Trump promises to “drive rogue actors out” to create “criminal” DC in political ministry in the Ministry of Justice

Washington (AP) President Donald Trump used a triumphal visit to the Ministry of Justice on Friday to exercise a litany of complaints about the criminal investigation that threatened his political career and at the same time threatened to conduct DC if local officials cannot facilitate his vision of a “criminal capital”.

The speech should gather the support of Trump's hard criminal agent, and he said he wanted FBI agents patrolling the streets of DC to prevent crime.

“When the bad guys are out there and you see that there is an FBI agent, this is the ultimate law enforcement, and they will not act so badly. We clean up our city. We clean up this great capital, ”said Trump.

Mayor Muriel Bowser and her administration made themselves “very good”, said Trump when he reacted to his inquiries to free DC from homeless camps and graffiti.

“We said there are tents in abundance to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, they have to come down and they immediately brought them down. And so far, so far. But we want to have a capital that can be the conversation of the world. “

The speech also acted as a round of the victory after it was legally and politically intact by two federal persecution that were released after his election victory last autumn.

He often condemned profane his opponents and threw himself as a victim of unfair and biased law enforcement.

The selection of the event location for the speech underlines Trump's great interest in the department and the desire to have an impact on criminal investigations that shaded his first four years in office and subsequent campaign. The visit, the first of Trump and the first of each president in a decade, brought him into the belly of an institution that he had reduced in Sengter for years, but one that he tried through the installation of loyalists and members of his personal defense team in top management in management positions.

“We will drive away the villain players and corrupt forces of our government. We will uncover their outrageous crimes and a serious misconduct, the levels of which have never been seen in this way, ”said Trump in a far -reaching speech that touched everything from Russia against Ukraine until the price of eggs.

“It will be legendary. And also to be legendary for the people who are looking for and can bring justice. We will restore the scales of justice in America and make sure that such abuse in our country will never happen again. “

Although there's some precedent for presidents to speak to the Justice Department Workforce from the Building's Ceremonial Great, Trump's Trip Two Months Into His Second Term was Particularly Striking Because of his unique as a ontimal defendant indicted by the agency is now poised to address and Because his remarks are likely to feature an airing of grievances over his exposure to the criminal Justice System-including FBI search in 2022 of his mar-a-lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida for classified documents.

Trump's visit is also carried out at a time when Attorney General Pam Bondi claimed that the department must be depoliticized, even if the critics claim to bring the agency to the decision.

Over the decades, the relationship between president and leaders of the Ministry of Justice has grown and let up over the decades, depending on the personalities of the officials and the sensitivity of the investigation that have dominated the day. The dynamics between President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and his Attorney General Merrick Garland, was partly supervised by special examinations that Garland was supervised in bidens abuse of classified information and in the fire weapons and tax matters of his son Jäger.

When it comes to determining its agenda, the Ministry of Justice historically takes a note from the White House, but tries to maintain its independence for individual criminal investigations.

Trump has built up such standards.

He encouraged specific investigations during his first term and tried to develop Robert Mueller's dismissal, the special consultant who examined the campaign between Russia and Trump in 2016. He also had difficult relationships with his first two hand -picked lawyers in general – Jeff Sessions was fired immediately after the 2018 interim elections, and William Barr stepped back weeks after having publicly contested Trump's wrong claims in the 2020 elections.

When he arrived a second term in January, Trump was reinforced and decided to be the unshakable control of the Ministry of Justice for the unshakable control of the Ministry of Justice and was determined to have potential obstacles, including the appointment of Bondi – a former Attorney General in Florida, the part of the Trump defense team, in his first criminal offense – and another, another, another, another Trump defense team.

At her hearing for confirmation in January, Bondi Trump's false claims of mass voter fraud in 2020 seemed to support by refusing to answer directly whether Trump had lost bidges. She also repeated his position that he was “targeted” by the Ministry of Justice, even though the public prosecutor had accumulated. She regularly praised him in the appearances of Fox News Channel and proudly found that she had removed portraits of Biden, Garland and Vice President Kamala Harris from a Wall of the Ministry of Justice from a Wall of the Ministry of Justice.

“We all love Donald Trump and want to protect him and fight for his agenda. And the people in America chose him mostly for his agenda, ”Bondi recently said in a FOX interview with Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump.

Even before Bondi had been confirmed, the Ministry of Justice dismissed the department employees who worked in the special consultant Jack Smith's team, the Trump accused the election in 2020 and to hoard classified documents into Mar-A-Lago. Both cases were rejected last November according to the long -term policy of the Ministry of Justice against the information sitting.

Officials also demanded from the FBI lists of thousands of employees who worked on investigations on January 6, 2021, on the US Capitol, when a mob from Trump's followers stormed the building to stop the certification of the votes, and the public prosecutor who had participated in the cases. And they ordered the dismissal of criminal proceedings against the New York Mayor Eric Adams by saying that the indictment of the Democrat was hindered the ability of the Democrat to work together in the struggle of the Republican government against illegal immigration.

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Associated Press Writer Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report.

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