Trump: Eliminating ‘bad’ persons made me successful

U.S. President Donald Trump said Saturday that his “journey” in the nation’s highest office is a failure had he not have the ability to rid the government of individuals he says are “bad.”

Trump arrived to office railing against what he and his allies call the “deep state” - career government employees and political appointees held over from prior administrations - claiming it was out to undermine him.

He said he has been replacing them with “individuals who love our country.”

“We've such bad persons and they’re not people who love our country,” Trump told several thousand cheering and chanting supporters at the the twelve-monthly Conservative Political Action Conference. “We’re getting persons who really like our country and it’s so important,” he said.

“And easily wasn’t in a position to fulfill that, whatever other activities we’ve done, I would not consider this journey to be always a success,” he said. “So remember that.”

Trump didn’t call anyone out by name in his remarks, but he has spoken negatively about the prior FBI leaders during other public appearances. Since being acquitted on two articles of impeachment and being allowed to stay static in office, he has reassigned people who testified against him during the proceedings or whom he perceives as disloyal to him.

He also has brought back to the White House trusted aides who had departed earlier in the administration.

The Republican president, who is seeking reelection, sought to turn up his audience through the wide-ranging, practically 90-minute speech with talk against state and local policies that shield undocumented immigrants, the quantity of conservative federal judges who’ve been confirmed by the Senate, his increased shelling out for the U.S. military and creation of a fresh branch of the military referred to as the Space Force.

Trump flew to a Maryland hotel to handle the annual gathering of conservatives after he called a news conference at the White House to announce a ban on travel to Iran in response to the virus outbreak. He also announced elevated U.S. travel warnings to damaged parts of Italy and South Korea.

The president closed with a promise to his fawning supporters to “be here next year, OK?”

In a reprise of his appearance finally year’s conservative conference, Trump then hugged and kissed an American flag before he left the stage.