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    ‘I Trust Him’: Jailed Pro-Lifers Hope for a Pardon From Trump

    In his first 24 hours in office, President Donald Trump pardoned the more than 1,500 Americans charged with crimes in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol protest. But 10 pro-lifers, convicted for praying outside abortion clinics and pleading with women to choose life for their unborn babies, continue to await a presidential pardon…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    On Inauguration Day, Trump Writes the Next Chapter of America

    Inauguration Day for the 45th and now 47th president of the United States, Donald Trump, featured a host of events in which Trump was in attendance. The inauguration, of course. The inaugural luncheon. The parade at the Capital One Arena. The Commander in Chief Ball and the Liberty Ball. And finally, his first night at…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Senate Democrats Stall Trump’s National Security Picks

    Senate Democrats are pulling out every trick in the book to delay confirmation votes for President Donald Trump’s national security Cabinet nominees, hoping to stymie the agenda that gave Trump and Republicans a mandate victory in the 2024 election. At every turn, Senate Democrats are taking advantage of procedural hurdles to prevent Trump’s national security…
    Jacob Adams
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    Branding Trump ‘Fascist’ Is Name-Calling and Historical Illiteracy

    If you really believed former Vice President Kamala Harris and her media allies, the United States has just inaugurated a fascist dictator, Donald Trump, as president of the United States. Now, you might fail to appreciate the gravity of this moment after watching former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral and a friendly Trump “yukking it up”…
    Robert Moffit
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    White House Reporter Gives Inside Scoop on Difference Between Trump and Biden

    White House reporter Reagan Reese says she had more interactions with President Donald Trump in just one day than she did with President Joe Biden over the year and a half she spent covering the Biden White House.  It was not unusual for the Biden administration to “call a lid,” a term used to dismiss…
    Virginia Allen
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    ‘A Healthy Reset’: Trump Withdraws US From World Health Organization

    President Donald Trump has kept his campaign promise to protect American national sovereignty from encroaching global governance bodies by ordering the U.S. to withdraw from the World Health Organization. An executive order titled “Withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization” says the United States will leave WHO due to its “mishandling of the…
    Ben Johnson
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    Trump DOJ Investigating Sanctuary Cities Resisting Immigration Enforcement

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Trump administration is now criminally investigating sanctuary jurisdictions and will take legal action against any city or state that is in violation of federal laws. The Department of Justice has established a Sanctuary Cities Enforcement Working Group that is tasked with identifying state and local laws or policies that are “inconsistent”…
    Jason Hopkins
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    ‘You Just Can’t Stand the Fact That He Won’: GOP Rep Fires Back at Jim Acosta After Endless Trump J6 Pardon Questions

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett accused CNN’s Jim Acosta on Wednesday of being unable to cope with President Donald Trump’s November election victory following nearly nine minutes of queries regarding Trump’s decision to pardon Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol rioters. Trump signed an executive order on Monday granting “full, complete and unconditional pardons” to an…
    Jason Cohen
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    NPR’s Pathetic ‘Fact-Check’ of Byron Donalds After Trump Inauguration

    Even on Inauguration Day, you can count on taxpayer-funded National Public Radio to act like a hive of Democrats. It’s not surprising. As longtime NPR editor Uri Berliner reported last year, he investigated D.C. voting records and found “87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans.” On “Morning Edition” before Donald Trump was…
    Tim Graham
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    Trump Immediately Shuts Down Biden-Era Website Promoting Abortion

    Among its first acts in office, the Trump-Vance administration closed a federal government website opened by the Biden administration to promote abortion-on-demand at taxpayers’ expense. Users noted the website ReproductiveRights.gov had gone offline on Monday afternoon, shortly after Chief Justice John Roberts swore in Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States. “Reproductive…
    Ben Johnson
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    Trump Plants His Flag on Mount McKinley

    We may be seeing the beginning of the end of the war on history. The Left has waged a decades long effort to fundamentally transform America, to turn the people of this country against their own heritage so that they may redefine our national political and cultural institutions. That effort reached a crescendo in 2020…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Episcopal Bishop Chides Trump on Politics. He Pushes Back.

    Mariann Edgar Budde, who holds one of the nation’s most prestigious clerical posts as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, curried controversy and drew pushback on Tuesday when she used a sermon to criticize President Donald Trump for some of his politics and policy prescriptions.  The remarks came at a church service hosted by…
    Jacob Adams
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    Scrapping ‘Bidenbucks,’ Trump Pulls Federal Government Out of Election Meddling

    The “Bidenbucks” executive order directing federal agencies to boost voter participation has gone the way of the Biden administration.  President Donald Trump eliminated Executive Order 14019, which President Joe Biden signed in March 2021, calling for federal agencies to partner with private “voter-advocacy groups” and to develop “strategic plans.” Trump signed what amounted to an…
    Fred Lucas
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    Fact Check: Vance and Trump Don’t Disagree on Jan 6. Pardons

    In the wake of President Donald Trump’s pardoning of 1,500 people charged with crimes committed on Jan. 6, 2021, corporate media outlets are suggesting Vice President JD Vance was out of step with Trump when he said, “If you committed violence on that day, obviously, you shouldn’t be pardoned” in a recent interview with Fox…
    George Caldwell
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    Trump Inaugurates a New Era

    Breathtaking: There’s no other word for the sheer ambition and scope of Donald Trump’s second inaugural address. President Trump is back with all the confidence of a man delivered from death for a purpose. Voters save his political life and legacy, too, by reelecting him in the face of every accusation and criminal charge against…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Anti-Trump Jan. 20 Protests in DC Fall Flat

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Left-wing groups opposing Donald Trump’s second presidency had plans to “fight back” with thousands of protesters in Washington, D.C., on Monday—but that’s not what happened. The Act Now to Stop War and End Racism Coalition and the People’s Forum, who were behind anti-Israel riots last summer in the nation’s capital, organized Inauguration Day rallies…
    Hudson Crozier
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    The One Thing Trump Can’t Do

    Donald Trump’s job is to make America great again. Improving your own life is up to you. There are lots of reasons to be excited about Trump’s return to power. He’s pledged to unleash America’s energy industry. Cheaper energy and a better regulatory environment should help contain inflation. The border will be locked down while…
    Victor Joecks
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    The Absurd Outrage Directed at Trump

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. It’s Monday, Inauguration Day. It’s also Martin Luther King Day, and the two dates coincided this year. And Donald Trump has just finished his inaugural…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Trump Executive Orders Cover Border, DOGE, TikTok, Free Speech

    Fresh off his inaugural speech at the Capitol, President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders, which included establishing the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, preventing censorship, and unleashing American energy production. At Capital One Arena in Washington, Trump signed the orders from a seemingly small wooden desk, with the presidential seal, and…
    Fred Lucas
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    What Democrats, Corporate Media Said About Potential Preemptive Pardons from Trump Four Years Ago

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Democrats and corporate media figures were highly critical about pardons being issued preemptively prior to the end of President Donald Trump’s first term. Former President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Army Gen. Mark Milley, members of the Jan. 6 House Select Committee, and members of his family on the last day…
    Harold Hutchison
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