Trump promises January 6 rioter pardons after winning Time prize for second time

Time Magazine has named US president elect Donald Trump its person of the year the recognition comes on the same day Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange times editor-in Chief said Trump was the person who quote for Better or For Worse had the most influence on the news this year Sam

Jacobs added that Trump made a historic comeback reshaped the presidency and is reordering American politics he was also times person of the year in case you forgot back in 2016.

All right let's go to Washington now my colleague Benjamin Alvarez Gruber is there benjamen what is Time Magazine saying about how it reached this decision it it wasn't a big surprise but um it could have been a big surprise that's right it wasn't a big surprise you had some rumors already yesterday this is usually a difficult decision that's what the magazine said but it was not the case this year.

The Magazine's editor and chief Sam Jacobsreferred to Donald Trump win is a historic comeback and he also said that it's hard to argue with the fact that the person who's moving into the Oval Office is the most influential person in news and with this president-elect beat a short list of this finalist for this title that also included vice presidentcamel Harris Russian Economist Julia and navala the wether of Russian opposition leader Alexa navali being now named at the time person of the year for the second time after 2016 as you just said and Benjamin tell us a little bit more about the interview that Trump gave.

The Time Magazine it was a wide ranging interview reading time 59 minutes so an hour that touched on several topics from his election Victory. The economy the wars in Ukraine also in the Middle East and his plans for the second Administration so if we look at the first one of these um topics that I just named one of them is a Ukraine where he criticized the use of us supplied missiles for attacks deep into Russian territory and he also reiterated when we'll look at the US that he's going to Pardon most of those convicted in riots at the US capital on

January 6 2021 and a third thing that also stood out for me during this interview is that he said that he would consider altering childhood vaccination programs in the US he said he would have discussion with Robert F Kennedy Jr this vaccine skeptic that he nominated to run the US Department of Health and Human.

Services he did not explicitly say the vaccines cause autism a false claim that has been debunked several times but when he was pressed he said that very serious testing indeed is needing and Time Magazine wrote that and he said that merly suggesting it is also a creating a this alignment affirming an alignment with the misinformation that has been fueled by antivaccine movement for years and I I remember you know back in 2016 when time put him on the cover it was it was a big deal it generated a lot of headlines it's doing that this year as well what's been the reaction there in the United.

States so the reaction has been different to 2016 as you said there were some rumors already saying that he would be the the person of the year but also what's quite similar when we look at those interviews that they made that now the Time Magazine also provided a fact check and context of several of Trump's statements that ranging from numbers on migration false claim on gender affirmation surgeries crowd sizes just to name a few of them and Trump himself called this a tremendous owner saying that he liked it this time even better referring as you said to the 2016 when Time Time magazine named him person of the year for the first time after winning the presidency Benjamin Alvarez grber with the latest in Washington.