{"id":15281,"date":"2025-01-21T18:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T02:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15281"},"modified":"2025-01-21T19:59:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T03:59:53","slug":"trumps-day-1-assault-on-america-bradcast-1212025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15281","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Day 1 Assault on America: &#8216;BradCast&#8217; 1\/21\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradCast_Trump-SigningDay1ExecOrder-Hands012025_012125.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">On Day 2 of the second corrupt Trump Presidency, we catch up on today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><i>BradCast<\/i><\/a> with the destruction he wrought (or attempted to) on Day 1, just hours after he became the first convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and adjudicated insurrectionist to be sworn in as President of the United States.  And it all just happens to come, coincidentally, on the 15th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7709\">horrific 2010 <i>Citizens United<\/i> decision<\/a>, which helped make so much of this day possible. [<i>Audio link to full show follows this summary.<\/i>]\n<p>Given <b>Donald Trump<\/b>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/ericlipton.nytimes.com\/post\/3lg2266mmns2r\">&#8220;flood the zone&#8221; strategy<\/a>, including scores of Executive Orders, Actions, Directives and Memoranda signed on Monday (much of it for show, some of it dangerously real) we try to cover a <i>lot<\/i> in a very short time on today&#8217;s program. I&#8217;ll do my best to quickly summarize at least some of it here&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Since <b>MLK Day<\/b> was largely preempted by yesterday&#8217;s Inauguration (and our 2025 Inauguration Counter-Programming Special &#8212; thanks to many for the kind words about it!), we begin today with a piece of <b>Martin Luther King<\/b>&#8216;s 1967 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lsyi6lyAAhY\">&#8220;Blue Print&#8221; speech<\/a> to a group of students in Philadelphia that, surprisingly, served as inspiration for us today!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Please note: It has now been more than <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-russia-ukraine-war-un-election-a78ecb843af452b8dda1d52d137ca893\">&#8220;24 hours&#8221;<\/a> since Trump was sworn in (<i>and<\/i> since he was elected in November, since that was the <i>original<\/i>, oft-repeated promise) and <b>Russia<\/b>&#8216;s horrific war on <b>Ukraine<\/b> is still raging anyway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/\">scores of orders<\/a> on Monday night, though the most immediately substantive was his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021\/\">&#8220;full, complete and unconditional&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/trump-set-pardon-defendants-stormed-capitol-jan-6-2021-rcna187735\">blanket pardons<\/a> for about 1,500 <b>January 6, 2021 insurrectionists and seditionist<\/b> &#8212; including the leaders of the far-right paramilitary groups <b>Proud Boys<\/b> and <b>Oath Keepers<\/b> who were found guilty and sentenced to more than a decade in prison for Seditious Conspiracy, in their treasonous (if failed) attempt to help Trump steal the 2020 election. Many of the violent domestic extremists who were released from prison today attacked law enforcement officers on that awful day at the U.S. Capitol, &#8220;armed with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/trump-supporter-charged-firing-gun-jan-6-attack-ordered-detained-rcna143217\" target=\"_blank\">firearms<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/jan-6-rioter-electroshocked-dc-officer-michael-fanone-sentenced-125-ye-rcna89388\" target=\"_blank\">stun guns<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/ex-nypd-cop-assaulted-dc-officer-jan-6-gets-record-setting-sentence-rcna45338\" target=\"_blank\">flagpoles<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/first-jan-6-rioter-breach-capitol-2020-election-lies-trump-rcna140798\" target=\"_blank\">fire extinguishers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/trump-supporter-called-capitol-cops-weasels-jan-6-sentenced-prison-rcna42865\" target=\"_blank\">bike racks<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/fbi-arrests-jan-6-rioter-confessed-front-courthouse-rcna100455\" target=\"_blank\">batons<\/a>, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/jan-6-rioter-nabbed-bumble-dating-app-sting-pleads-guilty-assaulting-o-rcna130593\" target=\"_blank\">metal whip<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/conservative-influencer-helped-steal-table-used-assault-officers-jan-6-rcna143908\" target=\"_blank\">office furniture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/jan-6-rioter-heart-trump-hat-confederate-flag-gets-prison-assaults-off-rcna148840\" target=\"_blank\">pepper spray<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/trump-hatted-rioter-sentenced-bear-spraying-8-officers-jan-6-rcna123792\" target=\"_blank\">bear spray<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/shane-jenkins-trump-supporter-jan-6-riot-prison-7-years-rcna119294\" target=\"_blank\">a tomahawk ax<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/ex-police-chief-spread-conspiracies-jan-6-found-guilty-capitol-attack-rcna93407\" target=\"_blank\">a hatchet<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/trump-fan-assaulted-officers-hockey-stick-jan-6-sentenced-prison-rcna140969\" target=\"_blank\">a hockey stick<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/stun-guns-stinger-whips-crossbow-what-police-found-capitol-protesters-n1254127\" target=\"_blank\">knuckle gloves<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/trump-republicans-jan-6-hostages-violence-capitol-police-rcna143888\" target=\"_blank\">a baseball bat<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/trump-fan-assaulted-capitol-cops-trump-flag-billboard-jan-6-gets-priso-rcna44988\" target=\"_blank\">a massive &#8216;Trump&#8217; billboard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/jan-6-rioter-holding-stop-steal-sign-swung-officers-trump-flag-fbi-say-rcna142335\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Trump&#8217; flags<\/a>, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/missouri-man-sentenced-prison-assaulting-law-enforcement-during-jan-6-capitol-breach\" target=\"_blank\">pitchfork<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/jan-6-rioter-wielded-2x4-wooden-plank-capitol-sentenced-nearly-3-years-rcna122589\" target=\"_blank\">pieces of lumber<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/re-gonna-die-tonight-trump-fan-admits-dragging-cop-capitol-steps-rcna47737\" target=\"_blank\">crutches<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/trump-republicans-jan-6-hostages-violence-capitol-police-rcna143888\" target=\"_blank\">even an explosive device<\/a>.&#8221; But all is now, apparently, forgiven with Trump&#8217;s pardons, despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/jd-vance-violent-jan-6-rioters-shouldnt-receive-pardons-rcna187329\">assertion<\/a> on Fox &#8220;News&#8221; just one week ago by then Vice President-elect <b>J.D. Vance<\/b> that &#8220;Obviously, if you committed violence on that day, you shouldn&#8217;t be pardoned.&#8221; But that was a week ago, and this is now, when, with today&#8217;s release of the January 6 terrorists, Trump now has his own domestic paramilitary if and when needed. And those who testified against them originally, including <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/libradunn1.bsky.social\/post\/3lgb5gj756c26\">law enforcement officers<\/a>, are now, understandably, <i>very<\/i> concerned for their own personal safety.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump signed an Executive Order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2025\/01\/20\/trump-executive-order-national-emergency-mexico-border-military\/77557680007\/\">declaring<\/a> a &#8220;national emergency&#8221; and &#8220;invasion&#8221; at the <b>southern border<\/b>, where there is no such emergency or invasion. But now he has a pretext to invoke the military wherever it may be needed to round up, arrest, detain, imprison and deport undocumented migrants and asylum seekers, among other things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump signed an Executive Order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship\/\">claiming<\/a> to end the 14th Amendment&#8217;s Constitutional right to <b>birthright citizenship<\/b>, even as historian and tyranny expert Timothy Snyder helpfully reminds us: &#8220;A president&#8217;s executive order cannot undo a law or a Supreme Court decision, let alone a provision of the Constitution. Forget that and you do have a dictatorship on day one.&#8221; That EO is already being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/21\/politics\/democratic-states-sue-birthright-citizenship-trump\/index.html\">challenged in court by 24 states<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump, who miserably failed to handle the COVID pandemic, which killed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/covid-death-update-2024-virus-chart-2003132?form=MG0AV3\">more than a million<\/a> Americans, signed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-the-worldhealth-organization\/\">declaration<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/public-health-experts-implications-trump-withdrawing-us-who\/story?id=117933153\">withdrawing><\/a> from the <b>World Health Organization<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump signed an Executive Order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/trump-revokes-biden-executive-order-addressing-ai-risks-2025-01-21\/\">revoking<\/a> <b>Joe Biden<\/b>&#8216;s landmark 2023 Executive Order on <b>AI safety<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump signed Executive Orders &#8220;protecting women from radical gender ideology&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-politics-and-policy\/trump-sign-executive-orders-proclaiming-are-only-two-biological-sexes-rcna188388\">declaring<\/a> there are only<b> two immutable sexes<\/b>: male and female, as determined by whether they are born with eggs or sperm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracydocket.com\/news-alerts\/trump-revokes-bidens-2021-executive-order-expanding-voting-access\/\">revoked<\/a> a 2021 Biden Executive Order calling on federal agencies to promote<b> voting access<\/b> and expand <b>voter registration<\/b>. Trump and Republicans will have none of that! What do you think this is, a representative Constitutional democracy or something?!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/01\/20\/nx-s1-5268958\/trump-order-census-citizenship-question-apportionment\">rescinded<\/a> a Biden era Executive Order that had repealed an Executive Order from Trump&#8217;s first term that attempted to game the <b>U.S. Census<\/b> for partisan gain by, among other things, attempting to exclude non-citizen residents of the U.S. from the count of the &#8220;whole number of persons in each state&#8221;, as per the 14th Amendment, for the first time since the very first Census was carried out in 1790.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Finally, Desi Doyen joins us for <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=15280\">our first <i>Green News Report<\/i> of the second Trump era<\/a>, with more on his Day 1 efforts to use Executive Orders to undermine the climate, the health of Americans, the livability of the planet, and the U.S. economy along with it. Trump signed Executive Orders declaring a <b>&#8220;national energy emergency&#8221;<\/b> (which is not a thing that actually exists); to stop all <b>off-shore wind<\/b> projects (what happened to that &#8220;national energy emergency&#8221;?!); and to join with <b>Iran<\/b>, <b>Libya<\/b> and <b>Yemen<\/b> by withdrawing (yet again) from the landmark, voluntary <b>Paris Climate Agreement<\/b>, a move that could end up costing the U.S. hundreds of billions, if not trillions, of dollars via lost leadership, technology and manufacturing of clean, renewable energy&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/Images\/Speaker_Icon_24.png\" style=\"width: 24px; float: none; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px;\"> <b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/audio\/BradCast_BradFriedman-TrumpDay1-Jan6Pardons-ExecOrders_012125.mp3\">CLICK TO LISTEN OR DOWNLOAD SHOW!&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><b>* * *<\/b><\/center><i>While we post <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/BradCast\"><\/i>The BradCast<i><\/a> here every day, and you can hear it across all of our great affiliate stations and websites, to automagically get new episodes as soon as they&#8217;re available sent right to your computer or personal device, subscribe for free at <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/id803467610\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pandora.com\/podcast\/the-bradcast-w-brad-friedman\/PC:1000025838\">Pandora<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/The-BradCast-with-Brad-Friedman-p477565\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9icmFkYmxvZy5jb20vcG9kY2FzdGdlbi9icmFkY2FzdC9mZWVkLnhtbA\">Google<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-BradCast-w-Brad-Friedman\/dp\/B08JJRN86R\/ref=sr_1_1\">Amazon<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/podcastgen\/bradcast\/feed.xml\">our native RSS feed<\/a>!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG<\/strong>, <em>The BradCast<\/em> and <em>Green News Report<\/em> are all 100% independent and 100% listener and reader supported!<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Donate\" style=\"display:inline-block; background:#6b5a2e; color:#ffffff; padding:6px 18px; border-radius:4px; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:0.9em;\">Please CLICK HERE to help support our work today!<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-END--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Day 2 of the second corrupt Trump Presidency, we catch up on today&#8217;s BradCast with the destruction he wrought (or attempted to) on Day 1, just hours after he became the first convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and adjudicated insurrectionist to be sworn in as President of the United States. And it all just happens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1936,89,675,1289,543,479,28,548,261,1590,1738,320,477,332,652,1709,834,1572,126,127,313,698,1548,541],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-15281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-ai","category-media-appearance","category-bradcast","category-census","category-climate-change","category-donald-trump","category-election-reform","category-extreme-weather","category-immigration","category-insurrection","category-jd-vance","category-joe-biden","category-kpfk","category-lgbt","category-mlk-jr","category-oath-keepers","category-paris-agreement","category-proud-boys","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-the-constitution","category-us-supreme-court","category-ukraine","category-who","category-wind"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15281"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=15281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}