Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 194
What Just Happened?
Just after President Biden commuted the sentences of 37 prisoners on death row, President-elect Donald Trump pledged “to vigorously pursue the death penalty to protect American families and children from violent rapists, murderers, and monsters.”
He added: “We will be a Nation of Law and Order again!”
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