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Donald Trump
Make America powerful again, huge, safe again. Build that wall wealthy again.
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Ben Ferguson
We're gonna win big league.
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Donald Trump
We will make America great again.
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Ben Ferguson
You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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Good morning and welcome to The47 Morning Update, Ben Ferguson with you. We've got three big stories for you on this Inauguration Day. First up, Donald Trump speaks hours before the inauguration begins. My, oh my, does he have a plan for America? Plus executive orders. What can you expect today? Also January 6th, pardons. It's been a big question. Will Donald Trump act? I'll explain that and why. It's a big yes in a moment. And finally, Joe Biden goes on a pardon frenzy as he's walking out of the White House. It is the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson and it starts right now. President elect Donald Trump on Sunday night had a big rally and it was a day to promise America swift action, saying as soon as I am sworn in, we are going to remake the federal government. We are going to shift federal priorities at a breakneck speed and ensure that the, quote, curtain closes on four long years of American decline. Here is part of what Donald Trump said in his own words.
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Donald Trump
Thank you very much, everybody. What a good feeling. We like winning, don't we? We're going to make our country greater than ever before. Hello Washington and hello America. We're all over America. I'm thrilled to be back with so many friends, supporters and true American patriots on the eve of taking back our country. That's what we're going to do. Take back our country. Our country. Tomorrow at noon, the curtain closes on four long years of American decline. And we begin a brand new day of American strength and prosperity, dignity and pride, bringing it all back once and for all. We're going to end the reign of a failed and corrupt political establishment in Washington. A failed administration. We're not going to take it anymore. We're going to stop the invasion of our borders. We're going to reclaim our wealth. We're going to unlock the liquid gold that's right under our feet. Liquid gold. We're going to bring back law and order to our cities. We're going to restore patriotism to our schools, get radical left woke ideologies the hell out of our military and out of our government. And we are going to make America great again.
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Ben Ferguson
Now, my White House sources are telling me that Donald Trump is set to sign up to 200 executive orders on his first day in office. What is going to be in that list? Number one, declare a national emergency at the border and then close the border. Donald Trump is also set to designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, just like Al Qaeda and isis. We also are being told that Trump will reinstate the remain in Mexico priority. And in the catch and release that has been going on for the last four years under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. We also are being told that through executive action that Donald Trump will direct the military to build new sections of the border wall. He, he will also tell Americans that the border wall is one of his top priorities, to finish what he started four plus years ago. And he will terminate Joe Biden's energy drilling restrictions, something that has been a focal point over the last several days and a promise that you just heard Donald Trump talk about to his supporters at that rally. We also, through executive action will have this requiring federal workers to return to in person work. This after report said that more than 70% of office buildings that are owned by the federal government are empty. And there are hundreds and hundreds of thousands of federal workers who never go into an office. That will end with Donald Trump's executive action when it comes to energy. He's not done. He is also going to, through executive action, pause all offshore wind leases. Yes. I didn't say drilling. No, no, no. Donald Trump is going to pause all offshore wind leases and get back to what America does. Drill, baby, drill. And you know the thing that happened in California that ruined California, you know, dei. Well, it's also been going on at the White House and, and it's been going on at the Pentagon. It's been going on in virtually every branch of our government. Through executive action, I'm being told that Donald Trump will end DEI diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices in the entire federal government. And what is going to take its place? The President will make it clear you are to hire based on merit, not based on someone's sexuality or, or the color of their skin or to fit a quota that you think is, quote, fair or equitable. That is going to have a massive impact on the hiring in our federal government. We also are being told that Donald Trump is going to withdraw from the Paris climate Accord and mandate agencies in our government to remove, quote, regulations that increase the costs for Americans who, which will have a huge impact on businesses and small businesses that are owned by Americans. And finally, he is going to suspend security clearances. We're being told, and this is a big one for the 51 officials who lied about the Hunter Biden laptop story. You may remember that all of those 51 officials got together knowing they were lying to the American people and said they believe that the Hunter Biden laptop story was, well, nothing more than Russian disinformation and at all the markings of Russia being involved. They all knew they were lying to the American people and they were using their level of security clearance and their former jobs to convince Americans that there was no way that the Hunter Biden laptop was real. They all knew it was real. In fact, they all knew it was authentic and they chose to deliberately lie to the American people. This is just some of the 200 plus executive orders that will be signed by Donald Trump today. And this is exactly what winning looks like. Welcome to Donald Trump's presidency in 2025.
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Now story number two, President Trump, I'm.
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Now being told, will be signing a massive slate of January 6th pardons immediately after being sworn in. The the pardons, I have been told, have already been drafted. Now I get to do something fun which is actually report the news and read it from cnn who, you know is losing their minds. Their headline reads Trump plans to issue day one pardons for some convicted January 6th rioters. The question is, who is going to be pardoned? Well, number one, it's going to be people that were peaceful at the top of the list. Now, the extent of the initial pardons is still unclear. However, several sources describe them as enough to be seen as, quote, delivering on his long term held promise. There are about 1,270 people that have been convicted of January 6th related crimes and the vast majority of those defendants were forced to plead guilty because the government was trying to lock them up forever and that was how they forced them into guilty pleasure. Only a couple hundred, by the way, are currently behind bars. Vice President elect J.D. vance said in an interview this week that rioters accused of violence shouldn't be pardoned. He also said there is a bit of a gray area in many of the cases. Several Republican allies of Trump have also said they expect him to approach the pardons on a, quote, case by case basis. In fact, two key GOP lawmakers on Sunday said that Donald Trump will be issuing pardons to quite a few individuals who were not violent on January 6th. House Speaker Mike Johnson put it perfectly on Sunday when he was on Meet the Press and he said, quote, that Trump and Vance agree peaceful protesters should be pardoned, but violent criminals should not.
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And lastly, story number three, as you.
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Were sleeping last night, Joe Biden and his lawyers, they were getting a lot of pardons ready for what is being described as a pardon palooza. You may not realize that Joe Biden has given out already more than 8,000 pardons. Compare that to Donald Trump between 2017 and 2021, who only gave out 237. Even Barack Obama, which was known to hand out a lot of pardons, hit 1900. And Joe Biden is now over 8000. So who is on the list in the final hours? There's much speculation leaking right now that Joe Biden's pardon frenzy is now going to include the Biden crime family. Yes, Biden is expected to issue many more pardons in the last moments of his stay at the White House. And commutations to go with a record number of clemencies. Many of them are described as, quote, controversial. Most notably, there was Biden breaking his promise not to pardon his son, Hunter Biden. And then there were the commutations of sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners, all killers and some of them multiple murderers on federal death row. In fact, there were only three people that were evil enough that Biden decided, no, I'm not going to show you any mercy on that death row list. And on Friday, don't worry if you were a drug dealer or involved in drug offenses, Joe Biden was going to hook you up. Yes, on Friday, Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 drug offenders, which the New York Times called the broadest commutation of individual sentences ever issued by an American president. So get ready to be even more shocked. Buy the last minute pardons and I'll have them for you tomorrow.
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