President Trump Addresses the Justice Department, With Bondi, Patel and Blanche
March 18, 2025 · The Justice Department · 1:35:21
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What happened
Attorney General Pamela Bondi welcomed President Donald J. Trump to the Justice Department on March 14, 2025, where both delivered remarks, as did FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, according to the department’s description of the event carried on its channel.
In his remarks, Trump recounted his administration’s opening actions on justice and personnel. He said he signed an executive order banning government censorship and directing the removal of every bureaucrat who conspired to attack free speech, and that his administration stripped the security clearances of the intelligence agents who he said lied about Hunter Biden’s laptop, and revoked the clearances of Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, and law firms he said aided partisan persecutions, as well as the clearance of Joe Biden himself, as he stated it.
Trump said he pardoned hundreds of political prisoners who had been grossly mistreated, removed senior FBI officials who he said misdirected resources, and called firing James Comey a great honor that later proved justified. He announced the creation of a brand-new DOJ task force on anti-Christian bias and credited Director Patel’s FBI, as he stated it in the remarks.
Why it matters
A sitting president addressing the Justice Department in person is itself the story: the March 14 appearance set the public terms of the administration’s relationship with the department — pardons, clearances, personnel removals, and a new bias task force announced from its own stage.
Sources: The Justice Department, “Attorney General Pamela Bondi Welcomes President Donald J. Trump to the Justice Department”, 2025-03-18 (official upload, embedded above; published 2025-03-18). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.
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