Spicer: Trump Has ‘No Regrets’ About Attacking Federal Judges

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks during the daily briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on February 8, 2017 in Washington, DC (Photo by Riccardo Savi) *** Please Use Credit ... White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks during the daily briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on February 8, 2017 in Washington, DC (Photo by Riccardo Savi) *** Please Use Credit from Credit Field ***(Sipa via AP Images) MORE LESS

President Donald Trump has “no regrets” about his attacks on federal judges, according to White House press secretary Sean Spicer.

Spicer also said Thursday the President “absolutely” stands by his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Neil Gorsuch, despite Gorsuch calling Trump’s attacks on the judiciary “disheartening” and “demoralizing.”

However, Spicer took issue with the assertion that Gorsuch was referring directly to Trump’s attacks with those remarks.

“I think it’s important to understand that the judge was very clear that he was not commenting on any specific matter. He was asking about his general philosophy,” Spicer said, referring to a statement from Kelly Ayotte, who is coordinating Gorsuch’s confirmation process for the White House. “So you can’t then take that and equate it back to the specific. He literally went out of his way to say I’m not commenting on a specific instance.”

Ayotte said, in a statement Thursday, of Gorsuch’s remarks about Trump’s attacks: “He has also emphasized the importance of an independent judiciary, and while he made clear that he was not referring to any specific case, he said that he finds any criticism of a judge’s integrity and independence disheartening and demoralizing.”

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  1. Of course he has no regrets, his base eats it up as they see judges as in the way of the police state they want, a state where racist whites rule using Christian Sharia for the law.

    I wonder how Spicer is managing to live with having to get up and defend this kind of stuff…I honestly couldn’t stand there and lie like that.

  2. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    He has no soul. There I fixed it for you.

  3. Trump Has ‘No Regrets’ About Attacking Federal Judges
    

    He still hasn’t gotten past the “crowd size” thing yet –

  4. Avatar for imkmu3 imkmu3 says:

    “I think it’s important to understand that the judge was very clear that
    he was not commenting on any specific matter. He was asking about his
    general philosophy,”

    When you spin that fast, you better lube.

  5. Just so you know Sean…the next time you whine and snivel about how Donnie is ‘getting no respect’ we’ll just come back with the ol’ tried and true ‘we have no regrets’. OK?

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