President Donald Trump accused former President Joe Biden of Justice Department of Turning the agency into a “medical fraud” because he tried to turn the United States into a “corrupted communist country.”
“Our predecessor has turned this Department of Justice into a Department of Fraud,” Trump told the Department of Justice on Friday. “But I stand before you today and declare that those days are over and they will never come back.”
Trump has routinely denounced the Justice Department and the FBI since his first term in multiple investigations and lawsuits filed against him. The FBI investigated a 2016 campaign that was suspected of Trump's conspiracy with Russia. This ultimately found no evidence that Trump's campaign was coordinated with Russia and would affect the outcome of the election.
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President Donald Trump addressed the Justice Department on March 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Fox News/Pool)
More recently, former Attorney General Merrick Garland tapped former special adviser Jack Smith to investigate efforts from Trump to overturn the election results in 2020, and to make Trump's efforts to obtain material classified in Mar Lago following his first term as president.
“They tried to turn America into a corrupt communist and a third world country, but in the end the thugs failed and the truth won,” Trump said. “Freedom won, justice won, democracy won. Above all, the Americans won.”
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President Donald Trump will arrive at the Department of Justice with Attorney General Pam Bondy ahead of Trump's speech on March 14, 2025.
“The vicious betrayal of American values could not be any more vicious betrayal than terrorizing the innocent and rewarding the evil ones,” Trump said. “It was something they were doing on a level they never saw before, and that's exactly what you saw in the past four years doing buildings with Joe Biden, Merrick Garland and their guys.
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A Biden spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
Trump also accused the judicial department of conspiring with the media, and accusing newspapers and television networks of acting as “paid political operatives.”
“It must be illegal,” Trump said Thursday. “It's affecting the judges…and it's not legal. I don't think it's legal, and they do it in perfect alignment with each other.”
Trump also denounced “a corrupt group of hacking and extremists” that have targeted him and his family for many years within the US government, claiming he tried to prevent him from returning to the White House. Specifically, he said the government hired people like Mark Elias, former chairman of the law firm Perkins Koy.
In April 2016, Perkins Coie hired opposition investigator Fusion GPS to conduct an opposition study of then-presidential candidate Trump on behalf of Trump's opponents Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee.
Fusion GPS hired former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. Christopher Steele wrote the so-called “Steeldeja,” which contains shocking and almost unverified allegations, including details of her engagement in sexual activity with a Russian prostitute.
The FBI also used relevant documents to obtain a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page as part of an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Trump routinely denied allegations contained in related documents and signed an executive order on March 4th that blocked Perkins COIE lawyers' security clearance and federal access.
In response, the law firm filed a motion in federal court in Washington on Tuesday, demanding a temporary restraining order to stop the Trump administration from revoking access to federal resources, and US Judge Beryl Howell approved the request Wednesday afternoon.
“It's ridiculous that billion-dollar law firms are suing to maintain access to government perks and handouts,” White House spokesman Harrison Fields said in a statement Wednesday evening to Fox News Digital.
Fox News' Breanne Deppisch and David Spunt contributed to this report.
