‘Backstabbers’: MAGA influencers rip GOP senators as Trump’s push for judges hits a snag

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and MAGA influencers took aim at Republican senators after some pushed back on President Donald Trump’s judicial picks with weeks left before Democrats take control of the Senate.

“Ugh. And Republicans wonder why they have problems with base voter enthusiasm,” DeSantis wrote Sunday in a post on X.

Philip Buchanan, a MAGA influencer who goes by "Catturd" online, took the criticism a step further, calling Republicans “lazy, worthless, traitors, backstabbers.”

“Who needs Democrats with Republicans like these?” MAGA activist CJ Pearson wrote.

The GOP resistance has already cost Trump one nomination, according to a report in Reuters. The White House pulled federal Judge Lee Rudofsky’s appeals court nomination after Arkansas Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton opposed him.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has yet to commit to backing Trump’s pick for a federal judgeship in Dallas, while Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) is helping block an Oklahoma nominee, the outlet reported.

City Journal editor Brian Anderson called the pushback “incredibly self-defeating.”

“The Democrats wouldn’t hesitate for [a] second to take advantage of such a window,” Anderson wrote on social media.

Twenty-three judicial nominations are still pending. The White House told Reuters it expects all of them to be confirmed this year.

“Enraging,” Kostas Moros, an attorney with the Second Amendment Foundation, posted online. “Every vacancy must be filled, as none will be after January. (At least not with conservative nominees anyway).”