With a deadline looming for the ownership transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week granted an emergency injunction that temporarily halted the transfer. 

Within 24 hours, President Donald Trump weighed in on the debate with inflammatory, ill-informed rhetoric on social media. He called the appeals court a “Radical Left Court” for issuing the emergency injunction blocking the transfer of Oak Flat to foreign-owned mining interests. 

In his post, Trump wrote “our country, quite simply, needs copper–and NOW.”

He went further, labeling those who oppose the mine as “anti-American,” suggesting they’re working against the interests of the United States.

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