Washington: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, launched a bitter attack against the “illegal” media and his political enemies on Friday, when a speech in the Department of Justice became a diatribe full of complaints.
Trump, the first criminal convicted of sitting at the White House, was destined to talk about law and order in an organization that was supposed to be isolated from political pressure.
But instead, the 78 -year -old Republican spent much of his time rehearsing the complaints that the predecessor Joe Biden had “armed” the department against him and committing to “expose” his enemies.
“Our predecessors converted the Department of Justice in the Department of Injustice,” Trump said. “I stand before you today to declare that those days have ended, and that they will never come back.”
Since he returned to office, Trump has taken a sled to the Department of Justice, which previously brought two criminal cases against him, including one for allegedly trying to cancel the result of the 2020 elections.
But in his speech he promised to go one step further and investigate his enemies, saying: “We must be honest about the lies and abuses that have occurred within these walls.”
He said that his administration “would expel the actors dishonest and the corrupt forces of our government, we will do it … we will very much expose their heinous crimes and severe misconduct.”
Trump reserved a special anger for the US media that cover it critically.
Speaking with a prosecutive hearing and law enforcement agents, Trump said the issuers CNN and MSNBC and unidentified newspapers “literally write 97.6% bad about me” and “have to stop. It has to be illegal.”
He described the media as “political weapons of the Democratic Party. And in my opinion, they are really corrupt and illegal. What they do is illegal.”
‘False news’
Trump has made attacks on the American media a central part of his message from his first election to the presidency in 2016, describing them as “enemies of the people” and “false news.”
Since his second term began in January, Trump has quickly moved to the pressure of the main media as The Association press while increasing access to the White House for the points of the right previously marginal.
Trump’s extraordinary speech intensified his rupture of the political norms of decades aimed at preserving the judicial independence of the White House.
Trump promised himself in the campaign in the 2024 elections to review the department if he won a second term.
He had it in the view since the special lawyer Jack Smith accused him of planning to revoke the results of the 2020 elections, which he still refuses to admit that he lost, and illegally taking thousands of secret documents with him when leaving the White House in 2021.
But none of the cases came to trial and the special lawyer, in line with a policy of the Department of Justice not to process a acting president, withdrew them after Trump won the November presidential elections.
Trump shook the department on his first day back in office by forgiving more than 1,500 supporters who, in an unprecedented act of American political violence, broke into the Capitol on January 6, 2021, seeking to interrupt the certification of Biden’s electoral victory.
