Trump's Actions on Liberty and Rights

Now,

sometimes I hear from the very people he made that campaign

promise to,

that after he freed me,

he lost focus on the cause of liberty.

That's not true.

It's just easy to miss all of his wins for liberty

among the torrent of headlines out there.

So let me tell you what he's been doing.

There are hundreds of decent Americans you have never

heard of

who this president has pardoned or freed from prison.

No cameras,

just his signature

and a family getting their loved one back.

Just this summer, he pardoned a group of mechanics.

Their crime?

Tuning trucks.

One of them, who had served for years in the National

Guard,

had a small shop in Alaska where he tuned truck engines to keep rigs

running in extremely cold temperatures.

Thirty armed federal agents came through his door.

They called him a felon.

They stripped away his rights.

President Trump fixed that.

Yeah. That can happen to any of us.

Past administrations have built a body of regulations so

vast,

the Justice Department cannot say how many crimes are in it.

President Trump is ending the practice of turning

Americans into criminals this way.

The government pushed banks to de-bank Americans for what

they believed

or where they shopped.

Shopping at Bass Pro Shop,

really?

Or for using Bitcoin.

People lost their businesses,

not for breaking a law,

but for being the wrong sort of citizen.

The government pushed social media companies to deplatform Americans

for what they said online.

Right.

Not for breaking a law,

but for having the wrong sort of beliefs.

President Trump put an end to that.

The president ended a policy that destroyed the lives of gun dealers

over

paperwork.

The ones who lost their licenses have been restored and can earn a living again.

He stopped the government from... Get this.

He stopped the government from aiming counter-terrorism tools

at parents who spoke up at school board meetings.

Yeah,

that actually happened.

And he's doing

amazing work for school choice.

Starting in January, federal policy will give parents more

control over where their own child goes to school.

Not a bureaucrat,

parents.

The government has fought in both his terms for the right to try.

If you're dying and there's a medicine that might save you,

no bureaucrat in Washington should block your right

to try.

This year, he opened the door to medicine the

government had

criminalized for half a century. Medicine

for veterans and others with severe trauma

who were told to just

go home

and deal with the pain.

President Trump has put our rights and our freedoms at the

very center of his administration.

Yeah.

I never thought anyone in the White House would do these things.

He's actually doing them.

There's work to be done,

sure,

but the work goes on

because President Trump knows the costs when nobody does it.

I stand here tonight a free man, and you are free

Americans, and that is thanks to him.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Thank you all.