The concern to preserve the impartiality of the Ministry of Justice generally pushes the Presidents of the United States to avoid expressing themselves within its walls. Donald Trump did not have this scruples, Friday, March 14, by delivering a speech very close to those of his campaign meetings, disco closing music included. He attacked this occasion to all those who had been involved in the proceedings targeting him, as well as to the press of which he judged the work of investigation concerning ” illegal ».
His intervention had been initially presented as an opportunity to reconnect with old republican principles: law and order. It resulted in the consecration of a form of privatization of the judicial institution, illustrated by the appointment of faithful to the most strategic positions of this department and to which he heavily paid tribute, starting with the lawyers who had attended him during his last judicial disentrations.
“All I am going to do is expose my vision”said Donald Trump the day before about this visit. “It will be their vision, in fact, but these are my ideas”he added. Federal justice as he conceives it is embodied by Pam Bondi, former general prosecutor of Florida who was by his side during his first indictment by the Congress, in 2019. The latter now directs with an iron hand a department of justice submitted upon his arrival at a vast purge. She claimed her loyalty to the president, ensuring that he wanted “Protect it” During an interview with her daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, on the conservative channel Fox News.
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