At the beginning of his Cabinet meeting, Trump spoke about his mass deportation policy and the various federal judges who have halted some of the administration’s efforts to deport people who it claims are gang members.
“We’re expelling these monsters from our country rapidly and working with the Department of Justice,” Trump said about alleged gang members.
The president then told Attorney General Pam Bondi, “Pam, you’re doing fantastic. Your people are amazing. We’re having some judge problems, and everybody’s reading some judges that don’t like, you know, killers, murderers being thrown out of the country.”
The president added, in reference to the judges, “I don’t know what their problem is, but we have little difficulty.”
The Trump administration has specifically drawn the ire of one judge, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis, who is overseeing the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who the administration has said was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
Last week, Xinis called out the government for slow-walking the discovery process in the case.
She called the government’s process a “willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations,” and called some of its answers to questions from the defense “vague, evasive, and incomplete.”