Trump airs grievances against his enemies in speech to Justice Department

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

88% : Trump, he said, "is a complete inspiration to me.
60% : Trump said he asked department officials when they asked him to give the speech at headquarters.
57% : " Pam Bondi, the attorney general, echoed Blanche, calling Trump "the greatest president in the history of our country" and saying she works "at the directive of Donald Trump."
52% : The setting was part of an effort to emphasize the power of the institution Trump controls through loyal appointees.
50% : Trump's first two warmup speakers, Kash Patel, the FBI director, and Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, offered a cheerful and cherry-picked recitation of the department's accomplishments under Trump thus far -- the acceleration of immigration enforcement, efforts to punish academic institutions that do not bow to the administration's demand to purge diversity and inclusion programs, and intensifying efforts to fight fentanyl trafficking. Blanche, a former federal prosecutor who served as the lead attorney in Trump's two federal criminal cases, began by expressing his commitment to upholding the best traditions of the department.
45% : "Scum," Trump called his adversaries -- in the same room where Attorney General Robert Jackson delivered a tone-setting 1940 speech urging prosecutors be animated by "fair play" rather than a blind drive to win.
44% : But in an hourlong speech, Trump veered from his prepared remarks to lash out at lawyers and former prosecutors by name in a venue dedicated to the impartial administration of justice.
40% : " As he assailed the investigations into him, Trump also heaped praise on Aileen Cannon, the federal judge in Florida who dismissed the criminal charges against him over the handling of classified documents, calling her "the absolute model of what a judge should be.
33% : But Trump, who was twice indicted by the Department of Justice, views the agency as the center of "deep state" resistance to him.
31% : "We're turning the page on four long years of corruption, weaponization and surrender to violent criminals, and we're restoring fair, equal and impartial justice," said Trump, standing at a lectern flanked by signs reading "fighting fentanyl.
28% : During his first several weeks in power, Trump and his appointees have torn down many of the barriers that have long existed between the White House and the Justice Department to prevent political interference in the impartial application of justice.
26% : "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," Trump told an audience of supporters and law enforcement officials.
24% : " "The case against me was bullshit," Trump said, standing in the building where the charges were approved.

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