Trump, addressing the lawyers of the Department of Justice, says that those who fight against him are ‘slag’

When President Donald Trump spoke with the employees of the Department of Justice on Friday afternoon, he addressed many of the lawyers responsible for defending their policies in court in more than 120 lawsuits.

For some of those lawyers, it has been a difficult week, since the judges in several cases have seemed skeptical of the government’s arguments.

While defending policies such as the mass dismissals of the government or the prohibition of the transgender service of the Pentagon, several lawyers of the Department of Justice have encountered words when they try to answer the questions that are asked.

“So, people with gender dysphoria cannot be honest, humble or have integrity. Do you think that is degrading for people with gender dysphoria?” The American District Judge Ana Reyes asked a doj lawyer on Wednesday during a hearing about the prohibition of service members.

“I can’t answer that question,” he replied.

Later, Reyes rebuked each of the lawyers of the Department of Justice after they admitted that none of them had read any of the scientific studies used to support the prohibition in the jurized judicial presentations.

During a contentious hearing in Maryland on Wednesday about Trump’s massive shots, which finally led the judge supervising the case to order that approximately 20,000 government employees were reinstated, a lawyer from the Department of Justice could not answer when a judge pressed him to confirm how many employees had been completed.

“More than 50 or less than 50? … more than 100 or less than 100? … less than 1,000?” Judge James Bredar asked, to which the lawyer replied that he could not make an estimate at that time.

“Don’t you know? … Does anyone in government know?” The judge continued to press, just for the government’s lawyer to say that he does not know.

For an audience on an emergency order to block an executive order against the law firm Perkins Coie, the Department of Justice chose to send Chad Mizelle, the chief of cabinet of the attorney general PAM Bondi, to argue in the name of the government. Mizelle’s complete defense of politics, which prohibits the company’s lawyers from entering any government building, took Judge Beryl Howell to comment that the radical nature of some of his arguments sent “chills for my spine.”

“When he says that if the president, in his opinion, takes the position that an individual or an organization or a company is operating a form that is not in the interests of the nation, can issue an executive order like this and take measures to prohibit that person, that entity, that company to do any business with the government, to finish any contract, obtain them, take them off from federal buildings?” Howell said.

“I mean, that is a quite extraordinary power for the president to exercise,” said the judge.

“If he made a finding that there is a risk of national security with a law firm in particular, then,” Mizelle replied.

During Friday’s speech in the Department of Justice, Trump alleged, without presenting evidence, that media organizations and the Democratic Party were colluding to challenge their administration, and urged lawyers to defend themselves.

“They are horrible people. They are scum,” Trump said about those who oppose him in court. “We will have these cases in which they cannot allow them to deviate. He simply cannot let it happen. He has such a higher vocation.”

Trump’s visit to the DOJ headquarters, during which he presented his vision for the department and repeatedly suggested that his appointed should imprison his political enemies, it was a deviation of decades of norms after Watergate where the leadership of the Department of Justice has tried to maintain an appearance of the White House independence in criminal matters.