First and foremost, happy holidays to all of you. And congratulations for almost making it to the end of 2024.

It feels like many, many lifetimes ago. But believe it or not, at the start of this year, in the early days of 2024, as Donald Trump vanquished his Republican primary opponents, one of the big questions hanging

over the race was whether or not Donald Trump was even eligible to run for president.

Multiple lawsuits were filed across 36 states, arguing that Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020

election were wholly disqualifying under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.

And for a very brief moment, a few states successfully removed Trump from their primary ballot.

But that was until March, when the Supreme Court ruled unanimously against them.

It was just one in a series of consequential rulings that ultimately benefited Trump,

chief among them, the High Court's July decision on presidential immunity. That decision,

which determined that presidents are immune from prosecution for any official acts, that decision

effectively delayed the start of Trump's federal criminal trials until after the election.

It ensured that Trump would not face legal consequences for trying to overturn the 2020

election until voters headed to the polls in this election in 2024. And oh, what an election

it was. The sitting president dropped out of the race 107 days before

election day. Then he endorsed his vice president as the Democratic nominee. Meanwhile, the

Republican nominee survived one assassination attempt in Pennsylvania, and then he survived another near

assassination attempt in Florida. And then he survived another near-assassination attempt in Florida.

And then, after all of that, Americans in each of the seven swing states chose to return the

45th president to the White House.

I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president.

America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.

I will govern by a simple motto, promises made, promises kept.

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