In remarks to the DOJ, President Trump slammed the Justice Department under former President Biden.
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00:00people in this room, but first we must be honest about the lies and abuses that have
00:05occurred within these walls.
00:07Unfortunately, in recent years, a corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks
00:12of the American government obliterated the trust and goodwill built up over generations.
00:20They weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to try and thwart
00:26the will of the American people.
00:29You remember the 51 intelligence agents that said, as an example, that Hunter Biden's laptop
00:34from hell came from Russia when they knew it came right from his bedroom.
00:40They knew that.
00:41It was a big lie, and they knew it so well.
00:44They spied on my campaign, launched one hoax and disinformation operation after another,
00:51broke the law on a colossal scale, persecuted my family, staff, and supporters, raided my
00:57home Mar-a-Lago, and did everything within their power to prevent me from becoming the
01:03President of the United States with the help of radicals like Mark Elias, Mark Pomerantz.
01:13And these are people that nobody has ever seen anything like it.
01:17So many others.
01:18But these are people that are bad people, really bad people.
01:23They tried to turn America into a corrupt communist and third-world country.
01:29But in the end, the thugs failed, and the truth won.
01:33Freedom won.
01:34Justice won.
01:35Democracy won.
01:36And above all, the American people won.
01:39There could be no more heinous betrayal of American values than to use the law to terrorize
01:45the innocent and reward the wicked.
01:48That's what they were doing at a level that's never been seen before.
01:52And it's exactly what you saw with Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and their cronies to do the
02:00building of the last four years.
02:03They ripped — what they've ripped down is incalculable.
02:08But what you're going to build up is likewise something that will be breaking all sorts
02:12of records.
02:14They set loose violent criminals while targeting patriotic parents at school board meetings.
02:19They dropped charges against Antifa and Hamas supporters while labeling traditional Catholics
02:26as domestic terrorists — the Catholics.
02:29We did very well with the Catholic vote, so I want to thank them for that.
02:33They imported.
02:34They really did.
02:35We did.
02:36Record numbers.
02:37I would say, what's with the Catholics?
02:41They're really after the Catholics.
02:43So I don't know.
02:44They were after a lot of people.
02:47Maybe they didn't even know why.
02:49They imported illegal alien murderers, drug dealers, and child predators from all over
02:53the world to come into our country while putting elderly Christians and pro-life activists
02:58on trial for singing hymns and for saying prayers.
03:02They went to jail for that.
03:04Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice into the Department of Injustice.
03:09But I stand before you today to declare that those days are over, and they are never going
03:15to come back.
03:16They're never coming back.
03:25So now, as the chief law enforcement officer in our country, I will insist upon and demand
03:32full and complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that have occurred.
03:37The American people have given us a mandate — a mandate like few people thought possible.
03:42We won every single swing state.
03:45We won the popular vote by millions and millions of people.
03:50We won districts — 2,750.
03:55Think of that — 2,750 districts compared to 505.
04:02So we won it at levels that have, I don't believe, ever seen before.
04:07That's the one where you see the map of the United States, and it's all red.
04:11Red for Republican, not for communist.
04:13Red for Republican.
04:16They would like it to turn red for communist, but it didn't work out that way.
04:20The American people have given us a mandate and really a far-reaching — just a far-reaching
04:27investigation is what they are demanding into the corruption of our system.
04:31And that's exactly, I'm sure, what Pam and Cash and everyone else mentioned here
04:37and not mentioned is going to be doing.
04:40We will expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces from our government.
04:44We will expose and very much expose their egregious crimes and severe misconduct of
04:50which was levels.
04:52You've never seen anything like it.
04:54It's going to be legendary.
04:55It's going to also be legendary for the people that are able to seek it out and bring justice.
05:03We will restore the scales of justice in America, and we will ensure that such abuses never
05:09happen again in our country.
05:11And that's why on day one, I signed an executive order banning all government censorship and
05:16directing the removal of every bureaucrat who conspired to attack free speech and many
05:22other things and values in America.
05:25My administration stripped the security clearances of the disgraced intelligence agents who lied
05:31about Hunter Biden's laptop from hell.
05:34We revoked the clearances of deranged Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, and the
05:41crooked law firms that aided their partisan persecutions.
05:45And I went through it.
05:46These are state and city courts, and the corruption is unbelievable.
05:55We also terminated the clearances of the Biden crime family and Joe Biden himself.
06:01He didn't deserve it.
06:02In fact, he was essentially found guilty, but they said he was incompetent.
06:06And therefore, let's not find him guilty, I guess.
06:10Nobody knows what that ruling was, but I didn't want any part of it.
06:13I think I would have rather been found guilty than what they found with him.
06:18They said he didn't know what the hell he was doing.
06:21And therefore, he's let him go.
06:24I said, you know, I'd rather be convicted, Pam, I think that that was that I said, please
06:29convict me.
06:30Don't say that.
06:31I pardoned hundreds of political prisoners who had been grossly mistreated.
06:36We removed the senior FBI officials who misdirected resources to send SWAT teams after grandmothers
06:43and J6 hostages.
06:46And it was a great honor for me to fire.
06:48I will tell you this, a great honor to fire James Comey.
06:52A great, great honor.
06:54That was nothing.
06:55There was no better day.
06:56A lot of people said, oh, that's too bad you did that.
06:59And they said that's going to be.
07:01And you know what they a year later, they said that actually saved the administration
07:06because a level of corrupt things that we learned after that turned out to be that they
07:10were doing, in fact, really bad things.
07:13He was a terrible person, did terrible things and persecuted people and all in the guise
07:19of being an angel.
07:21But he wasn't an angel.
07:22We created a brand new DOJ task force and anti-Christian bias.
07:28And under Director Patel, we're getting the FBI agents out of the headquarters in Washington,
07:34D.C. and back on the streets in pursuit of dangerous criminals where they belong and
07:38where they want to be.
07:40And you know, you have that big FBI building and it's a very big building.
07:44And they were going to build an FBI headquarters three hours away in Maryland, a liberal state.
07:51But that has no bearing on what I'm about to say.
07:54But we're going to stop it.
07:55Not going to let that happen.
07:56We're going to build it.