President Donald Trump on Sunday blasted a federal judge who blocked his deployment of Oregon National Guard troops, while repeatedly referring to her as a man.

Trump appointed U.S. District Judge Karin J. Immergut, who on Saturday rejected the federal government’s assertion that Portland faced a “danger of rebellion” and that “regular forces” were unable to execute federal law.

Speaking outside the White House, Trump said Immergut “ought to be ashamed of himself.”

“I wasn’t served well by the people that pick judges. I can tell you things like that are just too bad. I appointed the judge and he goes like that, so I wasn’t served well, obviously I don’t know the judge,” Trump said.

“But if he made that kind of a decision, Portland is burning to the ground. You have agitators, insurrectionists. All you have to do is look at the television, turn on your television, read your newspapers. It’s burning to the ground. The governor, the mayor, the politicians are petrified for their lives like that. That judge ought to be ashamed of himself.”


——Beth Slovic | The Oregonian/OregonLive