Pro-Trump judges made excuses for Trump’s bizarre posts. „The district court erred by placing too much weight on statements the President made on social media.“
Donald Trump posts the most bizarre social media content of any world leader in the internet age, from AI videos where he’s dropping literal shit on protesters to fake magical beds that cure all disease. But the president’s staunchest defenders want you to believe that we shouldn’t take any of it too seriously.
We saw several examples of that attitude Monday, including in an appeals court ruling that insists President Trump should be allowed to deploy National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco granted the Trump administration’s motion for a stay in the the case of Oregon v. Trump, with two of the three judges ruling in favor of Trump’s desire to militarize the nation’s cities.
Trump tried to federalize the Oregon National Guard in late September. But U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut of Oregon temporarily blocked Trump from deploying the guardsmen in early October. Among a host of other considerations, Immergut cited Trump’s posts on Truth Social, which described Portland as “war ravaged” and “under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists.” Trump’s assertions weren’t true, of course, and the judge noted the fact that “nothing in the record suggests that anything of this sort was occurring ‘every night’ outside the Portland ICE building.
