Maggie Haberman Calls Out Trump Over Attacks On Judges: ‘He’s Playing a Very Risky Game’

CNN commentator and New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman called President Donald Trump out over his attacks on judges and warning to the Supreme Court, calling the tactic “a very risky game.”

In a pair of Truth Social posts Thursday night, Trump railed against Federal District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg and others over the blizzard of injunctions and rulings his administration has faced and issued a warning to Chief Justice John Roberts and the Supreme Court.

He wrote: “If Justice Roberts and the United States Supreme Court do not fix this toxic and unprecedented situation IMMEDIATELY, our Country is in very serious trouble!”

On Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, guest anchor John Berman asked Haberman where Trump is going with this, and Haberman observed Trump is “not really making things easier for himself” with the courts by lashing out like this:

BERMAN: Where is this headed, do you think? What does your reporting tell you about where the President wants this to go?

HABERMAN: So a couple of things, John. This is very much a fight that the administration wants to be clear is over this specific case. You heard what the Attorney General said. She is describing this as a case of judges and Democrats and people who criticize what happened here, wanting alleged terrorists, although she just calls them terrorists to stay in the country.

This is actually a lack of due process issue, which is why the judge in this case did what he did, asking about an order not being followed is what any judge would do, no matter who they had been appointed by. I actually think what Trump said, yes, that was clearly an attack on Judge Boasberg. There’s no question about that.

He’s playing a very risky game because judges don’t like attacks on other judges, but he did not repeat the impeachment point. And I think that that is the key point there. I think he is trying to show he is still issuing a pressure campaign. He always does. We are going to see him continue to do that.

But his calls for Congress to impeach judges, which is very hard to make happen, has upset some of his own staff and it has upset leaders in the Senate and in the House, Republican leaders in the Senate and the House. So, I think that this is him saying, fine, I hear you, at least for now.

BERMAN: So, no impeachment in the statement tonight. But there was this new reference to the Supreme Court, which was pretty interesting.

HABERMAN: He knows where — Well, he knows where this is going and yes, it was absolutely a brushback to Roberts. And it was trying to say, essentially there is something wrong with you all if you don’t side with me, but it was much more of an acknowledgment that “A” this is going to the Supreme Court most likely, and “B” that he may not get what he wants and he may not get what he wants, both on the matter of law and because he’s not really making things easier for himself.

Watch above via Anderson Cooper 360.