Trump shuts down Hannity during tirade on Biden in first TV interview

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Trump said at the time he respected Pompeo and others as 'professionals.' Pompeo was Trump's CIA director before heading the State Department.
56% : As their time came to a close, the Fox News host told Trump 'let me get to the economy' and 'I'm running out of time.' 'I don't care,' the new president responded.
52% : Trump repeated that point several times during the full interview with Hannity.
47% : 'But I'm going to release them immediately,' Trump said, adding 'we're looking at it right now.'
44% : 'I think we'll let Congress decide,' Trump said.
44% : 'I was always against that with presidents,' Trump replied.
43% : Trump also spoke with Hannity about his first trip as president - he'll head to Asheville, North Carolina to see how the rebuilding effort is coming along after Hurricane Helene flooded the region.
40% : But he didn't pardon himself.' 'Remember this, those people that he pardoned are now mandated, because they got a pardon, to testify and they can't take the Fifth,' Trump claimed.
39% : Hannity also pressed Trump on another campaign promise - that he would release the classified files on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy - the father of his chosen Health and Human Services Secretary - and civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. Trump said when he was president four years ago several high-ranking government officials asked him not to release the Kennedy files - as he pointed to one person in particular.
36% : Over the course of Hannity's hour-long program, Trump also hinted at another government agency he wanted to scrap and revealed the latest on the JFK assassination files.
35% : He pardoned everybody,' Trump said. '
31% : I spent millions of dollars in legal fees and I won, but I did it the hard way.' 'It's really hard to say they shouldn't have to go through it all,' Trump added.
27% : and he felt that it was not a good time to release them,' Trump said.
26% : Hannity asked Trump if he would like to see Congress investigate Biden's pardons.
26% : When talking about disaster relief, Trump suggested that he'd be open to killing FEMA - the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
25% : Hannity interjected saying he was being yelled at for time - but Trump kept going.
22% : And FEMA is going to be a whole big discussion very shortly because I'd rather see the states take care of their own problem,' Trump said.
20% : 'It's like in the old days when the secretary of State said he never made a correct decision on foreign policy,' Trump said, meaning to quote a former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.
19% : I'm here, so the economy - but you have to understand, he had bad advisers on almost everything,' Trump said of Biden.
10% : In a clip shared earlier Wednesday by Fox, Trump is heard giving a cryptic warning about Biden making a mistake in not pardoning himself.
9% : Trump spent portions of the interview expressing dismay over Biden's decision to issue preemptive pardons to some of the Democrat's family members and some of the Republican president's political enemies.

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