Donald Trump used a speech to the NRA’s lobbying arm to rail against unnamed “bad apples” at the DOJ and boast about how he “caught” former officials in an attempted coup
President Donald Trump used a speech to the NRA’s lobbying arm Friday to rail against unnamed “bad apples” at the Justice Department and boast that he “caught” former officials in an attempted coup.
At the group’s annual gathering, Trump asserted — without mentioning the department by name — that by weeding out officials at DOJ he was fulfilling his 2016 campaign promise to “drain the swamp.”“Every day of my administration, we are taking power out of Washington, D.C., and returning it to the American people, where it belongs,” he told the friendly audience in Indianapolis. “And you see it now better than ever. With all of the resignations of bad apples. They are bad apples.
Some of Trump’s defenders have increasingly embraced the loaded term more recently, bolstered by Attorney General William Barr’s
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