Tuesday, January 21, 2025 - US President, Donald Trump has issued two executive orders launching investigations into Joe Biden's White House over institutional censorship and weaponization of law enforcement.
He signed at least 78 bills on Monday overturning
various declarations and orders given out by his predecessor.
Trump ordered that no federal officer, employee, or agent
may unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen, an
early step toward his campaign promise to dismantle what he called
government 'censorship' of U.S. citizens.
The president´s executive order, issued just hours after he
was sworn into a second term, comes after Trump and his supporters have accused
the federal government of pressuring social media companies to take down lawful
posts over concerns around misinformation.
The order also instructs the attorney general, in
consultation with other executive agency heads, to investigate how federal
government actions over the four years of the Biden administration could have
infringed on free speech and propose 'remedial actions' based on the findings.
Trump´s order, which he signed onstage at Capital One Arena
along with a slate of other executive actions, shows how motivated he is to
crack down on what he calls the 'censorship cartel' on his first day in office.
'The American people have witnessed the previous
administration engage in a systematic campaign against its perceived political
opponents, weaponizing the legal force of numerous Federal law enforcement
agencies and the Intelligence Community against those perceived political
opponents in the form of investigations, prosecutions, civil enforcement
actions, and other related actions,' one of the orders read.
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