{"id":2392801,"date":"2025-01-20T16:24:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-second-speech-in-emancipation-hall-changes-tone\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T21:26:02","slug":"trumps-second-speech-in-emancipation-hall-changes-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-second-speech-in-emancipation-hall-changes-tone\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s second speech in Emancipation Hall changes tone"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-second-speech-in-emancipation-hall-changes-tone%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2392801&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In \u200ca speech shortly after his optimistic inaugural address, President Donald \u2064Trump reiterated\u200d his criticisms of\u200b former President Joe Biden, \u200bformer House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, adn the Jan. 6 Capitol committee \u2062at Emancipation Hall. While he initially called for a new political \u200bera, Trump swiftly returned\u200b to attacking his political \u2062adversaries, specifically\u2063 addressing \u2064the Capitol attack and criticizing Biden&#8217;s pardons for certain individuals associated with\u2064 it, including former COVID-19 adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci. He claimed that the Jan. 6 committee had manipulated information and pointed fingers at \u2063Pelosi for <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">allegedly rejecting additional security<\/a> that could have prevented the attack. Trump&#8217;s remarks reflected his characteristic confrontational style,\u200d reminiscent of his campaign rallies, as he also took aim at \u200bRepublican figures who opposed him,\u2062 namely Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. \u2064Despite being advised against such confrontations, Trump chose to emphasize these \u200btopics, further expressing his disdain for Biden&#8217;s clemency actions toward serious offenders.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump takes shots at Biden, Pelosi, and Jan. 6 committee moments after optimistic inaugural speech<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1940376\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Mere minutes after President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> called for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3292606\/trump-inauguration-speech-swearing-in-capitol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">new political era <\/a>for the nation during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/inauguration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">inaugural<\/a>&nbsp;address, he returned to excoriating his rivals in a speech at Emancipation Hall.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The president made explicit references to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, which he did not address after his swearing-in ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda. He also criticized former President Joe Biden for issuing preemptive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/healthcare\/3257413\/biden-pardons-fauci-preemptively\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pardons<\/a> to&nbsp;former White House COVID-19 adviser Dr.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/anthony-fauci\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;Anthony Fauci<\/a>, Gen. Mark Milley, members of the House Jan. 6 investigatory committee, and members of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3293098\/biden-pardons-family-members-last-minute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;Biden&rsquo;s family<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s comments marked a split-screen as Biden and former first lady Jill Biden departed the Capitol, and they were reminiscent of his bombastic campaign rallies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3292606\/trump-inauguration-speech-swearing-in-capitol\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"TRUMP SEALS COMEBACK AS 47TH PRESIDENT: &lsquo;AMERICA&rsquo;S DECLINE IS OVER&rsquo;\"><strong>TRUMP SEALS COMEBACK AS 47TH PRESIDENT: &lsquo;AMERICA&rsquo;S DECLINE IS OVER&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Donald Trump speaks from Emancipation Hall as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), from left, his wife Kelly Johnson, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), and his wife Jennifer Scalise listen after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-left-out-in-the-cold-over-inauguration-switch-we-dont-know-squat-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Congress left out in the cold over inauguration switch: \u2018We don\u2019t know squat\u2019 - Washington Examiner\">60th presidential inauguration<\/a> on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Jasper Colt\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;I was going to talk about the J6 hostages, but you&rsquo;ll be happy because it&rsquo;s action, not words, that count. And you&rsquo;re going to see a lot of action on the J6 hostages,&rdquo; Trump told the crowd about a conversation with first lady Melania Trump, who urged him not to focus on the past.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was going to talk about the things that Joe did today with the pardons of people that were very, very guilty of very bad crimes, like the unselect committee of political thugs, where they literally, I mean, what they did is they destroyed and deleted all of the information, all of the hearings, practically not a thing left,&rdquo; Trump continued. <\/p>\n<p>The president slammed one of his biggest Democratic political foes during his first administration, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), over the Capitol attack.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They deleted all the information on Nancy Pelosi, having turned down the offer of 10,000 soldiers,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;You wouldn&rsquo;t have needed 10,000. You could have had 500, and it would have stopped.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She rebuffed them,&rdquo; Trump later said about his interactions with Pelosi. &ldquo;She didn&rsquo;t like it. No, she didn&rsquo;t like it. Maybe she wanted it to happen, but she&rsquo;s guilty as hell.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/donald-trump-inauguration-day-white-house-washington-dc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">INAUGURATION DAY LIVE UPDATES: DONALD TRUMP TO BE SWORN IN FOR SECOND TERM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump also took a moment to slam Republicans who defied the GOP&rsquo;s support of Trump in the lead-up to the 2024 election, including former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and former Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who served on the Jan. 6 select committee.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Why are we doing this? Why are we trying to help a guy like Milley?&rdquo; Trump asked the crowd. &ldquo;Why are we helping Liz Cheney? I mean, Liz Cheney is a disaster. She&rsquo;s a crying lunatic. Crying, crying, Adam Kinzinger.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump is addressing this overflow group like a rally. He&rsquo;s touched on everything from January 6, Biden pardons. &ldquo;Why are we helping people like Liz Chaney &mdash; crying Adam Kinzinger, he&rsquo;s always crying.&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Er4w8zvUBC\">pic.twitter.com\/Er4w8zvUBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Samantha-Jo Roth (@SamanthaJoRoth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamanthaJoRoth\/status\/1881409664728142052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Trump claimed his advisers pressed him not to address his foes, but he chose to defy that advice during his comments at Emancipation Hall.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They pardoned &mdash; what is it? Thirty-three murderers &mdash; absolute murderers, the worst murderers,&rdquo; Trump said, returning to blasting Biden&rsquo;s clemency spree before leaving the White House. &ldquo;You know, when you get the death sentence in the United States, you have to be bad because they don&rsquo;t give it much. And he pardoned almost everybody having a death sentence.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3290211\/biden-commutes-2500-criminal-sentences-final-clemency-push\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">commuted the sentences<\/a> of nearly 2,500 nonviolent drug offenders last week, and in December, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3268652\/biden-leaves-three-men-death-row-saying-country-must-stop-executions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">announced the commutation<\/a> of 37 out of 40 inmates on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/merrick-garland-has-a-lot-of-thinking-to-do\/\" title=\"Merrick Garland Has a Lot Of Thinking To Do\">federal death row<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also took a moment to reiterate the false claim that the 2020 election was &ldquo;rigged&rdquo; against him. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was a rigged election,&rdquo; Trump said, returning to his previous attacks against the 2020 election. &ldquo;You know, the only thing good about it &mdash; it showed how bad they are.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Yet Trump also touted his election victories, telling the crowd, &ldquo;We won by numbers nobody has ever seen.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The newly sworn-in president reverted to airing his election grievances against absentee ballots, specifically pointing to California&rsquo;s election practices.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Places like California, we did great, but when they send out like 38 million ballots, and no one knows where the hell they are sending them, then they come pouring back, the whole thing,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>He then vowed to get &ldquo;things cleaned up&rdquo; and mentioned he was going to ask Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to get involved in helping to prevent election fraud.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to ask the speaker to really get involved because I think we would have won the state of California. Because, you know, if you look at my numbers with Hispanics, we&rsquo;re 56%. We were winning the Texas border that had never been won.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump also claimed his 2016 rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, &ldquo;didn&rsquo;t look too happy today&rdquo; during his inauguration Monday afternoon. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton attended the inauguration but skipped the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3291340\/bush-clinton-obama-skip-trump-inaugural-lunch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">inaugural luncheon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before wrapping up his speech to the crowd, Trump said these public remarks were truer to his intentions than his inaugural speech.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think this is a better speech than I made upstairs,&rdquo; Trump joked to Vice President J.D. Vance. <\/p>\n<p>Vance, Trump quipped during his remarks, survived the transition and media scrutiny of going from an Ohio senator to his running mate.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He took on everybody. He took on the meanest, I don&rsquo;t want to use the word &lsquo;corrupt&rsquo; because we&rsquo;re into a new system. So, let&rsquo;s wait till the corruption begins because it will,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;But he took on some pretty mean people, and he handled it well.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) told the <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>the remarks were part of the Trump persona and part of his appeal. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is typical Donald Trump &mdash; stream of consciousness. It&rsquo;s always fun,&rdquo; Cramer said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The North Dakota senator also claimed that Trump&rsquo;s remarks to the overflow crowd in Emancipation Hall did not negate any of his previous remarks after being sworn in.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh, nothing I heard did. It was additive &mdash; I guess, maybe I didn&rsquo;t hear enough. I thought the speech in the rotunda was great,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;I mean it was all themes that mattered most to the people that elected him. So, he&rsquo;s just starting to fulfill promises on Day One.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1940376\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1940376\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump criticizes Biden, Pelosi, and Jan. 6 committee post-inauguration<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2757,"featured_media":2392802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25020704104205.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[48866,5894,4554,48867,3634],"class_list":["post-2392801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-emancipation-hall","tag-politics","tag-speech","tag-tone-change","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25020704104205.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2757"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392801"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392805,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392801\/revisions\/2392805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2392802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}