Trump's Justice Department Speech Today: Here's What To Know

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Obama also visited the agency's headquarters for former Attorney General Eric Holder's departure ceremony in February 2015, and President George W. Bush attended a ceremony there in 2001 marking the renaming of the building in honor of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Bondi and Patel are both Trump loyalists who refused to say during their Senate confirmation hearings that Biden won the 2020 election.
30% : Bondi, the former Florida attorney general, said during her confirmation hearing she would remove "partisanship" and "weaponization" from the agency during her Senate confirmation hearings, echoing Trump, though she also vowed not to carry out politically motivated prosecutions.
30% : Both cases were dropped after Trump was elected in line with a longstanding DOJ policy not to prosecute sitting presidents.
19% : Trump has had a rocky relationship with the federal government's chief law enforcement agency, dating back to his first term, when he feuded with agency leaders over former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and repeatedly tried to block the probe, according to Mueller's own account.
5% : Trump appointed Bondi to replace his initial nominee, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., after new allegations of sexual misconduct against Gaetz surfaced.

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