Judge Warns Trump Is Turning Into Henry II With His Dangerous Rants [View all]

Source: The New Republic

Judge Warns Trump Is Turning Into Henry II With His Dangerous Rants

Edith Olmsted
Mon, July 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM EDT
2 min read

A federal judge compared Donald Trump to Henry II for his blatant efforts to punish his administration’s critics.

While overseeing a lawsuit Monday concerning the Trump administration’s crackdown on non-citizens’ pro-Palestinian speech, U.S. District Judge Willliam Young referred to the 12th-century English king while mulling whether the president’s penchant for publicizing his every personal problem ever inspired his underlings to take action.

Young cited Henry II’s famous line, “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” The offhand remark led errant knights to murder Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who’d sought to increase the power of the Catholic Church.

Trump “doesn’t have errant knights, but he’s got Stephen Miller,” Young quipped, according to Politico’s senior legal correspondent Kyle Cheney.

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