Trump wildly suggests Proud Boys, Oath Keepers might have a place in the ‘political conversation’ - ‘At least [in] the cases we looked at, these were people that actually love our country,’ Trump says

Trump's actions were the latest step in his drive to overhaul Washington and erase the work of President Joe Biden's administration.

Trump's blanket order came the same day that Joe Biden used the final minutes of his presidency to issue pre-emptive pardons for his brothers and sister, as well as members of the US House of Representatives committee whose investigation into the Capitol riot concluded Trump was to blame.