President Donald Trump travels to Los Angeles, California, to meet with officials in the wake of devastating wildfires in the area on Friday, January 24.
Trump traveled to California after visiting North Carolina earlier Friday to meet with officials and locals still reeling from the damage done by Hurricane Helene four months ago.
(Read more from “WATCH: President Donald Trump in Los Angeles to Inspect Fire Damage” HERE)
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order declassifying the records surrounding the assassinations of three pivotal figures in American history: President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The announcement came via a video shared on X (formerly Twitter), in which Trump was briefed about the executive order before signing it. The order directs the release of files related to the tragic events surrounding the deaths of these iconic figures, promising to bring long-awaited answers to the public.
President @realDonaldTrump signs an Executive Order to declassify the JFK, RFK, and MLK Jr. files! pic.twitter.com/BHHdjMLrl0
— Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47) January 23, 2025
“That’s a big one, huh?” Trump responded when informed about the magnitude of the decision. “A lot of people are waiting for this— for years, for decades. And everything will be revealed,” he added, expressing the weight of the decision and the anticipation that has surrounded these cases for decades.
The executive order emphasizes that more than five decades after the assassinations, the American public and the families of the victims still do not have full access to all the government’s records regarding the events. “It is in the national interest to finally release all records related to these assassinations without delay,” the order reads. It stresses the importance of transparency and the public’s right to know the truth about these historical tragedies.
Trump had previously promised to release the documents related to these high-profile assassinations, along with other classified records on topics of significant public interest. He had hinted at this declassification as part of his broader effort to “restore transparency and accountability” within the government, a theme he reiterated after signing the order. “We are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and other topics of great public interest,” he declared.
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. . .Hannity, usually a favorite among conservatives, was chided up and down on social media Thursday.
MAGA influencer @catturd2 posted , “Hannity loves to hear himself talk. Pathetic,” in response to a regional Trump campaign official’s complaint, “Why can’t Hannity just hush and stop interrupting? This character flaw aggravates me so much. Let @POTUS speak man!!!”
A poster described as a ” communications professional ” wrote, “Yeah, there’s a difference between being a talk show host on the radio where you’re the only person in the room and the role of an interviewer. He hasn’t figured that out yet. Kind of a shame given the access he has.”
Yet another poster wrote , “Hannity Vanity – That’s my President.. Let him speak.”
Hannity interrupted Trump several times to change the topic to the economy — an issue pundits agreed helped Trump win the election. But Trump wasn’t having it, causing Hannity to keep interrupting.
Hannity loves to hear himself talk. Pathetic. https://t.co/KkQgkIxiWQ
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) January 23, 2025
(Read more from “‘Hannity Vanity!’ MAGA Fans Melt Down Over Fox News Host’s Behavior in New Trump Interview” HERE)
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“Bidenbucks” was technically dead on arrival on President Donald Trump’s first day in office, but the election-influencing executive order that Trump’s predecessor signed nearly four years ago will take diligence to fully kill.
As David Craig, legal director for the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), told The Federalist, Biden’s order “has substantial tentacles across government.” FGA has been on the frontlines of the battle against Bidenbucks since the executive order’s inception at the beginning of Biden’s term.
“The head is cut off the snake but the body continues to slither,” Craig said, noting how deeply embedded Bidenbucks is in every agency, each teeming with left-leaning bureaucrats.
Soon after taking the oath of office on Monday, the new president rescinded scores of his predecessor’s edicts that Trump says “embedded deeply unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices within every agency and office of the Federal government.” Among the chloroformed is Biden’s Executive Order 14019. It has been expunged from the White House website. . .
The so-called “Promoting Access to Voting” directive that Biden signed in early March 2021 was nothing more than a taxpayer-funded get-out-the-vote machine to elect Democrats. As The Federalist has reported, the order instructed federal agencies to assist in a nationwide voter registration promotion campaign. (Read more from “Trump Erases ‘Bidenbucks’ And Taxpayer-Funded Leftist Voter Registration Drives” HERE)
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. . .Following her brutal election loss, former Vice President Kamala Harris reportedly spoke with Hillary Clinton on multiple occasions as she mulls her future in the wake of President Trump’s return to the White House.
Not much is known about the details of those discussions, but Harris had also consulted family members and friends while trying to figure out her future, New York Magazine reported.
Clinton, 77, was the first woman to win the Democratic nomination for president, and she was also the first female to notch a popular vote victory.
Harris, 60, was the first female vice president in US history and the second woman to serve as the Democrats’ presidential standard bearer.
But both were beaten by Trump, 78. (Read more from “Kamala Harris Consulted Hillary Clinton Over How to Deal With Brutal Loss to Trump: Report” HERE)
By now no one should be surprised at President Trump’s sweeping reversals of the conventional wisdom on everything from A (asylum) to W (wilderness access) — sorry, no executive orders affecting anything beginning with Z yet.
But in revoking President Lyndon Johnson’s 1965 Executive Order 11246 that launched our decades-long imposition of de facto racial quotas under the euphemism “affirmative action,” Trump has gone beyond the boldest imagination of any previous administration.
A brief history: When the Civil Rights Act of 1964’s Title VII — the clause banning racial discrimination in hiring — was debated in the Senate, opponents charged it would lead to racial quotas.
The Civil Rights Act’s floor manager, future Vice President Hubert Humphrey, denied the claim, saying, “If the senator can find in Title VII any language which provides that an employer will have to hire on the basis of percentage or quota related to color, race, religion or national origin, I will start eating the pages one after another because it is not in there.”
Humphrey lied, essentially. The civil-rights lobby was already planning for Johnson’s executive order that called for federal contractors to adopt “affirmative action” — that is, quotas by another name. (Read more from “This Is President Trump’s Boldest Move So Far — Even Reagan Chickened Out on It” HERE)
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Government watchdog Judicial Watch is suing Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for records related to his reported plans to resist the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts. Johnson’s office is now facing an open records lawsuit after denying that such documents exist.
“Sure enough, this scandal is worsened by the evident cover-up of the full scope of Mayor Johnson’s lawlessness, which Judicial Watch aims to remedy with our open records lawsuit," @TomFitton (3/3). https://t.co/fgl0PZkKFa
— Judicial Watch ⚖️ (@JudicialWatch) January 23, 2025
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s election win, on November 12, the Democrat mayor held a press conference where he pledged that Chicago would remain a so-called “sanctuary city,” i.e. a liberal jurisdiction that refuses to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. In accordance, city officials will continue to shield all illegal aliens in Chicago from federal deportation officers, Johnson promised.
Trump’s border czar Tom Homan, who’s tasked with leading the “largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” said he’d cut off federal funds from cities, such as Chicago, that do not assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Chicago is on the list of the first “sanctuary cities” to be cleaned up under Trump. Homan warned that Johnson better not “impede” the Trump administration’s work or else face prosecution. “If he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien—I will prosecute him,” Homan said of Johnson.
Johnson, speaking for the first time on the outcome of the presidential race, called Trump “a tyrant” and those threats “dangerous.” (Read more from “Mayor Accused of Covering up Plot to Resist Trump’s Mass Deportation Plans” HERE)
Defense Secretary Nominee Pete Hegseth got one step closer to confirmation after his nomination passed a major procedural hurdle on Thursday afternoon.
The full Senate voted 51-49 to consider Hegseth’s nomination, which will likely take place Friday evening.
Hegseth’s nomination advanced despite a last-ditch effort by Senate Democrats to derail it.
On Tuesday, NBC News reported that Hegseth’s estranged ex-sister-in-law claimed he was abusive towards his ex-wife Samantha Deering — despite Deering telling NBC News that there was no abuse in their marriage and what they were planning to report was “inaccurate.”
Furthermore, both the ex-sister-in-law, Danielle Dietrich — who was married to and divorced from Hegseth’s brother, and Deering were interviewed by the FBI for Hegseth’s background investigation, and the investigation results came back as “unremarkable.” (Read more from “Pete Hegseth Clears Major Procedural Hurdle — One Step Closer to Confirmation” HERE)
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President Trump made the case Wednesday that the nation’s problems are “all solvable,” touting the “very unified” Republican caucus in Congress.
“They’re all solvable problems … with time, effort, money — unfortunately — but they’re all solvable,” Trump asserted during an interview on Fox News.
“We can get our country back,” he argued. “But if we didn’t win this race, I really believe our country would have been lost forever.”
Trump’s sitdown with Sean Hannity, taped Wednesday morning at the White House, is his first television interview as the 47th president. . .
Later in the interview, Trump praised House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as a “terrific” leader of the lower chamber, arguing that he’s effectively “unified” Republicans on Capitol Hill. (Read more from “Trump Gives First Interview Since Returning to the White House” HERE)
The Trump administration has cancelled all flights on refugees who were slated to enter the United States in the coming days, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN.
Refugees already approved to travel into the U.S. before a White House-imposed deadline suspending resettlement had their flight plans canceled anyway, according to a State Department memo given to resettlement partners and obtained by CNN. The flight cancellations are among the many actions the Trump administration has implemented to tighten immigration and shore up border security.
The Trump administration has cancelled all flights on refugees who were slated to enter the United States in the coming days, according to an internal memo obtained by CNN.
Refugees already approved to travel into the U.S. before a White House-imposed deadline suspending resettlement had their flight plans canceled anyway, according to a State Department memo given to resettlement partners and obtained by CNN. The flight cancellations are among the many actions the Trump administration has implemented to tighten immigration and shore up border security.
In his executive order announcement, Trump highlighted the plight of small towns like Springfield, Ohio, and Charleroi, Pennsylvania, that have dealt with incredible logistical and infrastructure challenges due to the large influx of refugees. The president also noted that other major jurisdictions, like New York City and Massachusetts, have declared emergencies due to the weight of their migrant populations. (Read more from “Trump Admin Deals Fatal Blow to Massive Refugee Flights” HERE)