President Donald Trump pronounced what looked like one of his winding campaign speeches full of grievances on Friday, but it was there that he did – inside the United States Ministry of Justice – who counted.
THE appearance marked the most clear effort of Trump to date of personal control on the federal apparatus for applying the country’s law, which is normally managed by people named who keep at least the length of an arm of the president to avoid the appearance that the policy governing the decisions of prosecution. Trump, rather, adopted the concept of the agency as its own personal revenge tool.
“As a chief officer of the application of laws in our country, I will insist and demand the complete and complete accounting of the wrongs and abuses that have occurred,” Trump told the public, with the Attorney General Bondi (which is technically the head of the police for the country) and the director of the FBI Kash Patel in the public.
One of Trump’s favorite campaign songs, “YMCA”, played after having finished his address almost an hour inside the large ceremonial hall of the department.
Here is an overview of what Trump said, what is the reality and the meaning of his words.
“The same foam you have been dealing with for years. Guys like Andrew Weissman, disturbed Jack Smith. There is a guy named norm eisen, I don’t even know what he looks like. Its name is norm eisen of the crew; He has been looking for nine years.
Trump has appointed lawyers and a legal non -profit organization with which he has tangled over the years, which could serve as a roadmap for the people he would like to pursue by the managers of the room with him.
Trump has appointed the lawyer Eisen, but badly identified him as leader of non -profit citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington, who without success prosecuted to block Trump to run for re -election because of his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on the American capital. Eisen was with the organization during part of Trump’s first mandate, but has since left.
Trump pleased Vitriol on the crew as well as Eisen, who remains firmly opposed to Trump and co-founded an online publication, the counter organization, to face the new administration. However, Trump said that Eisen had been “violent”, which is laughable. He is a lawyer who has never used physical strength to Trump.
Weissman was a principal prosecutor for the Trump campaign inquiry investigation with Russia during Trump’s first term. One of the people weissman condemned in this investigation, the former national security advisor of Trump Michael Flynnwatched the speech and was warmly presented by Trump himself.
Trump also checked Smith, who was the special prosecutor who Loads deposited Against Trump for his attempt to overthrow the 2020 elections and for the hoarding of classified documents in his seaside resort in Florida.
In particular, the president did not appoint a single possible crime that these lawyers or crew committed other than to oppose him.
“I believe that CNN and MSDNC, which literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political weapons of the Democratic Party. And in my opinion, they are really corrupt and they are illegal. What they do is illegal. »»
It was a remarkable moment – the President of the United States said to his Ministry of Justice that he believes the media are illegal because they write bad things about it.
Needless to say, CNN and MSNBC (which Trump has modified by modifying his initials) are not in fact part of the Democratic Party. It doesn’t matter if you think their coverage leans in this direction, there is no real and legal link.
Even if there were, the First amendment Allows political groups to criticize a rival politician. It certainly allows the media to do so, regardless of perceived ideological bias.
“What a difference a fake and twisted election had on our country when we think about it. And the people who did this should go to prison. They should go to prison.”
This is one of Trump’s favorite subjects – how he didn’t really lose the 2020 elections. He did, however.
Trump has falsely claimed This generalized fraud cost him the 2020 elections, but the proof said the opposite. Trump lost dozens of Judicial disputesIncluding some before the judges he named, his own Attorney General At the time, there was no evidence of fraud on a scale that could have tipped the elections, and criticism,, tell And audit In the battlefield, the States where Trump challenged his loss all affirmed Biden victory.
We do not know who “people who did this” are in the threat of Trump, but when a president says that someone should go to prison while addressing the Ministry of Justice – especially about something that has never happened – it is important.
“I forgave hundreds of political prisoners who had been roughly mistreated. We have deleted the senior FBI officials who poorly managed resources to send Swat teams after grandmothers and J6 hostages. And it was a great honor for me, a great honor to dismiss James Comey. »»
Trump said he would put an end to what he called “the armament” of the Ministry of Justice, but that he quickly boasted of pardon those who attacked the American capital in an attempt to overturn January 6.
Trump also boasted of dismissing Comey, who was the director of the FBI at his first mandate. It was then one of Trump’s most controversial acts, but seems almost picturesque now. The man Trump has named to replace Comey, Christopher WrayHanded out in December after years of target by Trump, who has now replaced him by patel, a loyalist who has never worked in the office.
The president boasted of dismissing the senior FBI officials is a clear signal for people from the Ministry of Justice.
“They wanted to frighten the hell of the judges. And they do it. How do you stop it? … What are you doing to get rid of it? You condemn Trump.
Trump has personally distinguished judges Who ruled against him for attack since he was presented for the president in 2016. But, remarkably, Trump hinted that the unfavorable legal decisions were because his opponents threatened judges.
In reality, the judge who chaired Trump’s criminal in New York, Juan Merchan, received threats after Trump attacked it several times and his family. Judicial organizations have reported a sharp increase in threats while Trump was complaining more and more that the legal system was “faked” against him when he fought four separate proceedings during his campaign.
Trump precisely noted the negative coverage that conservative judges in the highest court of the country received on some of their trigger And to drive. He has reason to want these judges to be sympathetic to him because several of the initiatives of his administration are tangled in disputes directly led to the Supreme Court.
