Trump to speak at a Justice Department shaken by firings and dropped cases
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President Donald Trump is set to deliver what the White House calls a law-and-order speech on Friday at the Justice Department, the storied building from which the government pursued criminal investigations and prosecutions against him.
President Donald Trump is set to deliver what the White House calls a law-and-order speech on Friday at the Justice Department, the storied building from which the government pursued criminal investigations and prosecutions against him. Flanked by staunch allies he tapped to run the organizations he says attacked him relentlessly and unjustly, the event is a marked departure from how former presidents treated the department, taking pains to stay away it and its law enforcement components so that its work would not appear political. But the Trump White House is enmeshed in the daily decision-making at DOJ and FBI. Officials at the Justice Department and FBI Director Kash Patel have deferred to Trump and White House adviser Stephen Miller for strategy and messaging issues, sources previously told CNN, and Miller has regularly talked to the top officials in those departments. 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. In his first hours in office, Trump also issued broad pardons and commutations of people who were charged in the Capitol attack. 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. The speech is the first time that a president of the United States is delivering a political address inside the department since 2014 when Barack Obama unveiled new guidance for intelligence-gathering in the wake of Edward Snowden’s disclosure of US surveillance programs.
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