"Donald Trump was maliciously prosecuted repeatedly—from the New York state level by Letitia James to the federal level by Jack Smith—over and over, on the basis of manipulated charges."

"These were stretched charges, charges that were literally read in unique ways for the first time in order to go after him. So should you be surprised that Donald Trump is now doing this to the people he believes targeted him in the first place? He promised this was going to happen. It’s not exactly a shock. It is the reality that these methods were used against him. Now, the thing about Trump that frustrates so many people on the left is that he’s not genteel about doing this sort of stuff. Joe Biden would lie."

Said Ben Shapiro on his podcast yesterday.

There's never been a speech like this: Trump's epic tirade at the Justice Department.

It was pure Trump and his critics are hot to portray it as the desecration of a place where decent Presidents dare not tread. There he is, for over an hour, in front of the Department of Justice sign, trashing his predecessors for weaponizing the justice system. He's out in the open, speaking his mind. Biden — we couldn't even tell if he had a mind.

Here's an example of the anti-Trump take on the speech: "Trump calls his opponents ‘scum’ and lawbreakers in bellicose speech at Justice Department/For more than an hour, he delivered an insult-laden speech that shattered the traditional notion of DOJ independence" (Politico): "It was, even by Trump’s standards, a stunning show of disregard for decades of tradition observed by his predecessors, who worried about politicizing or appearing to exert too much control over the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency. Trump, instead, called himself the 'chief law enforcement officer in our country' and accused the DOJ’s prior leadership of doing 'everything within their power to prevent' him from becoming the president."

Key word: "appearing." 

And here's a free-access link to the NYT fact-check of the speech.

"I was the target of corrupt politicians for 4 years and then 4 years after that. So don't talk to me about targeting."

"A divided House voted on Tuesday to launch a wide-ranging investigation into federal law enforcement and national security agencies..."

"... as Republicans promised to use their new power in Congress to scrutinize what they said was a concerted effort by the government to silence and punish conservatives at all levels, from protesters at school board meetings to former President Donald J. Trump. On a party-line vote of 221-211 with all Democrats opposed, the House approved the formation of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, which is to be chaired by Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, the incoming chairman of the Judiciary Committee and a staunch ally of Mr. Trump.... In a floor speech, Mr. Jordan... said his interest was merely in 'protecting the First Amendment' at a time when he said the right was being unfairly targeted.... 'We don’t want to go after anyone,' he said. 'We just want it to stop.'"

The NYT reports.