A big banner of Donald Trump was hung exterior of the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, DC, on Thursday, emphasizing the White House’s management over the nation’s high legislation enforcement department that when pursued felony prosecutions in opposition to the president.
The picture of Trump in shades of blue is a outstanding addition to the storied Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, which is occupied by a division that historically has made painstaking efforts to separate itself from politics.
Since Trump retook workplace final yr, the Justice Department has confronted repeated accusations of focusing on the president’s perceived enemies on his behalf. Those prosecutions embody that of former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General and Letitia James, in addition to investigations into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and several other Democratic representatives who recorded a video urging service members to disobey any unlawful orders.
Similar banners of Trump’s face have been draped throughout different federal departments together with the Department of Labor and the Department of Agriculture, every with their very own textual content: “American workers first” and “growing America,” respectively.
The new signal at the Justice Department reads “make America safe again,” the slogan of the Trump administration’s violent crime crackdown.
The Trump Justice Department has repeatedly said that its investigations beneath Trump will not be political, and stated that the division is course-correcting from alleged “weaponization” beneath the earlier administration.
Chief amongst their examples are the 2 federal felony circumstances introduced in opposition to Trump by former particular Jack Smith for retaining classified documents in his dwelling at Mar-a-Lago and for his alleged function in instigating the 2021 Capitol riot. The categorized paperwork case was dismissed by a choose, and the election interference case was dropped when he received election in November 2020.
NCS has reached out the Justice Department for touch upon the banner.