OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In everything we do, my administration is fighting for the American people and delivering one victory after another. We have appointed more than 230 federal judges. We expect to be perhaps over 300 federal judges by the end of the year.
And there’s — I can tell you, it’s driving them crazy. Don’t forget, President Obama — they say he was a great President. Well, you can’t be a great President when much of what he’s done we’ve undone. And you can’t be a great President when you leave 142 empty judgeships.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at the 2020 Council for National Policy Meeting,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 21, 2020