A federal judge on Monday said she was “furious” with the Trump administration’s move over the weekend to cut down at least 430 trees from a Washington, DC, public golf course that President Donald Trump is seeking to renovate.

US District Judge Ana Reyes, who is overseeing a legal challenge to Trump’s plans to overhaul the East Potomac Golf Course, put a tentative hold on any further tree removal and is holding an emergency hearing Monday, in which she told Justice Department attorneys they had lost “credibility” with her because they gave less than a day’s notice before cutting down the trees.

“More than just being upset and furious right now, I am just beyond disappointed with the government,” Reyes said. When a DOJ attorney said they had done their “best” to give her and the plaintiffs a heads-up, the judge said, her voice raised, “No, you did your absolute worst.”

“I am thoroughly unamused right now,” Reyes also said.

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    If you look closely, you can see a long trail of “furious” Judges in the wake left behind this gelatinous coward fascist everywhere he goes. And if you’re paying attention, you’ll notice that not one of them ever did a thing about it-

    Thus proving, the words of judges are irrelevant to one who is above the law. Therefore there’s is only one language that speaks to such a person…

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      And that’s just a flat-out lie. Judges, more than any other single group of people, have slowed Trump’s roll in every direction.

      One wonders why you’re so quick to give Trump’s dishonest flunkies a pass in order to come down harder on the judge who is trying to uphold the law – not just in spite of him, but in spite of the shit she’ll inevitably get for it.

      As the golf course renovation is already being litigated, his lackeys were supposed to notify her prior to ANY tree removal, but did not. She’s just trying to save the trees that are left after the fact, but you can only talk shit about her, and the other honest judges we still have that are doing their best to keep whatever rule of law we have left.

      Not a single negative word about them in your comment, only shit for the judge still doing her job when right and left the administration is coming down hard on anyone that opposes them. Ilhan Omar’s home just got raided today. A Wisconsin immigration judge went to jail and lost her job for objecting to ICE. Anyone who crosses him gets his followers sicced on him. And those are just off the top of my head. But this lady is still doing her job in spite of that.

      Stop giving that fat orange tumor a pass by coming down on the perceived weakness of any opposition. They’re doing what they can, and they’re doing more than you are by talking shit about anything good anyone does to slow him down.

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        You clearly have a reading comprehension issue if you’ve gather that I am giving him a pass. That, or you have a near zero understanding of how nuanced conversation works.

        You seee, a thing can be two things. Editing someone’s comment into a polarized this OR that so you can argue against it is distracting from the point and makes you look silly.

        Don’t do this.

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          You clearly have a thing for shitting on anyone trying to stop him or his loompas, given your comment history.

          Speaking of my missing nuance (???) I did not edit your comment. Not sure what gaping stankhole of self you pulled that jewel out of, but the fact is that I merely wrote my own. Had you edited your own comment to include some mild words of disfavor for The Actual Wrongdoers along with your usual steaming pile of nobody’s doing anything, you’d never have heard from me.

          But for your sake I’ll cut to the chase. See, my basic problem with what you wrote, apart from what you actually wrote (and not just what you think you wrote), is that I am an American less than three weeks away from yet another election which foreign powers and oligarchs have poured even more money and propaganda and social media accounts into manipulating toward a specific destructive outcome, and your comment just sounds like so much concern trolling: a sound that is execrably familiar to every one of us who actually live here.

          But there’s always a tipoff that it’s not real: the actual guilty parties remain unmentioned. And there it is.

          Then again, I can’t say I expected to see you online today, so maybe there’s that as well.

          TL;DR: You wrote a comment that included an obvious, in-your-face untruth in it, one that can be readily disproven in countless ways with one simple search, and now you’re doubling down on your dishonesty to defend it, in a moment just prior to an election already mired in misinformation and propaganda efforts aimed toward getting rid of even the last vestiges of democracy. You’re helping what you claim to decry. Don’t do this.

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            Yep…. It’s defining a reading comprehension issue. Going to go ahead and block you so I can stop receiving these walls of text that have nothing to do with the discussion.

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              Thanks for confirming what I thought and letting the rest of us know what side you’re really on.

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                They’re not even an American, they’re some euro ameriboo superlib who thinks anyone left of Kamala Harris is as bad as Trump. Big enlightened centrist energy.

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        I mean if like that, but I prefer him to suffer in a jail cell, stripped of all his ill gained profits. It will drive him insane. I will savor every minute.

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          I get where you’re coming from, but that would mean that we still have to read about the sack of shit regularly. I’d rather it just be over and to never have to hear him speak ever again.

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            Me too, but I’m sternly into the retalatory nature of the american judiciary system here. The guy did a lot of damage to my sanity and I need him to suffer for at least as long as the lady they failed to kill.

            And then have the execution be bothed too, maybe not wetting the spunge or something.

            Anything else would just be letting him off easy.