#47 President Donald Trump

shecky · January 23

This is a place to discuss the man that was elected both the 45th and 47th President of the United States.

shecky · January 24

Within his first few days in office, President Donald Trump issued an emergency order directing the heads of all executive departments and agencies to "deliver emergency price relief," which he emphasized would include lowering the cost of housing and expanding supply.

"It is critical to restore purchasing power to the American family and improve our quality of life," an executive action signed by Trump on Monday read.

The Trump administration cited regulatory requirements as a main driver why so many Americans are unable to purchase homes. In his first term, Trump reduced regulatory costs by almost $11,000 per household, the White House said in a fact sheet.

Real estate experts are in agreement that the housing crisis is a problem the federal government cannot solve alone and that several levels of government need to be involved to make a significant change.

"Trump’s plan to cut regulatory red tape focuses on construction costs, but most housing regulations, like zoning laws and permitting, are controlled by local governments. The federal government has limited authority here, so meaningful change would likely require incentivizing local governments or taking unprecedented federal actions, such as overriding local zoning laws," Redfin chief economist Daryl Fairweather told FOX Business.

Still, several experts agree Trump can put immense pressure on the issue to move the needle.

Realtor.com chief economist Danielle Hale told FOX Business that the U.S. is facing a deficit between 2.5 million and 7.2 million homes, which underscores the dire need to build more housing. She said regulatory requirements, which can add significant costs to building and have been a barrier to ramping up supply, are a good place to start.

For one, about $90,000 of the cost of new construction is due to regulation and regulatory compliance, Hale estimated. "With new construction just over $400,000, that's a pretty hefty percentage. That suggests there's some room to address this regulation," Hale said. "Maybe we can take a review of these regulations and find areas where maybe we can cut back on some of the rules or fees associated with those regulations to improve the outcome and enable builders to not just build more housing, but build it more quickly and more cost effectively."

Noel Roberts, founder of real estate firm Pending, which specializes in off-market transactions, also believes that the key to making housing affordable is increasing supply.

Over the last few years, many would-be sellers have remained on the sidelines due to high rates locking them into their current mortgages," Roberts told FOX Business, adding that he has hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of off-market inventory with owners that are open to selling, but not ready to list publicly.

While he agrees Trump "can’t wave a wand" to solve the housing crisis, Roberts believes his track record shows that Trump’s policies, rhetoric and pressure on the Federal Reserve can influence key economic levers such as lower prices and lower mortgage rates.

"If he can exert influence over the Fed to lower rates and spur economic growth, there’s a pathway to improving conditions for homebuyers," Roberts said.

Fairweather also noted that the federal government can influence housing affordability through mortgage policy, potentially by privatizing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both of which have operated under U.S. government control since 2008, reducing mortgage fees and easing access to mortgages to make homeownership more attainable.

Trump has mentioned plans to privatize the mortgage giants.

Reuters contributed to this report.

Poncier · January 24

There are already multiple Trump threads, no need for you to create another.

DE4173 · January 24

josevolution · January 24

I’m glad this thread was bumped! I did the trifecta of ignores today

shecky · January 24

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President-elect Trump vowed Sunday that he would release long-classified government records on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.

Trump made the pledge to a crowd during his Victory Rally at Washington, D.C.’s Capital One Arena, which has a 20,000-seat capacity, telling supporters it is the beginning of an effort to increase government transparency.

"As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents," Trump said.

"And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.," he continued. "It's all going to be released."

During his first administration, Trump had promised to release all the files related to John F. Kennedy, but an undisclosed amount of material remains under wraps more than six decades after Kennedy was killed Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.

After appeals from the CIA and FBI, Trump blocked the release of hundreds of records. Trump said at the time the potential harm to U.S. national security, law enforcement or foreign affairs is "of such gravity that it outweighs the public interest in immediate disclosure."

In December 2022, President Biden released a trove of documents relating to the assassination, though Biden, like Trump had previously, said that some documents were withheld over national security concerns.

Trump’s promise to also release outstanding documents related to civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. and former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, brother of former President John F. Kennedy, leaves questions as to how the president-elect will speed up the releases.

King and Robert F. Kennedy were both assassinated in 1968.

Under the Martin Luther King Jr. Records Collection Act, the remaining files pertaining to King are not due for release until 2027.

The Associated Press contributed to this rep

shecky · January 24

DE4173 said:

That is a hilarious photo, isn't it? AI generated, I guess you call it, but so incredibly realistic. Melania is so stylish, too - that's for real!

Bentleyspop · January 24

Hawk123 · January 24

DE4173 · January 24

Bentleyspop said:

🤣🤣🤣🤣

tbergs · January 24

Completely normal. No concern for dictatorship at all. Quit fear mongering liberals 🙄

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5104133-rep-andy-ogles-proposes-trump-third-term-amendment/

shecky · January 24

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When he described the war in Ukraine, Trump said soldiers were being killed on a battlefield that "is like no battlefield since World War II."

"Soldiers are being killed on a daily basis at numbers that we haven’t seen in decades," he said. "It would be nice to end that war. It’s a ridiculous war."

Putin is reportedly worried about the state of his country’s economy as Trump returns to the Oval Office. According to a Reuters report citing various sources, Trump's push to end the war in Ukraine is only adding to Putin's concerns.

Throughout his campaign, Trump pushed to end world conflicts, including the Russia-Ukraine war, which began with Putin’s 2022 invasion.

Last month, Putin said he was ready to compromise over Ukraine in possible talks with Trump on ending the war and had no conditions for starting talks with Ukrainian authorities.

"We have always said that we are ready for negotiations and compromises," Putin said at the time, after saying that Russian forces, advancing across the entire front, were moving toward achieving their primary goals in Ukraine.

"In my opinion, soon there will be no one left who wants to fight. We are ready, but the other side needs to be ready for both negotiations and compromises."

Fox News Digital’s Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.

I believe that President Trump is a man of peace, and a man of action.

He's only been in office three complete days and he's already following through on his campaign promises.

shecky · January 24

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The Department of Veterans Affairs is exempting more than 300,000 health care positions from a governmentwide hiring freeze.

VA doctors, nurses, pharmacists and medical officers are among the dozens of occupations excluded from the hiring freeze.

Acting VA Secretary Todd Hunter, in a memo to department leaders, stated Veterans Health Administration positions “critical to delivering care to veterans” are exempt from the freeze, under the category of public safety.

Military Times first reported on the memo before its public release on Thursday. The VA memo exempts roughly three-quarters of VHA’s approximately 400,000-employee workforce.

Multiple individuals, however, have told Federal News Network they have had final job offers rescinded for VA health care positions since Trump ordered the hiring freeze, and are not sure if the department will reverse course after issuing the memo.

Another memo sent by the leadership of one VA medical center, obtained by Federal News Network, said human resources will “immediately take actions to contact hires in these occupations who had job offers rescinded.”

“HR will also work to re-initiate postings and move forward on any other hiring actions for occupations which are now exempt,” the memo states.

One job applicant said her final job offer for a nurse position was rescinded by the VA on Wednesday, but was reinstated on Thursday.

“[They] told me that they would be able to hire me and keep my start date,” the individual said. “It’s been an emotional couple of days, but it looks like everything is working out. But the HR reps are definitely working overtime.”

President Donald Trump, in an executive order signed Monday, included several exemptions, including one for veterans’ benefits.

“Under President Trump’s leadership, VA will always do what is necessary to provide America’s veterans with the benefits and services they have earned,” VA Director of Media Affairs Morgan Ackley said in a statement Thursday. “The targeted hiring-freeze exemptions announced today underscore that fact.”

The VA made its health care workforce exempt from the first Trump administration’s hiring freeze in 2017.

But former Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Trump’s nominee to run the VA, didn’t make an explicit assurance to lawmakers at his confirmation hearing that the department would grant those same carveouts this time around.

“President Trump, in this executive order, is to get an assessment on where we are with our employees. It is not to take away from anything that is currently there,” Collins said Tuesday. “We may not, at this point, bring in a new person tomorrow, unless needed, but this is where we’re at.”

Members of the Senate VA Committee raised concerns about the hiring freeze at Tuesday’s hiring and whether the Trump administration would pursue cuts to the VA’s workforce.

The committee advanced Collins’ nomination in an 18-1 vote on Thursday. Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said he would support Collins’ nomination, but added he has “really intense concerns” about the hiring freeze.

“Whatever the effects on other departments or agencies, all of you know how dire the need is for the doctors, the nurses, the attendants — everyone involved in the VA health care system,” Blumenthal said. “There’s openings now, they need to be filled — particularly for mental health care. Delaying these medical appointments and benefits is in some cases denial of those benefits because health is such an urgent need for many of our veterans, particularly our older veterans.”

The VA memo states all jobs not exempt from the hiring freeze must be pulled from USAJobs.gov and other websites no later than Jan. 21. at 5 p.m.

As of Thursday afternoon, the VA advertised 139 vacant positions on USAJobs.gov. The VA, however, reported more than 40,000 vacancies at the end of 2024.

House VA Committee Ranking Member Mark Takano (D-Calif.) joined House Democrats in asking the department’s leadership for more details about the hiring freeze’s impact on its workforce, and whether it would ask the Office of Personnel Management for more exemptions.

“No one at the White House even stopped to consider that freezing hiring for veterans’ health care providers or veterans claims processers might be a bad idea,” Takano said in a statement Thursday.

A spokeswoman for the House VA Committee said Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.) “fully supports the Trump administration’s exemptions for the VA hiring freeze to ensure that health care services are not impacted for veterans.”

tbergs · January 24

So much efficiency these last 4 days 🙄

shecky · January 24

tbergs said:

So much efficiency these last 4 days 🙄

Actually, only three full days so far (Inauguration Day doesn't count - President Trump was kind of busy... getting sworn in and all).
And he is following through with one more of his promises - to cut the gigantic amount of waste in the Federal government.
Trump believes there are way more Federal employees then we actually need, at a great expense to the American taxpayer.
Until his administration can complete studies to determine exactly how many Federal employees we need, he has enacted a government-wide hiring freeze. Makes sense, right?
When it was brought to his attention that the V.A. should have exemptions on the hiring freeze, Trump ordered it done.

tbergs · January 24

shecky said:

tbergs said:

So much efficiency these last 4 days 🙄

Actually, only three full days so far (Inauguration Day doesn't count - President Trump was kind of busy... getting sworn in and all).
And he is following through with one more of his promises - to cut the gigantic amount of waste in the Federal government.
Trump believes there are way more Federal employees then we actually need, at a great expense to the American taxpayer.
Until his administration can complete studies to determine exactly how many Federal employees we need, he has enacted a government-wide hiring freeze. Makes sense, right?
When it was brought to his attention that the V.A. should have exemptions on the hiring freeze, Trump ordered it done.

Efficiency is throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks? Huh, interesting observation. A better option would be having a plan and fully assessing what you're putting out knowing the impacts, but sure, keep supporting anything this Admin does. I can tell you that the amount of wasted time just my organization has spent the last few days determining how these EOs impact us and what we need to do has been a lot of time, energy and money out the window. Extrapolating that out to the whole country, I can't imagine how much this is going to cost us all. Efficiency is an oxymoron with these people.

F Me In The Brain · January 24

One clown to rule them all.

Bentleyspop · January 24

https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1882604317808714153?t=aQxUxlxasvYTtv-V4gxUBQ&s=19

tbergs · January 24

Bentleyspop said:

https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1882604317808714153?t=aQxUxlxasvYTtv-V4gxUBQ&s=19

I mean, how stupid does this make them look? Cops trusted a conman even though he had already floated the idea months ago. Thanks for pulling your endorsement now, but it just reiterates how stupid you were to endorse a felon in the first place. 🤪

DE4173 · January 24

tbergs · January 24

Ronny really highlights the efficiency and careful consideration Trump and his team put in to all they do before making a decision. We are so lucky. The next 4 years will be great indeed.

https://youtu.be/DW1KOwuZL7s?si=7VWlh2PuYEsq13G8

Lerxst1992 · January 24

shecky said:

The Department of Veterans Affairs is exempting more than 300,000 health care positions from a governmentwide hiring freeze.
VA doctors, nurses, pharmacists and medical officers are among the dozens of occupations excluded from the hiring freeze.
Acting VA Secretary Todd Hunter, in a memo to department leaders, stated Veterans Health Administration positions “critical to delivering care to veterans” are exempt from the freeze, under the category of public safety.
Military Times first reported on the memo before its public release on Thursday. The VA memo exempts roughly three-quarters of VHA’s approximately 400,000-employee workforce.
Multiple individuals, however, have told Federal News Network they have had final job offers rescinded for VA health care positions since Trump ordered the hiring freeze, and are not sure if the department will reverse course after issuing the memo.
Another memo sent by the leadership of one VA medical center, obtained by Federal News Network, said human resources will “immediately take actions to contact hires in these occupations who had job offers rescinded.”
“HR will also work to re-initiate postings and move forward on any other hiring actions for occupations which are now exempt,” the memo states.
One job applicant said her final job offer for a nurse position was rescinded by the VA on Wednesday, but was reinstated on Thursday.
“[They] told me that they would be able to hire me and keep my start date,” the individual said. “It’s been an emotional couple of days, but it looks like everything is working out. But the HR reps are definitely working overtime.”
President Donald Trump, in an executive order signed Monday, included several exemptions, including one for veterans’ benefits.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, VA will always do what is necessary to provide America’s veterans with the benefits and services they have earned,” VA Director of Media Affairs Morgan Ackley said in a statement Thursday. “The targeted hiring-freeze exemptions announced today underscore that fact.”
The VA made its health care workforce exempt from the first Trump administration’s hiring freeze in 2017.
But former Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Trump’s nominee to run the VA, didn’t make an explicit assurance to lawmakers at his confirmation hearing that the department would grant those same carveouts this time around.
“President Trump, in this executive order, is to get an assessment on where we are with our employees. It is not to take away from anything that is currently there,” Collins said Tuesday. “We may not, at this point, bring in a new person tomorrow, unless needed, but this is where we’re at.”
Members of the Senate VA Committee raised concerns about the hiring freeze at Tuesday’s hiring and whether the Trump administration would pursue cuts to the VA’s workforce.
The committee advanced Collins’ nomination in an 18-1 vote on Thursday. Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said he would support Collins’ nomination, but added he has “really intense concerns” about the hiring freeze.
“Whatever the effects on other departments or agencies, all of you know how dire the need is for the doctors, the nurses, the attendants — everyone involved in the VA health care system,” Blumenthal said. “There’s openings now, they need to be filled — particularly for mental health care. Delaying these medical appointments and benefits is in some cases denial of those benefits because health is such an urgent need for many of our veterans, particularly our older veterans.”
The VA memo states all jobs not exempt from the hiring freeze must be pulled from USAJobs.gov and other websites no later than Jan. 21. at 5 p.m.
As of Thursday afternoon, the VA advertised 139 vacant positions on USAJobs.gov. The VA, however, reported more than 40,000 vacancies at the end of 2024.
House VA Committee Ranking Member Mark Takano (D-Calif.) joined House Democrats in asking the department’s leadership for more details about the hiring freeze’s impact on its workforce, and whether it would ask the Office of Personnel Management for more exemptions.
“No one at the White House even stopped to consider that freezing hiring for veterans’ health care providers or veterans claims processers might be a bad idea,” Takano said in a statement Thursday.
A spokeswoman for the House VA Committee said Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.) “fully supports the Trump administration’s exemptions for the VA hiring freeze to ensure that health care services are not impacted for veterans.”
Copyright © 2025 Federal News Network. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.

As hopefully republicans know, there are many administrative procedures needed in order to deliver timely healthcare

so you claim potentially cutting 100,000 VA jobs will not slow down healthcare to veterans?

shecky · January 24

tbergs said:

shecky said:

tbergs said:

So much efficiency these last 4 days 🙄

Actually, only three full days so far (Inauguration Day doesn't count - President Trump was kind of busy... getting sworn in and all).
And he is following through with one more of his promises - to cut the gigantic amount of waste in the Federal government.
Trump believes there are way more Federal employees then we actually need, at a great expense to the American taxpayer.
Until his administration can complete studies to determine exactly how many Federal employees we need, he has enacted a government-wide hiring freeze. Makes sense, right?
When it was brought to his attention that the V.A. should have exemptions on the hiring freeze, Trump ordered it done.

Efficiency is throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks? Huh, interesting observation. A better option would be having a plan and fully assessing what you're putting out knowing the impacts, but sure, keep supporting anything this Admin does. I can tell you that the amount of wasted time just my organization has spent the last few days determining how these EOs impact us and what we need to do has been a lot of time, energy and money out the window. Extrapolating that out to the whole country, I can't imagine how much this is going to cost us all. Efficiency is an oxymoron with these people.

Thank you for your comments.

Yes, as promised, President Trump has wasted no time in signing many executive orders since he has returned to the White House.
These EOs were studied and planned over the previous months, and even years in some cases, by Trump and his advisors.

As far as Trump's intention to cut wasteful spending in the Federal government, specifically regarding the huge number of Federal employees that are possibly superfluous, it only makes sense to put a freeze on hiring new employees until they can attain exact current facts and figures on the issue. You don't expect the Trump administration to rely on old information from the previous administration, do you?

Liken it to waking up to a huge flood of water on your kitchen floor.
You're not yet sure what the exact cause is, but you know something is broken and you need to fix it.
The first logical step is to turn off the water.

Gern Blansten · January 24

Gern Blansten · January 24

Love this thread...

Bentleyspop · January 24

shecky · January 24

DE4173 said:

Thank you for sharing this document from the IACP and the FOP.

My first statement is that I am a solid supporter of law enforcement, and have been my entire life. That is how I was raised.

This document you provided states that both organizations "are deeply discouraged by the recent pardons and commutations granted by both the Biden and Trump Administrations to individuals convicted of killing or assaulting law enforcement officers".

Though it is not stated, I must presume the case they are referring to, in regards to President Trump, must be the J6 incident.

Quite honestly, I still am not knowledgeable enough about the subject to comment intelligently.
There has been much false information released on this subject and I am still searching for the complete truth.

For example, as recently as last week, I heard a politician talk about the number of Capitol Police Officers that were killed that day.
The fact is, no Capitol Police Officers were killed that day. Yes, grossly unacceptable violence against Police Officers did ocurr.

The only person that was killed at the Capitol that day was an unarmed Air Force veteran named Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd.

Obviously, anyone committing violence or assault against a Police Officer must be arrested, charged and if found guity charged accordingly.
I personally still do not know the names of those arrested and charged and convicted for committing violence against Capitol Police that day, nor what the sentences they received were.
Hopefully, the entire truth is out there and I intend on researching it further.
I'm also confident the the Trump administration will be looking into the case as well.

shecky · January 24

Lerxst1992 said:

shecky said:

The Department of Veterans Affairs is exempting more than 300,000 health care positions from a governmentwide hiring freeze.
VA doctors, nurses, pharmacists and medical officers are among the dozens of occupations excluded from the hiring freeze.
Acting VA Secretary Todd Hunter, in a memo to department leaders, stated Veterans Health Administration positions “critical to delivering care to veterans” are exempt from the freeze, under the category of public safety.
Military Times first reported on the memo before its public release on Thursday. The VA memo exempts roughly three-quarters of VHA’s approximately 400,000-employee workforce.
Multiple individuals, however, have told Federal News Network they have had final job offers rescinded for VA health care positions since Trump ordered the hiring freeze, and are not sure if the department will reverse course after issuing the memo.
Another memo sent by the leadership of one VA medical center, obtained by Federal News Network, said human resources will “immediately take actions to contact hires in these occupations who had job offers rescinded.”
“HR will also work to re-initiate postings and move forward on any other hiring actions for occupations which are now exempt,” the memo states.
One job applicant said her final job offer for a nurse position was rescinded by the VA on Wednesday, but was reinstated on Thursday.
“[They] told me that they would be able to hire me and keep my start date,” the individual said. “It’s been an emotional couple of days, but it looks like everything is working out. But the HR reps are definitely working overtime.”
President Donald Trump, in an executive order signed Monday, included several exemptions, including one for veterans’ benefits.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, VA will always do what is necessary to provide America’s veterans with the benefits and services they have earned,” VA Director of Media Affairs Morgan Ackley said in a statement Thursday. “The targeted hiring-freeze exemptions announced today underscore that fact.”
The VA made its health care workforce exempt from the first Trump administration’s hiring freeze in 2017.
But former Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Trump’s nominee to run the VA, didn’t make an explicit assurance to lawmakers at his confirmation hearing that the department would grant those same carveouts this time around.
“President Trump, in this executive order, is to get an assessment on where we are with our employees. It is not to take away from anything that is currently there,” Collins said Tuesday. “We may not, at this point, bring in a new person tomorrow, unless needed, but this is where we’re at.”
Members of the Senate VA Committee raised concerns about the hiring freeze at Tuesday’s hiring and whether the Trump administration would pursue cuts to the VA’s workforce.
The committee advanced Collins’ nomination in an 18-1 vote on Thursday. Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said he would support Collins’ nomination, but added he has “really intense concerns” about the hiring freeze.
“Whatever the effects on other departments or agencies, all of you know how dire the need is for the doctors, the nurses, the attendants — everyone involved in the VA health care system,” Blumenthal said. “There’s openings now, they need to be filled — particularly for mental health care. Delaying these medical appointments and benefits is in some cases denial of those benefits because health is such an urgent need for many of our veterans, particularly our older veterans.”
The VA memo states all jobs not exempt from the hiring freeze must be pulled from USAJobs.gov and other websites no later than Jan. 21. at 5 p.m.
As of Thursday afternoon, the VA advertised 139 vacant positions on USAJobs.gov. The VA, however, reported more than 40,000 vacancies at the end of 2024.
House VA Committee Ranking Member Mark Takano (D-Calif.) joined House Democrats in asking the department’s leadership for more details about the hiring freeze’s impact on its workforce, and whether it would ask the Office of Personnel Management for more exemptions.
“No one at the White House even stopped to consider that freezing hiring for veterans’ health care providers or veterans claims processers might be a bad idea,” Takano said in a statement Thursday.
A spokeswoman for the House VA Committee said Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.) “fully supports the Trump administration’s exemptions for the VA hiring freeze to ensure that health care services are not impacted for veterans.”
Copyright © 2025 Federal News Network. All rights reserved. This website is not intended for users located within the European Economic Area.

As hopefully republicans know, there are many administrative procedures needed in order to deliver timely healthcare

so you claim potentially cutting 100,000 VA jobs will not slow down healthcare to veterans?

Thank you for your comments.

I'm not sure I understand your interpretation of the article I posted.
The way I read it, there were approximately 400,000 V.A. employee positions that were going to have a hiring freeze applied to them.
Those employees were not being fired.
It just means that no new employees, for the time being, could be hired to fill any of those positions that may currently be vacant.

So, upon further discussion, the V.A. and the Trump Administration decided that only 100,000 V.A. employee positions would be under the temporary hiring freeze, not all 400,000 positions.
Again, none of those 100,000 employees are be fired at this time.

That's what the Trump Administration must study and, for all we know, they may determine that, instead of lessening the number of V.A. employees needed, they could potentially increase the number of employees needed.

We'll have to wait and see.

Gern Blansten · January 24

lol...he is so fucking stupid

tbergs · January 24

shecky said:

DE4173 said:

Thank you for sharing this document from the IACP and the FOP.

My first statement is that I am a solid supporter of law enforcement, and have been my entire life. That is how I was raised.

This document you provided states that both organizations "are deeply discouraged by the recent pardons and commutations granted by both the Biden and Trump Administrations to individuals convicted of killing or assaulting law enforcement officers".

Though it is not stated, I must presume the case they are referring to, in regards to President Trump, must be the J6 incident.

Quite honestly, I still am not knowledgeable enough about the subject to comment intelligently.
There has been much false information released on this subject and I am still searching for the complete truth.

For example, as recently as last week, I heard a politician talk about the number of Capitol Police Officers that were killed that day.
The fact is, no Capitol Police Officers were killed that day. Yes, grossly unacceptable violence against Police Officers did ocurr.

The only person that was killed at the Capitol that day was an unarmed Air Force veteran named Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd.

Obviously, anyone committing violence or assault against a Police Officer must be arrested, charged and if found guity charged accordingly.
I personally still do not know the names of those arrested and charged and convicted for committing violence against Capitol Police that day, nor what the sentences they received were.
Hopefully, the entire truth is out there and I intend on researching it further.
I'm also confident the the Trump administration will be looking into the case as well.

🤪 Nice deflection. It's like a chatGPT response.

And FYI, no one will be looking into any case, the pardons are the end. Trump is a pile of shit. Even the IACP-FOP deflect by combining the Biden pardon of one man who served decades in prison already and the Trump pardons of over a 1,000 no matter how violent their actions or amount of time served.

You can't even acknowledge that, but continue the sycophant posts of "accomplishments".

Bentleyspop · January 24

#47 President Donald Trump

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