January 20, 2025 • 11 mins
Trump Speaks Before Inauguration Day and he has a Plan for America, also Will he Act on Jan 6th Pardons? Signs point to YES, plus Joe Biden's Pardon Extravaganza as he is Walking Out the Door.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Make America powerful again, huge, safe again, build that wall,
wealthy again.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We're gonna win big lea.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We will make America great again.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Good morning, and welcome to the forty seven Morning Update.
Ben Ferguson with you, and we've got three big stories
for you on this inauguration day. First up, Donald Trump
speaks hours before the inauguration begins and my own mind,
does he have a plan for America? Plus executive orders?
What can you expect today? Also January sixth, pardons, it's
(00:41):
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
forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson, and it starts
right now. Story number President Elect Donald Trump on Sunday
(01:03):
night had a big rally and it was a day
to promise America's 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 at breakneck
speed and ensure that the quote curtain closes on four
long years of American decline. Here is part of what
(01:27):
Donald Trump said in his own words, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Very much, everybody. Why that good fairy? We're like winning,
don't we end. 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,
(01:53):
supporters and true American patriots. Or the eve of taking
back our country. That's what we're going to do. Take
it back 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
(02:17):
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
(02:41):
invasion of our borders. We're going to reclaim our wealth.
We're going to unlock the liquid goal that's right under
our fate, liquid goal. We're going to bring back law
and order to our cities. We're going to restore patriotism
(03:03):
to our schools, get radical left woop ideologies the hell
out of our military and.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Out of our government, and we are going.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
To make America great again. Now.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
My White House sources are telling me that Donald Trump
is set to sign up to two hundred 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,
(03:47):
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
(04:11):
new sections of the border wall. 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.
(04:34):
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 reports said that more
than seventy percent of office buildings that are owned by
(04:54):
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.
(05:17):
Yes I didn't say drilling, no, no, no. Donald Trump
is going to pause all offshore win leases and get
back to what America does.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Drill, baby drill.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And you know the thing that happened in California, that
ruin California, you know DEI. Well, it's also been going
on at the White House, 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
(05:49):
hiring practices in the entire federal government. And what is
going to take its place. The President will make it
clear you were to hire based on merit, not based
on someone's sexuality or the color of their skin, or
to fit a quota that you think is quote fair
(06:10):
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,
(06:31):
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 fifty one officials who
lied about the Hunter Biden laptop story. You may remember
(06:52):
that all of those fifty one officials got together knowing
they were lying to the American people, and said they
believe that the Hunter by that 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
(07:13):
of security clearance and their former jobs to convince Americans
that there was no way that the Hunter Byen 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 two hundred plus executive orders that will be
signed by Donald Trump today. And this is exactly what
(07:37):
winning looks like. Welcome to Donald Trump's presidency in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Now story number two.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
President Trump, I'm now being told, will be signing a
massive slate of January sixth pardons immediately after being sworn in.
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
(08:05):
know is losing their minds. Their headline reads Trump plans
to issue day one pardons for some convicted January the
sixth 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
(08:28):
them as enough to be seen as quote delivering on
his long term held promise. There are about one thousand,
two hundred and seventy people that have been convicted of
January sixth 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
(08:49):
they forced them into guilty pleas. Only a couple hundred,
by the way, are currently behind bars. Vice President lect JD.
Vance said 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
(09:10):
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. The
sixth House Speaker Mike Johnson put it perfectly on Sunday
(09:31):
when he was on Meet the Press and he said,
quote that Trump and Vance agree peaceful protesters should be
pardon but violent criminals should not. And lastly, story number three,
as you 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 poalooza. You may not
(09:53):
realize that Joe Biden has given out already more than
eight thousand pardons. Compare that to Donald Trump between twenty
seventeen and twenty twenty one, who only gave out two
hundred and thirty seven. Even Barack Obama, which was known
to hand out a lot of pardons, hit nineteen hundred
and Joe Biden is now over eight thousand. So who
(10:14):
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
(10:35):
to go with the record number of clemencies. Many of
them are described as quote controversial. Most notably there was
Biden breaking his promise not to partner his son Hunter Biden.
And then there were the commutations of sentences of thirty
seven of the forty prisoners, all killers and some of
them multiple murderers on federal death row. In fact, there
(10:59):
are only three three people that were evil enough that
Biden decided no, I'm not gonna 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 gonna hook you up. Yes. On Friday,
Biden commuted the sentences of nearly two thousand, five hundred
(11:21):
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 by the
last minute pardons, and I'll have them for you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast
and we will see you back here tomorrow
Make America powerful again, huge, safe again, build that wall,
wealthy again.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
We're gonna win big lea.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
We will make America great again.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Good morning, and welcome to the forty seven Morning Update.
Ben Ferguson with you, and we've got three big stories
for you on this inauguration day. First up, Donald Trump
speaks hours before the inauguration begins and my own mind,
does he have a plan for America? Plus executive orders?
What can you expect today? Also January sixth, pardons, it's
(00:41):
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
forty seven Morning Update with Ben Ferguson, and it starts
right now. Story number President Elect Donald Trump on Sunday
(01:03):
night had a big rally and it was a day
to promise America's 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 at breakneck
speed and ensure that the quote curtain closes on four
long years of American decline. Here is part of what
(01:27):
Donald Trump said in his own words, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Very much, everybody. Why that good fairy? We're like winning,
don't we end. 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,
(01:53):
supporters and true American patriots. Or the eve of taking
back our country. That's what we're going to do. Take
it back 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
(02:17):
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
(02:41):
invasion of our borders. We're going to reclaim our wealth.
We're going to unlock the liquid goal that's right under
our fate, liquid goal. We're going to bring back law
and order to our cities. We're going to restore patriotism
(03:03):
to our schools, get radical left woop ideologies the hell
out of our military and.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Out of our government, and we are going.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
To make America great again. Now.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
My White House sources are telling me that Donald Trump
is set to sign up to two hundred 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,
(03:47):
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
(04:11):
new sections of the border wall. 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.
(04:34):
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 reports said that more
than seventy percent of office buildings that are owned by
(04:54):
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.
(05:17):
Yes I didn't say drilling, no, no, no. Donald Trump
is going to pause all offshore win leases and get
back to what America does.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Drill, baby drill.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And you know the thing that happened in California, that
ruin California, you know DEI. Well, it's also been going
on at the White House, 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
(05:49):
hiring practices in the entire federal government. And what is
going to take its place. The President will make it
clear you were to hire based on merit, not based
on someone's sexuality or the color of their skin, or
to fit a quota that you think is quote fair
(06:10):
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,
(06:31):
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 fifty one officials who
lied about the Hunter Biden laptop story. You may remember
(06:52):
that all of those fifty one officials got together knowing
they were lying to the American people, and said they
believe that the Hunter by that 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
(07:13):
of security clearance and their former jobs to convince Americans
that there was no way that the Hunter Byen 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 two hundred plus executive orders that will be
signed by Donald Trump today. And this is exactly what
(07:37):
winning looks like. Welcome to Donald Trump's presidency in twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Now story number two.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
President Trump, I'm now being told, will be signing a
massive slate of January sixth pardons immediately after being sworn in.
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
(08:05):
know is losing their minds. Their headline reads Trump plans
to issue day one pardons for some convicted January the
sixth 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
(08:28):
them as enough to be seen as quote delivering on
his long term held promise. There are about one thousand,
two hundred and seventy people that have been convicted of
January sixth 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
(08:49):
they forced them into guilty pleas. Only a couple hundred,
by the way, are currently behind bars. Vice President lect JD.
Vance said 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
(09:10):
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. The
sixth House Speaker Mike Johnson put it perfectly on Sunday
(09:31):
when he was on Meet the Press and he said,
quote that Trump and Vance agree peaceful protesters should be
pardon but violent criminals should not. And lastly, story number three,
as you 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 poalooza. You may not
(09:53):
realize that Joe Biden has given out already more than
eight thousand pardons. Compare that to Donald Trump between twenty
seventeen and twenty twenty one, who only gave out two
hundred and thirty seven. Even Barack Obama, which was known
to hand out a lot of pardons, hit nineteen hundred
and Joe Biden is now over eight thousand. So who
(10:14):
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
(10:35):
to go with the record number of clemencies. Many of
them are described as quote controversial. Most notably there was
Biden breaking his promise not to partner his son Hunter Biden.
And then there were the commutations of sentences of thirty
seven of the forty prisoners, all killers and some of
them multiple murderers on federal death row. In fact, there
(10:59):
are only three three people that were evil enough that
Biden decided no, I'm not gonna 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 gonna hook you up. Yes. On Friday,
Biden commuted the sentences of nearly two thousand, five hundred
(11:21):
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 by the
last minute pardons, and I'll have them for you tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast
and we will see you back here tomorrow
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