The ‘lock her up’ guy has threatened to imprison his opponents for a couple of years now, even while on the campaign trail. But this time, it’s different as he spoke for over an hour at the Department of Justice, labelling his courtroom opponents as “scum,” judges “corrupt” and the prosecutors who investigated him “deranged,” with the DOJ logo directly behind him.
For the networks that hurt his feelings, he said, “I believe that CNN and MSNBC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat Party. And in my opinion, they are really corrupt and they are illegal. What they do is illegal.”
As for the legal investigators who did their jobs, he said, “These are people that are bad people, really bad people. The people who did this to us should go to jail.”
Politico reports:
It was, even by Trump’s standards, a stunning show of disregard for decades of tradition observed by his predecessors, who worried about politicizing or appearing to exert too much control over the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency. Trump, instead, called himself the “chief law enforcement officer in our country” and accused the DOJ’s prior leadership of doing “everything within their power to prevent” him from becoming the president.
