Watch: Trump Signs Order Recognizing Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, Pardons Anti-Abortion Activists

President Donald Trump signed another batch of executive orders in the Oval Office on Thursday, ranging from federal recognition of Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina to boost artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency industries in the United States.

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Once a skeptic, Trump has embraced crypto and even launched his own meme coin just before taking office.

Thursday’s executive order creates a “digital asset markets task force” made up of senior government leaders that will make recommendations for a new “regulatory framework” governing Crypto. The group will also study the potential creation of a strategic reserve for digital assets.

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Trump’s executive order also rescinds executive orders related to crypto signed during the Biden administration and prohibits the US government from creating its own “central bank digital currency.”

On the campaign trail, Trump promised that his administration would be staffed with crypto supporters who would take a light touch in regulating digital currencies.

“We’re going to make a lot of money for the country,” Trump said, praising his new “Crypto Czar” David Sacks.

Order aimed at ‘removing barriers’ to US leadership in AI

Trump signed an executive order that will roll back previous administration policies his order said “act as barriers to American AI innovation.”

To maintain global leadership in AI technology, “we must develop AI systems that are free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas,” the order said.

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The new order does not name which existing policies impede AI development, but requires the development of an AI action plan within 180 days. The move comes after Trump rescinded the Biden administration’s protections for the rapid development of AI technology, a sweeping executive order signed in 2023.

Lardons to anti-abortion activists who blocked clinic entrances

Trump also pardoned anti-abortion activists convicted of blocking abortion clinic entrances, calling it “a great honor to sign this.”

“They should not have been prosecuted,” he said as he signed the pardon for “peaceful pro-life protesters.”

Among those pardoned were those involved in the October 2020 invasion and blockade of a Washington clinic.

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In the first week of Trump’s presidency, anti-abortion advocates have stepped up calls for Trump to pardon protesters charged with violating the Freedom of Access Clinic Act, which is designed to protect abortion clinics from obstruction and intimidation . The 1994 law was passed at a time when clinic protests and blockades were on the rise, as well as violence against abortion providers, such as the murder of Dr. David Gunn in 1993.

Declassification of JFK, RFK and MLK Jr. Records

Trump signed an executive order aimed at declassifying remaining federal records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

Speaking to reporters, Trump said: “Everything will be revealed.”

The order directs the director of national intelligence and the attorney general to develop a plan within 15 days to declassify the remaining John F. Kennedy records and within 45 days for the other two cases. It was not clear when the records would actually see the light of day.

Trump had ordered the significant release of the John F. Kennedy assassination records during his first term, but some were redacted or withheld because of concerns raised by the intelligence community.

Trump handed over the pen used to sign the aid order and directed it to be given to RFK’s son Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee to be Health and Human Services secretary who has long called for their release .