Another action you couldn’t write in a screenplay and have anybody believe. Could it be possible to have a sitting U.S. president defy the ruling of the highest court in the land, the Supreme Court? Not generally, but when you’re talking about a gangster like Trump who has spent his life figuring out ways to circumvent the rule of law, if not defy it outright, then it makes perfect sense. The hang up this week in obtaining the court mandated return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is that there’s a difference between facilitate and effectuate, we are told. But that excuse didn’t hold water because it was so stupid. Here’s what’s really going on.
Trump is passing the buck. He is already blaming "President B" for whatever happens to any people he sends to El Salvador. I'm sure I read that the US will be paying El Salvador for the upkeep of these prisoners.
What will happen when Trump defaults on payment, as he surely will? https://t.co/oGZYCM2bIl— Mommie Dearest (@mommie_dee_) April 12, 2025
“It’s up to President B.” It’s like Abrego Garcia and any other person removed from our shores without due process is now the property of the president of El Salvador. It’s analogous to one slaveowner gifting another slaveowner some slaves. It is, in a word, illegal, un-American, and sick. Which is why Trump finds the idea so appealing.
If this isn’t a constitutional crisis in the making, I don’t know what is. And the optics of this are horrific. The man is a citizen. He did nothing wrong, broke no laws. For reasons that nobody sane can parse, rather than just admit this “administrative error” and return the man to his family, Trump has been stalling.
And this is why, evidently. He wants to pass the buck to Bukele. He can’t do that. It doesn’t work that way. Abrego Garcia is an American citizen, he doesn’t suddenly become the possession (or a citizen) of a foreign president or a foreign country.
But this is the tack that Trump is choosing to take. Totally bonkers. Wait for all of this to blow up Monday if it doesn’t happen before. This is screaming human rights violations, right here. If Trump is allowed to get away with this, anybody could be picked up off the street, shipped to some foreign country and abandoned there, basically. And then Trump will say that the kidnapped individuals (which is an accurate description) are in the “sole custody” of whatever country he shipped them to.
This is batshit even for Trump. This idea of his contradicts every law or ethic concerning immigration, deportation, human rights and sanity.
Just curious how u came to the conclusion that Garcia is a US citizen? He is not.
It’s likely a confusion as his wife and child ARE citizens.
But, regardless of terminology, Abrego Garcia (that’s his full legal surname–Hispanic naming customs use a combination of the paternal and maternal surnames) was a LEGAL resident of the United States and his presence in a Salvadoran prison is ILLEGAL.
He has a legal right to be in the country. He has worked here, paid taxes, married, had kids, all of that. That’s the point. He was railroaded out of the country on trumped up (literally) charges.
he had a court order SPECIFICALLY forbidding anyone to send him back to El Salvador, where his life was in danger!
My bet is T, acurely aware of how TV works, will have Bukele bring Abrego Garcia with him and, ABRACADABRA, produce him from an anteroom during the obligatory photo op/press conference.
He attempted this in his first term when he met the English parents of a son killed by Anne Sacoolas, who had avoided the courts in England by claiming diplomatic immunity. When they came to the White House, he told them Sacoolas was next door in another room. Kudos to their courage in turning down his offer to bring her in. Hopefully I am right, though whether he will go the whole hog and have Albrego’s family there……
Well, yah, it would be easy for Bukele to bring Abrego Garcia with him and it could be great television. Ta-da, hooray!
I maintain that until he is produced, and certified by his family to be the real Abrego Garcia, that he has already died in prison.
Within the last few days, government spokespeople have said “we swear he is alive and we’ll produce him soon!” In this administration, that can be decoded as, “he died weeks ago, but we’ll get right onto an investigation of what could have happened to him!” Why not just go ahead and blame Bukele right now?
And I also maintain, backed up by the statements of former prosecutor and Senator Claire McCaskill, getting Abrego Garcia back should have been easy if we used the correct legal venue. This is a matter of neither criminal nor international law. This is contract law. Bukele agreed to house a number certain for a term certain receiving money certain. Abrego Garcia is one of the 300 units of inventory accepted into the CECOT storage facility. Trump is paying $6M for one year to store those units. This means $1600/month is paid per unit. Trump could say, “Bukele, I am removing one unit, replacing it with another like unit under the same contract.” Done…easy! But now, it appears one of our units is missing from the inventory. “Bukele, provide me proof of that unit, in a full inventory, or I will sue you for breach of contract!”
We all know Trump loves to sue and that should be what is happening!! 🤨🤨
He is a Scary Brown Petson, thus Trump could care less if he’s dead. To Donnie, being not white,Christian, and Republican is a crime.