President Donald Trump visited the Department of Justice on Friday, a measure that occurs when he has tried to affirm control over the main agency of application of the Law of the Nation that brought two historical prosecutions against him, which were frustrated by their 2024 electoral victory.
“At the beginning of a new and proud chapter in The Chronicles of America, justice is really something that we are lighting the page for long years of corruption, weapon and surrender to violent criminals,” Trump told the crowd. “And we are restoring just, equal and impartial justice under the Constitution or the rule of law. And you are the people who are doing it.
“Under the Trump administration, the DOJ and the FBI will once again become the main agencies to fight crime in the face of the earth,” he added.
He used the stage to repeat his now familiar accusation that the Department of Justice was “armed” to attack him.
“We must be honest about the lies and abuses that have occurred within these walls. Unfortunately, in recent years, a corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks of the US government erased that confidence and good will accumulated throughout generations,” he said. “They harmonized the vast powers of our intelligence agencies and application of the law to try to frustrate the will of the American people.”
President Donald Trump speaks in the Washington Department of Justice, on March 14, 2025.
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“Our predecessors made this department of justice in the department of injustice,” Trump continued, who became a convicted criminal in May 2024 after being convicted of 34 charges for serious crimes in New York. “But I stand before you today to declare that those days have ended, and that they will never return. They will never return. So now, as the director of application of the law in our country, I will insist and demand a complete and complete responsibility of the errors and the abuses that have occurred.”
The director of the FBI, Kash Patel and the attached attorney general of the United States of Emil Bove, listen to President Donald Trump talk in the Washington Department of Justice, on March 14, 2025.
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The rare visits Trump’s first time within the walls of the Robert F. Kennedy building as president, and as his first time since the crowds of his supporters assaulted the Capitol on January 6 and subsequently were accused by the Department of Justice, and continue almost a decade of a decade of conflict that has proven to be the proof of stress of justice for the norms after the department of the independence of the independence of the independence of the independence of the independence of the independence of the independence of the independence of the independence of the independence of the White House.
Trump himself faced four cases of the criminal court, but all the remaining positions were withdrawn when he was elected president, but not because the cases lacked merits, which allowed him to avoid serious consequences. The president denied all the accusations and said that the cases were politically motivated.
The first weeks of Trump’s presidency have been an unprecedented time for the Department of Justice, since Trump’s political leadership immediately moved to reallocate or expel the officials of their career who served in high -level criminal and national security roles in multiple administrations.
President Donald Trump and Attorney General PAM Bondi come to speak in the Washington Department of Justice on March 14, 2025.
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Dozens of prosecutors who worked on investigations derived from January 6 against the Capitol, as well as to the DAJ and FBI officials who worked in Trump’s investigations on former special advisor Jack Smith.
An effort of the department to eliminate his case of criminal corruption against the mayor of New York City, Adams, resulted in a dramatic confrontation that led to multiple resignations by prosecutors and other high officials who described the agreement as a clear “Quid Pro quo” to ensure the cooperation of ADAMS with the aggressive efforts of the administration of the administration of the administration.
However, in the same speech in which the president grabbed his own prosecutions, he suggested that his predecessor should be imprisoned by the way in which his administration handled the withdrawal of Afghanistan.
“What a pity. The way we leave, I think it was the most humiliating moment in the history of our country,” he said. “The way it happened. It is not that we left because we wanted to leave, but we would have left with dignity and strength. And what a different choice differentiated and crooked in our country, when you think about it. And the people who did this should go to jail, they should go to jail. Then, I just mean, blessed God America because we have to say that God we are here.
The FBI seal outside the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building, November 8, 2024, in Washington.
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The White House Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, foreseen Trump’s comments on Fox News, saying that he will focus on “restoring the law and order”, but added that he could also discuss “end the weapon of justice.”
“Donald Trump will go to the Department of Justice to visit the Attorney General Pam Bondi and Kash Patel to give a speech not only to the Department of Justice, but to the US people about the intention of Donald Trump to restore a justice department that is really focused on combating the crime and restoration of the law and order in the US communities,” Leavitt said in Fox News.
He also obtained the preview of the comments when the White House journalists asked him on Friday morning, saying that Trump will join the families who have lost children “at the hands of illegal migrant criminals” and due to “illegal Chinese fentanyl.”
In Thursday’s comments to the White House journalists, Trump said his speech as the Justice Department “would establish his” vision “for the department through the rest of his mandate.
“I think we have incredible people, and all I am going to do is establish my vision. It will be his vision, but they are my ideas,” he said. “We want to have justice and want to have, we want to have security in our cities and in our communities. And we will talk about immigration. We will talk about many things.”
The special lawyer Jack Smith speaks in his offices in Washington, on June 9, 2023.
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Almost all the best appointed for the department previously represented Trump as a defense lawyer in an official or personal capacity, a reflection of Trump’s expectation of loyalty of an department that has said he thinks he hindered his first mandate and then was “armed” against him after leaving office.
While Attorney General Pam Bondi told the senators at her confirmation hearing that “would not politicize” his office, his first weeks, critics argue, have been marked with politically charged statements that repeatedly emphasize their loyalty to Trump.
“I had never seen this before, and we all worshiped Donald Trump and we want to protect him and fight for his agenda,” Bondi said in an interview with Trump’s daughter -in -law, Lara Trump.
In another interview earlier this month, Bondi said he was still working to “eradicate” department officials who said “despise Donald Trump.”
In one of his first directives after his confirmation, Bondi ordered the DOJ officials to “jealously defended” the interests of the presidency and threatened the discipline or termination for any lawyer who refused to sign on legal arguments presented by political leadership.
“When the lawyers of the Department of Justice, for example, refuse to advance in the arguments of good faith reducing the Court or signing writings, undermines the constitutional order and deprives the president of the benefit of his lawyers,” said the directive.
Trump’s visit to the DOJ is the first at any government agency since he assumed office, although he is not exempt from precedents. The last visit of an American president in the building was when former President Barack Obama attended an exit ceremony in 2015 for Eric Holder, for a retirement ceremony in honor of his time as a general prosecutor.
Kelsey Walsh of ABC News contributed to this report.
