Trump vows to end birthright citizenship and pardon US Capitol rioters

President-elect Donald Trump has said he will consider pardons for people involved in the 2021 US Capitol riot on his first day back in office next month.

“These people are living in hell,” he told NBC’s Meet the Press in his first broadcast network interview since winning the November election.

Republicans also vowed to end automatic citizenship for anyone born in the country, but offered to work with Democrats to help some undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children.

In the wide-ranging meeting recorded on Friday, Trump promised to issue “a lot” of executive orders after his inauguration on January 20, including on immigration, energy and the economy.

He was asked if he would seek pardon for hundreds of people convicted of involvement in the Capitol riot when his supporters stormed Congress, three months after his defeat in the 2020 election.

“We are going to look at cases independently,” he said. “Yes, but I’m going to act very quickly.”

“The first day,” he added.

Trump added: “Well, you know, they’ve been there for years, and they’re in a filthy, disgusting place that shouldn’t even be allowed to be open.”

The president-elect gave other news in an NBC interview that aired Sunday:

• He warned on whether he would keep America in nato: “If they’re paying their bills, and if I think they’re doing a fair job – they’re treating us fairly, the answer is absolutely, I’d rather be with NATO.”
• Trump said he will not try to impose sanctions abortion pillsHowever, when asked to give a guarantee, he said: “Okay, I’m committed. I mean…things change.”
• Republican said ukraine He should “probably” expect less aid when he returns to the White House
• Trump said he thinks “somebody’s going to have to figure out” whether there is a connection between autism and childhood vaccines – an idea that has been rejected by numerous studies around the world. Trump suggested that his nominee for health secretary, vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr., would look into the matter
• The newly elected President reiterated his promise that he would not like to cut social SecurityNor will it raise its eligibility age, though he said that would make it “more efficient,” without giving further details.
• Pressed on whether he planned to impose Tariff Consumer prices for Americans would rise on imports from major US trading partners, he said: “I can’t guarantee anything. I can’t guarantee tomorrow”.

On the subject of immigration, Trump told NBC that he would seek executive action to end so-called birthright citizenship, which entitles anyone born in the US to a US passport, regardless of whether their parents lived somewhere else. Were born.

Birthright citizenship stems from the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which states that “all persons born in the United States” are “citizens of the United States”.

“We have to change this,” Trump said. “We’ll probably have to get back to the people. But we’ve got to get this over with.”

Trump also said he would follow through on his campaign promise to deport undocumented immigrants, including those whose family members are U.S. citizens.

“I don’t want to break up families,” he said, “so the only way not to break up families is to keep them together and you have to send them all back.”

Trump also said he wants to work with Congress to help so-called Dreamers, undocumented immigrants who were saved under the Obama-era program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which Trump once ended. Tried to do.

“I will work with the Democrats on a plan,” he said. He said some of these immigrants have found good jobs and started businesses.

Trump was sending mixed signals on whether he would follow through on his repeated pledge to retaliate against political opponents.

Outgoing US President Joe Biden this week issued a broad pardon to his criminally convicted son Hunter. Democrats are reported to be considering other broad pardons for political associates before he leaves office next month.

Trump indicated he would not seek a Justice Department investigation into Biden and his family, as he once vowed.

“I’m not looking to go back to the past,” he said. “I want to make my country successful. Retribution will be through success.”

But he also said members of the now-defunct Democratic-led House of Representatives committee that investigated him “should go to jail.”

Trump said he would not direct the FBI to pursue investigations against his enemies.

But he also added: “If they were devious, if they did something wrong, if they maybe broke the law.

“They went after me. You know, they went after me, and I didn’t do anything wrong.”