Summary
Donald Trump told a Department of Justice crowd that his 2024 victory gave him a “mandate” for a broad investigation into Democratic corruption.
He attacked the courts for prosecuting him and praised his loyalist DOJ officials. Speaking at DOJ headquarters, he vowed to purge “rogue actors” and criticized judges, calling some “corrupt.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi introduced him, breaking DOJ tradition of independence.
Trump also called for legal action against news outlets and advocacy groups, claiming they are political operatives working against him.
America had the highest incarceration rate in the world. The average maximum security prison houses 800-1200 people. The largest, in Angola, LA, holds 8300. They are already building a new facility in Guantanamo that will hild 30,000, almost four times larger than the largest existing prison. The supposed purpose was to house the enormous number of undocumented they intend to arrest, but with the speed they are deporting, they dont seem to need such a large facility.
Who else would they want to detain on a remote base in Cuba, far from the prying eyes of journalists or the courts?
If it’s only 30k, it’s not big enough for that kind of plan. They would have to build a lot more, a lot bigger and a lot faster for that kind of plan to work.
Or an adjacent shower building
Its still nearly four times larger than the largest existing American prison, which is already 8 times times larger than the average prison.
Clearly they have larger plans for incarceration than any previous administration.