‘Would you defy a court order?’ Trump blasts ‘rogue judges’ as he’s pressed on Fox News
President Donald Trump took his insults of federal judges to a new level on Tuesday in a Fox News interview where he made clear his feelings about the judiciary.
“We have rogue judges that are destroying our country,” Trump told Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham.
The remarks came just hours after U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang dealt a legal blow to the Trump administration when he found that Elon Musk’s DOGE-led efforts to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development were likely unconstitutional.
It prompted Ingraham to ask: “Are there circumstances where you would defy a court order?”
“Well, I think number one, nobody has been through more courts than I have,” Trump said as he used his moment on primetime to double down on his yearslong rebuke of the judicial system while railing against his prosecutions. “What they’ve done to me – I’ve had the worst judges – I’ve had crooked judges…”
As the president continued to sound off on his view of judges “that are so corrupt,” Ingraham again pressed him: “But going forward, would you defy a court order?”
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“I never did defy a court order,” Trump said, despite his administration ignoring a court order to turn around planes carrying immigrants that were deported.
“And you wouldn’t in the future?” Ingraham asked.
“No, you can’t do that,” he said. “However, we have bad judges, we have very bad judges and these are judges that shouldn’t be allowed. I think at a certain point you have to start looking at, what do you do when you have a rogue judge?”
He added that “the judge that we’re talking about” is “a lunatic.” Earlier in the interview, as Trump discussed the USAID ruling, he called the agency “a whole big scam.”
Trump said that the case would be appealed.
“I’ve won great cases on appeals,” he said.
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