TRUMP 2.0 – INAUGURATION DAY – JANUARY 20, 2021. Donald Trump enters office for his second time, a much different man, in much different circumstances. In many ways, leaving office in 2021, replaced by a weak, deceptive, feckless and radically woke Joe Biden administration, made Trump far stronger and better than ever.
With a popular vote win, Republican trifecta with House and Senate GOP majorities, President Trump has been supercharged.
He has a solid conservative team and well laid plans ready to go on day one and he will be able to execute those plans swiftly and effectively.
This is in sharp contrast to Trump’s first 2017-2021 White House term, where the politically inexperienced outsider president was forced to staff his administration with officials and aides who frequently tried to blunt his actions.
This time around, he is drawing on a pool of committed loyalists who share his approach to foreign affairs and his goal of weakening the influence of supposedly nonpartisan “deep state” civil servants.
On his first day in office, Trump is expected to sign the paperwork to formally nominate his picks for top Cabinet and other high-ranking administrative positions, formally launching the confirmation process.
However, the process is already on a fast track and most, if not all, will be confirmed quickly.
Nominees require a simple majority in the 100-seat Senate to be confirmed. Republicans hold 53 seats, but some of Trump’s picks could struggle to be confirmed if a small number of Republicans oppose their nominations.
But based on the latest hearings, that seems unlikely.
He also returns with a conservative supermajority of six out of nine justices on the Supreme Court that could provide him significant freedoms he didn’t enjoy the first time and an edge none of his recent predecessors have had.
Recent landmark rulings on abortion, expanding Second Amendment rights and presidential immunity were all in his favor, with the six conservative justices voting one way and the three liberal justices voting the other.
Still, Trump would be wise not to assume the Supreme Court will necessarily always be on his side.
Meanwhile, if any current justices retire in the next four years, Trump will be able to appoint their replacements, allowing him to maintain his supermajority.
The two oldest justices are Samuel Alito (76) and Clarence Thomas (74)—the most conservative-leaning members of the Supreme Court. But liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, at 70, isn’t a spring chicken, and could also retire, become ill or pass away during Trump’s term.
This would allow him to create an even bigger conservative supermajority of seven to two.
So, what can we expect from Trump on day one?
Well, he has already said he will declare a national energy emergency to allow immediate access to large areas of fossil fuel exploitation currently banned or restricted by Team Biden.
Trump also just announced he will declare a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border caused by Biden and direct the Pentagon to send the Armed Forces to “erect physical barriers” and complete border wall construction.
Major deportation raids should begin across the country almost immediately afterwards.
He has also hinted at issuing nearly 100 executive orders reversing much of the damage done by Team Biden as well as new tariffs against key trading partners.
The measures will address issues such as energy, immigration, birthright citizenship, tariffs, DEI, transgenderism and potential pardons and other clemency for at least all the nonviolent participants in the 2021 Capitol riot.
About 1,583 people, the vast majority, have been charged in federal court, and 1,270 were convicted on charges of trespass or disorderly conduct, fairly benign crimes usually receiving a slap on the wrist.
One hundred and eighty people have been charged with entering a restricted area with a deadly or dangerous weapon, mostly flagpoles or bear spray, not firearms—also not very serious crimes.
Meanwhile, 91 protesters were charged for destruction of government property, and 68 for theft of government property. Again, not major crimes by any stretch.
Then there were the 608 rioters charged for assaulting or impeding law enforcement officers, some of those were serious, many were not.
Only 174 were charged with assault with a deadly or dangerous weapon. Again, all the “weapons” used were objects other than firearms.
Finally, there were 18 charged with seditious conspiracy, the most serious charge brought against any of the perpetrators.
Some of these charges were trumped up. Most were sentenced to obscenely long stays, even decades in prison.
In issuing his well-deserved pardons and commutations for the often maliciously prosecuted (and persecuted) Jan. 6 rioters, Trump has been greatly aided by none other than Joe Biden who has issued sweeping pardons in his last days and hours in office.
These include the unprecedented overreaching pardon for his son Hunter, and the just announced preemptive pardons for Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and the January 6 congressional committee.
Biden also announced on January 17 that he will commute the sentences of 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders, saying he has now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any of his predecessors.
Well, now it’s Trump’s turn.
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