BREAKING: Joe Biden is officially gone from the White House. pic.twitter.com/pdENORXB3H
— The General (@GeneralMCNews) January 20, 2025
Day: January 20, 2025
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Donald Trump will flex one of the most intense and sweeping demonstrations of presidential power on the first day of any administration, seeking to fundamentally change Americaβs course by sundown on Monday.
On a frigid day that forced inside his swearing-in as the 47th president, Trump plans a blizzard of hardline executive actions on immigration, energy production, transgender athletes and the pardoning of January 6 rioters.
His inaugural show of force β βclose to 100 to be exact,β he said Sunday β will set the tone for a second term anchored on Trumpβs strongman persona and vision of an all-powerful presidency, aimed at unleashing intense disruption at home and abroad.
But before he took office, outgoing President Joe Biden made his own extraordinary use of executive power that reflected an uncertain national moment, granting preemptive pardons to public servants deemed potential targets of Trumpβs vows to seek retribution against his adversaries.
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President Joe Biden on Monday issued preemptive pardons for Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci and members of Congress who served on the committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, using extraordinary executive prerogative as a shield against revenge by his incoming successor, Donald Trump.
The pardons, coming in the final hours of Bidenβs presidency, amount to a stunning flex of presidential power that is unprecedented in recent presidential history. They serve to protect several outspoken critics of the incoming president, including former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, whom Trump has vowed retribution against.
βThese are exceptional circumstances, and I cannot in good conscience do nothing,β Biden wrote in a statement, issued hours before he was set to welcome Trump to the White House for tea before attending his swearing-in. βBaseless and politically motivated investigations wreak havoc on the lives, safety and financial security of targeted individuals and their families.β
On his final day in office, President Biden announces:
— Taylor Popielarz (@TaylorPopielarz) January 20, 2025
"…I am exercising my authority under the Constitution to pardon General Mark A. Milley, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the Members of Congress and staff who served on the Select Committee, and the U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitanβ¦ pic.twitter.com/VPnNUgWMmn
