Biden warns of new American ‘oligarchy’ in farewell speech as Trump takes credit for Israel ceasefire: Live – UK Times

The Democrat is leaving office with a slightly higher approval rating than Trump did after his first term, a new poll shows.

The outgoing president’s final approval rating is 36 percent compared to Trump, who had a rating of 34 percent when he left the White House in 2021, the CNN poll conducted by SSRS found.

However, Biden’s four years in office are regarded by Americans more as a failure (61 percent) than a success (38 percent), the survey found.

After a half-century in public service, one might have expected Joe Biden to exit the world stage with a speech urging Americans to remember him fondly for the productive legislative record his administration compiled, or his work shoring up alliances and bringing two new members of NATO into the now 32-member bloc.

But he opted not to use the coveted prime-time air time to brag.

Instead, he delivered a surprisingly sharp warning.

Here’s more from Andrew Feinberg.

In the same speech from the White House, the president called for the creation of a new constitutional amendment to demolish the concept of presidential “immunity” from criminal prosecution.

“We need to amend the Constitution to make clear that no president, no president, is immune from crimes he or she commits while in office,” he said.

“The president’s power is not unlimited. It’s not absolute. And it shouldn’t be.”

Last summer, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority granted sitting presidents absolute “immunity” from criminal prosecution for actions stemming from “official” duties and “presumptive” immunity for actions in the “outer perimeter” of the functions of the presidency.

That ruling marked a seismic victory for Donald Trump, who argued that his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election are “immune” from prosecution in the sprawling federal criminal case against him.

The outgoing US president Joe Biden warned in his farewell speech last night that a new gilded age of “robber barons” is in danger of eroding Americans’ hard-won freedoms unless the government takes steps to ensure that the ultra-wealthy pay a fair share in taxes and aren’t allowed to exercise “outsized” power.

In remarks deliberately tailored to echo Dwight Eisenhower’s warnings about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, Biden said he was just as concerned as Eisenhower had been about what he described as a “tech industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country”.

That, combined with a dangerous “concentration of technology power and wealth,” he added, is forming a new “oligarchy” of “extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead”.

Alex Woodward watched her confirmation hearing.

However, the inauguration ceremony will be more than just a swearing-in — Trump’s team has just released the schedule of events, revealing those who will perform at the event, The Spectator World reports.

Here’s what you need to know about the line-up for Trump and Vances’ inauguration:

Jordan, a Republican who represents Ohio’s fourth congressional district, made the remarks while speaking on Newsmax on Tuesday.

Michelle Del Rey has the story.

Admirers of the trademark cross that Mike Lindell wears around his neck are now in luck as the MAGA pillow entrepreneur is now offering MyCross necklaces “designed in the likeness” of his own personal Christian emblem.

And prospective buyers can get their own replica of Lindell’s necklace for the low price of $249.98 — or $179.98 with a promo code.

Justin Barangoa has the story.

Bondi, 59, who served as Florida’s attorney general from 2011 to 2019 and represented Donald Trump at his first impeachment trial in the Senate, is both an experienced public official and a long-time ally of the president-elect.

Gaetz reacted to the choice on X by calling her “a stellar selection” as well as “a proven litigator, an inspiring leader and a champion for all Americans.”

Here’s what you need to know about her: