Trump Explodes at Judge He Put on the Bench
The president insisted that U.S. District Judge Immergut—whom he appointed—should be “ashamed” of how she’d served him.
Donald Trump appears to have set his sights on a new enemy after blocking the National Guard’s entry into Portland.
The president broke his silence earlier in the day, addressing a group of reporters gathered as he prepared to board a helicopter en route to the Navy’s 250th anniversary celebrations in Virginia.
Trump’s topic of discussion was the burning city of Portland and the news that federal judge Karen Imergott had blocked the deployment of the National Guard to the region on Saturday. He didn’t hesitate to express his opinion on the judge herself.
In a video on RSBN, raising his voice to cover the noise of the plane’s rotors, the president lamented: “I wasn’t comfortable with the idea of appointing judges like that.
I can tell you that those who choose judges weren’t comfortable with it. This kind of thing is very bad.”
Trump appointed Imergott in 2019 and made no secret of his disappointment that she failed to live up to his expectations.
He said: “I appointed the judge, and she acted like that. No, I was not well served. Obviously, I don’t know the judge, but she made those kinds of decisions.”
The MAGA leader then gave a scathing assessment of the crisis in Portland, despite opposition from the region’s political leaders to this brutal portrayal.
“Portland is on fire. There are agitators and insurrectionists. Just watch the television, turn on the television, read the newspapers,” he said.
“Everything is on fire.” The governor, the mayor, and the political leaders had to fight for their survival, and having a judge like this is worth it—she should be ashamed of herself.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Political Affairs Stephen Miller also responded with a scathing attack on Sunday.
In his message, Miller called Emergut’s decision a “lawful insurrection,” adding that “the deployment of troops is absolutely necessary” in the face of the “organized terrorist attack” in Portland.
Emergut’s blocking of federal forces from Portland comes after Trump authorized the use of force against the city on Truth Social on September 27.
At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to deploy all necessary forces to protect war-torn Portland and the besieged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities from attacks by Antifa and other domestic terrorists, he wrote in his message.
However, in her ruling, Judge Immergott found these allegations regarding Portland “irrelevant to the facts,” summarizing: “We are in a country of constitutional law, not military law.”
