Judge Halts Mass Tree Cutting at Trump’s Dream Golf Course

Eric Lee / Reuters Donald Trump has been torn to shreds by a judge over his latest vanity project, which she said has “cost the government all of its credibility.” The 80-year-old president is ripping up Washington, D.C.’s busiest public golf course —the 106-year-old East Potomac Links—and rebuilding it in his own image.

As part of the still unapproved project, for which the administration has presented no final plan, the National Park Service cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday.

His premature wood whacking incensed U.S.

District Judge Ana C.

Reyes, after she demanded in September that the government inform her if it intended to begin any major work on the project.

Reyes, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, said she was “thoroughly unamused” at an emergency hearing on Monday.

She not only ordered the Interior Department to stop, but also to explain why it had already done the work it had done.

She said that the Park Service had filed a notification of its plan to start work early Saturday morning at 4:55 p.m. on the Friday of a holiday weekend.

“I do not know how I could have made it any plainer.

I did not want what happened to happen,” she said according to The Washington Sun , before saying the move had “cost the government all of its credibility.” “Ignorance is not an excuse,” Reyes said, according to Politico’s legal affairs correspondent Kyle Cheney reported .

“I was hearing from everybody on plaintiffs’ side that this was going to happen.

I said repeatedly no, I trust the government.

I trusted you all not to do precisely what you have done.

Not only does that make it inexcusable...