The Department of Justice is rolling back President Joe Biden’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-89-year-old-woman-convicted-faces-over-a-decade-in-prison-for-peaceful-pro-life-protest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aggressive prosecution</a> of the FACE Act, saying his administration weaponized the law against pro-life protesters.
A new memo from President Donald Trump’s DOJ says that the department will only prosecute the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act in cases of extreme violence. Under Biden, FACE was successfully paired with a felony conspiracy charge to lock up nearly a dozen peaceful pro-life protesters.
“President Trump campaigned on the promise of ending the weaponization of the federal government and has recently directed all federal departments and agencies to identify and correct the past weaponization of law enforcement,” the memo from DOJ Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle said.
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FACE was originally passed in 1994 with the supposed intent to protect abortion facilities, churches, and pregnancy care centers from violence. However, data obtained by Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) shows that 97% of cases have been brought against pro-lifers, despite increasing attacks against churches after the end of Roe v. Wade.
The memo said that the DOJ would only prosecute FACE under “extraordinary circumstances” or in instances related to “death, serious bodily harm, or serious property damage.”
“Cases not presenting significant aggravating factors can adequately be addressed under state or local law,” the memo said. “Additionally, until further notice, no new abortion-related FACE Act actions — criminal or civil — will be permitted without authorization from the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.”
Under Biden, nearly a dozen pro-life activists were sentenced to prison, including a woman named Lauren Handy who got 57 months in prison over a protest at a notorious late-term abortion facility in Washington, D.C. Others, like 64-year-old Calvin Zastrow, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/63-year-old-pro-life-grandpa-reports-to-notorious-federal-prison-after-biden-harris-prosecution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were given six months</a> in prison over a peaceful protest at an abortion facility in Tennessee.
“To many Americans, prosecutions and civil actions under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (‘FACE Act’) have been the prototypical example of this weaponization. And for good reason. Even though more than 100 crisis pregnancy centers, pro-life organizations, and churches were attacked in the immediate aftermath of the Dobbs decision, nearly all prosecutions under the FACE Act have been against pro-life protesters. That is not the evenhanded administration of justice,” the memo said.
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The DOJ also moved to immediately dismiss three ongoing FACE Act cases brought by the Biden administration that have yet to be resolved. The Thomas More Society, which is involved in each of the dropped cases, celebrated the decision.
“Huge moment in the fight against FACE,” the organization <a href="https://x.com/ThomasMoreSoc/status/1882895890219978780" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X. “In each of these three FACE Act cases, Thomas More Society attorneys were representing several brave and peaceful pro-life defendants—who can now breathe easy without the heavy burden of federal prosecutors on their backs.”
The revamped approach from the DOJ follows action on Thursday from Trump when he signed a pardon for 23 pro-lifers convicted under Biden, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pardoned-pro-life-activist-says-hes-running-on-adrenaline-and-the-holy-ghost-after-trump-pardon">freeing many</a> of them from prison.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pardoned-pro-life-activist-says-hes-running-on-adrenaline-and-the-holy-ghost-after-trump-pardon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RELATED: Pardoned Pro-Life Activist Says He’s Running ‘On Adrenaline And The Holy Ghost’ After Trump Pardon</a>

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The White House announced Friday morning that deportation flights of illegal immigrants had begun. 
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made the announcement on X, sharing photos of illegal immigrants being boarded onto planes. On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump promised to enact the largest deportation operation in American history. 
“Deportation flights have begun,” Leavitt said. “President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences.”
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In a similar post on X, the White House said Trump was sending &#8220;a strong message&#8221; to the world.
The deportation announcement <a href="https://x.com/PressSec/status/1882614532557926671" target="_blank" rel="noopener">came</a> after Leavitt said that ICE arrested 538 illegal aliens on Thursday, including a suspected terrorist, four members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, and multiple people who had been convicted of sex crimes against children. 
She also said that hundreds of illegal immigrants had been deported using military aircraft. 
“The largest massive deportation operation in history is well underway,” she said. “Promises made. Promises kept.”
President Trump enacted a number of immigration-centered <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-emergency-at-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive orders</a> on Monday, including declaring a national emergency at the border and committing his administration to &#8220;promptly&#8221; removing “all aliens who enter or remain in violation of Federal law.”
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“Over the last 4 years, the United States has endured a large-scale invasion at an unprecedented level,” Trump said. “Millions of illegal aliens from nations and regions all around the world successfully entered the United States where they are now residing, including potential terrorists, foreign spies, members of cartels, gangs, and violent transnational criminal organizations, and other hostile actors with malicious intent.”
Under President Joe Biden, a record number of illegal immigrants entered and were released into the United States. This came after Biden ended Trump-era immigration policies, like Title 42, which allowed the U.S. to turn away migrants at the southern border to protect public health. 
“We have limited information on the precise whereabouts of a great number of these illegal aliens who have entered the United States over the last 4 years,” Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/securing-our-borders/">said</a>. “This cannot stand.  A nation without borders is not a nation, and the Federal Government must act with urgency and strength to end the threats posed by an unsecured border.”
Trump also designated drug cartels as terrorist organizations and ordered the construction of a border wall to continue.

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A woman who served as an official in Joe Biden&#8217;s White House and on Kamala Harris&#8217;s transition team, whom bureaucrats tried to hide in the Department of Labor&#8217;s non-political workforce after the election, has been terminated after The Daily Wire exposed her scheme.
“Elizabeth Peña was terminated, effective today. The Administration is actively working to ensure no other political operatives from the Biden-Harris administration were secretly burrowed into the government,” an individual with direct knowledge of staffing decisions told The Daily Wire.
The firing suggests the Trump team is hitting the ground running with attention to detail when it comes to the federal workforce, prepared to detect and respond to tricks and evasion that at times thwarted the president&#8217;s administration in his first term.
There are strict rules around political appointees converting to career employees to stay in the government after their president&#8217;s term ends, designed to prevent the subversion of the new administration. Conversions must be approved by the Office of Personnel Management and reported to Congress.
But between the election and Inauguration Day, the Biden Department of Labor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-biden-admin-uses-loophole-to-put-kamala-transition-aide-in-trump-workforce">skirted that process</a> by creating a three-year position and appointing Peña to it, The Daily Wire revealed on January 15. It contended that because it wasn&#8217;t a permanent position, the rules didn&#8217;t apply, even though that would place her in the workforce for the majority of Trump&#8217;s term.
Peña had been a Biden political appointee to the Labor Department before leaving to work for the Harris transition team, which would have positioned her for a top political slot had Harris won the presidency. Instead, she was left unemployed — but in between Harris&#8217; election loss and Trump&#8217;s inauguration, the Labor Department tried to sneak her into a non-political role.
The maneuver was especially jarring because Peña&#8217;s whole career involved strategically placing political operatives into roles. According to her LinkedIn, she previously worked for the Biden White House&#8217;s Presidential Personnel Office, the nerve center for recruiting and dispatching political operatives across the government. Before that, she worked for the Joe Biden presidential transition team, which prepares lists of political operatives to install in key roles to take over the government.
Prior to that, she worked for Beto O’Rourke’s presidential campaign, where she “authored over 500 vetting reports analyzing employees.”
Democrats maintain that Trump&#8217;s concern that a &#8220;deep state&#8221; has attempted to subvert him is a conspiracy theory, but the move only seemed to corroborate those suspicions.
In a LinkedIn post announcing her new position on January 15, Peña said she planned to use her new job working for Trump&#8217;s Labor Department to promote “equity,” a left-wing policy opposed by the incoming president.
“I’m thrilled to announce that I have returned to the Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB) as an International Relations Officer! This new role marks a continuation of my journey to protect and promote labor rights globally. Over the past few years, I’ve had the privilege of working on issues that matter deeply to me and at ILAB, I look forward to collaborating with partners at home and abroad to uphold the principles of dignity, equity, and justice in the workplace,” she wrote.
The Biden administration also lauded Peña as a DEI hire, quoting her on its website that &#8220;My Latina/Hispanic identity shapes my work by providing me with the core values that are embedded in me, like a strong work ethic, compassion, and resilience.&#8221;
Although the now-aborted &#8220;non-political&#8221; job had an end date in three years, it carried a salary of up to $153,354, and a Labor Department spokesperson under the Biden administration said she would be able to apply for a permanent job then.
He declined to say whether the job was created especially for her, but a Daily Wire review of job listings found that hers was the only position of its type to use a &#8220;term&#8221; rather than permanent status, and a similar job with the permanent status was canceled the same month the term job was advertised.
In a post to LinkedIn after publication of this article, Peña confirmed that she was terminated and blamed coverage in The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Yesterday, I was terminated from my position at the Department of Labor,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;This decision appears to have been influenced by an article published in a conservative outlet, which alleged that I had &#8216;burrowed&#8217; into the position. The article insinuated that the role was simply handed to me. Let me be clear: nothing in my life has ever been handed to me.&#8221;
&#8220;I am both surprised and, in some ways, flattered that my work would draw such attention and concern from the current administration,&#8221; the post said.
Peña also said that she didn&#8217;t believe she was hired due to DEI, but &#8220;would take pride&#8221; in it if that was the case.
&#8220;The article also misrepresented comments I previously made about my identity as a Latina during Hispanic heritage month, claiming I was a &#8216;diversity, equity, and inclusion&#8217; hire. This statement was taken out of context. But even if I had been hired as part of DEI efforts, I would take pride in that,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;While this chapter may have closed, it only strengthens my resolve to continue advocating for a brighter, more inclusive future for this country.&#8221; 
There are signs that the vigilance over Peña may also be present when it comes to enforcing Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-to-put-all-federal-dei-officials-on-leave-by-end-of-day-tomorrow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order abolishing DEI roles</a>, where bureaucrats may try to change or obscure their titles to avoid the axe.
A memo sent to all employees of most federal agencies on Wednesday said DEI positions would abolished because they &#8220;divide Americans by race, waste taxpayer dollars, and result in shameful discrimination,&#8221; and also that &#8220;We are aware of efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language.&#8221;
It said employees with knowledge of such maneuvers had 10 days to come forward without facing repercussions.
This piece was updated on Friday, January 24 with additional comment from Peña.

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Longtime Democrat strategist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/james-carville" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Carville</a> unloaded on former President Joe Biden in a recent episode of the &#8220;Politics War Room&#8221; podcast, telling cohost Al Hunt that Biden would do well to simply return to his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, &#8220;and stay there.&#8221;
Carville, who had been critical of Democrats leading into the November election and had often commented that they were leaning too far into &#8220;woke&#8221; ideology, said that Biden was solely responsible for the fact that the American people no longer care to hear from him.
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Wow, James Carville did not hold back on Joe Biden: &quot;What he&#39;s done to himself is no one wants to hear from this guy anymore. Just go to your condo in Rehoboth and stay there.&quot;
&quot;Your last act was terrible. Just get out of the way. The party&#39;s moving on.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/CajCL7xPhO">pic.twitter.com/CajCL7xPhO</a>
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&#8220;What he’s done to himself is no one wants to hear from this guy anymore. Okay, just go to your condo in Rehoboth and stay there. And that’s not because we’re bad people or we’re mean people. It was all his doing. All his doing, this entire thing,&#8221; Carville said, noting that the Democratic Party was not interested in talking to Biden either.
Carville briefly mentioned Biden&#8217;s repeated claim that he could have beaten Trump in November if he&#8217;d remained in the race, and made it clear that he wasn&#8217;t buying it: &#8220;No one f***ing believes that at all!&#8221;
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&#8220;And then fighting with Jill Biden and Alexandra Pelosi,&#8221; Carville continued. &#8220;I mean, just look, guy — you had a noble career. Your last act was terrible. Just get out of the way. The party’s moving on. I mean, they’re really moving on, and it’s very sad, but that’s just where we are. And he created this himself. He has nobody to blame but himself. Nobody.&#8221;
Hunt said that he &#8220;really has no role to play in the national dialogue,&#8221; and would be better served to simply step back from the spotlight and focus on raising money to build a library.
Carville took that a step further, saying that if Biden did insist on playing a role in public politics moving forward, that it would be a negative role.

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Former President Joe Biden commuted the sentence of a Connecticut drug dealer who was convicted in the killings of a mother and her eight-year-old son as part of a slate of thousands of pardons for &#8220;non-violent&#8221; criminals.
Adrian Peeler, 48, was ultimately only convicted of conspiring to kill Karen Clarke and her eight-year-old son, Leroy “BJ” Brown, despite the testimony of an eyewitness, the Connecticut Post <a href="https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/bridgeport-clemency-adrian-peeler-murders-timeline-20049049.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The mother and son were attacked as they came home to their apartment in January 1999 — just weeks before they were set to testify against the drug dealer&#8217;s brother, who was accused of shooting Clarke&#8217;s boyfriend in front of the small boy. Peeler&#8217;s brother reportedly gave the order to kill the mother and son.
Clarke was found shot multiple times and lying face up on the floor of her son&#8217;s room with a phone just inches from her hand. Her son was found dead in the hall with a gunshot wound to the back of his head.
Peeler was sentenced to 25 years in prison on the murder conspiracy charge as well as 35 years for drug dealing.
During his last days in office, Biden commuted Peeler&#8217;s sentence as part of his mass clemency for nearly 2,500 federal prisoners the former president called &#8220;non-violent.&#8221;
&#8220;Today, I am commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offenses who are serving disproportionately long sentences compared to the sentences they would receive today under current law, policy, and practice,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/biden-clemency-non-violent-inmates-includes-connecticut-child-killer?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a statement.
Even one of Connecticut&#8217;s Democrat senators expressed discomfort with the pardon.
&#8220;It seems to me that someone dropped the ball here to let this person get released,&#8221; <a href="https://wnyt.com/us-news/family-outraged-after-man-convicted-in-connecticut-killings-gets-clemency-from-biden-in-drug-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT). &#8220;This was a really vicious murder that changed our laws. It also highlights how we need to take a look at the pardon system to see how it can be improved.&#8221;
The killings led to Connecticut creating its witness protection system.
The brother of the murdered mother said the pardon is &#8220;shocking&#8221; for his family.
&#8220;I’m sick and tired, and I’m disgusted,&#8221; Oswald Clarke, <a href="https://wnyt.com/us-news/family-outraged-after-man-convicted-in-connecticut-killings-gets-clemency-from-biden-in-drug-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the Associated Press. &#8220;It’s a very shocking thing. My family is very distraught about it. It’s like we’re being traumatized all over again.&#8221;
Russell Peeler was originally sentenced to death for the murders, but that was changed to life in prison when Connecticut abolished the death penalty.
The brothers&#8217; mother was a Bridgeport city cop who urged them to follow the law. Before she died of stomach cancer she urged her sons to spend her insurance money on finishing college, but Russell Peeler used the money as a seed for his drug empire instead.

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Biden Commuted Sentence Of ‘Non-Violent’ Drug Dealer Convicted In Killings Of Mother, 8-Year-Old

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Republican lawmakers praised President Donald Trump over an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-trump-to-pardon-imprisoned-pro-life-activists-within-days?topStoryPosition=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected pardon</a> for pro-lifers prosecuted and imprisoned by the Biden administration over peaceful protests at abortion facilities.  
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said Thursday that it would be a victory for America after The Daily Wire reported that pardoning the pro-lifers targeted by the Biden administration was an immediate priority for Trump’s team and could come in a matter of days. Under Biden, the Justice Department successfully prosecuted nearly two dozen pro-lifers under the FACE Act, a Clinton-era law that makes it a federal crime to stand in front of an abortion facility entrance. 
&#8220;It is tremendous news to hear the news that President Trump will soon pardon the brave pro-life Americans who were unjustly targeted by Biden’s weaponized DOJ,” Roy told The Daily Wire. “These Americans are peaceful, pro-life Americans who were singled out and targeted by their government solely because of their beliefs.”
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Roy also urged the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/roy-introduces-bill-to-repeal-law-used-to-imprison-pro-life-activists">passage of a bill</a> he has sponsored to repeal the FACE Act, which has been disproportionately used against pro-lifers despite assurances it is also supposed to protect churches and crisis pregnancy centers. Lee has sponsored a companion bill in the Senate. 
“A victory for people of faith and the rule of law in America Unjust &amp; unequal application of the FACE Act against Pro Life activists stops under President Trump. Let’s pass my bill with [Chip Roy] to repeal the FACE Act to end these political persecutions forever,” Lee <a href="https://x.com/SenMikeLee/status/1882480643566878875" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. 
Other lawmakers also celebrated the news of the impending pardons. 
“Weaponizing the DOJ against pro-life protestors exercising their First Amendment rights was wrong,” West Virginia Rep. Riley Moore <a href="https://x.com/RepRileyMoore/status/1882473829517377850" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Great news as the March for Life comes to Washington tomorrow!!”
Over the past few days, Republicans have urged Trump, who previously spoke out against the arrests of the pro-lifers, to issue the pardons. 
On Thursday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) <a href="https://x.com/MaryMargOlohan/status/1882478265928982656" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlighted</a> the plight of several of the pro-lifers currency imprisoned from the Senate floor. 
&#8220;This is a grotesque assault on the principles of this country. That is why I have urged President Donald Trump to pardon all of these pro-life prisoners unjustly persecuted&#8230;by the corrupt Biden Administration, and I do mean corrupt,” Hawley said. 
Hawley specifically mentioned multiple pro-life activists currently in prison, like Bevelyn Williams (41 months) and Lauren Handy (57 months), and those facing prison like 89-year-old Eva Edl. Edl, who survived a World War II-era Yugoslavian concentration camp, faces 10 years in prison over a conviction in Detroit over a peaceful pro-life protest. 
“From a man who used his power illegitimately to pardon his own family, to pardon his own son, to excuse his own kin of wrongful, willful illegalities, protected drug lords, and killers, and murderers, and kingpins, and yet sent concentration camp survivors to prison because they spoke up for life, it does not get morally worse than that,” Hawley said of Biden. 
“President Trump can turn the chapter on this dark period of our history. He can right the wrongs that this last administration perpetrated,” he added. “He can begin to restore the requirements that the conscience of our country puts in front of us.&#8221;
Citing reporting of their trial from The Daily Wire, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) <a href="https://x.com/leif_lemahieu/status/1882486514845962535" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sent</a> a letter to Trump on Thursday urging him to pardon six pro-lifers convicted in Nashville last year, including one currently in prison and one set to go to prison.
Trump is expected to issue the pardons in a matter of days.
Mary Margaret Olohan contributed to this report.

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‘Victory’: Republican Lawmakers Praise Expected Pardon Of Pro-Lifers Imprisoned By Biden

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> on Wednesday blasted FEMA’s handling of natural disasters during the Biden administration, saying <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fema" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the agency</a> was “getting in the way of everything.&#8221; 
Trump made the comments during an <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-warns-fema-faces-reckoning-after-biden-admin-not-done-job" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Fox News&#8217;s Sean Hannity, suggesting that states should take control of their own disaster response while the federal government could help out with funding. In the same interview, Trump said he plans to visit North Carolina on Friday before heading to California to see the ongoing fire destruction. 
&#8220;FEMA has not done their job for the last four years. You know, I had FEMA working really well. We had hurricanes in Florida. We had Alabama tornadoes,” Trump said. “But unless you have certain types of leadership, it&#8217;s really, it gets in the way. And FEMA is going to be a whole big discussion very shortly, because I&#8217;d rather see the states take care of their own problems.”
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PRESIDENT TRUMP: FEMA is getting in the way of everything and the Democrats actually used FEMA not to help North Carolina. On Friday, I&#8217;m stopping in North Carolina&#8230; because those people were treated very badly. We&#8217;re going to get that thing straightened out&#8230; and then I&#8217;m… <a href="https://t.co/TxTPNfGKI2">pic.twitter.com/TxTPNfGKI2</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1882251158942609843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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As an example, Trump said that Oklahoma should lead the recovery if they get hit by a tornado. 
&#8220;I love Oklahoma, but you know what? If they get hit with a tornado or something, let Oklahoma fix it,” he said. “And then the federal government can help them out with the money. FEMA is getting in the way of everything, and the Democrats actually use FEMA not to help North Carolina.”
FEMA has faced scrutiny over its response to devastating flood damage caused by Hurricane Helene in September, with some communities in rural North Carolina and Tennessee saying the agency slow-walked its relief efforts. One whistleblower told Republicans on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure that FEMA had skipped <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-inspector-general-confirms-fema-probe-says-aid-should-not-be-politically-based" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entire neighborhoods</a> in North Carolina if there were three or more signs showing support for Trump or other conservatives.
That complaint was made after The Daily Wire revealed that a FEMA supervisor in Florida ordered relief works to “avoid homes advertising Trump.” 
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&#8220;The Democrats don&#8217;t care about North Carolina. What they&#8217;ve done with FEMA is so bad. FEMA is a whole &#8216;nother discussion, because all it does is complicate everything,&#8221; Trump said. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/embattled-fema-director-steps-aside-as-trump-takes-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Deanne Criswell</a>, President Joe Biden&#8217;s FEMA chief, resigned on Monday. Former Navy SEAL Cameron Hamilton is currently the agency&#8217;s acting administrator.
Trump said North Carolinians “were treated very badly by Democrats.”
“We&#8217;re going to get that thing straightened out because they&#8217;re still suffering from a hurricane from months ago,&#8221; he said. 
From North Carolina, Trump will travel to Los Angeles County, California, where more than two dozen people have died after fires fueled by torrential winds had the nation&#8217;s most populous county on edge. Trump has accused top California Democrats like Governor Gavin Newsom of mishandling the fires.

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Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar, cohosts of ABC News&#8217; &#8220;The View,&#8221; opened Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of the midday talk show by defending former President Joe Biden&#8217;s 11th-hour pardons for several of his family members.
Hostin and Behar, both of whom have repeatedly accused President Donald Trump of weaponizing the Justice Department, made excuse after excuse for the blanket pardons Biden issued just moments prior to leaving the White House for the final time.
Hostin began the conversation by complaining about Trump&#8217;s decision to pardon nearly all of those who&#8217;d been charged in relation to January 6, claiming that it was out of bounds for him to pardon people who were guilty of &#8220;violence toward law enforcement.&#8221;
As Newsbusters&#8217; Nick Fondacaro noted, Hostin defended Black Lives Matter protesters despite the damage they did and lobbied hard for Vice President Kamala Harris even though she&#8217;d supported a progressive non-profit that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-kamala-harris-backed-minneapolis-freedom-fund-bailed-out-dangerous-criminals-along-with-protesters">bailed out</a> violent rioters in 2020.
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Joy Behar defends Biden&#39;s corruption and abuse of power in gifting blanket pardons to his family. Her excuse? &quot;Joe Biden lost two other children. He lost two children. So to be in the position and not protect the one child he has.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/l03cZ4WYsa">pic.twitter.com/l03cZ4WYsa</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1882100966855496182?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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When cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin raised the specter of Biden&#8217;s pardons, saying that the former president had damaged his own legacy when he chose to issue them, Behar jumped in to do damage control.
&#8220;Joe Biden lost two other children. He lost two children. So to be in the position and not protect the one child that he has &#8230;&#8221; Behar said, clearly referencing the pardon Biden issued to his embattled son Hunter.
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Griffin pushed back, noting that she was referring to the pardons issued on Monday to his siblings and in-laws.
Hostin interrupted, saying that Biden was only responding to extreme circumstances and trying to protect his family from a president &#8220;on a revenge tour.&#8221;
Cohost Sara Haines argued that she could understand where Biden was coming from, even if pardoning his family members might send a message that was not optimal.
&#8220;Whenever I see something like this I try to parse out how would I feel in their shoes &#8230; knowing what Donald Trump is capable of and what he said he would do &#8230; even at the expense of weakening [American institutions] I would say at least protect my family,&#8221; Haines explained.
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The View cast tries to shout down Alyssa Farah Griffin after she notes Trump had refused to give blanket preemptive pardons in his first time. Fake Republican Ana Navarro defends Biden by arguing that he did it &quot;on his last day&quot; in office. <a href="https://t.co/CDchG5w2JY">pic.twitter.com/CDchG5w2JY</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1882103023616303187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Griffin tried once more, arguing that even Trump had backed away from issuing blanket pardons to family members and key allies — despite Democrats and media insisting he was likely to do so — in the final hours of his first term in the White House.
Cohost Ana Navarro complained that the two presidents&#8217; actions were not in any way comparable, saying that Biden was less of a problem because he had waited until the very last day to issue the pardons he&#8217;d repeatedly promised not to issue, while Trump had made good on day one on his campaign promise to issue pardons for most of those charged over the January 6 riot.

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Former President Joe Biden wished President Donald Trump &#8220;all the best&#8221; in a letter that he left in the Resolute Desk for the 47th president.
Trump discovered the letter on Monday night in the Oval Office as he signed dozens of executive orders during the first day of his second presidential term.
&#8220;Dear President Trump, As I take leave of this sacred office I wish you and your family all the best in the next four years,&#8221; Biden said in the letter obtained by Fox News. &#8220;The American people &#8211; and people around the world &#8211; look to this house for steadiness in the inevitable storms of history, and my prayer is that the coming years will be a time of prosperity, peace, and grace for our nation.&#8221;
&#8220;May God bless you and guide you as He has blessed and guided our beloved country since our founding,&#8221; Biden concluded.
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FOX NEWS OBTAINS COPY OF BIDEN&#8217;S LETTER TO TRUMP &#8211; REPORTER
Dear President Trump,
As I take leave of this sacred office I wish you and your family all the best in the next four years. The American people &#8211; and people around the world &#8211; look to this house for steadiness in…
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Trump commented on the letter during a press conference on Tuesday evening, calling it &#8220;inspirational.&#8221;
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“He wrote me a nice letter,” Trump said. “It’s sort of a tradition, you put it in the drawer, especially of the beautiful resolute desk,” Trump continued. “And I opened the drawer and there it was, it said, ‘To Number 47.&#8217;”
“And it was a very nice letter,” he said. “I mean, I could show it because I think it was a nice letter. Maybe I will.”
Trump said that the letter was “a little bit of an inspirational type of letter,” that told Trump to “enjoy it” and “do a good job.”
He said that Biden also emphasized how important the job is.
“I think it was a nice letter,” he said. “I think I should let people see it, because it was a positive for him in writing it, I appreciated the letter.”

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> said that former President Joe Biden wrote him an &#8220;inspirational letter&#8221; that he found in the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
&#8220;He wrote me a nice letter,&#8221; Trump said after he found the letter the night before while signing executive orders.
&#8220;It&#8217;s sort of a tradition, you put it in the drawer, especially of the beautiful resolute desk,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;And I opened the drawer and there it was, it said, &#8216;To Number 47.'&#8221;
&#8220;And it was a very nice letter,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I mean, I could show it because I think it was a nice letter. Maybe I will.&#8221;
Trump said that the letter was &#8220;a little bit of an inspirational type letter,&#8221; telling Trump to &#8220;enjoy it&#8221; and &#8220;do a good job.&#8221;
He said that Biden also emphasized how important the job is.
&#8220;I think it was a nice letter,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think I should let people see it, because it was a positive for him in writing it, I appreciated the letter.&#8221;
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President-Elect Donald Trump Meets With Biden, Congressional Leaders In Washington

Trump Reveals What Biden Wrote To Him In Letter

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Donald Trump’s return to office is not just a referendum on Joe Biden. It is a referendum on Donald Trump.
An election is typically a referendum on one or the other candidate. But this election was possibly the only election in my lifetime which was a referendum on both, because Trump has been the candidate before.
The American people didn&#8217;t come up with somebody brand-new. The American people were not interested in something brand-new. They went back to Trump. 
The election was a justification of President Trump&#8217;s first term. It was an understanding by the American people that Trump&#8217;s policies have been and will be the best for the country.
The philosopher George Hegel once famously suggested that in politics, in philosophy, in history, a thesis — a proposition — is often put forth, and then an antithesis, its opposite, is as well. Those two go to war and create a synthesis, an in-between.
That didn&#8217;t happen this time.
This time, Trump was the thesis, and Biden was the anti-Trump antithesis. And the American people said, we are going back to the thesis. It was an utter and complete repudiation of everything Biden touched and a justification of President Trump&#8217;s policies. It was an absolute endorsement of President Trump&#8217;s policies by the American people.
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Trump’s inaugural address was amazingly good. He started by suggesting the American people had spoken and the new Golden Age was here.
“I stand before you now as proof that you should never believe that something is impossible to do. In America, the impossible is what we do best,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1881396281568043266" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a>. 
That was the message Trump spread throughout his inaugural address. The speech was aspirational and uplifting. It included many pragmatic suggestions about what he&#8217;s going to do. It additionally maintained a positive American can-do attitude that&#8217;s been missing for my entire adult lifetime in American politics.
American politicians have not talked in totally aspirational terms about what America is capable of doing for a very, very long time. I was a child when Ronald Reagan left office, and that was probably the last time this sort of optimism has been present in the United States.
Trump spoke of the assassination attempt in which his head was almost blown to pieces, <a href="https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1881391855440625704" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, “I felt then, and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.”
Absolutely correct. That is his job.
He spoke of America&#8217;s manifest destiny, <a href="https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1881395738141454759" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, “We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.”
He talked about the possibility of taking back control of the Panama Canal, saying we did not build that canal so the Chinese could control it.
He <a href="https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1881394738823368999" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> he would be a peacemaker and a unifier, which would involve peace through strength — the credible threat of force that establishes peace in the world — along with diplomacy that is the softer side, the velvet glove in which lies the iron fist.
He <a href="https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1881393801534799965" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke</a> at length about bringing back free speech. It is astonishing that the President of the United States must talk about a return of free speech, but that was made necessary by the Left and by Joe Biden.
“I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life,” he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fECKwMw_ldc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a>. “We will forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based as of today. It will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.”
That line was probably the line that received the longest applause of the entire inaugural speech, which demonstrates how far the Left has gone completely off the rails.
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He talked about the border, <a href="https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1881392976318071080" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stating</a> he would “declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately be halted and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came. We will reinstate my Remain in Mexico policy. I will end the practice of catch and release and I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.”
Even people who did not vote for Trump understand that what we just went through over the past four years was a historically terrible presidency.
As President Trump escorted former President Joe Biden to the helicopter, the minute that Biden walked up the Marine One stairs for the final time, you could feel the burden being lifted from American hearts.
Later, when President Trump walked into the Oval Office, the press asked him, “How do you feel today?”
He responded, “It&#8217;s one of the better feelings I&#8217;ve ever had.”
All of us who are rooting for him experienced that same feeling.

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Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro squared off on Tuesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/the-view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The View</a>&#8221; on ABC, taking opposite positions on former President Joe Biden&#8217;s 11th-hour blanket pardons for members of his own family.
Griffin and Navarro, both of whom self-identify as Republicans in spite of their support for far-Left former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race, argued over whether Biden had set a dangerous precedent on his way out the door.
&#8220;I was floored that Joe Biden pardoned his whole family, and let me tell you why,&#8221; Griffin began. &#8220;He&#8217;s either — the most charitable interpretation is the Titanic is sinking, I&#8217;ve got a life raft for my family, but anyone else who challenged Trump, you better swim or you&#8217;re drowning. That&#8217;s my most charitable interpretation.&#8221;
&#8220;And finally, he didn&#8217;t do anything to protect people who testified against Donald Trump unless they happened to be wrapped up with the police officers, and it sets a very dangerous precedent,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Now Donald Trump can basically advise staff and his family to do anything unlawful and then just issue a blanket pardon when he leaves office. I think it&#8217;s disgraceful and it&#8217;s going to harm his legacy.&#8221;
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&#8220;Can I just say, I think comparing Biden&#8217;s pardons to Trump&#8217;s is like comparing apples to Volkswagens,&#8221; Ana Navarro cut in. &#8220;It does not seem similar to me because Joe Biden&#8217;s family, the people he pardoned on the January 6th Committee, have not actually committed crimes, he is trying to prevent them from spending the rest of their lives fighting the government, which is no easy feat.&#8221;
Navarro made no mention of the congressional investigation into Biden&#8217;s family members and their foreign business dealings, nor did she mention that less than two weeks earlier, Biden had said he had no intention of issuing pardons to anyone who had not committed any crimes.
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Of course, far-left Hostin proclaims &quot;I was not offended by Biden pardoning his family.&quot; &quot;If I can protect me and mine, I would do that!. So I think we need to show Joe Biden some grace,&quot; she demanded. <a href="https://t.co/41ckCg6dPo">pic.twitter.com/41ckCg6dPo</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1881751046516605012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Liberal cohost Sunny Hostin also defended Biden for issuing the pardons, claiming that she would have done the same for her own family had she been in his place.

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