President Donald Trump threw an overnight temper tantrum over the federal judge assigned to a case involving his administration's use of the Signal messaging app to discuss military operations.
Chief judge James Boasberg will oversee a new lawsuit brought against high-ranking officials after The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg was unintentionally added to a group chat where defense secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed details about a bombing raid in Yemen, and Trump complained that he was the same judge who had drawn his ire in other cases, including one involving the deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador.
"How disgraceful is it that 'Judge' James Boasberg has just been given a fourth 'Trump Case,' something which is, statistically, IMPOSSIBLE," Trump posted on Truth Social at 1:13 a.m. EST. "There is no way for a Republican, especially a TRUMP REPUBLICAN, to win before him. He is Highly Conflicted, not only in his hatred of me — Massive Trump Derangement Syndrome! — but also, because of disqualifying family conflicts."
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Trump has already complained the Barack Obama-nominated judge, who has previously ruled that Mike Pence had to testify before a grand jury in the federal Jan. 6 probe, should be impeached for blocking the deportation flights, and the president raged about his assignment to a lawsuit alleging that administration officials violated federal record-keeping laws by using Signal for military plans.
"Boasberg, who is the Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court, seems to be grabbing the 'Trump Cases' all to himself, even though it is not supposed to happen that way," Trump posted. "Is there still such a thing as the 'wheel,' where the Judges are chosen fairly, and at random?"
Trump didn't sound confident about the outcome of the challenge brought by the liberal-leaning government watchdog group American Oversight, which argued that Hegseth and other top officials violated the Federal Records Act by discussing the military operation through automatically deleted messages on the Signal app.
"The good news is that it probably doesn’t matter, because it is virtually impossible for me to get an Honest Ruling in D.C.," Trump posted. "Our Nation’s Courts are broken, with New York and D.C. being the most preeminent of all in their Corruption and Radicalism. There must be an immediate investigation of this Rigged System, before it is too late!"