On Wednesday, he gave his first interview since being sworn in as president, choosing host Sean Hannity and the conservatives’ preferred television network, Fox News.
In this interview, the Republican did not miss the opportunity to repeat his commitment without legal documents, assuring that “thousands of terrorists” are in the country because of the immigration policy pursued by his predecessor Joe Biden.
Trump emphasized that countries like Venezuela “took the gangs off their streets and brought them to the US.”
“We will deal with it”, assured the new president of the USA, estimating that “we took over on time”.
A few hours before this interview, the spokeswoman for the US presidency, Caroline Leavitt, announced that the Republican had signed the US “” with Mexico.
They will be added to the more than 2,000 soldiers already on the country’s southern border.
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Former President Biden
In his interview yesterday, Trump also referred to his predecessor’s decision to preemptively pardon some members of his family, as well as public officials, such as Anthony Fauci.
The Republican commented that it is “sad” that Biden did not pardon himself. “And you know, the funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is that he didn’t pardon himself,” he told Hannity.
When asked by the Fox News reporter if he would like Congress to investigate his predecessor, Trump replied: “I think I’ll let Congress decide.”
Natural disasters and FEMA
As the fires rage in Los Angeles, Trump hinted in an interview that he is considering eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
“FEMA has not done its job for the last four years,” he said. “FEMA is going to be a big conversation very soon because I’d rather see the states take on their problems,” he added.
“I love Oklahoma, but you know what, if they get hit by a tornado or something, let’s let Oklahoma handle it. And then the federal government can help them with the money,” Trump said.
During his first term as US president (2017-2021), Trump declared that “FEMA is working really well”.
In addition, the Republican criticized the way the fires in Los Angeles are being managed by the Democratic governor of California, Gavin Newsom.
Speaking to Hannity, Trump again accused Newsom of withholding water in northern California to protect a protected fish species. “I’m going to make an announcement today, I don’t believe we should give anything to California until they let the water flow” to the southern part of the state, he explained.
TikTok
Trump also dismissed concerns that TikTok is collecting Americans’ personal data on China’s behalf, saying: “Is it so important for China to spy on young people? The little kids watching crazy videos?’
After Hannity pressed him, even saying that the platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance is “a spy app for the Communist Chinese,” the Republican quipped: “But you can say that about all the products that are made in China — look at the phones to us they are mostly made in China, so why don’t we mention it?’
What did he say about JFK?
Trump was also asked why he has not released all government records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in 1963, as he had promised to do in his first term.
He said he released files “to an extent.”
“But I was asked by some government officials not to. And you have to respect them.”
The president specifically cited former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as one of the officials who asked him not to release the classified files.
“I felt like he knew something,” she says of Pompeo, adding that she felt “it wasn’t the right time to make it public.”
