{"id":2413290,"date":"2025-03-14T19:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T23:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-slams-communist-persecution-of-conservatives\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T19:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T23:01:02","slug":"trump-slams-communist-persecution-of-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-slams-communist-persecution-of-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Slams &#8216;Communist&#8217; Persecution Of Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-slams-communist-persecution-of-conservatives%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2413290&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Department of Justice was persecuting Donald Trump with sham trials just last year. But today, now-President Trump spoke at the DOJ, calling out the &ldquo;communist&rdquo; federal persecution of conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They tried to turn America into a corrupt communist and Third World country, but in the end, the thugs failed and the truth won. Freedom won, justice won, democracy won, and above all, the American people won,&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rNHAVdaFUkY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;There could be no more heinous betrayal of American values than to use the law to terrorize the innocent and reward the wicked.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A &ldquo;corrupt group of hacks and radicals&rdquo; in the federal government &ldquo;weaponized the vast powers of our intelligence and law enforcement agencies to try and thwart the will of the American people,&rdquo; Trump stated. He acknowledged the &ldquo;lies and abuses that have occurred within these walls&rdquo; at the DOJ.<\/p>\n<p>Federal agents &ldquo;target[ed] patriotic parents at school board meeting&rdquo; as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/03\/22\/house-judiciary-finds-biden-doj-had-no-legitimate-basis-to-target-parents-as-terrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">domestic terrorists<\/a>, treated traditional Catholics <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/08\/11\/the-fbi-targeted-traditional-catholics-because-they-will-never-accept-the-lefts-pagan-morality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">similarly<\/a>, let supporters of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/09\/09\/portlands-anti-cop-district-attorney-isnt-progressive-he-is-pro-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Antifa<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hamas<\/a> walk free, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/face-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jailed<\/a> &ldquo;elderly Christians and pro-life activists,&rdquo; Trump noted. Meanwhile, federal officials &ldquo;imported illegal alien murderers, drug dealers and child predators from all over the world.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice into the Department of Injustice,&rdquo; Trump stated. &ldquo;But I stand before you today to declare that those days are over and they are never going to come back.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump cited November&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/11\/05\/us\/elections\/results-president.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">landslide<\/a> election results as a &ldquo;mandate&rdquo; for a &ldquo;far-reaching investigation &hellip; into the corruption of our system.&rdquo; He clarified the map turned &ldquo;red for Republican, not for communist&rdquo; &mdash; though leftists &ldquo;would like it to turn red for communist.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>LMAO.<\/p>\n<p>TRUMP: &#8220;Where you see the map of the United States. It&#8217;s all red. Red for Republican, not communist. Red for Republican. They would like it to turn red for communist, but it didn&#8217;t work out that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#128293;&#128293; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l4PjwoVN6E\">pic.twitter.com\/l4PjwoVN6E<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricLDaugh\/status\/1900635521337991656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He recalled the various instances of political persecution he overcame before winning November&rsquo;s election.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/20\/trump-yanks-security-clearances-of-intel-officials-who-spread-disinformation-about-hunter-bidens-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">51 intelligence agents<\/a> that said, as an example, that Hunter Biden&rsquo;s laptop from hell came from Russia when they knew it came right from his bedroom,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;They <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/02\/14\/sources-say-u-s-intelligence-agencies-tasked-foreign-partners-with-spying-on-trumps-2016-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spied<\/a> on my campaign, launched one <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/20\/heres-a-list-of-every-media-hoax-launched-during-trumps-second-term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hoax<\/a> and disinformation operation after another, broke the law on a colossal scale, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/18\/whistleblowers-expose-fbis-corruption-and-ongoing-persecution-of-political-opponents-in-damning-new-testimony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">persecuted<\/a> my family, staff, and supporters, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/25\/i-was-giddy-when-the-fbi-raided-mar-a-lago-but-now-im-voting-for-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">raided<\/a> my home Mar-a-Lago, and did everything within their power to prevent me from becoming the president.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In a recently revealed example of this persecution, Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/news\/news-releases\/grassley-johnson-release-records-showing-fbi-obtained-trump-pence-cell-phones-conducted-sweeping-interviews-to-advance-anti-trump-arctic-frost-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> Attorney General Pam Bondi on March 13, disclosing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/grassley_johnson_to_doj_fbi_-_arctic_frost_updates.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">records<\/a> indicating that anti-Trump agents obtained the government cell phones of the now-president and former Vice President Mike Pence in a politically-motivated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/grassley_johnson_to_doj_fbi_-_arctic_frost_updates.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fishing expedition<\/a> for information.<\/p>\n<p>In his remarks, Trump named leftist attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/marc-elias\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Marc Elias<\/a>, who backs various lawfare <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/01\/15\/nc-supreme-court-candidate-more-than-5k-overseas-ballots-with-no-voter-id-were-counted-illegally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">campaigns<\/a> across the country to target Trump and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/29\/democrat-election-meddler-marc-elias-wont-commit-to-accepting-the-results-of-the-election-if-trump-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">subvert<\/a> election results. As noted by The Federalist&rsquo;s Breccan Thies, Elias became infamous for &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/29\/democrat-election-meddler-marc-elias-wont-commit-to-accepting-the-results-of-the-election-if-trump-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hiring<\/a> on behalf of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign the outfit Fusion GPS to invent the &lsquo;Steele dossier,&rsquo;&rdquo; which supposedly linked Trump to Russian assets. Despite this, former Vice President Kamala Harris&rsquo; presidential campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/19\/kamala-campaign-hires-notorious-election-meddler-to-serve-as-legal-counsel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hired<\/a> him as legal counsel.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Trump also mentioned former DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is responsible for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2023\/07\/politics\/trump-indictments-criminal-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prosecuting<\/a> a laundry list of unfounded cases against the now-president. Smith ultimately dropped both his so-called &ldquo;election subversion&rdquo; and &ldquo;classified documents&rdquo; cases against Trump and resigned before the president took office. Trump called out former President Joe Biden and his far-left Attorney General <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/merrick-garland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Merrick Garland<\/a>, as well as Mark Pomerantz, an attorney who helped with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/04\/12\/manhattan-d-a-enlisted-a-whos-who-of-biden-admin-buddies-for-trump-takedown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">get Trump<\/a>&rdquo; case.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;These are people that are bad people,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;What they&rsquo;ve ripped down is incalculable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The president also decried Norm Eisen and his group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). CREW <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/05\/left-wing-lawyer-behind-anti-trump-lawfare-is-running-a-new-op-against-kash-patel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">backed<\/a> the attempt to kick Trump off Colorado&rsquo;s ballot in 2024, and Eisen&rsquo;s other groups have been engaging in anti-Trump lawfare across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s been after me for nine years,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s been vicious and violent.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bondi introduced Trump at the DOJ, saying federal law enforcement is &ldquo;so proud to work&rdquo; under the president. &ldquo;He will never stop fighting for us, and we will never stop fighting for him and for our country,&rdquo; Bondi said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump vowed to &ldquo;expose&rdquo; the &ldquo;egregious crimes and severe misconduct&rdquo; of federal officials. &ldquo;We will expel the rogue actors and corrupt forces from our government. &hellip; It&rsquo;s going to be legendary.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>   Logan Washburn is a staff writer covering election integrity. He is a spring 2025 fellow of The College Fix. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo&#8217;s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is from Central Oregon but now lives in rural Michigan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice was persecuting Donald Trump with sham trials just last year. But today, now-President Trump spoke at the DOJ, calling out the \u201ccommunist\u201d federal persecution of conservatives. \u201cThey tried to turn America into a corrupt communist and Third World country, but in the end, the thugs failed and the truth won. Freedom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":2413291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Trump-DOJ-1-1024x573.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Trump-DOJ-1-1024x573.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2413291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}