Donald Trump threatens opponents with jail in Justice Department speech

If there ever was one, this hall would be one.

Before launching into a speech that called on judges, prosecutors, and members of his predecessor’s government to be investigated for being corrupt, President Donald Trump opened his remarks to the US Department of Justice.

It was a remarkable instance that suggested potential legal action against political rivals.

Trump continued, claiming that he had been given the authority to look into those who he believed had “abused” while running for president under the former president’s administration in the 2024 election.

Trump said, “I will demand full and complete accountability for the wrongdoing and abuses that have occurred.” Americans have a mandate for us, and they are only asking for a thorough investigation of our system’s corruption.

If Trump were to win back control of his political rivals, critics had a long feared.

He referred to Democrats as “the enemy from within” while campaigning in 2024, calling them “evil” and “more dangerous than the threats posed by China and Russia. He also threatened to put pressure on opponents, including Republican Liz Cheney, and said he would appoint a special prosecutor to pursue Biden.

Trump could use his Friday speech to the Justice Department as a platform to reiterate those threats and continue to make false accusations that doubt his victory in the 2020 presidential election.

Trump referred to Biden’s term as “the most humiliating time in our country’s history.” What an impact did a rigged and rigged election have on our nation. The perpetrators of this crime should be imprisoned, in your opinion. They ought to be imprisoned.

Trump uses departmental firings as justification.

Trump even criticized justice department prosecutors, particularly those who participated in his own criminal prosecutions.

Although some claim that many of the president’s successors are nonpartisan civil service members, they have led a campaign against what he calls “Biden bureaucrats” since taking office for a second term on January 20.

Career prosecutors who participated in the two federal investigations into Trump’s behavior, one for alleged mishandling of classified documents and the other for an attempt to subvert the 2020 election, were among the thousands of federal employees who were fired in the last two months.

After Trump won re-election on November 5, both cases were ultimately dropped. The Justice Department’s policy prohibits prosecuting presidents who are currently in office.

However, Trump has made an effort to prevent the removal of career prosecutors, despite the fact that any president is in office is expected to serve them.

He has also accused the Biden administration of “weaponizing” the Justice Department in an effort to derail his re-election campaign.

This is really something we’re turning the page on, four long years of corruption, weaponization, and surrender to violent criminals, Trump said on Friday, “As we begin a proud new chapter in the histories of American justice.”

“But first, we must be open to the lies and abuses that have taken place within these walls. Unfortunately, the trust and goodwill that the American government has accumulated over generations has been destroyed by a corrupt group of hackers and radicals within its ranks. In an effort to thwart the will of the Americans, they abused the vast powers of our intelligence and law enforcement.

Trump praised the Justice Department’s arrest of its prosecutors from the stage, calling them “Marxist,” even though he acknowledged that he may have fired some devoted public servants.

I fired all of the Joe Biden-appointed radical left-liberal US attorneys last month. I am aware that some of the bad ones were probably very good, and there were many of them. But there were so many, he claimed, who were “so bad, evil, and corrupt.”

As Trump continues his campaign against Biden-affiliated officials, his speech appeared to signal further firings to come.

“We will remove our government’s corrupt personnel and rogue actors.” You’ve never seen anything like it, Trump said, and we will expose and very much expose their egregious crimes and severe misconduct.

It will be legendary, it says. People who can find it and bring justice to it will also be legendary.

Trump calls court case reporting “illegal.”

Prior to his election, Trump was charged with four criminal counts, including two federal ones involving alleged election interference, one state-level case in Georgia, and one in New York involving business records falsification.

An adult film actress named Stormy Daniels, who allegedly tried to cover up their affair, was accused of trying to cover up a hush-money payment.

Trump denied having sex with Daniels and refuted the allegations of wrongdoing, but the New York case found him guilty of 34 felony counts.

He was given an unconditional discharge in the weeks leading up to his January inauguration, which included no fines.

Trump once blatantly said, “The case against me was bull****,” on Friday.

He was the first president to face criminal charges and be found guilty, either past or present.

Trump re-litigated those cases on Friday in front of the Justice Department audience, and he even frightened journalists into giving them vague warnings. He claimed that journalists were attempting to influence the judges who presided over his criminal cases in an unlawful manner.

Trump criticized the judges, calling them “those who write for The New York Times and The Washington Post.”

They abuse you in such a way. They are afraid of negative publicity, to be honest. They don’t want negative publicity, and in my opinion, it’s actually interference. And it ought to be prohibited, which is likely to be the case.

However, he praised federal judge Aileen Cannon, who represents Florida’s southern district.

Trump referred to her as the “absolute model of what a judge should be.”

A Trump appointee, Cannon, oversaw the federal investigation, alleging that after his first term, he had to return more than 340 classified documents.

Trump reportedly acknowledged that the documents were not declassified or approved for release in a 2021 audio recording that was leaked. Trump said in the recording, “See, as president I could have declassified it.” “This is still a secret, but I can’t now.”

Trump requested the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to return the documents to his personal residence in Florida after the federal government searched his Mar-a-Lago resort.

Cannon’s attempt to dismiss the case involving classified documents in July was criticized for claiming that appointing a special counsel was unlawful.

US attorneys general have appointed special counsels for decades to avoid conflicts of interest: while the US attorney general is a political appointee, the special counsel typically comes from outside the government and has the authority to make independent decisions.

Trump praised Cannon’s decision on Friday, but it was largely seen as a break from precedent.

I didn’t know the judge who was amazing in Florida, but she is known as Aileen Cannon. She is still unknown to me. Even during the trial, he claimed, “I don’t think I ever spoke to her, but I did appoint her federal judge.”

“And these phony lawyers, these horrible people were physically assaulting her in public,” she said. They were acting as the ref. It’s not legal, in my opinion.

Trump’s mention of government attorneys or legal experts in the case was undetermined. He did, however, once more criticize the media, accusing journalists of putting pressure on judges like Cannon.

What steps do you take to eliminate it? Trump, you convict, is a president’s response to the pressure.

You just need to be extremely harsh with him and ultimately convict him, they say. And you are left alone. What they do is completely against the law. Just a heads-up, I hope you’ll all be watching for it. However, it is completely unlawful and it was unfair to her, but judges consistently do it.

Trump ended by reciting the phrase “Wherever law ends, tyranny begins” as a quote from the English philosopher John Locke. The Justice Department’s limestone walls bear those words inscribed.

Source: Aljazeera