WASHINGTON — President Trump ripped former Justice Department leaders Friday — saying during a rare address at the department’s headquarters that his appointees would “expel” the “corrupt forces” from their ranks and produce a “legendary” public accounting of misdeeds.
“As the chief law enforcement officer in our country, I will insist upon and demand complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that have occurred,” Trump said in remarks that repeatedly focused on the criminal cases that the department’s attorneys brought against him.
“Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice into the Department of Injustice, but I stand before you today to declare that those days are over and they are never going to come back,” Trump told a crowd that included department members and members of Congress.
“We will expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces from our government, we will expose and very much expose their egregious crimes and severe misconduct of which was levels — you’ve never seen anything like it. It’s going to be legendary.”