{"id":16159,"date":"2025-01-21T16:58:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16159"},"modified":"2025-01-21T16:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:58:48","slug":"6-things-we-learned-from-day-1-about-how-trump-will-govern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16159","title":{"rendered":"6 things we learned from Day 1 about how Trump will govern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Just over a week ago, soon-to-be-Vice President JD Vance opined<\/a> that nonviolent trespassers prosecuted for entering the Capitol on January 6, 2021, should be pardoned \u2014 but that day\u2019s violent rioters \u201cobviously\u201d should not be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump had other ideas when he issued his sweeping clemency for those he called the \u201cJ6 hostages<\/a>.\u201d He did separate out 14 members of two far-right groups, the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, who had been convicted of seditious conspiracy, commuting their sentences instead of giving full pardons. But \u201call other individuals convicted\u201d of offenses related to the Capitol chaos that day received full unconditional pardons \u2014 including those who assaulted police officers, and including the Proud Boys\u2019 leader, Enrique Tarrio<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump, it has always been clear, was \u201cdelighted<\/a>\u201d by the storming of the Capitol on January 6; he doesn\u2019t care that his supporters assaulted police, terrorized members of Congress, and threatened to hang his own vice president. What mattered to him was that they were his supporters. So he handed them a get-out-of-jail-free card, even to those who violently tried to overthrow democracy.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump\u2019s Day 1 executive orders were most numerous and detailed on the topic of immigration. The president revived previous hard-line administration policies, such as a refugee admissions freeze, deportation orders, and border wall construction. He also rolled back some Biden policies intended to let more migrants come in legally if they followed an orderly process, ending Biden\u2019s \u201cparole\u201d program<\/a> and shutting down<\/a> an app created for migrants to schedule appointments to make asylum requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But on some fronts, Trump\u2019s orders already went much further than he did in his first term and showed a newly emboldened willingness to defy legal caution. For instance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n