Trump’s Agenda Sets the Tone for US News Week

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Trump’s Agenda Sets the Tone for US News Week
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23 February 2025
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The media agenda of the United States in the week that ends today continued to be set, in his first month in office, by President Donald Trump and his executive orders.

The moves of Trump with Elon Musk, his designee at the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, caught the attention of the press.

The occupant of the Oval Office announced through his network Social Truth that he was firing prosecutors appointed by Joe Biden during his term in office (2021-2025), because in “the last four years, the Department of Justice has been politicized like never before.”

Therefore, he said, “I have ordered the termination of all remaining ‘Biden-era’ US attorneys.”

“We must ‘clean house’ IMMEDIATELY, and restore trust,” the president added, insisting that “America’s Golden Age must have a fair Justice System: THIS STARTS TODAY!”

Although in this country it is common practice for an incoming president to replace federal prosecutors appointed by the previous administration, the expressions of the occupant of the Oval Office do not go unnoticed.

Nationally there are 93 prosecutors, one for each of its 94 federal judicial districts and several of them were appointed under the Democrat administration.

But with Trump’s electoral victory on November 5, the streak of resignations had already begun before they were replaced.

The Department of Justice, which the president accused of political persecution, shook the bush, as they say popularly speaking, and since January 20, when Trump assumed his second term Along with the “reshuffle” came the layoffs.

Among those who fell were members of the office of special prosecutor Jack Smith, who filed two criminal cases against Trump that were shelved. Smith resigned before the Republican took office.

An article published last month in The New York Times recalled that Trump had sometimes promised to use the broad powers of his office to seek revenge on politicians and officials who, according to him, wronged him.

Also making headlines was the confirmation in the United States Senate of Kash Patel, a key ally of the current president, as director of the FBI.

Patel passed the test amid warnings from Democrats that political enemies, according to the president’s standards, could be affected in this new stage of the federal agency. Another news item of impact was the Conservative Political Action Conference that began on Thursday and ends this Saturday, where figures from the right-wing world met and guests such as the president of Argentina, Javier Milei, participated. Musk’s appearance at the meeting underlined his growing power in Washington.

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