Trump guarantees to ship a spate of government orders, together with motion on Jan. 6 defendants

President-elect Donald Trump promised a spate of government orders when he takes workplace as president Monday, suggesting at a Sunday rally in Washington, D.C., that amongst them shall be motion on the Jan. 6 rioters.
“All people on this very massive enviornment shall be very proud of my resolution on the J6 hostages,” he mentioned of the defendants and people convicted of crimes associated to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol. Trump has lengthy expressed sympathy for his supporters accused or discovered responsible of crimes for his or her involvement within the riot. He lately claimed there have been no weapons used that day, although a lot of defendants have been charged with and pleaded responsible to crimes associated to carrying firearms.
“I believe you will be very, very blissful, I might say about 99.9% of this lovely enviornment,” Trump mentioned Sunday night time at Capitol One Area.
Trump is predicted to signal roughly 200 government actions — which embody government orders, presidential memoranda, proclamations and every other presidential directives — on Monday, CBS Information has realized. A few of them are anticipated to be signed at Capital One Area whereas the remainder shall be signed on the White Home.
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The president-elect predicted, “You are going to have quite a lot of enjoyable watching tv tomorrow,” and he riffed on an unnamed aide who he claimed urged him to not signal too many government orders Monday after being sworn in.
“Anyone mentioned yesterday, ‘Sir, do not signal so many in sooner or later. Let’s do it over a interval of weeks.’ I mentioned, ‘Like hell, we will do it over weeks. We will signal them.’ ‘Let’s do it later.’ And it by no means will get achieved.”
“No, we’re doing up tomorrow,” he mentioned. “I’ll have loads to signal sooner or later — don’t be concerned about it. It is not going to cease.”
Different government actions Trump talked about through the rally embody getting “wokeness” out of the navy; directing the navy to assemble an “Iron Dome” missile protection protect made fully within the U.S.; and making public the remaining information regarding the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
He additionally vowed to take motion on the southern border, training and variety, fairness and inclusion measures.
The president-elect additionally mentioned plans for TikTok, saying he had no selection however to save lots of the favored social media app due to the roles it creates. After the Supreme Court docket dominated Friday {that a} legislation banning the app was constitutional, Trump mentioned that he would prolong the implementation of the legislation by 90 days, which might be allowed beneath the legislation. Trump in his first time unsuccessfully tried to ban the app with an government order, however has since modified his tune on the difficulty.
He spoke Sunday a few proposal beneath which the U.S. would personal 50% of TikTok and have a associate who he claimed would assume the entire threat.
“So that they’ll have a associate, the USA, and so they’ll have quite a lot of bidders, and the USA will do what we name a three way partnership, and there isn’t any threat. We’re not placing up any cash,” Trump mentioned. Trump mentioned he spoke with Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner Sunday and advised the group Prepare dinner would make a “huge” funding within the U.S. It was not clear whether or not this was associated to TikTok.
The president-elect additionally briefly mirrored on the assassination try in opposition to him final summer season in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a gunman clipped his ear earlier than legislation enforcement killed the shooter. Trump mentioned he nonetheless has a throbbing feeling in his ear from the place the bullet grazed him.
Ed O’Keefe
contributed to this report.