President Trump slammed a federal judge Saturday who ruled that his administration must remove his name from the “Trump Kennedy Center,” after learning the judge’s wife is President Joe Biden’s personal lawyer.
Trump teed off on US District Court Judge Christopher Cooper in a lengthy Truth Social tirade a day after the Obama-appointed jurist ruled “Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it” and gave the administration two weeks to remove Trump’s name from building’s facade.
“Can you imagine? A Barack Hussein Obama Judge named Christopher Cooper has stopped a magnificent structural and aesthetic rebuilding of The Trump Kennedy Center where Millions of Dollars of material, marble, furniture, steel, air conditioning, heating, and so much else was ordered, or soon to be ordered, with the end result being a structure that would no longer be in a potential state of collapse, rusted, rotted, and rat and bug infested, to one that would be the Finest anywhere in the World,” Trump posted.
The judge also ruled the administration must pause a plan to close the Kennedy Center for two years, but said it could do so if its board met and considered the necessary evidence.
Trump called the closing “necessary,” adding that the building’s marble was in “terrible shape.”
He called Cooper a “Trump Hating Judge” and a “Radical Left Democrat,” and labeled his wife, Amy Jeffress, an “anti Trump Hater” who is “currently representing Sleepy Joe Biden on the release of his audio tapes.”
That was a reference to former President Biden’s legal effort to compel the government to hold back tapes of his infamous deposition during former special counsel Robert Hur’s classified documents probe.
Jeffress also worked for the House Jan. 6 committee, and represented fired FBI employee Lisa Page,. Trump on Saturday called Page, a former FBI lawyer, a “Dirty Cop.”
And he accused Jeffress and Cooper of having a conflict of interest.
The Daily Caller reported on the judge’s marriage following the ruling Friday, after Politico flagged her work for Biden back in July.
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The Kennedy Center said it would fight the ruling.
Trump also suggested he is considering a permanent closure to the arts center designated as a “living memorial” to JFK.
