Colleagues of one judge newly appointed to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals by President Donald Trump were left deeply rattled and unsettled after new details of the man’s deep-seated and unwavering devotion to Donald Trump, above all else, were revealed in a particularly disturbing way behind closed doors.
Judge Emil Joseph Bove III once served as Donald Trump’s personal attorney before transitioning to a high-ranking DOJ appointment and, now, a lifetime federal judgeship he secured back in September at the hands of his own former client.
According to new reporting from the New York Times, Bove’s colleagues on the 14-seat appeals court that serves Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware were recently left deeply unsettled and uncomfortable when they discovered that the newly Trump-appointed judge had the background of his iPhone set to the infamous photo of a bloodied Donald Trump raising his fist into the air following the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The Times reports that three separate sources with direct knowledge of the matter confirmed that Bove’s colleagues were visibly disturbed after laying eyes on the photo that filled the background of the judge’s phone.
But that photo only serves as the very tip of what is a deep, unhinged iceberg of Bove’s devout devotion to Donald J. Trump — much of which has drawn formal scrutiny about the judge’s ability to properly and impartially serve from the bench.