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WATCH: Trump rails at Biden’s preemptive pardons of Jan. 6 committee members
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3:25Now PlayingPresident Donald Trump said Monday that he had planned to talk in his inaugural address about former President Joe Biden’s last-minute pardons of House members who investigated the Capitol insurrection.
“I was going to talk about the things that Joe did today with the pardons of people that were very, very guilty of very bad crimes like the unselect committee of political thugs,” Trump said.
On his last morning as president, Biden preemptively pardoned members of the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack, including former Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, to guard them against the incoming president’s legal retribution.
The inauguration ceremony, including the swearings-in, is taking place indoors this year, a last-minute change to the pomp and circumstance due to extreme cold forecasted for the nation’s capital.
When Trump returns to the White House on Monday, he’s expected to act quickly on his campaign promises and roll back his predecessor’s policies. As his second term begins, his party controls both chambers of Congress and conservative justices have a majority on the Supreme Court. Trump is only the second president to return to office in non-consecutive terms, the only president convicted of a felony and the oldest person to win election to the White House.
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