Former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb dismissed President Trump’s recent assertion that he would not defy a court order even if the president does not agree with it.
“Oh no, they’ve made it plain. [Border czar] Tom Homan said ‘we don’t care what the judge has said. [Attorney General] Pam Bondi made it plain when she introduced Trump last Friday at the Justice Department that she and her people were there to support of him,” Cobb said Tuesday during an appearance on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront.”
“That’s actually not the oath they take, they take an oath to serve and protect the Constitution,” he added.
His comments come amid a tussle between a federal judge and the Trump administration over deportation flights of Venezuelan migrants allegedly linked to the Tren de Aragua gang.
The president was also questioned by Fox News’s Laura Ingraham about the administration’s move to continue the flights to El Salvador, despite an order from U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg on Saturday to turn them around. Ingraham pointed to concerns some of his critics voiced, signaling that Trump may ignore other court orders he disagreed with.
During the interview, which aired Tuesday, Trump claimed that “nobody knows the courts better” than him and slammed judges from his previous criminal and civil cases.
“But going forward would you defy a court order?” Ingraham asked.
“I never did defy a court order,” the president responded.
“And you wouldn’t in the future?” the Fox host pressed.
“No, you can’t do that,” Trump said. “However, we have bad judges. We have very bad judges. These are judges that shouldn’t be allowed. I think at a certain point, you have to look at what do you do when you have a rogue judge.”
The administration has argued that the flights had already passed U.S. territory when the judge’s order was issued — claiming Boasberg had no authority to intervene. Earlier Tuesday, the president slammed the judge and called for him to be impeached.
Cobb warned that Trump’s “march for power, adulation, wealth” is in motion and defended the district judge, describing him as the most “qualified” jurist in the country to handle such cases.
“This is, this is nuts what’s going on in front of Judge Boasberg. I think Judge Boasberg, who by the way is highly regarded and actually is the single most qualified judge in the country to handle the issue before him as the former head of the FISA court and the current head of the Alien Deportation court,” he said.
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