.0 | How do you see our relationship with Latin America and Brazil? |
| 1:08.0 | Great. |
| 1:09.0 | It should be great. |
| 1:10.0 | They need us. Much more than we need them. We don't need them. |
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