In a fiery speech at the US Department of Justice headquarters, US President Donald Trump vented about his criminal cases and continued with his election victory lap. The never-before-seen address came in the garb of a “policy speech” for the administration. Trump went on to laud the amount of work his government did in a short period, including combating illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
However, the majority of Trump’s remarks focused on his grievances with the department under former US President Joe Biden. Trump gave the address in the Justice Department’s great hall, displacing the longstanding tradition of independence from partisan politics and instead turning it into an extension of the White House.
In the past, the very same hall has been used for major law enforcement announcements by the Justice Department and its senior leaders. The president only delivered speeches in the area when the remarks were of a national security or non-political stripe.
Trump goes on for an hour
In his hour-long speech, Trump repeatedly strayed from his prepared remarks to assail the criminal cases against him. He called out various lawyers and former prosecutors by name and accused the Biden administration of trying to “destroy him”. He went on to unleash personal attacks against his predecessor and called Biden the “head of a crime family”.
“The case against me was bulls**t,” Trump said with fury, in the building where the charges were approved. The president lauded his defence lawyers Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, whom he elevated to, in effect, run the justice department as the deputy attorney general and the principal associate deputy attorney general, respectively, as well as the department’s chief of staff, Chad Mizelle.
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