President Donald Trump slammed a reporter during a press conference on Tuesday for repeatedly interrupting him, saying that the country was tired of “horrible people” like him.
Trump was asked about some of the people that he pardoned who were involved in the January 6 riot in 2021.
The reporter tried to pit Trump against Vice President JD Vance by asking him why Vance was “wrong” about something that he said.
As Trump started to answer the question, the reporter repeatedly interrupted him, leading Trump to snap back.
“Listen to me for a second. Stop interrupting,” the president chaffed.
“They served years in jail and if you look at the American public, the American public is tired of it. Take a look at the election. Just look at the numbers on the election,” he continued. “We won this election in a landslide because the American public is tired of people like you that are just one-sided, horrible people in terms of crime.”
Trump said that reporters like the one who repeatedly interrupted him “don’t talk about all the people that have been killed and what happens to those murderers.”
“Murderers get no time. You take a look at some of these DAs, they go after political opponents, but they don’t go after people that shoot people in the street,” Trump said.
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Trump on Tuesday issued pardons for more than 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, most of whom had committed misdemeanors such as trespassing on Capitol grounds the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
The president said during his campaign that he likely would do so, but his decision may also have been influenced by scores of last-minute pre-emptive pardons issued by former President Joe Biden, to include all members of the Nancy Pelosi hand-picked Jan. 6 Committee.
Meanwhile, Trump’s Cabinet is beginning to take shape with the Senate confirmation of Marco Rubio as his secretary of state on a vote of 99-0.
Rubio will play a key role in fulfilling many of Trump’s most ambitious campaign pledges, including putting a stop to the conflict in Ukraine, thwarting China’s expanding might, and enacting a ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
Democrats paved the path for a streamlined confirmation process after the Senate Foreign Relations Committee overwhelmingly recommended Rubio’s confirmation earlier Monday.
For one of their own, it is a thundering demonstration of Senate bipartisanship.
Since 2011, the 53-year-old Floridian has been a member of the Senate. Before withdrawing and supporting Trump, he was a presidential candidate in 2016. He was on Trump’s shortlist for vice president in 2024.
Rubio is a well-known China hawk who is against restoring relations with Cuba, where his family is from.
As Axios first reported, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Ashley Moody, the state’s attorney general, to take Rubio’s spot in the Senate.
Shortly after being sworn in, Trump began signing more than 200 executive actions, a vast wave of policy priorities centered on energy, border security, lowering the cost of living for American families, terminating DEI programs throughout the federal government, and more.
“The president is issuing a historic series of executive orders and actions that will fundamentally reform the American government, including the complete and total restoration of American sovereignty,” the official told Fox News.
Trump also declared a national border emergency on his first day, ordering elements of the U.S. military under Northern Command to cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security to completely secure the southern border and make it a national priority to eradicate all criminal cartels that are active on American soil.
Additionally, Trump plans to form homeland security task forces comprising FBI, ICE, CEA, and other law enforcement officers to “fully eradicate the presence of criminal cartels.”
To fulfill his homeland security mission, Trump also ordered the designation of cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
