President Donald Trump delivered remarks on Friday at the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., highlighting his administration’s work to return the nation to fair and equal justice while also vowing to root out radicals and corrupt power players within the federal bureaucracy.
“We must be honest about the lies and abuses that have occurred within these walls,” he said.
The president said “hacks and radicals” had “obliterated the trust and good will built up over generations” with the goal of thwarting the will of the American people.
Speaking about the two-tiered system of justice and weaponization of federal law enforcement over the years, Trump explained, “They spied on my campaign, launched one hoax and disinformation operation after another, broke the law on a colossal scale, persecuted my family, staff and supporters, raided my home, Mar-a-Lago, and did everything they could do in their power to stop me from becoming the President of the United States.”
He continued, “They tried to turn America into a corrupt communist third-world country, but in the end, the thugs failed and the truth won, freedom won, justice won, democracy won, and above all, the American people won.”
President Trump said there could be “no more heinous betrayal of American values than to use the low to terrorize the innocent and reward the wicked.”
He used bureaucrats like Marc Elias, former Attorney General Merrick Garland, Joe Biden, and Mark Pomerantz as some examples. He said people like this turned the Department of Justice into the “Department of Injustice,” but countered, “Those days are OVER and they are NEVER going to come back.”
Trump promised that as the chief law enforcement officer of the United States, he would “insist upon and demand full and complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that have occurred.”
He reiterated the historic mandate given to him and his administration with the historic November 5 electoral victory. “The American people have given us a mandate and really, just a far-reaching investigation is what they are demanding into the corruption of our system,” he added.
Trump further made more powerful promises, assuring Americans that his admin would “expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces from our government” and uncover criminality and misconduct on a “legendary” scale.
“We will restore the scales of justice in America, and we will ensure that such abuses never happen again in our country,” Trump said.