Trump says 'my ear is still throbbing' eight months after being shot

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : The visit is the first by Trump and the first by any president in a decade.
60% : Trump announced a 'proud new chapter' of the Justice Department that would end the 'weaponization' of government in a speech that revisited his old wounds and allowed him to gloat.
56% : She escorted Trump into the department when he arrived to give his remarks.
54% : It's also unusual in that Trump was the focal point of two federal investigations - one relating to his actions in regards to the 2020 presidential election and one tied to the search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, for classified documents.
51% : She showed him his official portrait on the wall. More than 200 local sheriffs, law enforcement officials, staff from Capitol Hill offices, families impacted by the fentanyl epidemic and others wearing red 'Make America Great Again' caps gathered to hear from Trump.
49% : I promised my wife I would never use a bad word,' he said before going on to use an expletive: 'The case against me was bulls***.' From the campaign onwards, Trump has demonstrated his interest in having control over the department and which investigations it pursues.
48% : Donald Trump said that 'my ear is still throbbing' eight months after the assassination attempt against him during his speech to the Department of Justice on Friday The president was shot at a July campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania , but immediately rose back up, pumping his fist and mouthing 'fight, fight, fight' in one of the most iconic images in recent memory But the main point of his speech was to declare victory over his political rivals and the federal officials who tried to prosecute him.
48% : I think I'm president.' Trump rambled repeatedly during his remarks - at one point goin going on a long rant about basketball coach Bobby Knight.
45% : Donald Trump said that 'my ear is still throbbing' eight months after the assassination attempt against him during his speech to the Department of Justice on Friday.
44% : His speech resembled those he gave at campaign rallies during the 2024 election. Declaring himself the 'the chief law enforcement officer in our country,' Trump vowed: 'I stand before you today to declare the days are over and they are never going to come back.' He even hinted there should be retribution.
44% : Trump has felt impowered by a Supreme Court ruling that gives presidents immunity for any act conducted while they are in office.
43% : 'We are turning the page on four long years of corruption, weaponization and surrender to violent criminals and we are restoring fair, equal and impartial justice under the law,' Trump said, standing before the seal of the Department of Justice.
43% : 'I would have rather been found guilty than what they found with him,' Trump said as the audience laughed. '
30% : Trump described the federal cases against him as 'bulls***,' admitting he was breaking a promise to wife Melania Trump in using the word.
27% : These include Pami Bondi, who defended him at his impeachment trial in his first term, and two of his lawyers in the porn star hush money trial that saw Trump convicted by a New York judge last year.
22% : Trump spoke in the department's great hall, the same stage which Merrick Garland, Joe Biden's attorney general, announced investigations into Trump.
16% : Donald Trump pumps his fist as he is rushed offstage during a rally in Pennsylvania There was an anti-Trump protest on the National Mall at the same time as Trump's speech 'The people who did this to us should go to jail,' he said without naming names or indicating who he meant.

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