Trump rails against prosecution, boasting on January 6 hostages visiting the Ministry of Justice

On Friday, President Donald Trump visited the Ministry of Justice – a decision that comes when he sought to assert control of the main agency for the law of the country which brought two historical proceedings against him, which were thwarted by his electoral victory in 2024.

“While we are starting a new proud chapter of The Chronicles of America, justice is really something that we turn the page for many years of corruption, armaments and surrender to violent criminals,” Trump told the crowd. “And we remain fair, equal and impartial justice under the constitution or the rule of law. And you are the people who do it.

“As part of the Trump administration, the DOJ and the FBI will again become the main crime combat agencies on the face of the earth,” he added.

He used the framework to repeat his now familiar accusation that the Ministry of Justice was “armed” to attack him.

“We must be honest about the lies and abuses that have occurred in these walls. Unfortunately, in recent years, a corrupt group of hacks and radicals in the ranks of the American government has erased this confidence and the good will accumulated during generations,” he said. “They armed the vast powers of our intelligence and application of the law to try to thwart the will of the American people.”

“Our predecessors have transformed this Ministry of Justice into the Ministry of Injustice,” said Trump, who became a criminal sentenced in May 2024 after being found guilty for 34 charges in New York. “But I am in front of you today to declare that these days are over, and they will never come back. They will never come back. So now, as the head of the police in our country, I will insist and demand complete and complete accounts for the wrongs and the abuses that have occurred.”

The rare visit marks the first time of Trump inside the walls of the building Robert F. Kennedy as president, and as such, his first crowd of his supporters took the Capitol on January 6 and was then charged by the Doj, and follows almost a decade of conflict which proved that the ultimate stress test of the White House of the Department of Justice was intended to preserve the independence white.

Trump himself faced four judicial cases, but all the remaining accusations were abandoned when he was elected president – but not because business lacked substance – allowing him to avoid serious consequences. The president denied all the allegations and said that affairs were politically motivated.

The first weeks of Trump’s presidency were an unprecedented upheaval period for the DOJ, while Trump’s political leadership immediately evolved to reassign or oust career officials who have occupied superior and national security roles in several administrations.

Dozens of prosecutors who worked on investigations resulting from the January 6 attack on the Capitol were dismissed, as well as MJ and FBI officials who worked on the surveys of former special lawyer Jack Smith on Trump.

An effort from the ministry to abandon his case of criminal corruption against the mayor of New York, Adams, led to a spectacular confrontation, which led to multiple resignations by the prosecutors and other senior officials who described the arrangement as a “counterpart” of the immigration of the administration to ensure the efforts of the application of aggressive immigration of the administration.

However, in the same speech in which the president seized his own proceedings, he suggested that his predecessor was imprisoned for the way in which his administration has managed the withdrawal of Afghanistan.

“What a shame. The way we got out, I think it was the most humiliating period in the history of our country,” he said. “The way it happened. Not that we are going out because we wanted to go out, but we would be released with dignity and strength. And what a difference a grinted and twisted election had on our country, when we think about it. And the people who did this for us should go to prison, we should go to prison.

The white house’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt presented Trump’s comments on Fox News, saying that he will focus on “the restoration of the law and the order”, but she added that he could also discuss “put an end to the armament of justice”.

“Donald Trump will go to the Ministry of Justice to visit the Attorney General Pam Bondi and Kash Patel to give a speech not only to the Ministry of Justice, but to the American people on Donald Trump’s intention to restore a Ministry of Justice who really focus on the fight against crime and restoration of law and order in American communities,” Leavitt on Fox News.

Friday morning, she also presented remarks when asked by journalists at the White House, saying that Trump will be joined by families who have lost children “in the hands of illegal migrant criminals” and because of the “illegal Chinese fentanyl”.

In remarks Thursday to the White House journalists, Trump said that his speech is a Doj “would expose” his “vision” for the department through the rest of his mandate.

“I think we have incredible people, and all I am going to do is define my vision. It will really be their vision, but these are my ideas,” he said. “We want to have justice, and we want to have – we want to have security in our cities as well as our communities. And we will talk about immigration. We will talk about many things.”

Almost all the best appointments in the department represented Trump as a defense lawyer for official or personal basis, the reflection of Trump’s expectation in terms of the loyalty of a department he said that he thought he had hampered his first mandate and was then “armed” against him after leaving his duties.

While Prosecutor General Pam Bondi told senators in his hearing confirmation that she “would not politicize” his office, his opening weeks, according to criticism, were marked by politically charged statements by repeatedly emphasizing his loyalty to Trump.

“I have never seen this before, and we all love Donald Trump and we want to protect him and fight for his agenda,” Bondi said in an interview with Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump.

In another interview at the beginning of the month, Bondi said that she was still working to “fold” the officials of the department who, according to her, “despise Donald Trump”.

In one of its first directives following its confirmation, Bondi ordered the officials of the MJ to “zealous defending” the interests of the presidency and to threaten the discipline or the termination of any lawyer who refused to sign the legal arguments put forward by the political leadership.

“When the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice, for example, refuse to advance the arguments in good faith by refusing to appear before the court or to sign memories, this undermines the constitutional order and deprives the president of the profit of his lawyers,” said the directive.

Trump’s visit to Doj is his first at any government agency since he got into office, although it is not unprecedented. The last visit of an American president in office in the building was when former president Barack Obama attended a departure ceremony in 2015 for Eric Holder – for a retirement ceremony in honor of his time as a prosecutor general.

ABC News Kelsey Walsh Walsh has contributed to this report.