San Antonio – A federal judge in San Antonio finds himself at the center of an uproar after telling newly sworn U.S. citizens that Donald Trump is “your president, and if you don’t like that, you need to go to another country.”
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U.S. Magistrate Judge John Primono’s comments were reported by KENS-TV in San Antonio, which covered the naturalization ceremony at which 500 immigrants took the oath of U.S. citizenship at the Institutes of Texan Cultures on Thursday.
“I can assure you that whether you voted for him or you did not vote for him,” the television report quoted him as saying of the president-elect, “if you are a citizen of the United States, he is your president. He will be your president, and if you do not like that, you need to go to another country.”
He later told the station and the San Antonio Express-News that he meant his words to be unifying and respectful of the president’s office, not political, and added that he did not vote for Trump for president.
“I wasn’t trying to say anything for or against Donald Trump. I was just trying to say something hopeful and unifying, and unfortunately it was taken out of context,” he told the Express-News.
The television station also reported that Primono was critical at the ceremony of protesters who carried placards saying, “He’s not my president,” and said he detested the actions of pro athletes who kneel during the playing of the national anthem.
Primono, the son of German and Italian immigrants, has been a magistrate judge since 1988.
The darkness of the fascist tide will soon turn it’s ugliness onto Jewish Americans. The numbers of attacks on Jews has skyrocketed since the new Fuhrer was elected. This judge is a running dog.
The “statistics” the “press” has been spouting have no basis in reality. It is a Bilaamic tactic, in an attempt to fan flames of opposition to the President-elect. Actually, hate crimes are down from last year.
If it’s any consolation to hashomer, the fact that Primono has been a magistrate judge, the lowest rung on the federal judicial ladder, since 1988, should say something about him. Normally, a magistrate who is any good at his job gets a presidential appointment to a district judgeship within 10 years or so. Given that the White House was in Democratic hands in 1998, he should have gotten a promotion no later than 2001 or 2002.