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Trump Blasts Court's Travel Ban Block: 'This Ruling Makes Us Look Weak'

At a Nashville campaign rally, President Trump said he wished he had stood his ground and defended his original, much stricter executive order. His second travel ban was temporarily halted Wednesday.
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Updated at 10:45 p.m.

President Trump blasted a federal judge's decision to temporarily halt his revised travel ban on Wednesday night, telling a campaign rally in Nashville, Tenn., that he wished he had stood his ground and fought for his original, much stricter executive order.

"The order he blocked was a watered-down version of the first order that was also blocked by another judge and should have never been blocked to start with," Trump said, referring to the decision earlier in the day by U.S. District Court Judge Derrick K. Watson

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