Trump Delivers Speech At Dept. Of Justice turned into a fiery critique of past investigations against him. The president vowed retribution, praised Judge Aileen Cannon, and ordered restrictions on a law firm linked to Democrats. His remarks, which veered into multiple topics, marked the first presidential visit to the department in a decade, sparking controversy and political reactions.
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00:00:00Well, thank you very much.
00:00:04Thank you, Pam, very much.
00:00:05What a job you're doing.
00:00:07And it's a true honor to be with you today.
00:00:10This is a storied hall, if there ever was one.
00:00:15And based on the crowd, I think we broke the
00:00:17all-time record.
00:00:19But as we begin a proud new chapter in the
00:00:21chronicles of American justice, this really is
00:00:25something.
00:00:25We're turning the page on four long years of
00:00:29corruption, weaponization, and surrender
00:00:31to violent criminals.
00:00:32And we're restoring fair, equal, and impartial
00:00:36justice under the constitutional rule of law.
00:00:41And you're the people that are doing it.
00:00:43Very, very proud of all of you.
00:00:45Under the Trump administration, the DOJ and
00:00:48the FBI will once again become the premier crime
00:00:51fighting agencies on the face of the Earth.
00:00:55People ask me, what am I going to do about law
00:00:58enforcement all the time?
00:00:59The fake news back there, they're asking me that all
00:01:02the time.
00:01:02What am I going to do?
00:01:04And when are you going to do it?
00:01:05And I answer them by saying, I've already done
00:01:08most of it by appointing the people that I've
00:01:12appointed.
00:01:12They're sitting right here.
00:01:14They've done most of it.
00:01:15I don't do it.
00:01:16They do it.
00:01:17Right, Pam?
00:01:18I think.
00:01:19Oh, you are so tough.
00:01:20They just don't know yet.
00:01:23Let me begin by congratulating the
00:01:25incredible people who will lead these historic
00:01:27reforms.
00:01:29And we start with somebody that you just saw, Pam
00:01:32Bondi.
00:01:33She's extraordinary.
00:01:34And I've known her very well for a long time.
00:01:40I watched her for a long time in Florida, for years
00:01:45in Florida, and highly experienced.
00:01:48She seems so young, but she's highly experienced
00:01:50that, I can tell you.
00:01:51She was a phenomenal Attorney General in
00:01:53Florida.
00:01:54And she's going to do a really amazing job.
00:01:57Also, our new Director of the FBI, Kash Patel.
00:02:01Kash, right.
00:02:02A man that I'm very proud of.
00:02:08I've known him and Emil for a long time, under
00:02:12tremendous pressure.
00:02:13I saw these guys under some of the most corrupt
00:02:16judges I've — it's not even imaginable how
00:02:19corrupt they were.
00:02:21And these guys never wilted.
00:02:22They never — they were not shy.
00:02:25They fought.
00:02:26They weren't afraid.
00:02:27And they were brilliant.
00:02:29Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch and Principal
00:02:33Associate Deputy Attorney Emil Bovey.
00:02:36And thank you both very much.
00:02:39They're great people.
00:02:42They're great people.
00:02:47The Chief of Staff, who's so highly respected, Chad
00:02:52Mizell.
00:02:52Thank you, Chad.
00:02:53Chad?
00:02:54Yeah.
00:02:55Thank you, Chad.
00:02:57Our next Administrator of the DEA, Terry Cole.
00:03:04Terry?
00:03:05Thank you, Terry.
00:03:07Good luck.
00:03:08You're going to do great.
00:03:09Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General
00:03:12for Civil Rights.
00:03:13Boy, I've been watching him on television the last
00:03:16couple of weeks.
00:03:17He is really a tough one, and he's a great one.
00:03:20Leo Terrell.
00:03:21You watch how good he's going to be.
00:03:23He's going to be so good.
00:03:26Thank you, Leo.
00:03:28Great guy.
00:03:29Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust
00:03:32Division, who's got an incredible reputation.
00:03:34She'll do very, very well.
00:03:37Gail Slater.
00:03:37Thank you, Gail.
00:03:39Good luck.
00:03:40Great job.
00:03:41And we're joined by many, many great friends and
00:03:46terrific friends.
00:03:47And I won't be able to — too many to name, but
00:03:50some that I just see very quickly.
00:03:52General Flynn, thank you for being here.
00:03:57He's a man who went through hell, by the way,
00:04:00and he shouldn't have.
00:04:01It was — he's a patriot.
00:04:02He went through hell.
00:04:04We're also pleased to be joined by Senator Chuck
00:04:07Grassley and House Majority Whip.
00:04:09Hi.
00:04:10Where's Chuck?
00:04:11Hi, Chuck.
00:04:13House Majority Whip, Tom Emmer.
00:04:16Tom, great job you're doing.
00:04:18Representative Guy Reschenthaler, one of the
00:04:24toughest names to say, but I got it.
00:04:26I got it perfectly, I think.
00:04:29And State Attorney General Ken Paxton, thank you
00:04:32very much.
00:04:32Thank you very much.
00:04:33Somebody who was with us early on, and she's
00:04:40really become a big star and very popular, Brenna
00:04:43Byrd.
00:04:44Thank you, Brenna.
00:04:45Thank you very much.
00:04:46Steve Marshall, Alan Wilson, James Uthman,
00:04:53Bill Thurmeyer, Chris Carr, Dave Sunday, Marty
00:04:58Jackley, as well as White House Deputy Chief of
00:05:01Staff.
00:05:02Stephen Miller.
00:05:03What a man Stephen is.
00:05:05Become a big star.
00:05:06Right, Emil?
00:05:07Steve Miller.
00:05:08Steve has been something very special.
00:05:13For generations, the Federal Department of
00:05:15Justice was one of America's most revered
00:05:18institutions.
00:05:19The men and women of the DOJ brought down the
00:05:22mafia, hunted down the killers, kingpins, and
00:05:25spies, tracked down terrorists and traitors,
00:05:28and tore down corrupt political machines all
00:05:31across America.
00:05:33This department commanded the respect and
00:05:35admiration of the entire world.
00:05:38And with Pam and Cash and all of the people I
00:05:40introduced, and far more big numbers than all of
00:05:43you sitting back there, I recognize so many of you.
00:05:47But with you leading the way, it'll soon be the
00:05:50most admired and most respected of all.
00:05:52You're going to be more respected.
00:05:53And I really believe that there's also a lot of
00:05:56things to solve, a lot of problems to solve.
00:05:59But that's going to put you in the upper tier and
00:06:02maybe the top tier.
00:06:03And I believe that's going to happen.
00:06:05I'm so proud of the people in this room.
00:06:08But first, we must be honest about the lies and
00:06:11abuses that have occurred within these walls.
00:06:14Unfortunately, in recent years, a corrupt group of
00:06:17hacks and radicals within the ranks of the American
00:06:20government obliterated the trust and goodwill built
00:06:24up over generations.
00:06:26They weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence
00:06:29and law enforcement agencies to try and
00:06:32thwart the will of the American people.
00:06:35You remember the 51 intelligence agents that
00:06:38said, as an example, that Hunter Biden's laptop from
00:06:41hell came from Russia when they knew it came
00:06:45right from his bedroom.
00:06:46They knew that.
00:06:47It was a big lie, and they knew it so well.
00:06:50They spied on my campaign, launched one hoax and
00:06:54disinformation operation after another, broke the
00:06:58law on a colossal scale, persecuted my family,
00:07:01staff, and supporters, raided my home, Mar-a-Lago,
00:07:06and did everything within their power to prevent me
00:07:09from becoming the President of the United
00:07:11States with the help of radicals like Mark Elias,
00:07:17Mark Pomerantz.
00:07:19And these are people that nobody has ever seen
00:07:21anything like it.
00:07:23So many others.
00:07:25But these are people that are bad people, really bad
00:07:29people.
00:07:30They tried to turn America into a corrupt
00:07:33communist and third-world country.
00:07:36But in the end, the thugs failed, and the truth won.
00:07:39Freedom won, justice won, democracy won, and, above
00:07:42all, the American people won.
00:07:46There could be no more heinous betrayal of
00:07:48American values than to use the law to terrorize
00:07:52the innocent and reward the wicked.
00:07:54And that's what they were doing at a level that's
00:07:56never been seen before.
00:07:59And it's exactly what you saw with Joe Biden, Merrick
00:08:03Garland, and their cronies to do the building of the
00:08:08last four years.
00:08:10What they've ripped down is incalculable.
00:08:14But what you're going to build up is, likewise,
00:08:16something that will be breaking all sorts of
00:08:19records.
00:08:20They set loose violent criminals while targeting
00:08:22patriotic parents at school board meetings.
00:08:25They dropped charges against Antifa and Hamas
00:08:29supporters while labeling traditional Catholics as
00:08:33domestic terrorists to Catholics.
00:08:35We did very well with the Catholic vote, so I want
00:08:37to thank them for that.
00:08:39They imported.
00:08:40They really did.
00:08:42Record numbers.
00:08:43I would say, what's with the Catholics?
00:08:48They're really after the Catholics.
00:08:49So, I don't know.
00:08:51They were after a lot of people.
00:08:53Maybe they didn't even know why.
00:08:55They imported illegal alien murderers, drug
00:08:57dealers, and child predators from all over
00:09:00the world to come into our country while putting
00:09:02elderly Christians and pro-life activists on
00:09:04trial for singing hymns and for saying prayers.
00:09:08They went to jail for that.
00:09:10Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice
00:09:13into the Department of Injustice.
00:09:16But I stand before you today to declare that
00:09:18those days are over and they are never going to
00:09:21come back.
00:09:22They're never coming back.
00:09:23So, now, as the Chief Law Enforcement Officer, I
00:09:35will insist upon and demand full and complete
00:09:39accountability for the wrongs and abuses that
00:09:42have occurred.
00:09:43The American people have given us a mandate, a
00:09:46mandate like few people thought possible.
00:09:49We won every single swing state.
00:09:51We won the popular vote by millions and millions of
00:09:55people.
00:09:56We won districts 2,750.
00:10:01Think of that.
00:10:022,750 district compared to 505.
00:10:09So, we won it at levels that have, I don't
00:10:11believe, ever seen before.
00:10:13That's the one where you see the map of the United
00:10:16States, and it's all red.
00:10:18Red for Republican, not for communist.
00:10:20Red for Republican.
00:10:22They would like it to turn red for communist, but
00:10:24it didn't work out that way.
00:10:27The American people have given us a mandate and
00:10:30really a far-reaching investigation is what
00:10:35they are demanding into the corruption of our
00:10:37system.
00:10:38And that's exactly, I'm sure, what Pam and Cash
00:10:41and everyone else mentioned here and not
00:10:44mentioned is going to be doing.
00:10:46We will expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces
00:10:49from our government.
00:10:50We will expose and very much expose their egregious
00:10:55crimes and severe misconduct, of which was
00:10:58levels.
00:10:59You've never seen anything like it.
00:11:01It's going to be legendary.
00:11:02It's going to also be legendary for the people
00:11:05that are able to seek it out and bring justice.
00:11:09We will restore the scales of justice in America,
00:11:12and we will ensure that such abuses never happen
00:11:15again in our country.
00:11:17And that's why, on day one, I signed an
00:11:19executive order banning all government censorship
00:11:22and directing the removal of every bureaucrat who
00:11:25conspired to attack free speech and many other
00:11:28things and values in America.
00:11:32My administration stripped the security clearances
00:11:35of the disgraced intelligence agents who
00:11:37lied about Hunter Biden's laptop from hell.
00:11:40We revoked the clearances of deranged Jack Smith,
00:11:44Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, and the crooked law
00:11:48firms that aided their partisan persecutions.
00:11:51And I went through it.
00:11:52These are state and city courts, and the corrupt
00:11:58corruption is unbelievable.
00:12:02We also terminated the clearances of the Biden
00:12:04crime family and Joe Biden himself.
00:12:07He didn't deserve it.
00:12:08In fact, he was essentially found guilty,
00:12:10but they said he was incompetent.
00:12:13And therefore, let's not find him guilty, I guess.
00:12:16Nobody knows what that ruling was, but I didn't
00:12:19want any part of it.
00:12:20I think I would have rather been found guilty
00:12:22than what they found with him.
00:12:24They said he didn't know what the hell he was
00:12:26doing, and therefore, he's let him go.
00:12:30I said, you know, I'd rather be convicted, Pam,
00:12:32I think, than that.
00:12:33That was not — I said, please convict me.
00:12:36Don't say that.
00:12:37I pardoned hundreds of political prisoners who
00:12:40had been grossly mistreated.
00:12:42We removed the senior FBI officials who misdirected
00:12:46resources to send SWAT teams after grandmothers
00:12:50and J6 hostages.
00:12:52And it was a great honor for me to fire — I will
00:12:55tell you this — a great honor to fire James Comey.
00:12:59A great, great honor.
00:13:00That was nothing.
00:13:01There was no better day.
00:13:02A lot of people said, oh, that's too bad you did
00:13:05that, and they said that's going to be — and you
00:13:07know what?
00:13:08They — a year later, they said that actually saved
00:13:11the administration because the level of corrupt
00:13:14things that we learned after that turned out to
00:13:16be that they were doing, in fact, really bad things.
00:13:19He was a terrible person, did terrible things, and
00:13:22persecuted people.
00:13:24And all in the guise of being an angel, but he
00:13:28wasn't an angel.
00:13:29We created a brand-new DOJ task force, an
00:13:32anti-Christian bias.
00:13:34And under Director Patel, we're getting the FBI
00:13:37agents out of the headquarters in
00:13:39Washington, D.C., and back on the streets in
00:13:42pursuit of dangerous criminals where they
00:13:44belong and where they want to be.
00:13:46And, you know, you have that big FBI building,
00:13:49and it's a very big building.
00:13:51And they were going to build an FBI headquarters
00:13:53three hours away in Maryland — a liberal
00:13:57state, but that has no bearing on what I'm about
00:13:59to say.
00:14:00But we're going to stop it.
00:14:01Not going to let that happen.
00:14:02We're going to build another big FBI building
00:14:04right where it is, which would have been the right
00:14:07place because the FBI and the DOJ have to be near
00:14:09each other.
00:14:10You can't every — that's one thing I did learn from
00:14:12this persecution.
00:14:13The FBI and the DOJ work together.
00:14:16Now, in my case, they work together for bad
00:14:18purposes, but they do.
00:14:19They were always together.
00:14:20So how can you have one that's three hours away?
00:14:22But one thing I said to Cash, well, we're going to
00:14:26get a great building built.
00:14:27It's going to be a magnificent building.
00:14:29He said, Sir, we don't need that kind of room.
00:14:31I said, What do you mean?
00:14:32He said, I'm just going to take a old Department of
00:14:35Commerce building that's about 25 percent the size,
00:14:38and that's what I need.
00:14:39We're going to have the best staff that you've
00:14:41ever seen, and that's what I need.
00:14:42It's in a nice location, but I don't need that big
00:14:44building.
00:14:45Why don't you just sell the site to somebody?
00:14:48And we're going to be very happy.
00:14:50And they want to have far fewer people, but we also
00:14:53want to have them in D.C.
00:14:56And if for no other reason, we like having
00:14:58law enforcement walking the streets of our
00:15:01Capitol, because when the bad guys are out there and
00:15:04they see there's an FBI agent, that's the ultimate
00:15:07in law enforcement.
00:15:09And they're not going to be acting so bad.
00:15:11We're cleaning up our city.
00:15:12We're cleaning up this great Capitol.
00:15:14And we're not going to have crime, and we're not
00:15:16going to stand for crime.
00:15:18And we're going to take the graffiti down, and
00:15:20we're already taking the tents down, and we're
00:15:23working with the administration.
00:15:24And if the administration can't do the job, we're
00:15:27going to take — we're going to have to take it
00:15:29back and run it through the federal government.
00:15:31But we hope the administration is going to
00:15:33be able — so far, they've been doing very well.
00:15:34The mayor has been doing a good job.
00:15:36We said there are tents galore right opposite the
00:15:41State Department.
00:15:41They have to come down, and they took them down
00:15:43right away.
00:15:45And so, so far, so good.
00:15:47But we want to have a Capitol that can be the
00:15:50talk of the world when Prime Minister Modi of
00:15:53India, when the President of France, and all of
00:15:56these people — the head of Prime Minister of the
00:16:00United Kingdom — they all came to see me over
00:16:02the last week and a half.
00:16:05And when they come in, I like to — I had the route
00:16:09run.
00:16:10I didn't want to have them see tents.
00:16:11I didn't want to have them see graffiti.
00:16:13I didn't want to have them see broken barriers and
00:16:16potholes in the roads.
00:16:17And we had it looking beautiful.
00:16:19And we're going to do that for the city.
00:16:21And we're going to have a crime-free Capitol.
00:16:23When people come here, they're not going to be
00:16:25mugged or shot or raped.
00:16:27They're going to have a crime-free Capitol again.
00:16:30And it's going to be cleaner and better and
00:16:32safer than it ever was.
00:16:33And it's not going to take us too long.
00:16:35There's a new phenomena that is taking place with
00:16:39these violent, vicious lawyers that we have all
00:16:41over.
00:16:42They play the ref.
00:16:43You know what playing the ref is?
00:16:44It's like the great Bobby Knight basketball coach.
00:16:47He'd scream and scream at the ref.
00:16:49He'd scream.
00:16:50I watched him.
00:16:51By the way, I love Bobby Knight because he endorsed
00:16:53me.
00:16:53And having — having Bobby Knight's endorsement in
00:16:57Indiana was an extremely good thing.
00:16:58A friend of mine said — I was running in Indiana at
00:17:01the time.
00:17:02This was early on, 2016.
00:17:05And I was doing great.
00:17:07But a friend came up and said, Do you know Bobby
00:17:09Knight?
00:17:10I said, No, I don't.
00:17:11But I hear he was a tough cookie.
00:17:13He said — not only tough, he was beyond tough.
00:17:16But he's the most popular guy you can imagine.
00:17:19It turned out he wanted to endorse me.
00:17:21He called me about two years before.
00:17:23He said, Sir, I'd like to endorse you.
00:17:25I said, Is this really Bobby Knight?
00:17:26He said, It's me.
00:17:27I could tell it was Bobby Knight.
00:17:29He had been known for throwing the chair across
00:17:31the court and slapping a player.
00:17:33Can't — can't do things like that, right?
00:17:36And the man that came in fired him.
00:17:38It was a new administrator for the — that guy
00:17:40didn't last very long.
00:17:42They were like 14-0, and they fired Coach Knight.
00:17:46That was not good.
00:17:47But he had a little chip in his shoulder.
00:17:49But he loved Trump.
00:17:50And he came in and he — he said, I'd love to
00:17:52endorse you.
00:17:53He said, If you ever run, please call me.
00:17:54So he said, Do you know Bobby Knight?
00:17:55I said, Well, I don't know.
00:17:57But he called me a couple of years ago.
00:17:59It was an amazing phenomenon.
00:18:01I took his number.
00:18:02And on each side of my desk in New York, I had
00:18:06stacks of paper, like, nice and neat, but about
00:18:10two feet high each.
00:18:11And I said, You know, I wrote his number down,
00:18:13and I put it here, two years ago.
00:18:14And I said, Let me see if I can find it.
00:18:16It was almost like a miracle.
00:18:18I had other miracles that happened, too.
00:18:20My ear is still throbbing.
00:18:21That was a miracle.
00:18:23That was a miracle also, wasn't it?
00:18:28That was a miracle also.
00:18:31Thank you, Leo.
00:18:32Thank you, my man.
00:18:39Thank you, my man.
00:18:40That was a miracle.
00:18:44Anyway.
00:18:45Okay, that's a — that's very nice.
00:18:49But — so he said, Bobby Knight.
00:18:51So I said, You know, I put his name down, and I wrote
00:18:54it down.
00:18:54It's in one of these stacks.
00:18:55Let me — I lifted it up.
00:18:57It would have to be 2,000, 3,000 pages in each stack.
00:19:01I lifted it up, the first one.
00:19:03I had no idea.
00:19:04And there was his name on the little card, Bobby
00:19:06Knight, with his number.
00:19:07It was, like, incredible.
00:19:09I tell that story all the time.
00:19:10And I called him and dialed the number.
00:19:13He said, I've been waiting for you to call.
00:19:18And he went out, and he made a speech for me in a
00:19:21packed arena in Indiana, and it was over.
00:19:23It was over.
00:19:24He was — he was a tough guy.
00:19:27He actually went a little far, you know, if you
00:19:31were — if you remember.
00:19:32He made a great speech because he was actually a
00:19:34motivational-type guy, to put it mildly.
00:19:37But he left the stage, and then I was talking, and
00:19:39he walks back onto the stage.
00:19:41I said, uh-oh, this is trouble.
00:19:43Why is he coming back?
00:19:44He was a big guy, too.
00:19:45I — why is he coming back?
00:19:46He said, may I say a few more words?
00:19:48I said, yeah, go ahead, Bobby, say a few more
00:19:50words.
00:19:50A little different.
00:19:51And he said, and let me tell you something about
00:19:53this guy, Trump.
00:19:55This guy, if he has to, will use the nuclear
00:19:58weapons that we have.
00:19:59He will use the — he has no fear he's going to
00:20:02use.
00:20:02And that's the kind of guy — and he walks off the
00:20:04stage.
00:20:05I said, I think I'm — I think I'm in big trouble,
00:20:07Pam.
00:20:08That was not good, but it worked out okay.
00:20:10In the meantime — in the meantime, we won the
00:20:14state in a landslide, and it was great.
00:20:16And it was just an amazing period of time.
00:20:18But — but this is the most amazing period of
00:20:21time.
00:20:21I think this is more amazing, what's — what's
00:20:24taken place.
00:20:24It's been more amazing.
00:20:26I think it's more consequential.
00:20:28And if we do the job — you know, one of the big
00:20:32media outlets said what we did was the most
00:20:35consequential election in the last 129 years.
00:20:38Well, if we do the job that we're all capable of
00:20:40doing, I think it's going to be — it's going to
00:20:43prove to be that and then some.
00:20:45And that's what we want to do.
00:20:46We have a real big shot at making this country so
00:20:50great, so great.
00:20:52What happened to our country was so sad.
00:20:55What they've done in four years to our country,
00:20:57with the borders, with Afghanistan — the
00:21:00embarrassing, most embarrassing period of
00:21:03time, allowing the Russian situation — it was never
00:21:06going to happen with Ukraine.
00:21:08Allowing October 7th to happen would have never
00:21:11happened because, under me, Iran was totally broke.
00:21:13They had no money.
00:21:14They weren't giving any money to Hamas or Hezbollah.
00:21:16It was totally broke.
00:21:19But allowing inflation — look at what inflation has
00:21:22done to people.
00:21:22It's been so devastating.
00:21:23And now you see that — by the way, price of eggs
00:21:25is down 35 percent in the last week and a half.
00:21:29We're doing a good job.
00:21:30Brooke is doing a good job.
00:21:31Brooke Rollins and everybody.
00:21:33And inflation is down.
00:21:37Interest rates are down.
00:21:38Gasoline has come down to a level that we haven't
00:21:42seen in a long time.
00:21:43All things that we wanted to do, because then
00:21:45everything else is going to be coming down.
00:21:47We want it to come down.
00:21:48We want bacon to come down and groceries.
00:21:51A term I used to use — it's sort of an old-fashioned
00:21:54term, but I used to use it on the campaign trail.
00:21:57Those last 90 perfect, beautiful days, we just
00:22:00hit it.
00:22:01And I want to thank Suzy.
00:22:02You have done a great job.
00:22:03Suzy Wiles.
00:22:04Great job, Suzy.
00:22:07A big magazine just named her the most powerful
00:22:13woman in the world, and that's okay with me.
00:22:15She is the most powerful woman.
00:22:17You think about it, John, right?
00:22:19The most powerful woman in the world.
00:22:21But she's great.
00:22:22And we had a great 90 days.
00:22:24It was a perfect 90 days, and it was a great result.
00:22:28But we want to put that result to good use by
00:22:31doing a phenomenal job.
00:22:32And I want to tell you that Todd and Emil know
00:22:37this very well.
00:22:38We had an amazing judge in Florida, and her name is
00:22:44Eileen Cannon.
00:22:46And I didn't know her.
00:22:48I still don't know her.
00:22:49I don't believe I ever spoke to her, even during
00:22:51the trial.
00:22:53But I did appoint her federal judge.
00:22:57And these fake lawyers, these horrible human
00:22:59beings, were hitting her so hard, public relations
00:23:03wise.
00:23:03They were playing the ref.
00:23:05I don't think it's legal.
00:23:07I don't think it's legal.
00:23:08They might as well go out and just shout it in a
00:23:11courthouse.
00:23:13They were saying she was slow, she wasn't smart,
00:23:17she was totally biased.
00:23:20She loved Trump.
00:23:22I didn't know her, other than I saw her the couple
00:23:26days that I was in court, and I thought her decorum
00:23:29was amazing.
00:23:31Anything bad they could say, though, they were
00:23:33saying about her.
00:23:33It was whatever they could say bad about a human
00:23:37being.
00:23:37All made up.
00:23:38Because, actually, she was brilliant.
00:23:40She moved quickly.
00:23:42She was the absolute model of what a judge should be.
00:23:47And she was strong and tough.
00:23:50And how do you get them to stop, if you're a judge?
00:23:53How do you get them to stop with the playing the
00:23:56ref?
00:23:56Bobby Knight would play the ref.
00:23:58That's why I brought up the Bobby Knight story.
00:24:00He would play the ref.
00:24:01He'd scream at the ref.
00:24:02He'd scream so hard.
00:24:03Oh, boy, it was terrible, actually.
00:24:06And the people would come up.
00:24:08His assistant coaches would come up to play.
00:24:10He's, coach, coach, don't do that.
00:24:12You don't do it.
00:24:13He said, he's not going to change his tune, coach.
00:24:17He called it.
00:24:17He's not changing it.
00:24:18I don't care.
00:24:19And he's screaming.
00:24:20That's when he threw her in a chair.
00:24:22He starts going crazy.
00:24:23And he said, no, he's not going to change this time,
00:24:25but he's going to change for the next play.
00:24:27And sure as hell he did.
00:24:28You know, Bobby, by the way, had the last
00:24:30undefeated team in basketball.
00:24:32And, relatively speaking, you know, he had a team.
00:24:35He always had a team.
00:24:36He never had that.
00:24:37Well, he had a couple of great players, obviously,
00:24:39with some top NBA players.
00:24:41But very few, relatively.
00:24:42He had a team.
00:24:43But he had he won the national championship
00:24:46three times.
00:24:46But he had the last undefeated team in
00:24:48basketball.
00:24:50And he would play the ref and he would scream at
00:24:52him.
00:24:53He knew exactly what he was doing.
00:24:54They're doing the same thing.
00:24:56He said, no, he's not going to change now, but
00:24:57he's going to change for the next one.
00:24:58That's what he wanted to do.
00:24:59He wanted to scare the hell.
00:25:01They wanted to scare the hell out of the judges.
00:25:03And they do it.
00:25:05And how do you stop it if you're a judge?
00:25:08Because you want to go home.
00:25:09You have a family.
00:25:10You have children.
00:25:10And the New York Times will write whatever these
00:25:12people say.
00:25:14And the Washington Post and the Wall Street
00:25:16Journal and MSDNC and the fake news, CNN and ABC,
00:25:22CBS and NBC.
00:25:24And they'll write whatever they say.
00:25:26And what do you do to get rid of it?
00:25:28You convict Trump.
00:25:30All you have to do is be really tough on him and
00:25:33ultimately convict him.
00:25:35And they leave you alone.
00:25:36It's totally illegal what they do.
00:25:38I just hope you can all watch for it, but it's
00:25:40totally illegal.
00:25:41And it was so unfair what they were doing to her.
00:25:44But they do it all the time with judges.
00:25:46But in her case, she was very courageous and it
00:25:51only made her angry.
00:25:52Wouldn't you say?
00:25:53It just made her angry.
00:25:55She didn't like it.
00:25:57A lot of them say, oh, please don't say that
00:25:59about me.
00:26:00My family.
00:26:01What's my husband going to say?
00:26:02What's my wife going to say?
00:26:03Or my kids?
00:26:05Please don't say that.
00:26:07And it had absolutely no impact on her.
00:26:10And the case against me, which was a case I will
00:26:14not use a bad word.
00:26:16I promised.
00:26:17I promised my wife I would never use a bad word.
00:26:20So, just a little bad.
00:26:21The case against me was bullshit.
00:26:23And she correctly dismissed it.
00:26:27She correctly.
00:26:30She correctly.
00:26:34Look at Emil.
00:26:34He's looking.
00:26:35He says, that's interesting.
00:26:37But these two guys were warriors.
00:26:39You got a warrior here.
00:26:40You got two warriors, I can tell you that.
00:26:42You got a whole bunch of them.
00:26:44But, and they wouldn't quit.
00:26:47They wouldn't take no for an answer.
00:26:49They just wouldn't quit.
00:26:50These two people right up here and some others that
00:26:53are involved with it indirectly.
00:26:56And what the lawyers do is they're doing it to the
00:26:59Supreme Court justices, hoping that they'll be
00:27:03overcome by the horrible things they say about it.
00:27:06They say things about Supreme Court justices
00:27:08and judges that are just horrible.
00:27:10They're playing the referee.
00:27:11Remember the way they treated Justice Thomas
00:27:14and Justice Alito and Justice Kavanaugh,
00:27:17Justice Gorsuch.
00:27:19Chief Justice Roberts gets treated unbelievably badly.
00:27:23And they're hoping that they can sway them to go
00:27:27along because, again, what do they do?
00:27:30They're humans.
00:27:30You know, like any, it would be wonderful if
00:27:32everybody was just a perfect computer machine.
00:27:36But they're not.
00:27:36They're humans.
00:27:38And they don't want to be accused of many, many
00:27:41things, including gross incompetence.
00:27:43They don't like it and they don't want it.
00:27:45There's not much they can do about it.
00:27:47You know, they're in a position they can't
00:27:48really fight back really very well.
00:27:51And so what they do is sometimes they get weak.
00:27:55I would say a majority, maybe, of the times.
00:27:57That's why I'm so impressed with Judge
00:28:00Cannon in Florida, how strong she was, how she
00:28:02held up.
00:28:03It actually made her more resolute than anything
00:28:07I've seen.
00:28:07I mean, it was amazing because they were hitting
00:28:09her so hard.
00:28:10It was so sad to watch this.
00:28:12But it's sad what they do to other judges.
00:28:14It's very sad what they do to the Supreme Court.
00:28:17And all of a lot of the judges that I had, if you
00:28:22look at them, they take tremendous abuse in the
00:28:24New York Times and the Washington Post, all of
00:28:27the different networks.
00:28:28They take such abuse.
00:28:30And, honestly, they're very simply, they're
00:28:33afraid of bad publicity.
00:28:35They don't want bad publicity.
00:28:37And it's truly interference, in my
00:28:40opinion, and it should be illegal and it probably is
00:28:43illegal in some form.
00:28:45There's no difference than speaking to a judge or
00:28:49shouting to a judge or doing whatever you have to
00:28:52do in a courthouse.
00:28:53They're doing it behind the back.
00:28:54They're usually doing it anonymously.
00:28:56They're saying, anonymously, off the
00:28:58record, the judge is no good.
00:28:59But everybody knows where it's coming from.
00:29:02And it's totally coordinated.
00:29:03It's a campaign.
00:29:04And it's by the same scum that you have been dealing
00:29:08with for years, like guys like Andrew Weissman,
00:29:10Derange Jack Smith.
00:29:12There's a guy named Norm Eisen.
00:29:14I don't even know what he looks like.
00:29:15His name is Norm Eisen of CREW.
00:29:17He's been after me for nine years.
00:29:20Now, CREW is a charitable organization.
00:29:22And the reason I'm saying this, Todd, is I'm only
00:29:26going to get one chance to say this.
00:29:28But these are bad people.
00:29:30I don't know who he is.
00:29:31I don't know what he looks like.
00:29:32But everything I read is Norm Eisen of CREW.
00:29:36And CREW is a charitable organization.
00:29:39And that's a political thing.
00:29:42His sole life is to get Donald Trump.
00:29:45And he's been vicious and violent.
00:29:49And he's trying.
00:29:50And he probably had pretty good success over the years.
00:29:53But with me, how did he do?
00:29:55I think I'm President.
00:29:56Am I here because I'm President?
00:29:58But we had to take all of that abuse.
00:30:00Even during the trials, we had to take tremendous
00:30:02abuse, like, you know, these wonderful guys.
00:30:04They're not legitimate people.
00:30:05They're horrible people.
00:30:07They're scum.
00:30:09And you have to know that.
00:30:11And you're going to have these cases where you
00:30:15can't allow yourselves to be deflected.
00:30:19You just can't let it happen.
00:30:20You have so many — you have such a higher calling.
00:30:23And I believe that CNN and MSDNC, who literally
00:30:28write 97.6 percent bad about me, are political
00:30:32arms of the Democrat Party.
00:30:34And in my opinion, they're really corrupt
00:30:37and they're illegal.
00:30:39What they do is illegal.
00:30:41It makes no difference how big a victory I had.
00:30:43I can have the biggest victory in history.
00:30:45It makes no difference what kind of a failure the
00:30:49other side has.
00:30:51These people are going to go after me.
00:30:53And I said it during the other night, during the
00:30:56big speech on Tuesday night.
00:30:58I said about Democrats, and I don't like that.
00:31:01I have great respect, by the way, for what Schumer
00:31:03did today.
00:31:04He went out and he said that they have to vote
00:31:06with the Republicans because it's the right
00:31:08thing to do.
00:31:08I couldn't believe what I heard.
00:31:10But, you know, I think he's going to get some
00:31:12credit for it, I think.
00:31:13Let's see what happens tonight with the big vote
00:31:15as it comes.
00:31:16But these networks and these newspapers are
00:31:21really no different than a highly paid political
00:31:24operative.
00:31:25And it has to stop.
00:31:27It has to be illegal.
00:31:28It's influencing judges, and it's really changing
00:31:34law, and it just cannot be legal.
00:31:37I don't believe it's legal.
00:31:39And they do it in total coordination with each
00:31:42other.
00:31:43And everything we do, we're restoring law,
00:31:45restoring order, and restoring public safety in
00:31:48America.
00:31:49That's what we want to do.
00:31:50And we're bringing honor and integrity and
00:31:52accountability back to the highest levels of the
00:31:55FBI, DOJ, and throughout our government.
00:31:59We're bringing our country back faster than anyone
00:32:02ever thought possible.
00:32:03We're working so hard at doing it.
00:32:04And we want fairness in the courts.
00:32:07The courts are a big factor.
00:32:08The elections, which were totally rigged, are a big
00:32:12factor.
00:32:12We have to have honest elections.
00:32:13We have to have borders.
00:32:15And we have to have courts and law that's fair.
00:32:19Well, we're not going to have a country.
00:32:21Crooked Joe Biden got us into a real mess with
00:32:24Russia and everything else he did, frankly.
00:32:27But he didn't know about it.
00:32:28And he, generally speaking, signed it with
00:32:30Autopen.
00:32:31So how would he know?
00:32:32That Autopen is a big deal.
00:32:34I don't know.
00:32:34You know, they're having — who's doing this?
00:32:37When my people come up — Will and all of the
00:32:40people, Steve — they come up and say, sir, this is
00:32:43an executive order.
00:32:44They explain it to me.
00:32:45And, you know, 90 percent of the time, I sign it.
00:32:47Ninety-nine percent of the time, I say do it.
00:32:50But they come up and I sign it.
00:32:52But you don't use Autopen.
00:32:54It's — number one, it's disrespectful to the
00:32:57office.
00:32:58Number two, maybe it's not even valid because, you
00:33:00know, who's getting him to sign?
00:33:02He had no idea what the hell he was doing.
00:33:04If he did, all of these bad things wouldn't be
00:33:06happening right now.
00:33:08But we're going to get you back into a great
00:33:11position, and we've already started.
00:33:12They say that we had the most successful first
00:33:17month of President.
00:33:18It's not a long time, but it's still a lot.
00:33:20It's like if you're a golfer.
00:33:21Sinking a three-foot putt on the first hole gives
00:33:24you confidence to sink something on the second
00:33:26hole.
00:33:27But if you miss that first putt, you don't like to
00:33:29have the putt on the second hole and the third
00:33:32hole.
00:33:32It could be a very bad experience.
00:33:34It's nice to get that first month, and now we
00:33:36have more than a month.
00:33:37Now we have a month and a half, and it's going
00:33:40really, really well.
00:33:41I can tell you — it's a little secret, although
00:33:43the cameras are blazing back there, so it's not
00:33:45that much.
00:33:46But I think we're doing well, as you have been
00:33:48hearing about Ukraine.
00:33:50I think we're doing now well with Russia.
00:33:54We're speaking with President Putin.
00:33:56We want to get the war over.
00:33:59Not only have we spent maybe $350 billion to
00:34:02Europe's — think of that, $350 billion to $100
00:34:06billion, and yet we're across the ocean, far
00:34:08away.
00:34:09So it shouldn't have been that way, but Biden let
00:34:10that happen too.
00:34:12And we're getting a deal where we're going to get
00:34:15that back.
00:34:15But much more importantly are the lives that we're
00:34:18talking about.
00:34:20On average, 2,000 young people are being killed
00:34:23every single day.
00:34:23Now, they're not from here.
00:34:26They're from nowhere close to here.
00:34:27But they're young people.
00:34:29They're human beings.
00:34:31And they have parents.
00:34:33They have sisters and brothers, the mothers and
00:34:35fathers, the friends and the families, and the
00:34:38towns where they grew up.
00:34:41And they're losing, on average, 2,000 — even
00:34:452,500 a week.
00:34:49And I want to get it stopped.
00:34:50And we've had some very good calls today with
00:34:54Russia and with Ukraine.
00:34:56They've agreed for a ceasefire, if we can get
00:34:59it with Russia.
00:35:00And it's not easy.
00:35:02It's a — it's a tough one.
00:35:04But I think we're doing it.
00:35:06And as the Secretary General said yesterday of
00:35:10NATO — a terrific guy — he said, without Trump,
00:35:12we wouldn't be talking about it.
00:35:13It would just go on for years and millions more
00:35:16people — millions of people have been killed,
00:35:18but millions more people would be killed.
00:35:20And he said it was a great honor.
00:35:22Without me, it would just keep going on.
00:35:25We're looking for the ceasefire.
00:35:28Now, with Russia — and we've had some very good
00:35:30talks about it.
00:35:31We've had some very good responses.
00:35:34And I can tell you that there was a case where
00:35:38there would have been no war if I were President.
00:35:41And it's just 100 percent would not have happened.
00:35:44Would never have happened.
00:35:45I used to speak to President Putin a lot
00:35:47about it.
00:35:48I said, Don't do it.
00:35:49Don't do it.
00:35:50I won't tell you what the consequence was.
00:35:52I won't tell you what he said.
00:35:53But if he believed even 5 percent of what I said,
00:35:55then he would say, I'm not going to do it.
00:35:57And I think he did.
00:35:59But we had a good relationship, and we had a
00:36:01professional relationship.
00:36:02And here's respect for this country.
00:36:06And I think we had — I think we've had some very
00:36:10good results.
00:36:10So, you know, I haven't been able to say that to
00:36:12anybody else.
00:36:13I haven't wanted to say it until just before I came
00:36:15here.
00:36:16I got some pretty good news.
00:36:17So — but we have to see what happens.
00:36:19It's still a long way to go.
00:36:20The fighting is unbelievable.
00:36:23Russia has a large group of Ukrainian soldiers, as
00:36:27we speak, surrounded and in grave danger.
00:36:31They've been able to surround them.
00:36:33They're in grave danger.
00:36:34Biden should have never let this war happen.
00:36:37First of all, you don't want to pick on somebody
00:36:40that's a lot larger than you, even with the money.
00:36:44There's a lot of money that we gave them and a lot
00:36:46of equipment.
00:36:46We make the best military equipment in the world.
00:36:49But even with all of that, it's unbelievable.
00:36:53Right now, you have a lot of Ukrainian soldiers that
00:36:55are encircled and in grave danger.
00:36:57And I've asked them not to kill those soldiers,
00:36:59please.
00:37:00Not to kill those soldiers.
00:37:02We don't want them killed.
00:37:04It's such a shame to see what's happened.
00:37:07A thing like that would have never happened.
00:37:09Inflation would have never happened.
00:37:11October 7th would have never happened.
00:37:13Israel — Iran had no money.
00:37:17They were totally broke.
00:37:18Think of it.
00:37:19They had no money to give to anybody.
00:37:21They were totally broke.
00:37:23And within a short period of time, as soon as Biden
00:37:25came in, he took out all the sanctions in China.
00:37:28And everybody else that wasn't buying oil from
00:37:30Iran was buying it at levels that they'd never
00:37:32spent before.
00:37:34And it was — it was a sad thing.
00:37:38And if you look at Afghanistan, that was
00:37:41probably what got Putin started.
00:37:43Because when he looked at how horribly — horribly
00:37:46we looked, I think the most embarrassing day — not
00:37:48that we got out, because we were getting out.
00:37:50I would have been out faster than them.
00:37:51I was the one that got it down to the right level.
00:37:54But we would have kept Bagram, the big Air Force
00:37:56base.
00:37:57We would have kept it.
00:37:57Right now, China occupies Bagram.
00:37:59And the reason we would have kept it is because
00:38:01they were one hour away from where China has and
00:38:05builds its nuclear missiles and weapons.
00:38:08And they gave that up.
00:38:10At the dark of night, they left the lights on.
00:38:12And they left the dogs behind, by the way.
00:38:15A lot of people say, what about all the dogs?
00:38:17They had a lot of dogs.
00:38:18And they left the dogs behind.
00:38:20And what a shame.
00:38:22What a shame.
00:38:23The way we got out.
00:38:24I think it was the most humiliating time in the
00:38:26history of our country.
00:38:27The way it happened — not that we were getting out
00:38:30because we wanted to get out, but we would have
00:38:32gotten out with dignity and strength.
00:38:35And what a difference a rigged and crooked
00:38:37election had on our country, when you think
00:38:39about it.
00:38:39And the people who did this to us should go to jail.
00:38:44They should go to jail.
00:38:46So I just want to say, God bless America, because we
00:38:50have to say, God bless.
00:38:52We're lucky we're still here, frankly.
00:38:54And this whole thing could lead — I think — I think
00:38:57we have it.
00:38:58I think we have it.
00:39:00But this could lead to World War Three.
00:39:04Very easily.
00:39:05It could very easily lead to World War Three.
00:39:07But I think we're in pretty good shape.
00:39:10A lot better than we were before we got involved.
00:39:14That I can tell you.
00:39:14It was going — that was heading into World War
00:39:17Three territory.
00:39:18And that would have been a war like no other because
00:39:20of nuclear weapons and other types of weapons
00:39:22that, hey, people, you don't even want to know
00:39:24about.
00:39:26But as many of you do know, well, we're focused on
00:39:30persecuting.
00:39:31And these people were really focused on
00:39:34persecuting Republicans.
00:39:35The last administration presided over the worst
00:39:39increase in violent crime in our country in many,
00:39:42many decades.
00:39:43We had levels of violence and crime, and a lot of
00:39:46it had to do with the illegal immigrants that
00:39:49came in.
00:39:49You remember when I used to complain about it?
00:39:51Because I knew how tough they were, how mean they
00:39:53were.
00:39:54And they said, No, no, people that come into our
00:39:56country are all wonderful people.
00:39:58No, they're not wonderful.
00:39:59These are stone-cold killers.
00:40:01These are killers like — they make our killers
00:40:04look nice, by comparison.
00:40:07They make our killers look nice.
00:40:08These are rough, tough people with the tattoos
00:40:11all over their face.
00:40:12Historically speaking — I don't want to
00:40:13discriminate against anybody, but historically
00:40:16speaking, they're not going to be the head of any
00:40:18major bank that we know of.
00:40:20These are rough people.
00:40:21These are rough, rough killer people, and they
00:40:24allowed them in by the millions.
00:40:26In major cities like New York, Chicago, and
00:40:29Washington, mothers can't walk their children to the
00:40:31park without fear of being shot or killed or raped or
00:40:37anything.
00:40:38Women can't ride the subway without worrying
00:40:40that a hoodlum will shove them onto the train
00:40:43tracks.
00:40:45In New York, it's happened twice in the last couple
00:40:47of weeks.
00:40:48They're standing there — a perfect Wall Street
00:40:51gentleman, in one case, and another person who was
00:40:53a worker — good worker, electrician — gets pushed
00:40:58into a train going 45 miles an hour just prior to
00:41:02the train.
00:41:03Not stopping.
00:41:03Going to go through that.
00:41:04I know the stations very well.
00:41:05I used to take the subway.
00:41:07I used to feel safe.
00:41:08When I was young, I'd go to the — my parents would
00:41:10drop me off at the subway.
00:41:11I'd take the subway to my school.
00:41:13Can you believe it?
00:41:14Today, they wouldn't be doing that.
00:41:16And we want to back — we want to get a country
00:41:18back maybe where you can do that again, Pam.
00:41:21But it's so sad to see what — what's taking
00:41:23place.
00:41:24Under the Biden regime, average monthly homicides
00:41:27increased by 14 percent.
00:41:29Property crime rose tremendously.
00:41:32Violent crime went up at least 37 percent, that
00:41:35they know of.
00:41:35Rape soared by 42 percent.
00:41:37Car theft rose by 48 percent.
00:41:40And robberies surged to 63 to 100 percent.
00:41:44They don't even know what the number is.
00:41:47And I have no higher mission as President of
00:41:50the United States than to end this killing and stop
00:41:53this lawbreaking and to making America safe again.
00:41:56And that's what you're all about in this room.
00:41:59We want to protect Americans and we protect
00:42:01everybody that's in our country, American or not
00:42:04American.
00:42:04We want to have a safe and proud country.
00:42:07We're joined today by dozens of police officers,
00:42:09sheriffs, and sheriff's deputies from all across
00:42:12the country.
00:42:14My message to these law enforcement heroes is
00:42:16simple.
00:42:17With me in the White House, you once again have a
00:42:19President who will always have your back — will
00:42:22always have your back.
00:42:22Thank you, folks.
00:42:35That's a lot of good-looking people, I
00:42:39will tell you.
00:42:40I feel safe.
00:42:40I'm glad you're in the room.
00:42:41I feel even safer.
00:42:43It's a lot of great people.
00:42:45On day one, I signed an executive order directing
00:42:47Attorney General to ensure that anyone who murders a
00:42:51police officer immediately, with as fast a
00:42:54trial as we can have, gets the death penalty.
00:42:58And last month, I fired all the radical-left
00:43:10pro-crime U.S.
00:43:11attorneys appointed by Joe Biden.
00:43:13There were so many that were bad.
00:43:14And I know there were some that were probably very
00:43:17good, but there were so many that were so bad and
00:43:19so evil, so corrupt.
00:43:22Instead of having Marxist prosecutors who want to
00:43:25put police officers in handcuffs and go after a
00:43:28police officer rather than a criminal, I appointed
00:43:31patriotic, tough-on-crime warriors who will partner
00:43:34with police to put dangerous offenders behind
00:43:37bars, put them in jail.
00:43:39We're fully reviving 1033 program to provide state
00:43:43and local law enforcement with surplus military
00:43:46equipment.
00:43:47We have so much of it.
00:43:48I did it in my last administration, and I
00:43:50remember Obama wouldn't do it.
00:43:52He wouldn't do it before me.
00:43:54He would not do it because he thought it made them
00:43:57look too strong, too military.
00:43:58I said, no, that's what I want them to look like.
00:44:00I want them to look strong.
00:44:02And it was protective, defensive equipment.
00:44:04We had billions of dollars.
00:44:06I gave it out, and now I'm going to have a chance to
00:44:08give it out again.
00:44:09They didn't want to do it with Biden.
00:44:11And Biden didn't know why.
00:44:12I didn't, you know, if they would have asked him,
00:44:14he wouldn't have been able to answer the question.
00:44:16He could never answer a question.
00:44:17They said my press conference yesterday was
00:44:19longer than all of Biden's press conferences put
00:44:22together for the last four years.
00:44:24And I don't know if that's true, but it was close.
00:44:26And perhaps most importantly, we're
00:44:31securing our border and repelling the invasion of
00:44:33America.
00:44:34We have you see the numbers have come down.
00:44:38So and Tom Holman and Christie were have been
00:44:41incredible.
00:44:42Christie Noem, a secretary.
00:44:44She's done great.
00:44:45And Tom Holman is I don't know if Tom Holman's here,
00:44:48but wherever he may be, I think he's chasing people
00:44:51out of our country.
00:44:52If he was here, I'd almost be disappointed.
00:44:54What are you doing, Tom?
00:44:56But he's a fantastic guy and he's a brave guy.
00:44:58Over the past four years, other countries emptied
00:45:01out their prisons and jails, mental institutions
00:45:04and insane asylums and sent the killers, drug
00:45:08smugglers and bloodthirsty inmates from the filthiest
00:45:12dungeons of the world straight into the USA and
00:45:15open border.
00:45:15We had an open border policy.
00:45:17Anybody could come in no matter what you were, no
00:45:19matter where you came from, no matter what you
00:45:21look like, no matter what you were doing, no matter
00:45:24what you did, no matter how many people you
00:45:26murdered.
00:45:27You could come right into our country.
00:45:28We have murderers right now walking the streets.
00:45:32We're joined today by Tammy Nobles, whose 20
00:45:34year old daughter, Kayla, was attacked in her home
00:45:38three years ago, horrifically assaulted and
00:45:40strangled to death by an illegal alien.
00:45:43MS-13 monster set loose into our country under the
00:45:47open border Biden regime.
00:45:50Kayla was one of countless American victims
00:45:52ripped away from their families by the open border
00:45:55policies of that administration.
00:45:57And we're also joined by Kayla's stepfather,
00:46:01Jeremiah, and several other courageous angel
00:46:03families here today.
00:46:04And I'd love you to all just stand up and take a
00:46:08bow because you are incredible people.
00:46:10Please.
00:46:20Thank you very much.
00:46:33But I want you to know that we are working every
00:46:35day to expel these savages from our country and
00:46:38ensure that what happened to your loved ones will
00:46:41never happen again.
00:46:42So their legacy is going to be a great one.
00:46:44Thank you all very much.
00:46:45We appreciate it.
00:46:47On day one of my administration, I
00:46:49declared a national emergency on our southern
00:46:51border.
00:46:52In our first full month in office, we achieved the
00:46:54lowest level of illegal border crossings ever
00:46:57recorded.
00:46:58Okay?
00:46:58Even lower than four years ago.
00:47:01For years, Democrats and the media kept saying that
00:47:08we needed new legislation.
00:47:10We had to have new legislation.
00:47:12We needed it immediately.
00:47:13And I'd never had legislation.
00:47:15I had the best border in the history of our country
00:47:17for almost four years.
00:47:20And by the time I got out, we had the lowest numbers
00:47:22ever.
00:47:23My favorite chart of all time was brought down that
00:47:25day.
00:47:26And on that chart, it said we had the lowest numbers
00:47:28ever.
00:47:29But it turned out that we really didn't need new
00:47:33legislation.
00:47:34All you needed was a new President.
00:47:36And I said that.
00:47:44I said that the other night.
00:47:46That's all you needed was a new President saying,
00:47:48close the borders because the Border Patrol is
00:47:51unbelievable.
00:47:51ICE is unbelievable.
00:47:53And all of our law enforcement is just
00:47:55incredible.
00:47:56All of you guys are amazing.
00:47:58And the people of our country respect you and
00:48:00they love you.
00:48:01And a lot of times, you don't hear that because
00:48:03you have to listen to the fake news back there.
00:48:05But they have great respect for you.
00:48:08So I just want you to know that.
00:48:09And, you know, that includes our fire
00:48:10departments, too.
00:48:12They don't get spoken about enough.
00:48:14You know, they go into some of the areas I read
00:48:16where they're shooting them off ladders.
00:48:18Can you believe it?
00:48:19They go up to put out a fire, Leo.
00:48:21And they go and they shoot them off a ladder.
00:48:25It's just unbelievable.
00:48:26These firemen and women are incredible.
00:48:28So I want to put them in the same category because
00:48:30they're just incredible.
00:48:31I also like that the fact they voted for me, like,
00:48:34at 94 percent.
00:48:35So I have to mention them.
00:48:36I have no choice, right?
00:48:38But the truth is, they're phenomenal people.
00:48:40The law enforcement, fire, everybody, they're
00:48:42phenomenal.
00:48:43Basically, first responders, because
00:48:45that's what they are.
00:48:46They're first responders.
00:48:48And we're ending the migrant occupation of
00:48:50America.
00:48:51And what we're doing now is we're liberating our
00:48:53cities and our suburbs and our towns.
00:48:55And you see a big difference.
00:48:57I'm getting calls all the time from even leaders of
00:48:59other countries saying, Sir, the whole world feels
00:49:02liberated now.
00:49:04It feels like there's a light over America, but
00:49:06there's a light over the whole world.
00:49:08I hear that so much.
00:49:09It's so nice to hear it, too.
00:49:10And I feel it.
00:49:11I mean, I feel it.
00:49:12I look at it.
00:49:13I see the polls.
00:49:13I don't know if the polls are right, but they're
00:49:15certainly very good.
00:49:16I'll take them right now.
00:49:18It's amazing, amazing what's taking place in
00:49:21such a short period of time.
00:49:23Really, six weeks.
00:49:24But it's longer than that.
00:49:25It's really November 5th.
00:49:26I think that hopefully will go down.
00:49:28If you do your job great, it'll go down as the most
00:49:31important day, one of them at least, in the
00:49:33history of our country.
00:49:34You know, July 4th was pretty 1776.
00:49:38It was pretty important, too.
00:49:39But let's see if we can top it.
00:49:41Can we top it?
00:49:41I don't know.
00:49:42That's a tough one, but we're going to try.
00:49:43But it will be one of the most important days in
00:49:47the history of our country.
00:49:48So I think and I think everybody in this room
00:49:51wants that to happen.
00:49:52Last month, we officially designated MS-13 and
00:49:55Tren de Aragua.
00:49:57That's the Venezuelan gang, the toughest gang,
00:50:00they say, in the world.
00:50:01And the Mexican drug cartels as foreign
00:50:03terrorist organizations.
00:50:05That's a big deal.
00:50:05Nobody wanted to do that in the past.
00:50:08And by the way, we've caught hundreds of them,
00:50:17the Venezuelan gang, which is as bad as it gets.
00:50:21And you'll be reading a lot of stories tomorrow
00:50:23about what we've done with them.
00:50:25And you'll be very impressed.
00:50:26And you'll feel a lot safer, too, because they
00:50:28are a vicious group.
00:50:29They went into Colorado.
00:50:31They took over areas of Colorado.
00:50:34They sort of were like me.
00:50:35They were in the real estate business, but they
00:50:37didn't go out and get financing.
00:50:38They just took over a building and kept it.
00:50:42And they said to the tenants, Get the hell out
00:50:43of here.
00:50:44One man called the police and they cut off his
00:50:47fingers.
00:50:48And they say, You call again, your other fingers
00:50:50and you call a third time and you're dead.
00:50:52These are tough people and bad people, and we're
00:50:54getting them out of our country.
00:50:56And some are so bad, we don't want to get them
00:50:57out.
00:50:58We have to put them in jail because we don't want
00:51:00to even take a chance that they can come back.
00:51:02Thanks to our efforts, Mexico recently handed
00:51:05over 29 of the biggest cartel leaders, including
00:51:08the depraved Kingpin charge with the 1985
00:51:12murder of DE agent Kiki Camerana.
00:51:16And that was a big deal.
00:51:17If you know, they've been looking for this person
00:51:19for years, many years, and we got him.
00:51:22This evil killer will be now prosecuted to the
00:51:25fullest extent of the law.
00:51:27And we know that, well, it's let's put it this
00:51:31way.
00:51:32I have to be nice.
00:51:33It's a very strong case.
00:51:34We're stopping the criminals pouring across
00:51:37our borders at record levels, and we're also
00:51:39stopping the massive quantities of deadly
00:51:42drugs.
00:51:43In 2023 alone, drug overdoses killed more
00:51:46Americans in 12 months than they did during the
00:51:48entire decade between 1980 and 1990.
00:51:52So 10 times more, but it's much higher than that.
00:51:55More Americans died from fentanyl last year than
00:51:57died in the Korean War, the Iraq War, the
00:52:00Afghanistan War.
00:52:02All of them combined.
00:52:04That's why I've placed large tariffs on Mexico,
00:52:06Canada, and China.
00:52:08And they will remain in place until these deadly
00:52:10poisons stop pouring into our country.
00:52:12And I will tell you, as soon as I put on the
00:52:14tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China,
00:52:18unbelievable results have been seen in the last few
00:52:21weeks.
00:52:22Unbelievable results.
00:52:24They weren't happy about it.
00:52:25You probably read they weren't happy, but they
00:52:27are working like hell to end it.
00:52:29They weren't working very hard before I did that.
00:52:32With us today is a brave mother and advocate, Ann
00:52:35Fundner, who lost her beautiful 15-year-old son,
00:52:39Weston, to fentanyl.
00:52:41And, Ann, if you would, I'd like to ask you to
00:52:44come up and say a few words, please.
00:52:48Well, first, I want to say thank you.
00:52:53I think this is the biggest honor of my entire
00:53:17life, being on stage with President Trump.
00:53:20But I want to tell you a little bit about my son,
00:53:23Weston, who absolutely loved President Trump.
00:53:26He had a beautiful Trump 2020 flag hanging in his
00:53:32bedroom, and he had it on the beach one day.
00:53:35And we took a picture, and it became our 2020
00:53:38Christmas card with the most perfect slogan for
00:53:41President Trump, peace on Earth.
00:53:44But what happened in the next four years would be
00:53:46devastation to our country and our safety of our
00:53:50children.
00:53:51And in 2022, Weston lost his life, a freshman in
00:53:56high school at the age of 15, from a single pill
00:54:00that took his life.
00:54:03The cartels were allowed to operate on American soil
00:54:07and took hundreds of thousands of American
00:54:10lives.
00:54:11And so we knew there was only one person that could
00:54:15save us from the devastation on our American
00:54:19soil, and that was President Trump.
00:54:23And so, in 2024, we did the best thing that we
00:54:26could do to keep America safe again.
00:54:28And we elected President Donald J.
00:54:32Trump.
00:54:34And he's done everything that he has promised.
00:54:40We have a 98 percent decrease in border
00:54:51crossings, and he has labeled the terrorist
00:54:57cartels terrorist organizations.
00:55:00And he has instilled tariffs because there is no
00:55:04price on human life.
00:55:06And so I feel like I can speak for the entire
00:55:09fentanyl-fighting community when I say thank
00:55:12you to President Trump.
00:55:14And thank you to Pam Bondi and everyone out here who
00:55:18is fighting this fight.
00:55:19God bless you.
00:55:20God bless you, President Trump.
00:55:21God bless America.
00:55:24He's up there watching you.
00:55:29He's up there watching you.
00:55:34And he's so proud of Mom.
00:55:38Thank you, Ann, very much.
00:55:46Weston is — as you said to Ann, Weston is up in
00:55:49heaven watching his mom, and he's so proud of you.
00:55:53He's so proud of you.
00:55:56We're also joined today by a number of other
00:55:58American families who have lost loved ones to
00:56:00fentanyl.
00:56:01And I'd love you to just stand up for a second, and
00:56:04we want to acknowledge you and also your daughters,
00:56:08your sons.
00:56:09They're looking down on you, and they're — they're
00:56:12loving you like crazy.
00:56:13So, thank you very much.
00:56:27This department will not rest until we have ended
00:56:29the fentanyl epidemic in America once and for all,
00:56:32in less than two months, since I took office.
00:56:35The DEA and FBI have seized nearly 1 million
00:56:38deadly doses of fentanyl, and that's just the
00:56:41beginning.
00:56:41At my direction, and working with Pam and
00:56:48everybody else, we've launched an all-out war on
00:56:51fentanyl traffickers.
00:56:53And it's a war that we're going to win.
00:56:55We're going to win this war.
00:56:56I spoke with the President of Mexico — very nice
00:57:00woman, very fine woman.
00:57:01And I said, Let me ask you, you're sending a lot
00:57:04of drugs into our country.
00:57:05We're not liking it at all.
00:57:07We can't do that.
00:57:08But I said, Is Mexico — does it have much of a
00:57:11drug?
00:57:11She said, No, we're not a consuming nation.
00:57:13I thought it was an interesting term.
00:57:16And I said, Why?
00:57:18And — which I've heard, also, by the way.
00:57:20They're not a consuming nation.
00:57:22They distribute, but they don't consume.
00:57:25But I said, Why are you not a consumer?
00:57:26Well, we're very close with family.
00:57:28I said, So we're very close with family, too.
00:57:30I mean, our families are being devastated, and we're
00:57:33just as close.
00:57:33Why else?
00:57:35She said, Well, we spend a lot of money on
00:57:36advertising saying how bad drugs are.
00:57:38They're very roughhands.
00:57:40They show the skin falling off and the teeth
00:57:42falling out, and going blind, and losing hair,
00:57:47and everything that these things do that you look
00:57:50like you just came out of a horrible concentration
00:57:53camp.
00:57:54And she said it was — they're roughhands.
00:57:58And it's not often that I feel I've learned
00:58:01something from a phone call, because I've been
00:58:03— I've had a lot of phone calls all of my life.
00:58:06But I realized, right then and there, what a great
00:58:09idea that is.
00:58:09And we have hired, Susie, a great person who did a
00:58:15lot of our campaign work.
00:58:17And we've come up with an advertising campaign
00:58:19that's, I think, really incredible.
00:58:22More than anything else, it's — it's terrible to
00:58:25watch.
00:58:26Terrible to watch.
00:58:27It's the only way it's going to work.
00:58:29And I would be — because we got the numbers down.
00:58:32Eighteen percent would have a blue-ribbon committee
00:58:34headed by the First Lady of the United States, who
00:58:36everyone loves, and some of her friends.
00:58:39And, you know, it's — they work so hard.
00:58:42But it was — it's a tough — it's a tough deal.
00:58:45They're dealing with very smart and very vicious
00:58:48people.
00:58:49You know, some of those businesses, those
00:58:50cartels, are run better than any business in
00:58:53America.
00:58:53They say they're run incredibly.
00:58:54Not just here.
00:58:55They — all over the world, they're run like a
00:58:58major business, but in many cases, better.
00:59:01And I said, we got it 18 percent down.
00:59:04Well, 18 percent is incredible.
00:59:05It's like a record.
00:59:06But when you think of it, it's not very much.
00:59:09And the way you get it down, if you want to get
00:59:11it down to close to 100 percent, is with a death
00:59:14penalty.
00:59:14But I think maybe America is not ready for that.
00:59:17China has a death penalty.
00:59:18Singapore has a death penalty.
00:59:20Various places have the death penalty.
00:59:21Wherever you have the death penalty, you don't
00:59:23have drugs.
00:59:24But I just don't know if this country is ready for
00:59:27it.
00:59:27So I tell people, and it's always an option, but I
00:59:30don't know.
00:59:31I just don't know if you're ready for it, and
00:59:32that's okay.
00:59:33It's nothing you can do.
00:59:35But what we're going to do is we're doing this
00:59:37campaign, and I think we can get it down 50, 50
00:59:41percent with this campaign.
00:59:42Because when people see all the horrible things
00:59:44that these drugs do to you, we're especially
00:59:47focused on fentanyl.
00:59:49When they see all of the horrible things that
00:59:51happen when you take drugs, how you look, you
00:59:53lose your look.
00:59:55Everyone is vain.
00:59:56They don't want to lose their look.
00:59:57The look is so important.
00:59:59And I think when they see these things, they may
01:00:02say, you know what?
01:00:03I'm going to take a pass.
01:00:05But there is big danger.
01:00:06Pam and I were talking about it before.
01:00:07A lot of people are taking fentanyl and not even
01:00:10knowing.
01:00:10They think they're doing something else or maybe
01:00:12taking another drug, but at a much lower level.
01:00:16And they die.
01:00:18You can put on the pin — think of this — the head
01:00:21of a pin, fentanyl, and it's too much and it will
01:00:24kill the strongest person in the room.
01:00:27And it's amazing.
01:00:29But we're going to do this campaign.
01:00:31It's going to be launched fairly soon, Suzy.
01:00:34And I think it's going to have a big impact.
01:00:36I think if we got it down by another 30, 35 points
01:00:41— and I really believe we can.
01:00:42I think that's an incredible idea.
01:00:44So I thanked the President of Mexico, actually.
01:00:46It was a call on tariffs, and we talked about drugs.
01:00:50And she gave me an idea that I think will be very
01:00:53successful.
01:00:54And based on what I saw, it's going to be amazing.
01:00:57Under our leadership, this department is once again
01:01:00laser-focused on protecting the American people.
01:01:03We're defending our borders, our streets,
01:01:05our children, and our good — really, God-given —
01:01:08this is God-given rights and liberties once and for
01:01:12all.
01:01:13We're going to defend our country, and we're going
01:01:14to defend our rights.
01:01:16Etched onto the walls of this building are the
01:01:19words — English philosopher John Locke
01:01:21said, where law ends, tyranny begins.
01:01:25And I see that.
01:01:26And I saw it over the last four years, when somebody
01:01:29was allowed to attack viciously with this
01:01:31department and the FBI.
01:01:33His political opponent — how did that work out?
01:01:36It didn't work out too well, but it wasn't
01:01:38pleasant.
01:01:39It wasn't pleasant.
01:01:40I was attacked by a political opponent.
01:01:43And probably it helped that I was attacked more
01:01:46than anybody in the history of our country.
01:01:48Alphonse Capone — the great Alphonse Capone,
01:01:51legendary, Scarface — was attacked.
01:01:54Only a tiny fraction of what Trump was attacked.
01:01:57And maybe it worked out well.
01:01:59I don't know.
01:02:00If I had to give it up, I probably wouldn't, but
01:02:01only because I've gone through it.
01:02:04But I wonder what the difference would be.
01:02:06Maybe they helped get me elected by those margins
01:02:08— the big margins, the big mandate that we
01:02:10received.
01:02:11But you can't go after your political opponent.
01:02:14Nobody has ever seen anything like it, actually.
01:02:17And hopefully, they won't see anything like it.
01:02:19But now, with the return of law and order, the
01:02:21entire world is witnessing the triumph of American
01:02:25justice and American freedom.
01:02:26That's why we're here today, gathered with
01:02:29people that have love for our country.
01:02:31In the coming years, we will revive the storied
01:02:34legacy of this department — and it's happening
01:02:37right now, as you can feel it — and rekindle the
01:02:40spirit of the great lawmen and legal lions of the
01:02:43past.
01:02:44Americans like Wyatt Earp, Eliot Ness, Frank
01:02:47Hammer, Rudy Giuliani — Rudy Giuliani had to
01:02:50suffer greatly.
01:02:52Greatly.
01:02:53He's the greatest mayor in the history of our
01:02:54country.
01:02:55He had to suffer greatly.
01:02:57Ed Meese, Antonin Scalia, Robert Jackson, and
01:03:01Robert F. Kennedy.
01:03:03We will rebuild pride in our institutions.
01:03:06We will restore the prestige of this great
01:03:08department, and we will bring back faith in our
01:03:11justice system for the citizens of every race,
01:03:14religion, color, and creed.
01:03:17And I want to just tell you that this has been a
01:03:19great honor.
01:03:20I was asked to do it, and I said, is it appropriate
01:03:25that I do it?
01:03:26And then I realized it's not only appropriate, I
01:03:29think it's really important.
01:03:31And I may never do it again.
01:03:33I may never have another chance to do it again
01:03:36because this is something that I'm leaving to the
01:03:38greatest people I know — the best people, the
01:03:40smartest people, the toughest people I know.
01:03:44And they're going to do an incredible job.
01:03:45And it's an honor for me to have won this election
01:03:48so that I can appoint these people to do their
01:03:50job.
01:03:50And they're going to do it like you have never seen.
01:03:53So I just want to wish all of you good luck.
01:03:57It's going to be an interesting journey.
01:03:58It's not going to be easy, but you're going to win.
01:04:00You're going to win, win, win, and fight, fight,
01:04:02fight.
01:04:02And it's going to end up being a tremendous result
01:04:05for this country.
01:04:06So thank you all very much.
01:04:07God bless America.
01:04:08God bless you all.