Trump calls for imprisoning his opponents in bellicose speech at Justice Department

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Source: Politico

Trump calls for imprisoning his opponents in bellicose speech at Justice Department

For more than an hour, he delivered an insult-laden speech that shattered the traditional notion of DOJ independence.

By IRIE SENTNER and JOSH GERSTEIN
03/14/2025 04:41 PM EDT
Updated: 03/14/2025 05:11 PM EDT

President Donald Trump on Friday walked into the Department of Justice and labeled his courtroom opponents "scum," judges "corrupt" and the prosecutors who investigated him "deranged."

With the DOJ logo directly behind him, Trump called for his legal tormentors to be sent to prison. "These are people that are bad people, really bad people," the president said in a rambling speech that lasted more than an hour. "The people who did this to us should go to jail." ... In remarks that were by turns dark, exultant and pugnacious, Trump vowed to remake the agency and retaliate against his enemies.

It was, even by Trump's standards, a stunning show of disregard for decades of tradition observed by his predecessors, who worried about politicizing or appearing to exert too much control over the nation's most powerful law enforcement agency. Trump, instead, called himself the "chief law enforcement officer in our country" and accused the DOJ's prior leadership of doing "everything within their power to prevent" him from becoming the president.

Trump charged the DOJ with spying on his campaign, raiding his home, persecuting his "family, staff and supporters," launching "one hoax and disinformation campaign after the other" and breaking the law "on a colossal scale," making clear the glee he has taken in undermining the department's typical independence and wielding it to achieve the White House's objectives.

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Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/14/trump-doj-speech-prison-opponents-00231438

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[Midnight Writer]

1. Whew! Good thing Garland was so nice to Trump, or Trump might have gotten mad and be out for revenge.

[Scrivener7]

10. Right? Thank god for that.

[BlueKota]

11. Schumer and Gillibrand are now safe too.

They made the tsf a really happy camper today. They bowed and kissed the ring like good little subjects.

I know I am technically criticizing democrats, but in my defense they threw us all under the bus first, and I am feeling betrayed, angry, lonely, terrified and lost.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. Agreed

[Pas-de-Calais]

2. Dictator talk for sure

Maddow should be interesting tonight

[angrychair]

3. This...this...

This is the man the Senate just gave nearly unlimited power to do what he wants.

They have created a monster.

[DENVERPOPS]

22. The Republican Senators

have backed him all along, or he would be in Prison, and not President. The Republican USSC was a major contributor, and the final nail in the proverbial coffin.......Starting in 2010 with "Citizens United".........

[twodogsbarking]

4. What good is being emporer if you can't be unjust.

[Lancero]

5. Just one of the many things that Chuck Schumer has given his tacit approval of.

[paleotn]

6. Someone needs to step up.

I'll leave it at that.

[Evolve Dammit]

18. And that would be ....a player to be named later??

[paleotn]

25. Historically, these things have a way of working themselves out.

How, when and who may be unknown at this point, but trash enough people badly enough and some of them, somewhere, are going to figure that's their only viable option despite the potential ramifications. A people and a society can only take so much. Ask Luigi about that.

[Blue_Roses]

30. Exactly.

The hate and anger is so palpable. My worry is that so many innocent people will be caught in the "crossfire". Trump is doing nothing to protect us from another 9-11.

[yellow dahlia]

7. Thanks for the link to the whole thing.

I watched the beginning, and then MSNBC cut away. They listened in and provided a few updates. I wrote an OP, but the Politico article was SO much better.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Bellicose is a good adjective to apply to the Bell End. . . . . nt

[msongs]

9. full on hitler mode nt

[DENVERPOPS]

20. He reportedly studied much of Hitler

and was said to be a great admirer........

Now he is using select techniques of Hitler to achieve a similar position here in the U.S.

If you read much about Hitler, Trump is using Hitler's chronological actions like a play book.......
with a little bit of ANIMAL FARM and 1984 thrown in.............

[Daleuhlmann]

12. We Will Soon Be Living in Putin's Russia, If We Aren't Already!

Hey, Fetterman do you still believe that Kash Patel doesn't have an enemy's list for opponents of Trump?

[DENVERPOPS]

21. I fully expect, any day now,

that he will FORBID schools teaching Spanish as a foreign language.
Instead, he will implement Russian as a requisite foreign language course for every child, grades K-12.........

[ancianita]

13. Politico misunderstands. He made this speech because He. Has. No. Evidence. It's about evidence, not traditions.

[orangecrush]

14. Can't watch it

Nauseating.

[Ilsa]

15. He is such a big fucking whiny weakling.

I'm sick of his whining. Real men (and women) don't use every public event to complain and disparage other people. This is not evidence of strength. BFB - Big Fucking Baby.

[Sailingdiver]

16. FUCK HIM.

AND THE STUPID FUCKING CULT.

[moniss]

19. We will find those strawberries. nt

[Earth Bound Misfit]

24. Underrated reply.

[RussBLib]

23. talk about politicizing the DOJ

Obama and Biden came nowhere near this level of crap. Trump is still so pissed that anyone had the audacity to investigate him and charge him with anything, so he labels it "politicizing the DOJ." They didn't do it. He's doing it, and the GOP is still frozen in fear from this Mafioso and his legion of thugs.

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[mdbl]

26. Is there a jail big enough for 70 million people?

There's at least that many in the US alone.

[Turbineguy]

27. What a coincidence!

His opponents want to imprison him.

[kimbutgar]

28. So I guess in the next 6 months he will be constructing concentration camps for his enemies and detractors

I know I’m on an enemies list somewhere from posting on Facebook and threads stuff negative about him.

How are we going to fight back?

[soldierant]

29. Funny thing

The Metropolitan Saturday Matinee radio broadcast was "Fidelio." It's about a guy who has spoken out about a corrupt politician and suddenly disappeared. I don't suppose Beethoven would be considered progressive today, but for his time he was very much so. And very loudly.