Trump unloads against political enemies in ‘law and order’ speech at Justice Department: Live

Vice President JD Vance told NBC News aboard Air Force Two that there will, “almost certainly be a high-level agreement” that “satisfies our national security concerns” for TikTok and an American company.

“There will almost certainly be a high-level agreement that I think satisfies our national security concerns, allows there to be a distinct American TikTok enterprise,” he said Friday.

“Typically, some of these deals that are much smaller and involve much less capital take months to close,” said Vance, who worked in venture capital before entering politics as a Senator from Ohio. “We’re trying to close this thing by early April. I think that the outlines of this thing will be very clear. The question is whether we can get all the paper done.”

Donald Trump praised District Judge Aileen Cannon, who he appointed in 2020, for dismissing the classified documents case against him.

“The case against me was bullshit, and she correctly dismissed it,” he said.

He called his criminal defense attorneys Todd Blanche and Emil Bove — now top Justice Department officials — “warriors” for him in his criminal cases.

Trump also attacked Norm Eisen, an attorney and legal analyst.

“He’s been vicious and violent,” he said.

Turning to Justice Department prosectors, he said that lawyers who have opposed his agenda are “horrible people, they’re scum, and you have to know that.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has moved to shutter the Pentagon office that helped military leaders plan for possible future wars.

A memo signed by Hegseth dated March 13 reportedly said that civil employees in the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment will be reassigned to other “mission critical positions” as it is dismantled. The office is often referred to as the Pentagon’s internal think tank.

After reports of the memo were published, chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell issued a statement about the “restructuring.”

In his remarks at the Department of Justice, Trump assailed his political rivals with a campaign-style speech loaded with grievances against Joe Biden and the multiple investigations against him.

“We must be honest about the lies and abuses that have occurred within these walls,” Trump said.

The agency is now staffed with his personal counsel and criminal defense attorneys in top roles, erasing the independence of federal law enforcement while accusing his predecessor of “weaponizing” it against him.

Biden officials and Democratic lawyers “did everything within their power to prevent me from becoming” president, he claimed.

Trump officials previewed the speech as his remarks on “law and order” but has largely focused his speech on himself and attacks against the previous administration.

As the strains of Elvis Presley’s “I Want You, I Need You, I Love You” played over loudspeakers as a crowd waited for their remarks, Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi arrived together at the Department of Justice for remarks from the president, a stunning and rare appearance that dissolves the invisible line between the White House and the nation’s ostensibly independent federal law enforcement arm.

The Department of Homeland Security reports that two more Columbia University students have been deported following the Trump administration’s targeting of pro-Palestine demonstrations on the campus.

But unlike Mahmoud Khalil, neither student was a lawful permanent resident, though officials baselessly accused them of supporting Hamas or terrorism, without evidence, because they supported demonstrations against Israel’s U.S.-backed devastation in Gaza.

Legaa Kordi, who is from the West Bank, overstayed her student visa and didn’t apply to change her status.

Ranjani Srinivasan — a national from India who received a Fulbright scholarship and had previously taught at New York University and had a master’s in design from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design — self-deported to Canada via the CBP Go App on March 11.

She reportedly missed two court summons for obstructing traffic and failing to disperse during a protest.

“It is a privilege to be granted a visa to live and study in the United States of America,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement. “When you advocate for violence and terrorism that privilege should be revoked, and you should not be in this country. I am glad to see one of the Columbia University terrorist sympathizers use the CBP Home app to self-deport.”

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is reportedly already $2 billion short to keep up its current pace of operations through the end of this fiscal year, as it races to keep up with the Trump administration’s promises to rapidly deport millions of undocumented migrants.

Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar has joined a growing list of Democrats rejecting a procedural vote to move forward with a spending plan that would avert a government shutdown, if approved by midnight:

She said in a statement: “I support the[31-day] short-term extension to keep the government open to complete bipartisan negotiations on the actual budget. I will not support the partisan proposal in part because it does not include Minnesota infrastructure projects, undercuts medical care and research, and makes major changes to reduce veterans’ health care, including for those exposed to burn pits.”