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President Donald Trump appeared to suggest that former President Joe Biden should be investigated and should even have pardoned himself on the way out of the White House, Politico reports. Said Trump: “I went through four years of hell by this scum that we had to deal with. I went through four years of hell.

“In an unprecedented move experts say could present a major national security risk, Donald Trump is handing out temporary top secret security clearances to White House staff without any of the usual background checks,” NOTUS reports.

“President Donald Trump threatened to withhold federal aid from California as it works to recover from devastating wildfires, recycling several baseless claims and attacks against California’s Democratic leaders during his first sit-down interview since his inauguration,” the Washington Post reports. Said Trump: “I don’t think we should give California anything until they let water flow down.” “Trump was repeating a false claim he has repeatedly made that California Gov.

President Trump plans to have a “whole big discussion very shortly” on the Federal Emergency Management Agency because he’d “rather see the states take care of their own problems,” Axios reports. Said Trump: “FEMA is a whole ‘nother discussion because all it does is complicate everything… FEMA has not done their job for the last four years.”

“Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to visit Panama — the country whose canal President Donald Trump has suggested he’d seize — as early as next week,” Politico reports. “The Rubio trip — scheduled to run from late January to early February — also includes Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic.”

“The Trump administration is attempting to amass a larger force of law-enforcement officials to help carry out deportations by granting agents across the federal government the same powers as an immigration officer,” the Wall Street Journal reports.