Trump is set to be sworn in around 12 p.m. EST.
Day: January 20, 2025
After two assassination attempts on President-elect Donald Trump, officials warn of a “heightened threat” to the inauguration. However, the Secret Service reported “no active direct threats.”
❗️It’s not a “struggle for independence” of #Azerbaijan in Jan. 1990. These’re monstrous massacres of #Armenians. A whole week (!) the Kremlin didn’t react to the crimes of 🇦🇿 bandits. It’s only on 20.01.1990 that Soviet troops entered #Baku to stop the rampaging, mad crowd. pic.twitter.com/GZsSG8QPo6
— Karina Karapetyan (@KarinaKarapety8) January 20, 2025
Georgian Dream regime PM Irakli Kobakhidze has vowed to inflict a “decisive blow” to what he calls “liberal fascism” and “radicals” in 2025.
“2025 will be critically important for our internal politics. We must deliver a decisive blow to the radicals in our country. Radicalism… pic.twitter.com/7KbHzzSR49
— Formula NEWS | English (@FormulaGe) January 20, 2025
Emma Baghdasarova, a former resident of Baku and now a U.S. citizen, recounts the Baku pogroms of January 1990:
After the Sumgait [pogroms], when people started leaving Sumgait, beatings began in Baku – here and there. But it wasn’t yet like what happened in 1990. This was the… https://t.co/94ozKj70Yz pic.twitter.com/LRQ9X51TTN
— Ararat Petrosyan (@araratpetrosian) January 20, 2025
BREAKING: Biden has pardoned several potential targets of the incoming Trump administration just hours before the transfer of power on Monday. https://t.co/czgZVMgvan
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 20, 2025
French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou warned that France and Europe as a whole would have to stand up to US President-elect Donald Trump and his policies, or face being “crushed.”
— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) January 20, 2025
At least four B-1B bombers arrived in Guam last week, U.S. Air Force’s photos showed.
President Biden, hours before leaving office, used his executive clemency power to protect people targeted for reprisals by his successor, including Mark A. Milley, Anthony S. Fauci and Liz Cheney.
Biden’s Extraordinary Use Of Presidential Power Ahead Of Trump Inauguration