President Trump's supreme court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch has told a US Senator he found Donald Trump's attacks on the judiciary "demoralizing" and "disheartening."
Meanwhile, the president has raised fresh questions about his willingness to separate himself from his family's business activities after he launched a furious tirade on social media against one of America's leading department stores.
Harry Horton reports from Washington.
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When Donald Trump wheeled out Judge Neil Gorsich as his pick for the vacancy on the US Supreme Court it was all smiles.
Now, just a week later, Donald Trump has launched a vicious attack on the US justice system as the courts mull over the legality of his controversial travel ban.
After calling the judge who temporarily blocked his executive order a "so-called judge" over the weekend, Donald Trump on Wednesday described the arguments in an appeals court hearing as "disgraceful".
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As Donald Trump was making those remarks, Judge Neil Gorsich was on Capitol Hill meeting with Senators to gain support for his supreme court confirmation.
One Senator - the Democrat Richard Blumenthal - said Judge Gorsich had told him he found Donald Trump's attacks on the judiciary "demoralizing" and "disheartening."
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A spokesperson for Judge Gorsich later confirmed he had indeed used the words "demoralizing" and "disheartening."
Meanwhile, the President was moving onto his next target. This time the department store Nordstrom.
Nordstrom is just the latest department store to drop Ivanka Trump's fashion line.
They mostly seem to have made the decision due to sluggish sales.
But there's also been a vigorous campaign fueled by the President's opponents for consumers to boycott business that sell his family's products.
That seems to have stuck in the President's craw…..and he took to Twitter to voice his fury with Nordstrom.
"My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly" he wrote, describing Nordstrom's decision as "Terrible".
The Tweet appeared not just on his own personal account, but on the official US Presidential Twitter feed as well.
At the daily White House briefing, Press Secretary Sean Spicer - described by one Washington Post columnist as the man with the worst job in Washington - tried to explain why the President criticised Nordstrom…a move that sent the company's share price downwards, though it later recovered on the New York markets.
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The whole issue has once again suggested that the President still doesn't entirely separate the business of America from the business of his family.
And as conservatives such as Neil Gorsich attempt to distance themselves from Donald Trump's more controversial remarks - a reminder that the president and the Republican establishment remain uncomfortable bedfellows.