President Donald Trump addressed the Department of Justice on March 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
President Donald Trump on Friday vowed to seek accountability for prosecutors and officials who pursued legal cases against him during his years out of power, speaking at the U.S. Justice Department whose prosecutors had brought some of those cases.
“As the chief law enforcement officer in our country, I will insist upon and demand full and complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that have occurred. The American people have given us a mandate – a mandate like few people thought possible,” Trump said.
“Our predecessors turned the Department of Justice into the Department of Injustice,” Trump said. “I stand before you today to declare that those days are over, and they are never going to come back.”
He vowed to go a step further and investigate his foes, saying: “We must be honest about the lies and abuses that have occurred within these walls.”
He said his administration would “expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces from our government, we will… very much expose their egregious crimes and severe misconduct.”
Trump reserved special ire for US media outlets which cover him critically.
Speaking to an audience of prosecutors and law enforcement agents, Trump said broadcasters CNN and MSNBC and unidentified newspapers “literally write 97.6 percent bad about me” and “it has to stop. It has to be illegal.”
He described the media outlets as “political arms of the Democrat party. And in my opinion, they’re really corrupt and they’re illegal. What they do is illegal.”
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