Late Tuesday night Trump released his last batch of pardons, 137 people including Steven Bannon. Here is a description of some of his last minute pardons.
The Washington Post captures Trump’s last day in the White House: President Trump spent his final full day in office Tuesday the same way he spent many of his 1,460 prior days as president: brooding over imagined injustices, plotting retribution against perceived enemies and seeking ways to maximize his power.s week.
On Tuesday, in McConnell’s final speech as majority leader, he linked the mob attack to Trump by saying they were fed lies by the president.
January 20 Noon: Trump’s term ends. He left the White House on Marine One with his family at 8am, made a short speech before boarding Air Force One and was in the air by 9AM, headed for Mar-A-Lago.
One final Maggie Haberman Trump story, this one on his last hours as President: The route from the airport to his private club, Mar-a-Lago, was lined with people waving flags, some weeping as he passed. Around 11:30 a.m., Mr. Trump was whisked inside the gates of the Mar-a-Lago compound, leaving behind the press corps that was assigned to cover him for four years. Mr. Pirro’s pardon was announced around that time.
Mr. Trump had another 30 minutes left of his presidency, but he had said all he was going to say.
Coppins on the coming Trump amnesia: Indeed, the narrative now forming in some GOP circles presents Trump as a secondary figure who presided over an array of important accomplishments thanks to the wisdom and guidance of the Republicans in his orbit. In these accounts, Trump’s race-baiting, corruption, and cruel immigration policies—not to mention his attempts to overturn an election—are treated as minor subplots, rather than defining features.
On Friday the new York Times and other outlets ran a story about yet another (final?) Trump scandal regarding attempts to overturn the 2020 election: a plan with President Donald J. Trump to oust Jeffrey A. Rosen as acting attorney general and wield the department’s power to force Georgia state lawmakers to overturn its presidential election results.
Meanwhile, the Senate reached a compromise plan to receive the impeachment articles by Monday and begin a trail February 9.
American hit 400,000 COVID deaths this week.
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Trump’s Final Approval Rating: 38.6% (January 20)
COVID Cases/ Deaths: 24,876,261 / 416,010 (January 23)