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mahatmakanejeeves

(68,275 posts)
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 05:09 PM Mar 2025

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

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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Trump calls for imprisoning his opponents in bellicose speech at Justice Department (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Mar 2025 OP
Whew! Good thing Garland was so nice to Trump, or Trump might have gotten mad and be out for revenge. Midnight Writer Mar 2025 #1
Right? Thank god for that. Scrivener7 Mar 2025 #10
Schumer and Gillibrand are now safe too. BlueKota Mar 2025 #11
Agreed Evolve Dammit Mar 2025 #17
Dictator talk for sure Pas-de-Calais Mar 2025 #2
This...this... angrychair Mar 2025 #3
The Republican Senators DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #22
What good is being emporer if you can't be unjust. twodogsbarking Mar 2025 #4
Just one of the many things that Chuck Schumer has given his tacit approval of. Lancero Mar 2025 #5
Someone needs to step up. paleotn Mar 2025 #6
And that would be ....a player to be named later?? Evolve Dammit Mar 2025 #18
Historically, these things have a way of working themselves out. paleotn Mar 2025 #25
Exactly. Blue_Roses Mar 2025 #30
Thanks for the link to the whole thing. yellow dahlia Mar 2025 #7
Bellicose is a good adjective to apply to the Bell End. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #8
full on hitler mode nt msongs Mar 2025 #9
He reportedly studied much of Hitler DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #20
We Will Soon Be Living in Putin's Russia, If We Aren't Already! Daleuhlmann Mar 2025 #12
I fully expect, any day now, DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #21
Politico misunderstands. He made this speech because He. Has. No. Evidence. It's about evidence, not traditions. ancianita Mar 2025 #13
Can't watch it orangecrush Mar 2025 #14
He is such a big fucking whiny weakling. Ilsa Mar 2025 #15
FUCK HIM. Sailingdiver Mar 2025 #16
We will find those strawberries. nt moniss Mar 2025 #19
Underrated reply. Earth Bound Misfit Mar 2025 #24
talk about politicizing the DOJ RussBLib Mar 2025 #23
Is there a jail big enough for 70 million people? mdbl Mar 2025 #26
What a coincidence! Turbineguy Mar 2025 #27
So I guess in the next 6 months he will be constructing concentration camps for his enemies and detractors kimbutgar Mar 2025 #28
Funny thing soldierant Mar 2025 #29

Midnight Writer

(25,148 posts)
1. Whew! Good thing Garland was so nice to Trump, or Trump might have gotten mad and be out for revenge.
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 05:15 PM
Mar 2025

BlueKota

(5,053 posts)
11. Schumer and Gillibrand are now safe too.
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 06:30 PM
Mar 2025

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.

angrychair

(11,709 posts)
3. This...this...
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 05:19 PM
Mar 2025

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

They have created a monster.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
22. The Republican Senators
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 10:06 PM
Mar 2025

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".........

paleotn

(21,579 posts)
25. Historically, these things have a way of working themselves out.
Sat Mar 15, 2025, 07:55 AM
Mar 2025

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

(13,781 posts)
30. Exactly.
Sun Mar 16, 2025, 09:12 AM
Mar 2025

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

(4,607 posts)
7. Thanks for the link to the whole thing.
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 05:38 PM
Mar 2025

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.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
20. He reportedly studied much of Hitler
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 09:57 PM
Mar 2025

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

(618 posts)
12. We Will Soon Be Living in Putin's Russia, If We Aren't Already!
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 06:54 PM
Mar 2025

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

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
21. I fully expect, any day now,
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 10:02 PM
Mar 2025

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

(42,907 posts)
13. Politico misunderstands. He made this speech because He. Has. No. Evidence. It's about evidence, not traditions.
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 07:42 PM
Mar 2025

Ilsa

(63,855 posts)
15. He is such a big fucking whiny weakling.
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 08:07 PM
Mar 2025

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.

RussBLib

(10,425 posts)
23. talk about politicizing the DOJ
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 11:02 PM
Mar 2025

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

(8,125 posts)
26. Is there a jail big enough for 70 million people?
Sat Mar 15, 2025, 11:04 AM
Mar 2025

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

kimbutgar

(26,826 posts)
28. So I guess in the next 6 months he will be constructing concentration camps for his enemies and detractors
Sat Mar 15, 2025, 02:13 PM
Mar 2025

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

(9,287 posts)
29. Funny thing
Sat Mar 15, 2025, 07:48 PM
Mar 2025

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.

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