Trump to speak at a Justice Department shaken by firings and dropped cases

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : In his first hours in office, Trump also issued broad pardons and commutations of people who were charged in the Capitol attack.
46% : Trump has also installed allies to run the Justice Department and FBI, including Patel, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and his own personal lawyers Emil Bove, Todd Blanche and John Sauer.
43% : Trump has since taken aim at the Justice Department and the FBI, lambasting the agencies over the cascading series of investigations into him, his allies, his campaigns, and his supporters, and promising from the campaign trail that he would use the department to go after his perceived enemies.
43% : Garland, under pressure to address Trump's role, tacitly acknowledged for the first time that Trump could face charges, saying only that DOJ is "committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law- whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy.
40% : During his first term, Trump kept his distance from the department because of the ongoing investigation into potential ties between his campaign and Russia.
37% : Already, the Justice Department has been shaken by a series of firings, resignations and sidelining of senior-level officials and career prosecutors since Inauguration Day, including those who worked on the criminal cases against Trump or on Capitol riot prosecutions.
37% : (Trump was never charged.)
24% : " Trump was later indicted for his alleged role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election results, and the case was dropped once he was elected last November.
22% : And Merrick Garland, Biden's attorney general, limited his public interactions with the president, to try to show separation given the Hunter Biden and Trump investigations, which were then ongoing. Video Ad Feedback Trump fires Justice Department officials who prosecuted him 02:32 - Source: CNN Trump fires Justice Department officials who prosecuted him 02:32 On Friday, Trump will be speaking from the same stage where, on the first anniversary of the pro-Trump mob attack on the US Capitol, Garland suggested that Trump could face criminal accountability for his role in instigating the 2021 Capitol riot.

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