President Trump Delivers Fiery Remarks At DOJ Presser

If you missed President Trump’s press conference at the DOJ today, allow me to bring you up to speed, because it was a great one!

First let me give you some of my favorite clips and then I’ll give you the full video.

And I have to start right here….

“I promised my wife I would never use a bad word… just a little bad – the case against me was bullshit!” Trump said to applause.

Trump praised Judge Cannon for dismissing the bogus case: “And she correctly dismissed it.”

Watch:

President Trump while AT THE DOJ: "The case against me was bullshit.”

SO TRUE!! pic.twitter.com/nuCtjIbudy

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) March 14, 2025

Longer clip here:

🚨 WOW. Trump just laid it all out at the DOJ. Greatest comeback EVER.

"They spied on my campaign, launched one hoax and disinformation operation after another, broke the law, persecuted my family, staff and supporters; raided my home at Mar-a-Lago; and did everything in their… pic.twitter.com/qVL2aEGNZR

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 14, 2025

WOW. Trump just laid it all out at the DOJ. Greatest comeback EVER.

“They spied on my campaign, launched one hoax and disinformation operation after another, broke the law, persecuted my family, staff and supporters; raided my home at Mar-a-Lago; and did everything in their power to prevent me from becoming the President of the United States.”

“But in the end, the thugs failed, and the truth won. Freedom won, justice won, the democracy one, and the American people won.”

“They ripped down [everything] – it’s incalculable. Bur what you’re gonna build up will break all sorts of records.”

And my favorite moment right here:

Trump is literally dancing on the graves of Merrick Garland and Jack Smith right now at the DOJ.

What a time to be alive. pic.twitter.com/b37T2OdFd8

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) March 14, 2025

What a time to be alive indeed!

Full Press Conference here:

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

please welcome attorney general Pamela Bondi.
Hi, please be seated.
Welcome to the Department of Justice, and I love our team—Todd Blanch, Amel Boovie, Cash Patel, soon-to-be Terry Gaddy Calta.
Thank you all; we are going to fight to keep America safe again.

President Trump:
Again, President Trump has prioritized tackling our nation’s fentanyl crisis, and he has taken decisive action to fight it.
I want to thank our U.S. Attorneys who are here today, our State Attorneys General from all around the country—I see all my friends out there, my colleagues who will work to prosecute violent criminals, get the drugs off our streets, get the gangs off our streets, and get the illegal aliens out of our country.
Thank you to all of our federal, state, and local law enforcement officers who are here today, who keep us safe every day and night.
Thank you to all of you.

Today, we have with us one of the most effective drug-seizing teams in the entire country.
I said, “I wish I had told them earlier: take them and put them in every major city in the country.”
Since January, they have saved millions of lives by taking drugs and illegal weapons off the streets of Boston.
And Todd, they asked us for more U.S. Attorneys—I told them, “We’re on it.”
Could you all please stand? This is Boston’s DEA Strike Team.

Thank you, all.
We also have two Angel Moms here today.
One lost her son—he was 15; he thought he was taking a Percocet at school, and it was laced with fentanyl.
He was beautiful, and I’m so sorry.
But all of these people in this room, thanks to the directive of Donald Trump, are going to keep our state, our streets safe, and protect our kids.

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Thank you for being here.
And Tammy’s beautiful daughter, Kayla, was murdered violently by an illegal alien from El Salvador, who should not have been in our country.
Thanks to Donald Trump, they will all be deported very soon, thanks to his work in Homeland Security.
And I say, the unsung hero—Steven Miller on stage.
We have, this is 180 kilograms.

It represents—not real—a fentanyl.
Okay, so this represents one kilo of fentanyl in its pure form.
One kilo can kill half a million people; 180 kilos in pure form could kill 90 million people—that is the population of California, Texas, and Florida.
That’s what we’re dealing with in our country.
That’s why Angel Moms go around the country, that’s why Donald Trump has taken such a hard stance against cartels, securing our borders, getting these gangs and drugs out of our country.

But look at that—180 kilos can kill three states in its pure form.
That should terrify everyone.
I see our Senators made it—did our Senators—thank you.
However, taking the drugs off the streets is only half the battle.
President Trump will secure our borders and will continue to fight the cartels throughout this country.

Deport them all or lock them up for the rest of their lives, thanks to our prosecutors around this country—where they belong.
Under the last Administration, cartel criminals freely walked in and out of our country with impunity.
No longer, under Donald Trump, they live in fear—and they better live in fear, because we’re coming after all of them.
I am so proud to have a team with Amel, Todd, and all of our great team, and we all work for the greatest president in the history of our country.
We are so proud to work at the directive of Donald Trump.

It is—he will never stop fighting for us, and we will never stop fighting for him and for our country.
It is an honor to welcome the 45th and the 46th President of the United States: Donald Trump.

Well, thank you very much.
Thank you, thank you, Pam, very much.
What a job you’re doing, and it’s a true honor to be with you today in this very storied hall—if there ever was one.
Based on the crowd, I think we broke the all-time record.
But as we begin a proud new chapter in the chronicles of American justice, it is really something—we’re turning the page on four long years of corruption, weaponization, and surrender to violent criminals.

We are restoring fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law—and you are the people that are doing it.
I am very, very proud of all of you.
Under the Trump Administration, the DOJ and the FBI will once again become the premier crime-fighting agencies on the face of the Earth.
People ask me what I’m going to do about law enforcement all the time—the fake news back there; they’re asking me that all the time: “What are you going to do, and when are you going to do it?”
And I answer them by saying, “I’ve already done most of it by appointing the people that I’ve appointed—they’re sitting right here—they’ve done most of it.”

I don’t do it; they do it.
Right, Pam?
I think, oh, you are so tough—they just don’t know it yet.
Let me begin by congratulating the incredible people who will lead these historic reforms.
We start with somebody that you just saw—Pam Bondi.

She’s extraordinary, and I’ve known her very well for a long time.
I watched her for years in Florida—and, although she seems so young, she’s highly experienced.
I can tell you she was a phenomenal Attorney General in Florida, and she’s going to do a really amazing job.
Also, our new director of the FBI, Cash Patel—right, a man that I’m very proud of.
I’ve known him and Amel for a long time under tremendous pressure.

I saw these guys under some of the most corrupt judges—it’s not even imaginable how corrupt they were—and these guys never wilted.
They never, they would not shy—they fought, they weren’t afraid, and they were brilliant.
Deputy Attorney General Blanch and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney Amel B.—thank you both, very great people.
They’re great people.
The Chief of Staff, who’s so highly respected—Chad Miselle.

Thank you, Chad.
Thank you, Chad.
Our next Administrator of the DEA: Terry Cole.
Terry, thank you—good luck; you’re going to do great.
Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights—boy, I’ve been watching him on television the last couple of weeks.

He is really a tough one, and he’s a great one.
Leo Terrell—you watch how good he’s going to be; he’s going to be so good.
Thank you, Leo—great guy.
Assistant Attorney General of the Anti-Rust Division, who’s got an incredible reputation—she’ll do very, very well: Gail Slater.
Thank you, Gail—good luck, great job.

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We’re joined by many, many great friends and terrific friends—and I won’t be able to name too many—but some that I just see very quickly: General Flynn—thank you for being here.
There’s a man who went through hell, by the way—and he shouldn’t have; he’s a patriot, he went through hell.
We’re also pleased to be joined by Senator Chuck Grassley and House Majority Whip—hi, CH House Majority Whip Tom Emmer.
Tom, great job—you’re doing representative work.
Guy Rashan Ther—one of the toughest names to say, but I got it perfectly, I think.

And State Attorney General Ken Paxton—thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Somebody who was with us early on, and she’s really become a big star and very popular: Brena Bird.
Thank you, Brena.
Thank you very much—Steve Marshall, Alan Wilson, James Aurm, Chris Carr, Dave Sunday, Marty Jackley, as well as White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.

What a man—Stephen has become a big star.
Steve Miller has been something very special for generations.
The Federal Department of Justice was one of America’s most revered institutions.
The men and women of the DOJ brought down the mafia, hunted down the killers, kingpins, and spies, tracked down terrorists and traitors, and tore down corrupt political machines all across America.
This department commanded the respect and admiration of the entire world.

And with Pam, Cash, all of the people I introduced, and many more, and all of you sitting back there—I recognize so many of you.
But with you leading the way, it will soon be the most admired and most respected of all.
You’re going to be more respected, and I really believe that—even though there are a lot of problems to solve—that’s going to put you in the upper tier, maybe the top tier, and I believe that’s going to happen.
So, I’m proud of the people in this room.
But first, we must be honest about the lies and abuses that have occurred within these walls.

Unfortunately, in recent years a corrupt group of hacks and radicals within the ranks of the American government obliterated the trust and goodwill built up over generations.
They weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to try and thwart the will of the American people.
You remember the 51 intelligence agents, as an example, that said Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell came from Russia—when they knew it came right from his bedroom.
They knew it was a big lie, and they knew it so well.
They spied on my campaign, launched one hoax and disinformation operation after another.

They broke the law on a colossal scale—persecuted my family, staff, and supporters, raided my home Mar-a-Lago, and did everything within their power to prevent me from becoming the President of the United States, with the help of radicals like Mark Elias, Mark Pomerance, and others.
These are people that nobody’s ever seen anything like—they were bad people, really bad people.
They tried to turn America into a corrupt, communist, third-world country.
But in the end, the thugs failed, and the truth won; freedom won, justice won, democracy won, and above all, the American people won.
There could be no more heinous betrayal of American values than to use the law to terrorize the innocent and reward the wicked—and that’s what they were doing on a level that’s never been seen before.

And it’s exactly what you saw with Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and their cronies.
They built the last four years on ripping down what had been built—it’s incalculable.
But what you’re going to build up is something that will break all sorts of records.
They set loose violent criminals while targeting patriotic parents at school board meetings.
They dropped charges against Antifa and Hamas supporters while labeling traditional Catholics as domestic terrorists.

The Catholics—we did very well with the Catholic vote, so I want to thank them for that.
They imported illegal alien murderers, drug dealers, and child predators from all over the world into our country, while putting elderly Christians and pro-life activists on trial for singing hymns and for saying prayers.
They even went to jail for that.
Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice into the Department of Injustice.
But I stand before you today to declare that those days are over—and they are never coming back.

Now, as the chief law enforcement officer in our country, I will insist upon and demand full and complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that have occurred.
The American people have given us a mandate—a mandate like few people thought possible.
We won every single swing state; we won the popular vote by millions.
Millions of people—we won 2,750 districts.
Think of that: 2,750 districts compared to 55.

We want accountability at levels I don’t believe we have ever seen before.
That’s the one where you see the map of the United States, and it’s all red—red for Republican, not for communist; red for Republican.
They would have liked it to turn red for communists, but it didn’t work out that way.
The American people have given us a mandate, and they’re demanding a far-reaching investigation into the corruption of our system.
And that is exactly what Pam, Cash, and everyone else mentioned here—and not mentioned—is going to be doing.

We will expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces from our government.
We will expose, very much expose, their egregious crimes and severe misconduct at levels you’ve never seen before—it’s going to be legendary.
It will also be legendary for the people who are able to seek it out and bring justice.
We will restore the scales of justice in America, and we will ensure that such abuses never happen again in our country.
That’s why on day one I signed an executive order banning all government censorship and directing the removal of every bureaucrat who conspired to attack free speech and other American values.

My administration stripped the security clearances of the disgraced intelligence agents who lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop from hell.
We revoked the clearances of Derang Jacksmith, Alvin Bragg, Leticia James, and the crooked law firms that aided their partisan persecutions.
I went through state and city courts—the corruption is unbelievable.
We also terminated the clearance of the Biden crime family and Joe Biden himself.
He didn’t deserve it—in fact, he was essentially found guilty—but they said he was incompetent, and therefore let him go.

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I said, “You know, I’d rather be convicted, Pam.”
I think that that was not good.
I said, “Please convict me—don’t say that.”
I pardoned hundreds of political prisoners who had been grossly mistreated.
We removed the senior FBI officials who misdirected resources to send SWAT teams after grandmothers and J6 hostages.

It was a great honor for me to fire—I’ll tell you this—it was a great honor to fire James Comey.
A great, great honor—that was nothing; there was no better day.
A lot of people said, “Oh, that’s too bad you did that,” and they said, “That’s going to be…”
You know what? A year later, they said that actually saved the administration, because of the level of corrupt things that we learned after that.
It turned out they were doing, in fact, really bad things.

He was a terrible person—did terrible things—and persecuted people under the guise of being an angel, but he wasn’t an angel.
We created a brand-new DOJ task force on anti-Christian bias, and under Director Patel, we’re getting the FBI agents out of the headquarters in Washington, D.C., and back out on the streets in pursuit of dangerous criminals—where they belong and where they want to be.
And, you know, you have that big FBI building—and it’s a very big building—and they were going to build an FBI headquarters three hours away in Maryland, a liberal state.
But that has no bearing on what I’m about to say—we’re not going to let that happen.
We’re going to build another big FBI building right where it is, which would have been the right place because the FBI and the DOJ have to be near each other.

You can’t have one that’s three hours away.
But one thing I said to Cash was, “Well, we’re going to get a great building built—it’s going to be a magnificent building.”
He said, “Sir, we don’t need that kind of room.”
I said, “What do you mean?”
He said, “I’m just going to take an old Department of Commerce building that’s about 25% the size—and that’s what I need.”

We’re going to have the best staff that you’ve ever seen—and that’s what I need.
It’s in a nice location, but I don’t need that big a building—why don’t you just sell the site to somebody and we’ll be very happy?
They want to have far fewer people, but we also want to have them in D.C.
And if for no other reason, we like having law enforcement walking the streets of our capital—because when the bad guys are out there and they see there’s an FBI agent, that’s the ultimate in law enforcement, and they’re not going to act so badly.
We’re cleaning up our city—we’re cleaning up this great capital, and we’re not going to have crime, and we’re not going to stand for crime.

We’re going to take the graffiti down, and we’re already taking the tents down.
We’re working with the administration—and if the administration can’t do the job, we’re going to take it back and run it through the federal government.
But we hope the administration is going to be able to—so far, they’ve been doing very well.
The mayor’s been doing a good job—we said, “They’re tense, galore,” right?
Opposite the State Department, they had to come down, and they took them down right away.

So far, so good.
But we want to have a capital that can be the talk of the world—when Prime Minister Modi of India, the President of France, and all of these people, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom—they all came to see me over the last week and a half.
When they come in, I like to have the route run; I don’t want them to see tents, I don’t want them to see graffiti, I don’t want them to see broken barriers and potholes in the roads.
We had it looking beautiful, and we’re going to do that for the city.
We’re going to have a crime-free capital—when people come here, they’re not going to be mugged, shot, or raped; they’re going to have a crime-free capital again.

It’s going to be cleaner, better, and safer than it ever was—and it’s not going to take us too long.
There’s a new phenomenon taking place with these violent, vicious lawyers that we have all over—they play “The Ref.”
You know what? Playing “The Ref” is like the great Bobby Knight basketball coach; he’d scream and scream at the rough—they’d scream.
I watch, by the way—I love Bobby Knight because he endorsed me, and having Bobby Knight’s endorsement in Indiana was an extremely good thing.
A friend of mine said I was running in Indiana at the time—this was early on in 2016, and I was doing great—but a friend came up and said, “You know, Bobby Knight…”

I said, “No, I don’t—but I hear he was a tough coach.”
He said, “Not only tough—he was beyond tough—but he’s the most popular guy you can imagine.”
It turned out he wanted to endorse me—he called me about two years before and said, “Sir, I’d like to endorse you.”
I said, “Is this really Bobby Knight?”
He said, “It’s me—I could tell it was Bobby Knight.”

He had been known for throwing a chair across the court and slapping a player—you can’t do things like that, right?
And the man that came in fired him—he was a new administrator for the C—and that guy didn’t last very long.
They were like 14, and they fired Coach Knight—that was not good—but he had a little chip on his shoulder.
But he loved Trump, and he came in and said, “I’d love to endorse you. If you ever run, please call me.”
So he said, “Do you know Bobby Knight?”
I said, “Well, I don’t know him,” but he called me a couple of years ago—it was an amazing phenomenon.
I took his number and on each side of my desk in New York I had stacks of paper, nice and neat—about two feet high each—and I said, “You know, I wrote his number down and I put it here.”
Two years ago, and I said, “Let me see if I can find it.”
It was almost like a miracle—I had other miracles that happened too.
My ear is still throbbing—that was a miracle.
That was a miracle.

Okay, that’s very nice—thank you.
So he said, “Bobby Knight”—so I said, “You know, I put his name down and I wrote it down; it’s in one of these stacks.”
Let me—I lift it up—it would have to be two or three thousand pages in each stack.
I lifted it up; the first one had, no idea, and there was his name on a little card: Bobby Knight with his number.
It was incredible—I tell that story all the time—and I called him and dialed the number.

He said, “I’ve been waiting for you to call,” and he went out and made a speech for me in a packed arena in Indiana, and it was over.
It was over—he was a tough guy; he actually went a little far.
You know, if you remember, he made a great speech because he was actually a motivational type guy, to put it mildly.
But he left the stage, and then I was talking—and he walks back onto the stage.
I said, “Oh, this is trouble—why is he coming back? He’s a big guy too—why is he coming back?”

He said, “May I say a few more words?”
I said, “Yeah, go ahead, Bobby—say a few more words.”
A little different, and he said, “Let me tell you something about this guy, Trump.
This guy, if he has to, will use the nuclear weapons that we have.
He has no fear—he’s going to use them—and that’s the kind of guy.”
And he walked off the stage.

I said, “I think I’m in big trouble, Pam—that was not good.”
But it worked out, okay?
In the meantime, we won the state in a landslide, and it was great—it was just an amazing period of time.
But this is the most amazing period of time—I think what’s taking place has been more amazing, more consequential.
If we do the job that we’re all capable of doing, I think it’s going to prove to be that—and then some.

We have a real big shot at making this country so great—so great.
What happened to our country was so sad—what they did in four years to our country with the borders, with Afghanistan, the most embarrassing period of time—allowing the Russian situation was never going to happen with Ukraine.
Allowing October 7 to happen would have never happened, because under me Iran was totally broke—they had no money; they weren’t giving any money to Hamas, so Hezbollah was totally broke.
But allowing inflation—look at what inflation’s done to people—it’s been so devastating.
Now you see that, by the way—price of eggs is down 35% in the last week and a half.

We’re doing a good job—Brook is doing a good job, Brook Rollins, and everybody—and inflation’s down, interest rates are down, gasoline has come down to a level that we haven’t seen in a long time.
All things that we wanted to do—because then everything else is going to come down.
We want it to come down—we want bacon to come down, and groceries, a term I used to use—it’s sort of an old-fashioned term, but I used it on the campaign trail during those last 90 perfect, beautiful days.
We just hit it, and I want to thank Susie—you have done a great job, Susie.
WS—great job, Susie—a big magazine just named her the most powerful woman in the world, and that’s okay with me.

She is the most powerful woman in the world—but she’s great, and we had a great 90 days.
It was a perfect 90 days, and it was a great result.
But we want to put that result to good use by doing a phenomenal job—and I want to tell you that Todd and Amel know this very well.
We had an amazing judge in Florida, and her name is Eileen Cannon—and I didn’t know her.
I still don’t know her—I don’t believe I ever spoke to her even during the trial—but I did appoint her as a federal judge.

These fake lawyers—these horrible human beings—were hitting her so hard, public relations-wise.
They were playing “The Ref.”
I don’t think it’s legal—I don’t think it’s legal; they might as well go out and just shout in a courthouse.
They were saying she was slow, she wasn’t smart, she was totally biased—she loved Trump.
I didn’t know her other than that I saw her the couple of days I was in court, and I thought her decorum was amazing.

Anything bad they could say, though—they were saying whatever they could say was bad about a human being—well, made up—because actually, she was brilliant.
She moved quickly; she was the absolute model of what a judge should be.
She was strong and tough—and how do you get them to stop if you’re a judge?
How do you get them to stop playing “The Ref”?
Bobby Knight would play “The Ref”—he’d scream at the ref, he’d scream so hard.

Oh boy, it was terrible, actually.
And people would come up—his assistant coaches would come up to say, “Coach, don’t do that, you don’t do that.”
He said, “He’s not going to change his tune, coach; he’s not changing—I don’t care—and he’s screaming.”
That’s when he threw the chair—he started going crazy.
He said, “No, he’s not going to change this time, but he’s going to change for the next play—and sure as hell he did.”

You know, Bobby—by the way—had the last undefeated team in basketball.
Relatively speaking, you know he always had a team—he never didn’t have a team.
He had a couple of great players, obviously with some top NBA players, but very few, relatively speaking.
He won the National Championship three times—but he had the last undefeated team in basketball.
And he would play rough; he would scream at them—he knew exactly what he was doing.

They’re doing the same thing.
He said, “No, he’s not going to change now, but he’s going to change for the next one”—that’s what he wanted to do.
He wanted to scare the hell out of the judges—and they did it.
And how do you stop it if you’re a judge, because you want to go home, you have a family, you have children?
And the New York Times will write whatever these people say in the Washington Post, in the Wall Street Journal, in MSDNC, and the fake news—CNN, ABC, CBS, BC—and they’ll write whatever they say.

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And what do you do to get rid of it?
You convict Trump—all you have to do is be really tough on him—and ultimately convict him, and they leave you alone.
It’s totally illegal what they do—I just hope you can all watch for it—but it’s totally illegal.
And it was so unfair what they were doing to her—but they do it all the time with judges.
But in her case, she was very courageous—and it only made her angry, wouldn’t you say?
It just made her angry.

She didn’t like it—many of them say, “Oh, please don’t say that about me, my family, what’s my husband going to say, what’s my wife going to say, or my kids? Please don’t say that.”
And it had absolutely no impact on her or the case against me—which was a case I will not use a bad word—I promised my wife I would never use a bad word, so just a little bad—the case against me was…
It was dismissed correctly—she correctly dismissed it.
She… she correctly—look at Amel, he’s looking—he, that’s interesting.
But these two guys were warriors—you got a warrior here, you got two warriors.

I can tell you that you got a whole bunch of them, and they wouldn’t quit—they wouldn’t take no for an answer.
They just wouldn’t quit—these two people right up here, and some others that are involved with it indirectly—and what the lawyers do is they’re doing it to the Supreme Court.
Justice is hoping that they’ll be overcome by the horrible things they say about them—they say things about Supreme Court Justices and judges that are just horrible.
They’re playing “The Ref”—remember the way they treated Justice Thomas, Justice Alito, and Justice Kavanaugh, Justice Gorsuch, Chief Justice Roberts—treated unbelievably badly.
And they’re hoping that they can sway them to go along, because, again, what do they do?
They’re human—you know, like any perfect computer machine—they’re not perfect; they’re human, and they don’t want to be accused of many things—including gross incompetence.
They don’t like it, and they don’t want it—and there’s not much they can do about it.
They’re in a position where they can’t really fight back very well.

And so what they do is sometimes they get weak—I would say a majority of the times.
Maybe that’s why I’m so impressed with Judge Cannon in Florida—how strong she was, how she held up.
It actually made her more resolute than anything I’ve seen.
I mean, it was amazing because they were hitting her so hard—it was so sad to watch this, but it’s sad what they do to other judges.
It’s very sad what they do to the Supreme Court—and a lot of the judges that I had.
If you look at them, they take tremendous abuse in the New York Times and The Washington Post, and all of the different networks—they take such abuse, and honestly, they’re simply afraid of bad publicity.
They don’t want bad publicity, and it’s truly interference, in my opinion—and it should be illegal.
And it probably is illegal in some form.

There’s no difference between speaking to a judge or shouting to a judge, or doing whatever you have to do in a courthouse, compared to doing it behind the back, where they’re usually doing it anonymously—saying off the record that the judge is no good.
But everybody knows where it’s coming from—and it’s totally coordinated.
It’s a campaign, and it’s by the same scum that you have been dealing with for years—guys like Andrew Weissmann, Derang Jack Smith—there’s a guy named Noris, I don’t even know what he looks like; his name is Noris of Crew.
He’s been after me for nine years now—Crew is a charitable organization—and the reason I’m saying this, Todd, is I’m only going to get one chance to say this: these are bad people.
I don’t know who he is—I don’t know what he looks like—but everything I read is about Noris of Crew, and Crew is a charitable organization—and that’s a political thing.
A sole life is to get Donald Trump, and he’s been vicious and violent, and he’s trying—and he probably had pretty good success over the years.
But with me—how did he do?
I think I’m president—am I here because I’m president?
But we had to take all of that abuse—even during the trials, we had to take tremendous abuse.
These wonderful guys—they’re not legitimate people, they’re horrible people, they’re scum—and you have to know that.
And you’re going to have these cases where you can’t allow yourselves to be deflected—you just can’t let it happen.
You have so many—you have such a higher calling, and I believe that CNN and MSDNC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, or political arms of the Democrat Party—and in my opinion, they’re really corrupt, and what they do is illegal.
It makes no difference how big a victory I have—I can have the biggest victory in history—it makes no difference what kind of a failure the other side has—these people are going to go after me.
I said it during the other night, during the big speech on Tuesday night—I said about Democrats—and I don’t like that.

I have great respect, by the way, for what Schumer did today.
He went out and said that I’m going to have to vote with the Republicans because it’s the right thing to do.
I couldn’t believe what I heard—but you know, I think he’s going to get some credit for it.
Let’s see what happens tonight with the big vote as it comes.
But these networks and these newspapers are really no different than highly paid political operatives—and it has to stop.
It has to be illegal—it’s influencing judges, and it’s really a changing law, and it just cannot be legal.
I don’t believe it’s legal—and they do it in total coordination with each other.
And everything we do—we’re restoring law, restoring order, and restoring public safety in America.
That’s what we want to do, and we’re bringing honor, integrity, and accountability back to the highest levels of the FBI, DOJ, and throughout our government.
We’re bringing our country back faster than anyone ever thought possible.

We want fairness in the courts—the courts are a big factor, the elections—which were totally rigged, um, are a big factor.
We have to have honest elections; we have to have borders, and we have to have courts and law that’s fair.
Well, we’re not going to have a country—crooked Joe Biden got us into a real mess with Russia and everything else he did, frankly—but he didn’t know about it, and he, generally speaking, signed it with an autopen.
So how would he know that an autopen is a big deal?
I don’t know—you know, they’re having—who’s doing this?

So when my people come up, and all of the people—Steve, they come up and show me this is an executive order, they explain it to me, and, you know, 90% of the time I sign it—99% of the time I say, “Do it.”
But they come up and I sign it—but you don’t use an autopen.
It’s number one: it’s disrespectful to the office; number two, maybe it’s not even valid because you know who’s getting him to sign—he had no idea what the hell he was doing.
If he did all of these bad things, they wouldn’t be happening right now.
But we’re going to get you back into a great position, and we’ve already started.

They say that we had the most successful first month of the presidency—not a long time, but it’s still a lot.
It’s like if you’re a golfer: sinking a three-foot putt on the first hole gives you the confidence to sink something on the second hole—but if you miss that first putt, you don’t like to have the putt on the second hole, and the third hole—it could be a very bad experience.
It’s nice to get that first month, and now we have more than a month—now we have a month and a half—and it’s going really, really well.
I can tell you a little secret—although the cameras are blazing back there, so it’s not that much—but I think we’re doing well.
As you have been hearing about Ukraine, I think we’re doing well with Russia.
We’re speaking with President Putin—we want to get the war over.
Not only have we spent maybe $350 billion—think of that: $350 billion to $100 billion—and yet we’re across the ocean, far away, so it shouldn’t have been that way—but Biden let that happen too.

And we’re getting a deal where we’re going to get that back—but much more importantly, it’s about the lives that we’re talking about.
On average, 2,000 young people are being killed by every single day—now, they’re not from here, they’re not even close to here—but they’re young people, they’re human beings, and they have parents, they have sisters and brothers, mothers and fathers, friends, families, and the towns where they grew up—and they’re losing, on average, 2,000—even 2,500 a week.
I want to get that stopped.
We’ve had some very good calls today with Russia and with Ukraine—they’ve agreed to a ceasefire if we can get it with Russia—and it’s not easy; it’s a tough one, but I think we’re doing it.
And as the Secretary General said yesterday of NATO—a terrific guy—he said, “Without Trump, we wouldn’t be talking about it. It would just go on for years, and millions more people—millions more people would be killed.”

He said it was a great honor—without me, it would just keep going.
We’re looking for the ceasefire now with Russia, and we’ve had some very good talks about it.
I can tell you that there was a case where there would have been no war if I were president—and it is 100% that it would not have happened, would never have happened.
I used to speak to President Putin a lot about it—I said, “Don’t do it, don’t do it.”
I won’t tell you what the consequence was—I won’t tell you what he did—but if he believed even 5% of what I said, then he would say, “I’m not going to do it.”
And I think he did.

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But we had a good relationship—and we had a professional relationship—and his respect for this country—and I think we had some very good results.
I haven’t been able to say that to anybody else—I hadn’t wanted to say it until just before I came here.
I got some pretty good news, so… but we have to see what happens.
It’s still a long way to go—the fighting is unbelievable.
Russia has a large group of Ukrainian soldiers as we speak, surrounded and in grave danger.

They’ve been able to surround them—they’re in grave danger.
And I’ve asked them not to kill those soldiers—please, not to kill those soldiers.
We don’t want them killed—it’s such a shame to see what’s happened.
Things like that would have never happened—inflation would have never happened—October 7th would have never happened.
Israel—Iran had no money; they were totally broke.
Think of it—they had no money to give to anybody; they were totally broke.
And within a short period of time, as soon as Biden came in, he took out all the sanctions—and China and everybody else that wasn’t buying oil from Iran was buying it at levels that they had never spent before.
It was a sad thing, and if you look at Afghanistan—that was probably what got Putin started.
Because when he looked at how horribly we looked—the most embarrassing day, not that we got out because we were getting out, I would have been out faster than them—I was the one that got it down to the right level.
But we would have kept Bagram—the Big Air Force Base—we would have kept it.
Right now, China occupies Bagram, and the reason we would have kept it is because they were one hour away from where China has its nuclear missiles and weapons.
And they gave that up at the dark of night—they left the lights on, and they left the dogs behind.
By the way, a lot of people say, “What about all the dogs?”
A lot of dogs—and they left the dogs behind.
What a shame, what a shame—the way we got out.
I think it was the most humiliating time in the history of our country—the way it happened—not that we were getting out because we wanted to, but we would have gotten out with dignity and strength, and what a difference a rigged and crooked election had on our country when you think about it.
And the people who did this to us should go to jail—they should go to jail.
So I just want to say, God bless America, ‘cause we have to say, “God bless—we’re lucky to still be here,” frankly.

And this whole thing could lead—I think we have it, I think we have it—but this could lead to World War III very easily.
It very easily could lead to World War III, but I think we’re in pretty good shape—lot better than we were before we got involved.
I can tell you, it was heading into World War III territory, and that would have been a war like no other—because of nuclear weapons and other types of weapons that you don’t even want to know about, but as many of you do know.
Well, we’re focused on prosecuting—and these people were really focused on prosecuting Republicans.
The last administration presided over the worst increase in violent crime in our country in many, many decades.

We had levels of violence and crime—and a lot of it had to do with the illegal immigrants that came in.
Remember when I used to complain about it?
I knew how tough they were, how mean they were—and they said, “No, no—people that come into our country are all wonderful people.”
No—they’re not wonderful.
These are stone-cold killers; these are killers—like they make our killers look nice by comparison.
These are rough, tough people with tattoos all over their faces.
Historically speaking, I don’t want to discriminate against anybody, but historically speaking, they’re not going to be the head of any major bank that we know of.
These are rough people—rough, killer people—and they allowed them in by the millions in major cities like New York, Chicago, and Washington.
Mothers can’t walk their children to the park without fear of being shot or killed, or raped, or anything.
Women can’t ride the subway without worrying that a hoodlum will shove them onto the train tracks in New York.
It’s happened twice in the last couple of weeks.
One was a perfect Wall Street gentleman in one case, and another was a good worker—an electrician—who got pushed into a train going 45 miles an hour just before the train, not stopping.
I know the stations very well—I used to feel safe when I was young; my parents would drop me off at the subway.
I’d take the subway to school—can you believe it?
Today, they wouldn’t be doing that.
And we want to get our country back—maybe so you can do that again, Pam—but it’s so sad to see what’s taking place under the Biden regime.

Average monthly homicides increased by 14%; property crime rose tremendously; violent crime went up at least 37% that they know of; rape soared by 42%; car theft rose by 48%; and robbery surged by 63 to 100%—they don’t even know what the number is.
I have no higher mission as President of the United States than to end this and stop this lawbreaking, and to make America safe again—and that’s what you’re all about in this room.
We want to protect Americans, and we protect everybody that’s in our country—American or not American.
We want to have a safe and proud country.
We’re joined today by dozens of police officers, sheriffs, and sheriff’s deputies from all across the country.

My message to these law enforcement officers is simple: with me in the White House, you once again have a president who will always have your back—will always have you back.
Thank you, folks.
Thank you—look at all these good, loyal people.
I will tell you, I feel safe—I’m glad you’re in the room—I feel even safer.
There are a lot of great people in here.

On day one, I signed an executive order directing the Attorney General to ensure that anyone who murders a police officer—immediately, with as fast a trial as we can have—gets the death penalty.
Last month, I fired all the radical left “proc crime” U.S. Attorneys appointed by Joe Biden.
There were so many that were bad—and I know there were some that were probably very good—but there were so many that were so bad, so evil, so corrupt.
Instead of having Marxist prosecutors who want to put police officers in handcuffs and go after a police officer rather than a criminal, I appointed patriotic, tough, one-crime warriors who will partner with police to put dangerous offenders behind bars—put them in jail.
We’re fully reviving the 1033 program to provide state and local law enforcement with surplus military equipment that we have so much of.

I did it in my last administration, and I remember Obama wouldn’t do it—he wouldn’t do it before me—would not do it because he thought it made them look too strong, too military.
I said, “No, that’s what I want them to look like—I want them to look strong.”
And it was protective, defensive equipment—we had billions of dollars, I gave it out—and now I’m going to have a chance to give it out again.
They didn’t want to do it with Biden—and Biden didn’t know why.
They would have asked him, and he wouldn’t have been able to answer the question—he could never answer a question.
They said my press conference yesterday was longer than all of Biden’s press conferences put together for the last four years—and I don’t know if that’s true, but it was close.

Perhaps most importantly, we’re securing our border and repelling the invasion of America.
We have, you see, the numbers have come down.
Tom Holman and Chrisy—if Chrisy is here, our secretary—she’s done great, and Tom Holman—I don’t know if Tom Holman’s here, but wherever he may be—I think he’s chasing people out of our country.
If he were here, I’d almost be disappointed, saying, “What are you doing, Tom?”
But he’s a fantastic guy, and he’s a brave guy.

Over the past four years, other countries emptied out their prisons and jails, mental institutions, and insane asylums, and sent the killers, drug smugglers, and bloodthirsty inmates from the filthiest dungeons of the world straight into the USA under an open border policy.
Anybody could come in—no matter what you were, no matter where you came from, no matter what you looked like, no matter what you were doing—no matter what you did, no matter how many people you murdered, you could come right into our country.
We have murderers right now walking the streets.
We’re joined today by Tammy Nobles, whose 20-year-old daughter, Kayla, was attacked in her home three years ago—horrifically assaulted and strangled to death by an illegal alien, an MS13 monster, set loose into our country under the open border Biden regime.
Kayla was one of countless American victims ripped away from their families by the open border policies of that administration.

We’re also joined by Kayla’s stepfather, Jeremiah, and several other courageous Angel Families here today.
I’d love you all to just stand up for a second, and we want to acknowledge you—and also your daughters, your sons—because they’re looking down on you and loving you like crazy.
So, thank you very much.
Thank you, thank you.
But I want you to know that we are working every day to expel these savages from our country, and ensure that what happened to your loved ones will never happen again—so their legacy is going to be a great one.

Thank you all very much—we appreciate it.
On day one of my administration, I declared a national emergency on our southern border.
In our first full month in office, we achieved the lowest level of illegal border crossings ever recorded—okay, even lower than four years ago.
For years, Democrats and the media kept saying that we needed new legislation—we had to have new legislation immediately—and I never had legislation.
I had the best border in the history of our country for almost four years, and by the time I got out, we had the lowest numbers ever.
My favorite chart of all time was brought down that day, and on that chart it said we had the lowest numbers ever—but it turned out that we really didn’t need new legislation; all you needed was a new president.
And I said that the other night: all you needed was a new president—someone who would close the borders—because the border patrol is unbelievable, ICE is unbelievable, and all of our law enforcement is just incredible.
All of you are amazing, and the people of our country respect you and love you—even though you often don’t hear that because you have to listen to the fake news back there—but they have great respect for you.

That includes our fire departments too—they don’t get spoken about enough.
They go into some areas where they’re shooting ladders—can you believe it?
They go up to put out a fire—Leo, they go up on a ladder—and they get shot off a ladder.
It’s just unbelievable.
These firemen and firewomen are incredible, so I want to put them in the same category because they’re just phenomenal.
They’re our first responders—basically, they are—and we’re ending the migrant occupation of America.

What we’re doing now is liberating our cities, our suburbs, and our towns—and you see a big difference.
I’m getting calls all the time from even leaders of other countries saying, “Sir, the whole world feels liberated now.”
It feels like there’s a light over America—and there’s a light over the whole world—I hear that so much, and it’s so nice to hear.
And I feel it—I mean, I feel it when I look at the polls.
I don’t know if the polls are right, but they’re certainly very good—I’ll take them right now.
It’s amazing—amazing what’s taking place in such a short period of time.
Really, six weeks—but it’s longer than that—it’s really November 5th, I think.
That day will go down—as the most important day, at least, in the history of our country.
You know, July 4th was pretty important in 1776, but let’s see if we can top it.
Can we top it? I don’t know—that’s a tough one—but we’re going to try, and it will be one of the most important days in the history of our country.

Last month, we officially designated MS13 and Trendi Aragua—that’s the Venezuelan gang, the toughest gang they say in the world—and the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
That’s a big deal—nobody wanted to do that in the past.
By the way, we’ve caught hundreds of them—the Venezuelan gang, which is as bad as it gets—and you’ll be reading a lot of stories tomorrow about what we’ve done with them.
You’ll be very impressed, and you’ll feel a lot safer too.
They are a vicious group—they went into Colorado and took over areas of Colorado—they sort of were like me; they were in the real estate business, but they didn’t go out and get financing—they just took over a building and kept it.

They said to the tenants, “Get the hell out of here!”
One man called the police, and they cut off his fingers.
They said, “Call again, and your other fingers—and if you call a third time, you’re dead.”
These are tough people and bad people—and we’re getting them out of our country.
Some are so bad we don’t want to just get them out; we have to put them in jail because we can’t even take a chance that they can come back.

Thanks to our efforts, Mexico recently handed over 29 of the biggest cartel leaders—including the depraved kingpin charged with the 1985 murder of DEA Agent Kiki Camara—and that was a big deal.
They had been looking for this person for many years, and we got them—this evil killer will now be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
And we know that… let’s put it this way: I have to be nice—it’s a very strong case.
We’re stopping the criminals pouring across our borders at record levels, and we’re also stopping the massive quantities of deadly drugs.
In 2023 alone, drug overdoses killed more Americans in 12 months than they did during the entire decade between 1980 and 1990—ten times more.
In fact, more Americans died from fentanyl last year than died in the Korean War, the Iraq War, and the Afghanistan War—all of them combined.
That’s why I placed large tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China—and they will remain in place until these deadly poisons stop pouring into our country.
And I will tell you, as soon as I put on the tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China, unbelievable results have been seen in the last few weeks.
Unbelievable results—they weren’t happy about it; you probably read they weren’t happy—but they are working like hell to end it.
They weren’t working very hard before I did that.

Today, we are joined by a brave mother and advocate—a funner—who lost her beautiful 15-year-old son, Weston, to fentanyl.
If you would, I’d like to ask you to come up and say a few words.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.

Angel Mom:
First, I want to say thank you.
I think this is the biggest honor of my entire life—being on stage with President Trump.
But I want to tell you a little bit about my son, Weston, who absolutely loved President Trump.
He had a beautiful Trump 2020 flag hanging in his bedroom, and he had it on the beach one day.
We took a picture, and it became our 2020 Christmas card with the most perfect slogan for President Trump: “Peace on Earth.”

But what happened in the next four years was devastation to our country and the safety of our children.
In 2022, Weston lost his life—a freshman in high school at the age of 15—from a single pill that took his life.
The cartels were allowed to operate on American soil and took hundreds of thousands of American lives.
So we knew there was only one person who could save us from the devastation on our American soil—and that was President Trump.
And so in 2024, we did the best thing that we could do to keep America safe again—and we elected President Donald J. Trump.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.
And he’s done everything that he promised.
We have a 98% decrease in border crossings, and he has labeled the terrorist cartels as terrorist organizations, and he has instilled tariffs—because there is no price on human life.
So I feel I can speak for the entire fentanyl-fighting community when I say thank you to President Trump, and thank you to Pam Bondi and everyone out here who is fighting this fight.
God bless you; God bless President Trump; God bless America.

I’m so proud of you.
Thank you very much.
Weston is, I just said, up in heaven watching his mom, and he’s so proud of you—he’s so proud of you.
Thank you.
We’re also joined today by a number of other American families who have lost loved ones to fentanyl—please stand up for a second.
We want to acknowledge you—and also your daughters, your sons—they’re looking down on you and loving you like crazy.
So, thank you very much.

This department will not rest until we have ended the fentanyl epidemic in America once and for all.
In less than two months since I took office, the DEA and FBI have seized nearly one million deadly doses of fentanyl—and that’s just the beginning.
At my direction, and working with Pam and everybody else, we’ve launched an all-out war on fentanyl traffickers—and it’s a war that we’re going to win.
I spoke with the president of Mexico—a very nice woman, a very fine woman—and I said, “Let me ask you: You’re sending a lot of drugs into our country; we’re not liking it at all. We can’t have that.”
But I said, “Does Mexico have much of a drug problem?”
She said, “No—we’re not a consuming nation.”
I thought that was an interesting term, and I said, “Why?”
And which I’ve heard also, by the way—they’re not a consumer nation; they distribute but they don’t consume.
But I said, “Why are you not a consumer?”
She said, “Well, we spend a lot of money on advertising, saying how bad drugs are. They’re very rough ads.
They show the skin falling off, the teeth falling out, people going blind, losing hair—and everything that these things do.
Do you look like you just came out of a horrible concentration camp?”
And she said it was their rough ads.
It’s not often that I feel I’ve learned something from a phone call—because I’ve had a lot of phone calls all my life—but I realized right then and there what a great idea that is.

We have hired Susie—a great person—who did a lot of our campaign work, and we’ve come up with an advertising campaign that I think is really incredible.
More than anything else, it’s terrible to watch—it’s terrible to watch—but it’s the only way it’s going to work.
I would be remiss not to mention, because we got the numbers down 18%.
There would be a blue ribbon committee headed by the First Lady of the United States—whom everyone loves—and some of her friends.
They work so hard—and it was a tough deal.
They’re dealing with very smart and very vicious people.
Some of those businesses—those cartels—are run better than any business in America.
They say they run incredibly well—not just here, but all over the world.
They run like a major business—and in many cases, better.
I said, “We got it 18% down.”
Well, 18% is incredible—it’s like a record—but when you think of it, it’s not very much.
And the way you get it down, if you want to get it close to 100%, is with the death penalty.
But I think maybe America is not ready for that—China has a death penalty; Singapore has a death penalty; various places have the death penalty.
Wherever you have the death penalty, you don’t have drugs—but I just don’t know if this country is ready for it.
So I tell people—and it’s always an option—but I don’t know if you’re ready for it, and that’s okay.
It’s nothing you can do—but what we’re going to do is we’re doing this campaign, and I think we can get it down by another 30 to 35 points, and I really believe we can.
I think that’s an incredible idea.

So I thank the president of Mexico—actually, it was a call on tariffs—and we talked about drugs, and she gave me an idea that I think will be very successful.
Based on what I saw, it’s going to be amazing.
Under our leadership, this department is once again laser-focused on protecting the American people.
We’re defending our borders, our streets, our children, and our God-given rights and liberties once and for all.
We’re going to defend our country, and we’re going to defend our rights—as etched onto the walls of this building.
In other words, as the English philosopher John Locke said, “Where law ends, tyranny begins.”
And I see that, and I saw it over the last four years when somebody was allowed to attack viciously—with this department and the FBI—his political opponent.
How did that work out? It didn’t work out too well, and it wasn’t pleasant.
I was attacked by a political opponent—and perhaps it helped that I was attacked more than anybody in the history of our country.
Al Capone—the great Al Capone, legendary Scarface—was attacked only a tiny fraction of what Trump was attacked, and maybe it worked out well.
I don’t know if I would have given it up—I probably wouldn’t—but only because I’ve gone through it.
I wonder what the difference would be—maybe they helped get me elected by those margins, the big mandate that we received.
But you can’t go after your political opponent—nobody’s ever seen anything like it, and hopefully they won’t see anything like it.

Now, with the return of law and order, the entire world is witnessing the triumph of American justice and American freedom.
That’s why we’re here today—gathered with people who have love for our country.
In the coming years, we will revive the story, the legacy of this department—it’s happening right now; you can feel it—and rekindle the spirit of the great lawmen and legal lions of the past.
Americans like Wyer, Elliot, NES, Frank Hammer, Rudy Giuliani—Rudy Giuliani suffered greatly—the greatest mayor in the history of our country had to suffer greatly—Ed Meanonin, Scalia, Robert Jackson, and Robert F. Kennedy.
We will rebuild pride in our institutions; we will restore the prestige of this great department; and we will bring back faith in our justice system for the citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed.

And I want to just tell you that this has been a great honor.
I was asked to do it, and I said, “Is it appropriate that I do it?”
Then I realized, “No, it’s not only appropriate—I think it’s really important.”
I may never do it again—I may never have another chance to do it again, because this is something I’m leaving to the greatest people I know: the best people, the smartest people, the toughest people—and they’re going to do an incredible job.
And it’s an honor for me to have won this election so that I could appoint these people to do their job—and they’re going to do it like you have never seen.
So I just want to wish all of you good luck.
It’s going to be an interesting journey—it’s not going to be easy—but you’re going to win, win, win, and fight, fight, fight—and it’s going to end up being a tremendous result for this country.
Thank you all very much.
God bless America.
God bless you all.

Thank you.