PRESIDENT Donald Trump has taken steps to eliminate paper checks through a variety of executive actions, which also featured a pardon for Hunter Biden’s former business associate.

Trump granted a pardon to Devon Archer, promised to update payment systems, and took measures against election fraud in a series of significant actions on Tuesday afternoon.

The president has now signed more than 100 executive orders in the first 100 days of his second presidential term.

His initial order on Tuesday afternoon required states to take “reasonable steps” to secure their elections, such as including a citizenship question on the national voting forms.

He signed an order to cut aid to states that don’t stop undocumented migrants from voting in elections.

“This country is so sick because of the election – the fake elections, the bad elections. We’re going to straighten it out one way or the other,” he said in the Cabinet Room of the White House.

Trump then moved on to pardoning Archer, who was long tied to criminal allegations against Hunter Biden while his dad, former President Joe Biden, was in the White House.

“Many people have asked me to do this,” Trump said.

“I think he was treated very unfairly, and I looked at the record, studied the records, and he was, he was a victim of a crime, as far as I’m concerned. So we’re going to undo that.”

Archer was convicted of defrauding a native American tribe in 2018 and sentenced to a year in prison in 2022.

Before Trump signed the pardon, political advisor William Scharf said he was pardoned because the fraud investigation into him was an “injustice.”

“Notably, the tone and tenor of that prosecution changed dramatically after he began to cooperate with congressional investigators and serve as a witness against Hunter Biden and the Biden family,” Scharf said.

Archer met with Trump at the NCAA wrestling championships in Philadelphia over the weekend.

His pardon isn’t the only dig at the Bidens – Trump recently stripped Hunter Biden of his Secret Service protection.

NO MORE PAPER CHECKS

After issuing the pardon, Trump signed a historic order to modernize payment systems at the Treasury Department.

He said the new rule would reduce waste, fraud, and abuse by getting rid of paper checks.

“It’s basically modernization of equipment and methods,” Trump said, adding there were “other modernization programs going.”

“It’s something that should’ve been done 25-30 years ago,” he said.

“Many people have asked me to do this. They think [Devon Archer] was treated very unfairly. And I looked at the records, studied the records, and he was a victim of a crime, as far as I’m concerned. So we’re going to undo that. Congratulations, Devon.”

President Donald Trump

Trump also took the opportunity to address the inclusion of The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg in a sensitive military group chat with cabinet officials.

He said there was “no classified information” shared in the Signal messages from Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

The president also praised Mike Waltz, who initially added Goldberg to the chat.

“He’s a very good man, and he will continue to do a good job,” Trump said, and added that he shouldn’t be punished for the mistake.

‘VERY UNFAIR’

Waltz himself expressed speculation over journalists and how Goldberg got into the chat in the first place.

Trump then lashed out at journalists when asked if he would cut funding from taxpayer dollars to stations like the National Public Radio and Public Broadcasting Service.

“I would love to do that. I think it’s very unfair. It’s been very biased,” Trump said.

He also snapped at CNN journalist Kaitlan Collins when she asked a question out of turn.

“Excuse me, I didn’t pick you,” he interrupted Collins, proceeding to call on another reporter for questions.