In Donald Trump’s first sit-down broadcast interview since being elected again, he outlined an aggressive plan for opening his second term, vowing to move immediately to crack down on immigration and pardon hundreds of his backers who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Read our fact-check of the interview, which aired on NBC.
Trump also indicated that he would try to bar automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. to immigrant parents and that he planned to fire the F.B.I. director, Christopher Wray.
He has threatened to lock up political foes like Liz Cheney who investigated his role in the Jan. 6 attack, but said in the interview that he would not directly order his new attorney general or F.B.I. director to pursue the matter. (Cheney, in turn, said his threats were an “assault on the rule of law and the foundations of our republic.”)
Quotable: “I’m really looking to make our country successful,” Trump said when asked about investigating President Biden and his family. “I’m not looking to go back into the past. I’m looking to make our country successful. Retribution will be through success.”
