Former President Donald Trump has launched another fiery social media tirade after learning that Judge James Boasberg—who has ruled against him in past cases—was randomly assigned to oversee the controversial “Signalgate” lawsuit involving leaked U.S. military plans.
The case stems from a major White House blunder earlier this month when officials accidentally added a journalist to a private Signal group chat discussing planned strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen. Government watchdog group American Oversight filed the lawsuit, alleging that top administration figures, including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, violated the Federal Records Act by failing to properly preserve sensitive communications.
But Trump, never one to mince words, took to Truth Social to blast the judicial assignment as rigged. “How disgraceful is it that ‘Judge’ Boasberg has just been given a fourth ‘Trump Case’—statistically impossible unless the system is corrupt!” he wrote. The former president claimed Boasberg, the chief judge of D.C.’s district court, harbors bias against him and should be disqualified, citing alleged “family conflicts” and “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
This isn’t the first clash between the two. Trump previously called for Boasberg’s impeachment over immigration rulings, and now insists no Republican—let alone a Trump ally—can get a fair trial in his courtroom. “Our courts are broken,” Trump declared, singling out D.C. and New York as hubs of “radical corruption.”
The lawsuit seeks to recover deleted messages and enforce record-keeping laws, though the administration maintains no classified material was leaked. Trump, meanwhile, has shifted blame to Signal itself, suggesting the app “could be defective.” As legal tensions escalate, one thing is clear: this battle is about far more than a messaging mishap—it’s the latest front in Trump’s war against the institutions he claims are stacked against him.
