President Donald Trump took a raft of new executive and clemency actions, including declassifying government files regarding the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Everything will be revealed,” Trump told reporters on Thursday at the White House.
Other executive orders signed included creating a cryptocurrency working group to study the need for a national digital asset stockpile, in addition to pardoning anti-abortion protesters.
Earlier Thursday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) criticized former President Joe Biden’s administration for prosecuting anti-abortion demonstrators during a floor speech in his chamber.
“Biden prosecuted pro-lifers — including an 89-year-old concentration camp survivor — for singing hymns in a clinic hallway,” Hawley later posted on social media. “President Trump can & should right these wrongs.”
In a question-and-answer session with reporters, Trump expressed his desire to speak with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell concerning interest rates. The central bank is traditionally an independent agency.
The president also announced his administration’s desire to appeal a federal court decision that temporarily blocked his executive order redefining birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge John Coughenou called the order “blatantly unconstitutional.”
Trump, too, told reporters that he wants to talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin and that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has conveyed his desire to broker a peace deal after nearly three years of war.
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On Thursday morning, Trump addressed the World Economic Forum, which has convened in Davos, Switzerland, remotely. In his remarks, the president told the crowd he intends to ask Saudi Arabia and OPEC “to bring down the cost of oil.”
“With oil prices going down, I’ll demand that interest rates drop immediately,” he said. “Likewise, they should be dropping all over the world. Interest rates should follow us.”
