With a few strokes of the pen, it’s as if he never left. Or is it? On day one of his second term, Donald Trump pardoned nearly all those convicted in the January 6th assault on the Capitol. Has the 45th and now 47th president succeeded in rewriting the narrative?
His diehard supporters are cheering, hailing the pardoned as ‘hostages’ of a political witch hunt and celebrating his promise of mass deportations targeting “criminal aliens.” But can Trump keep his coalition intact? From populist voters to billionaire tech titans like Elon Musk, do their interests truly align?
And in Washington, where his party controls Congress and the Supreme Court is stacked with his appointees, can the disrupter-in-chief truly crush his enemies and solidify his legacy?
Produced by François Picard, Rebecca Gnignati, Guillaume Gougeon and Annarosa Zampaglione.
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