President Trump addressed employees of the Department of Justice on Friday in a rambling address riddled with lies and personal grievances. For over an hour, Trump assailed his opponents as “scum,” castigated federal judges as “corrupt,” and labeled news outlets that criticize his administration as “illegal.”
President Donald Trump: “I believe that CNN and MSDNC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat Party. And in my opinion, they’re really corrupt, and they’re illegal. What they do is illegal.”
Trump also used his visit to the Great Hall of the Justice Department to heap praise on Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed U.S. district judge who last year threw out a criminal case against Trump over his mishandling of classified documents. We’ll have more on Trump’s highly unusual speech at the Justice Department after headlines when we speak with Congressmember Jamie Raskin.