President Trump has pardoned six people who were prosecuted under the Biden administration for repairing their own vehicles.
Trump said the prosecutions were a clear example of the “Weaponization and Stupidity” of his predecessor’s administration.
“It is my Great Honor to have just signed Pardons for six people who were persecuted by the Biden Administration, and were in, or being sent to, prison, for ‘fixing their car,’” the President wrote on Truth Social.
“While I know this sounds ridiculous, it is nevertheless a fact, and part of the Weaponization and Stupidity that our Country had to endure during four long years of Sleepy Joe Biden. I AM SETTING THEM ALL FREE, RIGHT NOW!”
The six individuals were prosecuted under the Clean Air Act for tampering with emission-control systems fitted to their vehicles.
Individuals who fitted so-called “defeat devices” were pursued by the Biden Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice.
President Trump has made affordability, including the cost of running vehicles, a central plank of his second-term agenda.
At the end of June, he signed a Presidential Memorandum designed to expand access to aftermarket spare parts and lower the cost of repairs to vehicles.
“We have a big ruling that we’re just issuing now,” Trump said. “I think it’s very important to lower the price of your car.”
“In all fairness, this is something that’s very exciting to me,” Trump said. “It means a lot to people that own vehicles, cars in particular, but cars and anything else. It’s going to save them a lot of money, and they’re going to be able to do it themselves.”
“We are not going to be going after people who are fixing their own vehicle, like past administrations have.”
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how would they even know they did that to their car?
Probably from a computer linked spy device on the car.