After a flurry of executive orders that President Donald Trump issued in the first 24 hours of his second administration, Rep. Greg Murphy, R-N.C., told Newsmax that more work was done in one day than former President Joe Biden did in six months.
After Trump was sworn-in as the nation's 47th president Monday, he signed a number of executive orders at the Capital One Arena before departing for the White House to continuing signing others.
Murphy, appearing on "Wake Up America," said Trump's decision to publicly sign the orders, including one to pardon 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants, was "very interesting."
"I think it was predicted that the president was going to do that for those individuals, some of whom, there's always going to be debate about if they were violent in what they did," he said. "That said, the travesty that [former House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi laid the groundwork for, and I will tell you, there's a theory, and I don't know if it's true or not, that Nancy Pelosi continues to stay in Congress because, as a member of Congress, you cannot be subpoenaed.
"We would love to subpoena her. I was on House administration and found out the real details of what happened on that day, and the things that she did and did not do to lay course to the events of Jan. 6. That said, the president, you know, good Lord, he's done more work in a day than Sleepy Joe did in the last six months."
Despite Monday being Trump's first day back on the job after four years away from the Oval Office, Murphy said that his willingness to roll up his sleeves and get to work is indicative of "who he is."
"I remember … somebody asked him, 'When are you going to take vacation?' He goes, 'I don't take vacation, I work. This is what I do,'" Murphy said. "He'll go golf. I think one of the articles I read recently is that Biden, every evening was protected, every weekend was protected, and that he spent more time in Delaware than he did in Washington, D.C. So, this guy is a working president, he's a working individual, and we're going to get a good four years out of him before he moves on."
Murphy, who was present in the Rotunda when Trump took the oath of office, described the moment as "surreal" and "a historic event."
"This is something of a man who has been put down for four years, mercilessly attacked by Biden's judicial system and the FBI and he is a phoenix," Murphy said. "He rose from the ashes to come up and be victorious, be our now 47th president. … It could not come at a better time to reverse the change of the decline of America and put us back on track to being the greatest country and the most respected country on Earth."
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