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Supreme Court declines to block Trump's sentencing in New York hush money case
The decision means a sentencing hearing scheduled for Friday can go ahead as planned. The president-elect had asked the high court to intervene.
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Trump Sentenced in Hush Money Case But Judge Declines to Impose Punishment
The judgement cements the president-elect's felony conviction but allows him to return to the White House without the threat of a jail term or fine.
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Village People to perform at Donald Trump inauguration events
Village People, the disco group behind the gay anthem 'Y.M.C.A.', will perform at Donald Trump's inauguration events, the band said: 'We know this won't make some of you happy.'
Whoopi Goldberg supports Carrie Underwood's right to sing for Trump: 'I stand behind her'
'The View' moderator Whoopi Goldberg revealed she supports Carrie Underwood's right to perform at Donald Trump's inauguration: 'I stand behind her.'
MAGA Civil War: Steve Bannon pledges to have Elon Musk run out of Trump orbit by Inauguration Day
Tim Miller, former RNC Spokesman and host of The Bulwark Podcast and Eddie Glaude, Princeton University Professor, join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the infighting among Donald Trump’s allies as they pit the different factions of the coalition that got Donald Trump elected...
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Transcript: Steve Bannon’s Rage at Elon Musk Suddenly Goes Nuclear
An interview with leading Never Trumper Mona Charen about the Bannon-Musk war, the rise of global authoritarianism, and how Democrats could fight harder against the coming MAGA takeover.
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Steve Bannon Vows To Oust Elon Musk From Donald Trump’s Inner Circle Before The Inauguration
“He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy,” Bannon told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. “I made it my personal thing to take this guy down.”
Former Presidents Obama, Clinton and Bush won't be attending Trump's inaugural lunch
The three former presidents will attend the swearing-in ceremony earlier in the day.
See the Inauguration Day schedule for Trump's 2025 presidential swearing in
Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the oath of office to President-elect Donald Trump.
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Biden, in Final Act in Office, Pardons His Family Due to “Unrelenting Attacks” From Trump and Allies
Biden also issued pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in his final hours to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration.
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Biden, in Final Act in Office, Pardons His Family Due to “Unrelenting Attacks” From Trump and Allies
Biden also issued pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in his final hours to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration.By The Associated Press
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January 20, 2025 6:48am
Dr. Anthony Fauci Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images
President Joe Biden on Monday, in his final act in office, pardoned his family members, due to “unrelenting attacks” from incoming President Donald Trump and allies, along with Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an extraordinary use of the powers of the presidency in his final hours to guard against potential “revenge” by the incoming Trump administration.
Biden pardoned his siblings and their spouses, saying his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics.”
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“Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end,” he said. He issued a slew of pardons and commutations in the moments before leaving office, including for aides and allies that have been targeted by Trump. None have been charged with any crimes.
Last month, pardoned his son Hunter for tax and gun crimes.
Biden issued blanket pardons for his brother James and his wife, Sara, his sister Valerie and her husband, John Owens, and his brother Francis.
“The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that they engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense,” he said in a statement.
The pardons came as Biden and others stood at the U.S. Capitol to see Trump inaugurated.
The decision by Biden comes after Donald Trump warned of an enemies list filled with those who have crossed him politically or sought to hold him accountable for his attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss and his role in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump has selected Cabinet nominees who backed his election lies and who have pledged to punish those involved in efforts to investigate him.
Biden added in his statement. “Our nation owes these public servants a debt of gratitude for their tireless commitment to our country.”
The pardons, announced with just hours left in Biden’s presidency, have been the subject of heated debate for months at the highest levels of the White House. It’s customary for a president to grant clemency at the end of his term, but those acts of mercy are usually offered to Americans who have been convicted of crimes.
Biden, a Democrat, has used the power in the broadest and most untested way possible: to pardon those who have not even been investigated. His decision lays the groundwork for an even more expansive use of pardons by Trump, a Republican, and future presidents.
While the Supreme Court last year ruled that presidents enjoy broad immunity from prosecution for what could be considered official acts, the president’s aides and allies enjoy no such shield. There is concern that future presidents could use the promise of a blanket pardon to encourage allies to take actions they might otherwise resist for fear of running afoul of the law.
It’s unclear whether those pardoned by Biden would need to apply for the clemency or accept the president’s offer. Acceptance could be seen as a tacit admission of guilt or wrongdoing, validating years of attacks by Trump and his supporters, even though those who have been pardoned have not been formally accused of any crimes.
“These are exceptional circumstances, and I cannot in good conscience do nothing,” Biden said, adding that “Even when individuals have done nothing wrong — and in fact have done the right thing — and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage reputations and finances.”
Fauci was director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health for nearly 40 years, including during Trump’s term in office, and later served as Biden’s chief medical adviser until his retirement in 2022. He helped coordinate the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and raised Trump’s ire when he resisted Trump’s untested public health notions. Fauci has since become a target of intense hatred and vitriol from people on the right, who blame him for mask mandates and other policies they believe infringed on their rights, even as hundreds of thousands of people were dying.
“Despite the accomplishments that my colleagues and I achieved over my long career of public service, I have been the subject of politically motivated threats of investigation and prosecution,” Fauci said in a statement. “There is absolutely no basis for these threats. Let me be perfectly clear: I have committed no crime.”
Milley, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has called Trump a fascist and has detailed Trump’s conduct around the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. He said he was grateful to Biden for a pardon.
“I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights,” he said in a statement. “I do not want to put my family, my friends, and those with whom I served through the resulting distraction, expense and anxiety.”
Biden also extended pardons to members and staff of the Jan. 6 committee that investigated the attack, as well as the U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the House committee about their experiences that day, overrun by an angry, violent mob of Trump supporters.
The committee spent 18 months investigating Trump and the insurrection. It was led by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Rep. Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican who later pledged to vote for Democrat Kamala Harris and campaigned with her against Trump. The committee’s final report found that Trump criminally engaged in a “multi-part conspiracy” to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election and failed to act to stop his supporters from attacking the Capitol.
“Rather than accept accountability,” Biden said, “those who perpetrated the January 6th attack have taken every opportunity to undermine and intimidate those who participated in the Select Committee in an attempt to rewrite history, erase the stain of January 6th for partisan gain and seek revenge, including by threatening criminal prosecutions.”
Biden’s statement did not list the dozens of members and staff by name. Some did not know they were to receive pardons until it happened, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity.
Biden, an institutionalist, has promised a smooth transition to the next administration, inviting Trump to the White House and saying that the nation will be OK, even as he warned during his farewell address of a growing oligarchy. He has spent years warning that Trump’s ascension to the presidency again would be a threat to democracy. His decision to break with political norms was brought on by those concerns.
Biden has set the presidential record for most individual pardons and commutations issued.
He is not the first to consider such preemptive pardons. Trump aides considered them for Trump and his supporters involved in his failed efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election that culminated in the violent riot at the Capitol. But Trump’s pardons never materialized before he left office four years ago.
President Gerald Ford granted a “full, free, and absolute pardon” in 1974 to his predecessor, Richard Nixon, over the Watergate scandal.
Trump, who takes office at noon, has promised to grant swift clemency to many of those involved in the violent and bloody Jan. 6, 2021, attack, which injured roughly 140 law enforcement officers. “Everybody in this very large arena will be very happy with my decision,” he said at a Sunday rally.
Jan. 20, 8:50 a.m. Updated to include Biden issuing pardons to his family members.
Dave Chappelle Asks Trump to Have Empathy for “Displaced People, Whether They’re in the Palisades or Palestine” in ‘SNL’ Monologue
The comedian touched on the L.A. wildfires, allegations against Diddy and Trump’s upcoming inauguration while hosting for the fourth time.
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Melania Trump Draws Carmen Sandiego Comparisons With Inauguration Outfit
The First Lady's inauguration outfit has everybody on social media making the same joke.
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Melania Trump Draws Carmen Sandiego Comparisons With Inauguration Outfit
The First Lady's inauguration outfit has everybody on social media making the same joke.By James Hibberd
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January 20, 2025 9:07am
Melania Trump and Carmen Sandiego Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Courtesy Everett Collection
What in the world is Melania Trump wearing?
The First Lady arrived at Trump’s second inauguration wearing an outfit that sent social media into a frenzy, with many making comparisons to the character Carmen Sandiego.
Melania wore a dark outfit (watch the inauguration live stream below) with a hat that seemed taken straight from the 1990s video game heroine that promoted both jokes and some curiosity as to why she opted for such a dark vibe to an event that she would presumably consider a happy occasion.
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“I vant to look like Carmen Sandiego at funeral,” as one wag put it, mocking Melania’s Slovenian accent.
But pretty much everyone else made the same joke: “Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?” or “I found Carmen Sandiego!”
“Darth Carmen Sandiego” and “Couture Carmen Sandiego” were also popular comments.
The First Lady also went viral for her air kiss with Trump, where the president stopped a few inches shy of actually kissing her. In fairness, that hat might have made contact impossible.
Carmen Sandiego launched as an education video game character in 1985’s Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego and expanded into more games, plays and television series.
The First Lady’s double-breasted navy coat is by New York-based designer Adam Lippes, and that matching “statement hat” is by Eric Javits, reported Vogue.
President Donald Trump was sworn in Monday for his second term in the Oval Office, with J.D. Vance as the 50th vice president of the United States.
The 60th Presidential Inauguration took place on Monday in Washington, D.C. featuring the theme, “Our Enduring Democracy: A Constitutional Promise.” The ceremony was moved indoors due to cold weather.
The inauguration ceremony was set to include Carrie Underwood performing “America the Beautiful” with the Armed Forces Chorus and the U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club and opera singer Christopher Maccio singing “Oh America!” at closing. Country singer Lee Greenwood is also expected to take the stage.
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Donald Trump Promises Sweeping Change, Rips Biden Administration in Inaugural Address
With temperatures reaching a high of 24 degrees in Washington, D.C., Trump's political comeback was cemented inside the Capitol Rotunda, with a reduced audience.
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Melania Trump Draws Carmen Sandiego Comparisons With Inauguration Outfit
The First Lady's inauguration outfit has everybody on social media making the same joke.
Melania Trump Draws Carmen Sandiego Comparisons With Inauguration Outfit
The First Lady's inauguration outfit has everybody on social media making the same joke.
By James Hibberd
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January 20, 2025 9:07am
Melania Trump and Carmen Sandiego Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Courtesy Everett Collection
What in the world is Melania Trump wearing?
The First Lady arrived at Trump’s second inauguration wearing an outfit that sent social media into a frenzy, with many making comparisons to the character Carmen Sandiego.
Melania wore a dark outfit (watch the inauguration live stream below) with a hat that seemed taken straight from the 1990s video game heroine that promoted both jokes and some curiosity as to why she opted for such a dark vibe to an event that she would presumably consider a happy occasion.
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News
Donald Trump's Second Inauguration Begins Inside Capitol Rotunda
“I vant to look like Carmen Sandiego at funeral,” as one wag put it, mocking Melania’s Slovenian accent.
But pretty much everyone else made the same joke: “Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?” or “I found Carmen Sandiego!”
“Darth Carmen Sandiego” and “Couture Carmen Sandiego” were also popular comments.
The First Lady also went viral for her air kiss with Trump, where the president stopped a few inches shy of actually kissing her. In fairness, that hat might have made contact impossible.
Carmen Sandiego launched as an education video game character in 1985’s Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego and expanded into more games, plays and television series.
The First Lady’s double-breasted navy coat is by New York-based designer Adam Lippes, and that matching “statement hat” is by Eric Javits, reported Vogue.
President Donald Trump was sworn in Monday for his second term in the Oval Office, with J.D. Vance as the 50th vice president of the United States.
The 60th Presidential Inauguration took place on Monday in Washington, D.C. featuring the theme, “Our Enduring Democracy: A Constitutional Promise.” The ceremony was moved indoors due to cold weather.
The inauguration ceremony was set to include Carrie Underwood performing “America the Beautiful” with the Armed Forces Chorus and the U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club and opera singer Christopher Maccio singing “Oh America!” at closing. Country singer Lee Greenwood is also expected to take the stage.
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