Donald Trump was inaugurated Monday as the 47th president, cementing his legacy as the first president to serve non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland. “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” Trump said as he was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts. Before Trump took the oath of office, J.D. Vance was sworn in as the 50th vice president of the United States. Vance, surrounded by his wife Usha and three children, had the oath of office administered by Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The ceremonies were held in the Capitol Rotunda owing to freezing temperatures in Washington.  The post Trump Inaugurated as 47th President appeared first on The American Conservative.

President Donald Trump delivered a second inaugural address studded with invocations of the American frontier and space travel, laying out a vast agenda to restore American prosperity and unity. “The golden age of America begins right now,” he declared.  He laid out plans to secure the southern border and tame Mexican drug cartels, to restore American manufacturing, and to cultivate peace through military strength. “My greatest legacy will be as a peacemaker and a unifier—that’s what I want to be, a peacemaker and a unifier,” he said. Among other specific policies, Trump promised to end the Green New Deal and the electric vehicle mandate “keeping my sacred pledge to our great American auto workers”; to declare a national energy emergency and “drill, baby, drill”; and to direct government agencies to roll back limits on Americans’ speech.  The post Trump: ‘The Golden Age of America Begins Right Now’ appeared first on The American Conservative.

President Joe Biden pardons brother Jim Biden and other family members on Monday. "My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me -- the worst kind of partisan politics," Biden wrote in a statement. "Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end."

Joe Biden in the final minutes of his presidency on Monday issued pardons to five more members of his family—his brother James and wife Sarah, his younger sister Valerie Biden Owens and husband John T. Owens, and his brother Francis Biden—after he says they were "subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats" motivated by a desire to hurt him.

President Joe Biden on Monday 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.” “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 Donald Trump. None have been charged with any crimes...

 Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, marking his return to the Oval Office with a pledge to restore America to a "golden age." Trump addressed the nation after taking the oath of office for the second time and is expected to use his inaugural address remarks to call for a "revolution of common sense."  "I return to the presidency confident and optimistic that we are at the start of a thrilling new era of national success. A...

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