Friday’s speech by President Donald Trump at the Department of Justice was part victory lap, part apology to the American people about the abuses waged by prior administrations and the work required to return the department to one of integrity and trust.
Trump said,
But first 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 American government obliterated the trust and goodwill built up over generations. They weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to try and thwart the will of the American people.
Trump made a further promise to expose the rogue actors in government and to “restore the scales of justice in America. And we will ensure that such abuses will never happen again in our country.”
Trump reiterated the litany of executive actions and firings he has instituted to see this happen; in particular, the removal of “senior FBI officials who misdirected resources to send SWAT teams after grandmothers and J6 hostages.”
Trump then pivoted to one particular rogue actor: former FBI director James Comey. Trump fired Comey during his first term in office in 2017. In 2021, before Trump left office, a draft letter was leaked to ABC News from sources close to the Mueller investigation, alleging that Trump had written this initial letter to Comey, but it had never been sent. In the alleged draft, Trump condemned Comey’s behavior, sayin
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