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Search results for "The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of Trump's second term"

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Donald Trump stated on April 16, 2024 in statement to the media in New York City:
“This trial that I have now, that’s a Biden trial.”
By Amy Sherman• April 19, 2024
Tim Scott stated on June 18, 2023 in a TV interview:
“Think about parents who show up at school board meetings. By this DOJ, they’re called domestic terrorists.”
By Sevana Wenn• June 22, 2023
Pam Bondi stated on December 29, 2025 in an X post:
The Justice Department has been investigating fraud in Minnesota “for months. So far, we have charged 98 individuals.”
By Amy Sherman• January 8, 2026
Mike DeWine stated on July 30, 2010 in a statement posted to his website:
"There are currently delays of up to six months in the processing of DNA evidence at the state run crime lab."
By Aaron Marshall• August 9, 2010
Ed Fallone stated on February 05, 2013 in an interview:
Wisconsin's Supreme Court justices are "deciding fewer opinions in civil and criminal cases than they used to."
By Tom Kertscher• February 18, 2013
Facebook posts stated on September 10, 2022 in a video:
“Trump lawyers all quit on him at the same time.”
By Andy Nguyen• September 15, 2022
X posts stated on June 11, 2024 in in X posts:
Hunter Biden’s trial and conviction were contrived to divert attention from Biden family crimes.
By Jeff Cercone• June 14, 2024
Charlie Kirk stated on August 02, 2023 in a video:
Douglass Mackey was convicted “because he made a meme in the 2016 election.”
By Madison Czopek• August 9, 2023
Brad Schimel stated on April 09, 2017 in a TV interview:
There is no ‘backlog’ of untested rape kits in Wisconsin. 
By Eric Litke• May 19, 2017
Donald Trump stated on September 03, 2018 in in a tweet:
"Two long running, Obama era, investigations of two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department."
By John Kruzel• September 4, 2018
Donald Trump stated on June 19, 2023 in a Truth Social post:
Photo shows President Joe Biden sitting with “Lisa Monaco, second in charge of the DOJ, probably working on future Plots and Schemes against Republicans.”
By Amy Sherman• June 21, 2023
Ritchie Torres stated on July 20, 2025 in an interview on CNN's "State of the Union":
“Since Donald Trump's inauguration, we have seen an 11% decline in the value of the dollar, the steepest decline in more than a half a century.”
By Louis Jacobson• July 25, 2025
Joe Biden stated on October 22, 2020 in the final 2020 presidential debate:
As part of the Obama administration's criminal justice reforms, “38,000 prisoners were released from federal prison.”
By Bill McCarthy• October 23, 2020
Donald Trump stated on November 08, 2023 in a rally in Hialeah:
“Just like the Cuban regime, the Biden administration is trying to put their political opponents in jail, shutting down free speech.”
By Maria Briceño, Amy Sherman• November 15, 2023
Donald Trump stated on February 28, 2017 in a speech before a joint session of Congress:
"According to data provided by the Department of Justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offenses since 9/11 came here from outside of our country."
By Miriam Valverde• March 2, 2017
Pam Bondi stated on April 29, 2025 in an X post:
In President Donald Trump’s first 100 days, fentanyl seizures saved “119 million” to “258 million” lives.
By Maria Ramirez Uribe• May 1, 2025
Charlie Crist stated on March 02, 2010 in the State of the State address:
"We are now seeing a decrease in violent crime."
By Amy Sherman• March 3, 2010
Robin Vos stated on November 10, 2019 in a TV interview:
Says 1,000 people failed gun background checks in Wisconsin in 2018, but "almost none of them were prosecuted for trying to do a background check and illegally buy a weapon."
By Eric Litke• November 26, 2019
Alberta Darling stated on August 15, 2013 in legislative testimony:
Wisconsin’s criminal threshold for drunken-driving is "way out of line" with "states surrounding us," which "have the second offense as a felony."
By Dave Umhoefer• August 25, 2013
UndergroundNewsReport.com stated on February 28, 2017 in an Internet post:
"Man pardoned by Obama three months ago arrested for murder."
By Joshua Gillin• March 6, 2017

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