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Trump slams FBI before speaking at bureau graduation ceremony
By Natalie Musumeci
December 15, 2017 | 1:03pm

President Trump took aim at the FBI Friday — shortly before speaking at an FBI National Academy graduation ceremony.

“When you look at what’s gone on with the FBI and this Justice Department — people are very, very angry,” the president told reporters before departing the White House for Quantico, Virginia.

“The level of anger at what they’ve been witnessing with respect to the FBI is certainly very sad,” he added, referring to the investigation of Russian meddling in the presidential election and into Hillary Clinton’s emails.

But during his speech before 222 new agents of various law enforcement agencies, the president was cheered when he promised to have their backs and “never let you down.”

“I want you to know that with me as your president, America’s police will have a true friend and loyal champion in the White House – more loyal than anyone else can be,” Trump said. “I will fight for you and I will never let you down ever.”

The president said that as those in law enforcement, “you rarely get the recognition you deserve.”

He condemned “malicious” attacks on law enforcement officers.

“Instead of holding up our police as the role models and mentors they are, they’ve been subjected to malicious attacks on their characters and integrity,” Trump said, adding that what’s “most concerning is an “alarming increase” in violent assaults on cops.

“I want to send a message to those who threaten violence against police – we will protect those who protect us and we believe criminals who kill police officers should get the death penalty,” he vowed.

Two weeks earlier, Trump described the bureau’s reputation as being “in tatters.”

During his remarks, Trump touched on terrorism, including the recent attacks in the Big Apple and took the opportunity to slam the lottery visa program and chain migration.

“One came through chain migration and the other via lottery,” Trump said of the alleged suspects behind two recent terror attacks in Manhattan.

“You think the countries are giving us their best people?” Trump asked. “What kind of a system is that? They give us their worst people.”

Trump also bashed the savage MS-13 gang and a “steep two-year consecutive increase in murders in nearly half a century.”

“You look at what is going on in Chicago – what the hell is going on in Chicago?” Trump said.

On MS-13, Trump said: “We will find you. We will arrest you. We will jail you and throw you the hell out of the country…and somehow I like it better than jail.”

“The jail stuff is wonderful but we have to pay for it,” he said. “We don’t want ‘em. They’re getting out of here.”

Before ending his speech Trump made mention of the “fake news” reporters towards the back of the room.

“Look at them…fake news…some of them are fine people,” Trump quipped, receiving a laugh from the audience. “About…let’s see whose back there…about 30 percent.”

The president was widely welcomed as a speaker at the ceremony, with the class spokesperson Craig Wiles of the Drug Enforcement Administration saying the class was “humbled” to have him.

“You presence here demonstrates your strong commitment to law enforcement,” Wiles said.

Trump was the first president in more than four decades to speak at a graduation ceremony at the FBI National Academy.

“After a 46-year hiatus, it is a great honor to welcome a president back to the national academy,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said before Trump spoke.

https://nypost.com/2017/12/15/trump-slams-fbi-before-speaking-at-bureau-graduation-ceremony/