President Trump’s triumphant speech on Friday afternoon at the Great Hall of the Department of Justice is a reversal drenched with enough irony and drama to make William Shakespeare proud. 

Mr. Trump appeared to suggest that criticism of courts could be unlawful, declaring, “It has to stop, it has to be illegal, influencing judges.” The 47th president also called the cases against him “bulls—” and reasoned that criticism of Judge Aileen Cannon, who handed him a major victory in the Mar-a-Lago case, “only made her angry.” He called her “brilliant,” and “the absolute model of what a judge should be.”