The Justice Department, with Attorney General Pam Bondi most unseemingly leading the charge, is on a campaign to paint Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man they have acknowledged was illegally sent to a prison used to house terrorists in El Salvador, as a bad guy.
Trump has deliberately picked unprincipled loyalists for cabinet officers. She knows she must tout the Trump line if she is to remain in his good graces. Trump is a pathological liar, and she has to repeat all his lies or she will be browbeaten like members of Trump's first cabinet were when they said something he didn't like. This is all easy for Blondie, since it seems she has no conscience and is incapable of empathy.
Can't disagree with anything you said John. I will always wonder why already successful people, Bondi, Rubio, Vance etc., turn against the very system that made them wealthy and powerful. Too Much and Never Enough, is the title of Mary Trump's book and a perfect descriptor for the whole sad lot of them.
Ugh :-). The very idea of licking Trump's ass is SO FUNDAMENTALLY REPUGNANT as to let you know that you have left me starving tonight because I can not bring myself to either cook or eat dinner LOL!
"It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all," a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit wrote. "The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order."
Took one day.
The DOJ could appeal the Fourth Circuit's decision to the Supreme Court.
"In response to a request for comment on the appellate order, the Justice Department shared prior coverage of Attorney General Pam Bondi. Bondi on Wednesday told reporters that it's up to El Salvador to bring Abrego Garcia back, and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said he does not have the power to return him. "He is not coming back to our country," Bondi said.
"Meanwhile, agency officials at the Homeland Security and State departments must abide by Xinis's order, which requires them to be questioned under oath about the steps taken and challenges faced in order to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return. Xinis said this would clarify what, if anything, has been done and if the government is acting in good faith."
"...acting in good faith."? What a novel idea. Does anyone know of an instance where Trump and/or any of his sycophants acted in "good faith"? Enquiring minds want to know.
It's not smuggling. El Presedente is not a lawyer.
Meanwhile, in El Salvador, they are bound by mutual treaties, including among the OAS, which protects asylum.
If I were the ACLU I would have hired local counsel to bring a habeus corpus under Salvadorean law.
"Lawyers hired by the Venezuelan government filed a legal action Monday in El Salvador aimed at freeing 238 Venezuelans deported by the United States who are being held in a Salvadoran maximum-security prison.
"Jaime Ortega, who says he represents 30 of the imprisoned Venezuelans, said they filed the habeas corpus petition with the Supreme Court’s Constitutional Chamber. He said that by extension they requested that it be applied to all Venezuelans detained in El Salvador.
"The maneuver essentially compels the government to prove someone’s detention was justified.
"The Salvadoran government has been silent about the status of the Venezuelan prisoners since the U.S. government sent them more than a week ago, despite a U.S. federal judge’s verbal order to turn the planes around."
The liar Pam Bondi has experience lying as Florida Attorney General under the lying and criminal governor Rick Scott. While serving as attorney general she allowed a political group supporting her to accept a bribe from Donald Trump, and as a result she dropped an investigation of his so-called Trump University.
It frustrates me to no end that most ,if not ALL of T***Ps cabinet picks lied under oath and aren't held accountable!! Of course if appointees to the Supreme Court can get away with it, I guess it's acceptable. What a sad state we are in, but I think a lot of people are finally WAKING UP!!
It frustrates me that the judge didn't immediately declare Trump a flight risk and throw him in prison to await sentencing. That is done for SO MANY poor people yet Trump waltzes his way to freedom and then the Presidency. And of course, I will forever hold Biden and Garland, two people I supported wholeheartedly early in Biden's term in office, jointly responsible for letting Trump slip from the grasp of federal authorities for his two federal indictments. One group of Democratic big shots playing "nice" with biggest GOP big shot, and look how that turned out.
If we ever ger back to a real democracy again (a hope which I am not optimistic about, sigh) I hope that ALL people who handle crime learn something from this and both stop OVERreaching to incarcerate poor people and stop UNDERreaching the incarceration of rich and powerful people. There needs to be a middle ground where everyone is treated at least on the surface equally. Maybe that can forestall any return to this grotesque situation we find ourselves in.
Of course, that ASSUMES that we do get back to a more normal government at some point. I sadly am not at all confident that will ever happen.
Part of it, seriously, is a throwback to the "wild west" culture of our country and our democracy. We are a people who historically have run from their collective pasts, first from Europe and Asia, and then from the coasts of America. It is one of the reasons, I think, that our mid-country is so much "redder" than the coasts. Many of the people who fled their pasts once they got here moved from their debarkation points (Ellis Island, Baltimore, San Francisco) and moved to where they couldn't be followed easily. This was true for both conservatives and liberals. My parents, in the 1950s, moved from New York to Tucson Arizona, to get away from McCarthy persecution of their pasts as leftists.
"Why are we as we are?" As opposed to what we should be...happy, grateful,at peace,accepting, etc. I would love the answer to this question...is it lead poisoning or what ?? SOMETHING is wrong with us.
She is simply a bimbo who mouths rump's words. As most of his "chosen," she is too stupid to understand what is actually going on, I hope she will he held to account soon.
According to this, I would be finding a work around for Abrego Garcia and others. Can we find a country that will take him and others and they can fight for due process from there. A goal would be to get him out, and these people will never admit wrong. I am thinking Canada or Costa Rica. Some place that he and his wife agree to. My friends all say it is important to force Trump to follow due process, but that can happen while he is outside of that horrid prison. That is caring about him over being right.
As Timothy Snyder says in his book On Freedom, sovereignty should like in the person, not the country.
I hear this from everyone. I do not care about the rules, which are broken. I care about saving the man. Sovereignty be da**ed. Get him out to anywhere that is not El Salvador or the US. If Trump won't let him back int he US, get him somewhere else, and then negotiate his due process. GET HIM OUT NOW!
I’m going to read all the links. I’ve been thinking so much about the apparent fact that conservatives lack empathy and that empathy is a characteristic only of the left. DNA or lifelong conditioning?
Janet, according to what Andra Watkins is saying, and she just had a Podcast with Rev. Dr. Shannon Fleck on who is the Executive Director at Faithful America based in Oklahoma, who is fighting Christian Nationalism in the US, and the bad name it gives to christianity. https://faithfulamerica.org/
They were discussing the lack of empathy in CN. Everyone in the Heritage Foundation is a CN, as are the MAGAs in Congress and the Trump administration. Andra points out how one would be punished as a child for showing empathy in her pieces. I find this shocking and actually a form of emotional abuse. None of these people know what healthy parent-child relationships should be. It is so unfortunate for their children and for the rest of us.
Historically "christians" have been warlike and arrogant. Sp Inquisition,sending missionaries around the world,buring in hell and all that. Power grab.
Patricia, I am not a Christian, and I don't know that they differ from other groups historically, because historically people have been warlike and arrogant, or they have been run over by those who were.
Thank you for your response and links. I remember a time 30+ yrs ago when my biggest complaint about churches in my community was that most never reached beyond their congregations to provide events or service(s) - Mother’s Day Brunches, food banks, etc. Seems I’ve gotten way more than I’d hoped for now that their beliefs and demands have spawned political overreach.
Yes Janet. Now Christian Nationalists, whom my friend calls by their more apt name White Nationalists, want to turn the US into a White Nationalist Theocracy. That is what Project 2025 is all about.
In the near future these CN kids will be held hostage in the “Home School” or more and more likely trained in private institutions (schools funded by our tax dollars) to hate thy neighbors, steal from the poor, and help make Christo-Fascism the law of the pre-Rapture land.
Janet, I think this already goes on from what I know. However, I think they will get a greater percentage of our tax dollars will go to supporting this hateful and inhumane upbringing of children.
I really find it both wasteful and obnoxious that people can NOT face reality. Florida is NOT going to disbar Pam Bondi. She probably could go out in broad daylight on 5th Avenue in NY and shoot someone and not be disbarred. There is NO WAY the Florida bar, which I might politely point out is virtually ALL Republican, is going to disbar a "favorite daughter" of their state.
You who do this waste your own valuable time and the time of others by posting this NONSENSE and yes, that is what it is. Be truthful in your analysis. If something COULD happen, that is great. I was thrilled that the Congressman who went to El Salvador was able to at least confirm that Garcia was still alive. But El Salvador isn't going to send him home unless Trump says to do that, and Trump doesn't seem ready to do that anytime soon.
And the idea of getting Bondi disbarred is SO MUCH FURTHER out in left field than getting Garcia back to the US, at least while the GOP is in charge of Florida's government, that it is actually tiring to have to write this kind of post over and over again. But I will not stop writing it, because infusing our politics with at least a semblance of reality is important... no its critical, to keep us focused on what CAN be accomplished instead of going off on tangents that are virtually impossible.
No one is saying she will be removed, only that she should be, and shaking your finger in peoples faces isn't helpful. Each voice matters. That is what distinguishes us from the party where no voice matters but the emperor's.
Folks, it is a great thing to fantasize about, but please understand nobody in Trump's administration is going to be removed from office via impeachment OR disbarred. Trump and the GOP control the White House and the two houses of Congress, and without 2/3 of the Senators to convict, no impeachment trial will end in removal for anyone (and that includes both GOP AND Democrat... the current Senate count is 53-47 GOP leading, and it takes 67 Senators to remove anyone from office, whether a government officer or a judge. As they say "you do the math". In this Congress, there will never be 20 GOP Senators willing to join all 47 Democrats to convict any GOP officer for an impeachment, and there will never be 14 Democratic Senators to join all 53 Republicans to convict a Democrat, unless someone literally commits premeditated murder on Fox TV. If it is a Democrat who does that, you MIGHT find enough Democratic Senators to join for a conviction. And as for GOP accused, even if the murder was cold-blooded and shown live on TV, I am not sure you could find enough GOP Senators to convict.
Face it, impeachment is simply a dead issue for at LEAST the rest of this term of Congress. And to get it back on track, the Dems will need to win probably 15 to 20 of the GOP Senate seats out of 32 up for grabs in 2026, which is unfortunately virtually. impossible. I think the Dems can take back the Senate in 2026, but the majority will still be in the 55-45 or closer range, no where near enough to get an impeachment conviction for ANYONE.
I am NOT thrilled by this, but it is fact as opposed to fantasy.
Tough luck. "If wishes were fishes". Someone around here had to deal with reality and if that lot falls to be, so be it. Sigh... it doesn't cheer me up to have to be a naysayer after spending my life being av radical but truth needs to be told. My apologies.
And sorry anyone finds it tiresome. After 55 years being politically radical, I find a LOT of what we deal with tiresome.
America will be safer when convicted criminal Donald Trump is in custody, and I honestly don't care where as long as it is secure and he has no access to cameras, microphones, or media. The Felon in the Whitehouse received every possible benefit of "Due Process", and then some. On this Passover, when we commemorate the release from captivity, let's continue to demand that Mr. Garcia is released.
Okay, now that you have all indulged in your absurd fantasy, can we get back to actual politics?
Trump is not going to be confined anywhere. He is not going to be stripped of his phones or other media outlets. He is the President, and like it or not, WE (yes WE, because we act as a country, even when we hate the result) ELECTED HIM PRESIDENT and now we have to suffer with the consequences.
And there is no, literally NO, actual path to getting him out of office before his term expires on Jan 20, 2029, other than death.
Forget impeachment, it's not going to happen.
Forget trying to enforce the law against him, it's not going to happen.
The only way he leaves the White House before Jan 20, 2029, is in a casket.
And I do not condone assassination under any circumstances no matter who the offender, so it will have to be a natural death.
And unfortunately, he doesn't look like he is ready to go naturally any time soon.
People need to vent, Jon, and give voice to what should be happening in the face of such abject malfeasance. I, too, harbour fantasies of the justice which should be meted out to the sociopaths in DC, but I know it might never happen unless the Dems can work magic in the ‘26 elections. To that end, I will support the candidates who need help, and use my feet to march, and my voice to shout truths which need to be heard. Peace, Jon.
I appreciate the need to vent. We used to expect people to put in notations like /rant or /vent around an email or post that was intended to be that and not an actual reflection of reality. In this space, it is hard to differentiate between those who are just venting and those who seriously believe that they should expect "answers" and "results" from within this rather limited space.
I spent many years marching (during Vietnam War times, 1967-1974) and got mostly nothing but frustration from what mostly never happened. So it certainly helps when I think people are just venting to vent and when I think (as I did in this case) that their vents are actually in the hope or expectation of an actual change in what is happening.
I am all with you on venting and marching and shouting our truth to the highest rooftops, but I also would appreciate seeing that made clear as I typically do when I decide to vent (as I sometimes do).
But when I am looking for serious ideas and feedback, i think it is important to know that.
Jon, when I am writing venting-type things, it is usually in response to a thread of conversation. I have written at least a couple of things that I did label as rants, because that's what they were and they were original comments, not replies to what someone else said There are some things people write that leave me shaking my head, and I usually don't like or reply to those.
I agree, but it's nice to dream about what he deserves. There is a possibility of impeachment if the Dems can take both the house and senate in the midterms. From what I've been hearing, there are a number of republicans who are expressing their disapproval more freely. Probably also a dream, but it's a good one, IMO.
I even think impeachment is possible right now. It would only take 4 or 5 GOP Congress critters to get an impeachment resolution passed.
What is true though I think is that even if the Dems Claim back the Senate in 2026. A CONVICTION on impeachment is virtually impossible. To convict requires 67 votes and right now the Senate is 53-47 for Trump. Even if the Senate was 53-47 Democratic, it would require 14 more GOP votes to convict him.. unless he is accused of shooting children himself, there is no universe I can imagine where that many GOP Senators would vote to oust him.
In the world we currently live in, of course vance would be better - because in their minds everything is the opposite of what well-grounded people see. I think I had forgotten that I ever knew that impeachment would require a ⅔ majority to happen. I take your point, but I have a question: do you think that sending his political enemies to CECOT would precipitate a successful impeachment?
Again, impeachment (which happens when the HOUSE votes articles of impeachment and passes them by a simple majority) is one thing, convicting and removal from office is something else. Impeachment is like an indictment. By itself it has no real effect except to require an impeachment trial in the senate. To be noted from office requires a CONVICTION in the Senate by 2/3 majority.
So to be a stickler for terminology I think there are situations right now which in the right moment coughs result in a "successful impeachment" but that is just the first part.
I see NO scenario where Trump is EVER CONVICTED nyb the Senate unless there is REALLY something drastic that happens (I know we all think what is happening now is drastic but for impeachment purposes ot is not IMHO), something like the President actually murdering someone in the White House or something like that. It takes enough GOP Senators to move to convict him that he is essentially impeachment conviction-proof.
I agree, Jon, trump will never be impeached or convicted but let people vent and indulge their fantasies. I would do so myself except that mine involve stakes and heads.
Sorry if this is pedantic but we really should distinguish impeachment from conviction and removal. That is often blurred by incorrect usage.
Impeachment is what the House did by voting to try someone in the Senate to remove them from office.
Trump has been impeached TWICE, Bill Clinton once and Andrew Johnson in 1867 once. Nixon was not impeached because he resigned before the vote could be held although it is almost certain he would have been without his resignation
Trump very well may be impeached again as the House is very closely divided and it only takes a majority of the House to impeach.
Conviction and removal requires a trial in the Senate and two thirds of Senators voting in favor (currently 67). There were a few judges who WERE impeached AND convicted and removed but a LONG time ago. ⌛️
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No President has ever been convicted in the Senate and it is almost impossible for it to occur today given the political division and the 2/3 majority required.
Lots of us remember Richard Nixon, John Mitchell, and to round out the trio Spiro Agnew. All of whom, despite being felons, did at least have some belief in the rule of law.
Exactly. They stole it from taxpayers. I don't recall at all giving permission to the US Treasury to send my money to El Salvador. Did Trump write a check out of his personal bank account? Nope, he electronically submitted OUR money to the brutal dictator's bank account. Sickening.
And likely hasn't put a hold on that money, which should be of interest to Judge Xinis when she examines their list of what they've done to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return.
Pardon me for stating the obvious, but the country and the world would be safer if we could deport the CONVICTED felon in the White House. You know, the one married to an immigrant?
Bondi lied to the Senate during her nomination hearing. She said she would uphold the rule of law and would not let her office be politicized. She has broken both promises. She would be removed from office if GOP Senators were not toadies for Trump who violate their oaths of office to keep their jobs.
And during her hearing we all knew Bondi was going to be a Trump toad as well as a few Supreme Court justices. At least those of us who aren't glued to Fox News 24/7.
Pam Bondi has it exactly backwards. Rather than making us safer, the abduction and deportation of Kilmar Abrego García makes all of us less safe. Why? Because if he can be denied his due process rights, so could you or I be denied ours.
I look forward to the day when we can refer to Ms. Bondi as "that woman" as she loses her Bar license for openly and, if I dare say, enthusiastically, violating the Constitutional rights of every one of the kidnap victims, and again, when the civil suits against her result in VERY large judgments against her.
Nah - put her in just a plain old prison - NOT a Club Fed, without her bleach and her botox and she'll be miserable enough. Kristi Noem, too - and her without her hair extensions and lip filler. Lol
Gulags for profit...Trump & El Salvador Bukele's idea of "economic development". Trump: "Home-growns are next". Foreign gulags for US citizens while Trump's lackeys JD, Rubio etc laugh...Trump corruptly targets critics, & adversaries for baseless prosecutions & retribution. We allow the Trump administration to abandon the constitution & the rule of law at our peril. #Resist
The language used in the court orders and the hearings emerging from these cases including a scathing unanimous decision written by a Reagan appointee suggests how seriously the judges in the five separate courts that have touched them are taking the administration’s recalcitrant approach. The words and phrases they have employed — “grievous error” “shocks the conscience” “unconscionable” — are themselves an indication of how out-of-bounds and unchastened they believe the White House has been.
Ya think? Trump and Bukele's govt if you can call it that, have done business before. Two dens of thieves. The "cool dictator" has quite a scam game going . Can't wait for the El Salvadorans to wake up, stage a coup, and get rid of this scum. Not saying the gangs of the country should retake the country, absolutely not, but get someone in there who doesn't bend the knee to Trump and other dictators while protecting their citizenry. What an idea, hey?
It is. People are people like you and I. Due to poverty that is significant gangs and criminals got a hold of things. Politicians were corrupt. bukele was charismatic and did, many say inhumanely, make San Salvador a safer place to live. Then he commandeered the presidency, as Trump is trying to do and made it the Office of Bukele, not the office of the presidency
I had to run errands in downtown Seattle today, so I made a sign highlighting this administration’s lawless disappearance of Abrego Garcia, and planted myself in front of the Federal Bldg. Just me and my sign. A nice security guard came out and asked a few questions, including whether I was expecting others. I said I was alone and there because of my conscience.
About half an hour in, I was joined by a whole group of protesters from the east side! Best sign: Lawless ruler on one side; Rule of Law on the other! Lots of Due Process signs too. I was so happy to have put myself out there—really gave me HOPE!
First, Bondi is a bald-faced liar. But, no, it doesn't matter if he was, or was not, a "bad" guy. It doesn't matter if any of the deportees were bad guys. Due process is required; it's not optional. The reason, however, that this has people so incensed is that he is not a bad guy - he's a family man who had been doing everything by the book. And, so, his case is important for a prospective deportees.
This would be the same Pam Bondi who at her confirmation hearings denied any allegation that the DOJ would conform to Trump’s agenda. And the Republican half of the Senate either believed her (hard to believe) or did their usual Tump adherence dance. What a surprise!
Rubber stamped them all, bbb. Trying to think of some catchy play on "rubber". Failed. Too late in the day for my mind to be creative. Anyone awake enough to come up with something?
Nah, James, I was looking for something a little more gross for condoms. Come on, guys, what words do you use when you are talking amongst yourselves?? Ladies can play too if you have some good ideas.
I was a student at Penn State back in the sixties. One big football weekend when many young ladies were coming in from other schools for the festivities, the college found an empty dorm for them. One of my friends hid voice activated tape recorders in two of the bathrooms. Since then, I’ve had no illusions about the fact that ‘the ladies’ can play, too.
But if you are looking for gross, I’m probably not your guy. During four years in the army during the Vietnam war, my capacity for gross got well overused.
Sorry you had to go through that, James, and, yeah, I can understand how your "capacity for gross" would certainly get overused. A belated "Thank you for your service" that I'm pretty sure you didn't get when you came home. I hope the aftereffects were not lifelong as they were with some of my friends.
What an eerie and ugly parallel may be drawn between the abductions of Kilmar Garcia and Edmund Dantes during the time of Napoleon in Alexander Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo".
For both Garcia and Edmund Dantes, neither had committed a crime and neither were afforded a trial before they were abducted and spirited away to notorious prisons, Garcia to the hellish prison of CECOT in El Salvador and Dantes to the infamous Château d'If on a desolate island in the bay off of Marseille (Which my wife and I visited a number of years ago and could almost hear the echos of the tortured prisoners still winding their way around the heavy walls.)
No one had ever escaped from the Château d'If before, and Garcia is unlikely to escape in the future where he will no doubt live out his tortured life because the man who put him there claims that it's no longer his responsibility.
If we can falsely accuse individuals of being criminals & then kidnap them & deport them, I'd like to suggest that trump should be rounded up & deported. We already KNOW he's a criminal. He's been convicted, he's a goddam felon. So, let's use their legal logic & throw his ass in jail. Oh, I forgot that only applies to immigrants but WAIT, he said HOME GROWNS ARE NEXT! What are we waiting for??!
Pam Bondi demeans the office she holds by holding it. She has made it clear she does not believe in the rule of law.
Her stance has made her not only a sinner but a criminal. Off to the El Salvadorian prison Pam Blondie!
Does she actually believe what she is saying? Or so ignorant that she would attempt to bully a Supreme Court order?
Trump has deliberately picked unprincipled loyalists for cabinet officers. She knows she must tout the Trump line if she is to remain in his good graces. Trump is a pathological liar, and she has to repeat all his lies or she will be browbeaten like members of Trump's first cabinet were when they said something he didn't like. This is all easy for Blondie, since it seems she has no conscience and is incapable of empathy.
Can't disagree with anything you said John. I will always wonder why already successful people, Bondi, Rubio, Vance etc., turn against the very system that made them wealthy and powerful. Too Much and Never Enough, is the title of Mary Trump's book and a perfect descriptor for the whole sad lot of them.
POWER is a scary bitch
A drug.
Spot on! “Too Much and Never Enough” - and above all, Elon Musk tops the list!
So tell me what job you think she'll able to get after this administration?
Fox News ‘legal’ analist
Perfect.
How many of the has been trummpie's can they hire?
I'm sure she'll be able to get a job on K Street or in the MAGA alternate reality universe.
you mean on the street
I anticipate she'll be set for life and won't need another "job."
Partner at Paul Weiss
How about a prison guard?
Not even qualified for that.
Not at all ignorant, just a power-hungry asslicker....
Ugh :-). The very idea of licking Trump's ass is SO FUNDAMENTALLY REPUGNANT as to let you know that you have left me starving tonight because I can not bring myself to either cook or eat dinner LOL!
That is an icky picture.
however, she is ignorant in the ways of America...
The orange thing only picks the worst of the worst who are loyal to him instead of being loyal to the Constitution.
Neither. She is just without morals or conscience or character. Complicit. Arrogant. Needs disbarment.
The latter.
She demeans the human race.
And the American federal government especially.
DOJ took an intelocutory appeal.
"It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all," a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit wrote. "The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order."
Took one day.
The DOJ could appeal the Fourth Circuit's decision to the Supreme Court.
"In response to a request for comment on the appellate order, the Justice Department shared prior coverage of Attorney General Pam Bondi. Bondi on Wednesday told reporters that it's up to El Salvador to bring Abrego Garcia back, and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said he does not have the power to return him. "He is not coming back to our country," Bondi said.
"Meanwhile, agency officials at the Homeland Security and State departments must abide by Xinis's order, which requires them to be questioned under oath about the steps taken and challenges faced in order to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return. Xinis said this would clarify what, if anything, has been done and if the government is acting in good faith."
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/17/g-s1-61118/appeals-court-deportation-abrego-garcia
"...acting in good faith."? What a novel idea. Does anyone know of an instance where Trump and/or any of his sycophants acted in "good faith"? Enquiring minds want to know.
Those words are not in the MAGA vocabulary, such as it is.
It wouldn’t be smuggling if the US facilitated his transfer.
It's not smuggling. El Presedente is not a lawyer.
Meanwhile, in El Salvador, they are bound by mutual treaties, including among the OAS, which protects asylum.
If I were the ACLU I would have hired local counsel to bring a habeus corpus under Salvadorean law.
"Lawyers hired by the Venezuelan government filed a legal action Monday in El Salvador aimed at freeing 238 Venezuelans deported by the United States who are being held in a Salvadoran maximum-security prison.
"Jaime Ortega, who says he represents 30 of the imprisoned Venezuelans, said they filed the habeas corpus petition with the Supreme Court’s Constitutional Chamber. He said that by extension they requested that it be applied to all Venezuelans detained in El Salvador.
"The maneuver essentially compels the government to prove someone’s detention was justified.
"The Salvadoran government has been silent about the status of the Venezuelan prisoners since the U.S. government sent them more than a week ago, despite a U.S. federal judge’s verbal order to turn the planes around."
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/lawyers-defend-30-venezuelans-deported-us-el-salvadors-supreme-court-2025-03-24/
https://apnews.com/article/el-salvador-deportees-us-venezuela-beb288b05df201e5fc42c3811fcf6c57
The US emabssy does referrals and there are a number of American firms that practice there.
Flash. Van Hollen met with Garcia in El Salvador. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/chris-van-hollen-meets-kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-rcna201830
Van Hollen is my new hero. I started breathing again when I saw Mr. Garcia alive. I wasn’t expecting that.
Me neither. Very surprised.
Awesome
How can she possibly believe in the rule of law? She works for Donald Trump.
Yeah, "a faithful law-abiding lawyer working for Donald Trump"? That's a true oxymoron. And the "-moron" is probably obvious, I hope LOL!
The liar Pam Bondi has experience lying as Florida Attorney General under the lying and criminal governor Rick Scott. While serving as attorney general she allowed a political group supporting her to accept a bribe from Donald Trump, and as a result she dropped an investigation of his so-called Trump University.
It frustrates me to no end that most ,if not ALL of T***Ps cabinet picks lied under oath and aren't held accountable!! Of course if appointees to the Supreme Court can get away with it, I guess it's acceptable. What a sad state we are in, but I think a lot of people are finally WAKING UP!!
How about her boss who has 34 convictions and used our democratic system to get away with all his felonies???
It frustrates me that the judge didn't immediately declare Trump a flight risk and throw him in prison to await sentencing. That is done for SO MANY poor people yet Trump waltzes his way to freedom and then the Presidency. And of course, I will forever hold Biden and Garland, two people I supported wholeheartedly early in Biden's term in office, jointly responsible for letting Trump slip from the grasp of federal authorities for his two federal indictments. One group of Democratic big shots playing "nice" with biggest GOP big shot, and look how that turned out.
If we ever ger back to a real democracy again (a hope which I am not optimistic about, sigh) I hope that ALL people who handle crime learn something from this and both stop OVERreaching to incarcerate poor people and stop UNDERreaching the incarceration of rich and powerful people. There needs to be a middle ground where everyone is treated at least on the surface equally. Maybe that can forestall any return to this grotesque situation we find ourselves in.
Of course, that ASSUMES that we do get back to a more normal government at some point. I sadly am not at all confident that will ever happen.
That is, after all, why Trump chose her for AG.
You aren't actually suggesting that Trump paid off Bondi for her fealty?
That NEVER happens in government, right?
(Drip, drip, drip... the sound of sarcasm slowly dripping onto the pavement)
One must wonder about MS Bondi’s upbringing. What do her parents think of their daughter? Was she loved and valued?
So many people filled with certainty and anger… we are a nation of damaged consumers it seems.
Other societies have more tolerance, acceptance and altruism. Why are we as we are?
The eventual new leaders in a generation or two, must address these prejudiced certainties.
Part of it, seriously, is a throwback to the "wild west" culture of our country and our democracy. We are a people who historically have run from their collective pasts, first from Europe and Asia, and then from the coasts of America. It is one of the reasons, I think, that our mid-country is so much "redder" than the coasts. Many of the people who fled their pasts once they got here moved from their debarkation points (Ellis Island, Baltimore, San Francisco) and moved to where they couldn't be followed easily. This was true for both conservatives and liberals. My parents, in the 1950s, moved from New York to Tucson Arizona, to get away from McCarthy persecution of their pasts as leftists.
Maybe her parents are just like her.
"Why are we as we are?" As opposed to what we should be...happy, grateful,at peace,accepting, etc. I would love the answer to this question...is it lead poisoning or what ?? SOMETHING is wrong with us.
She is simply a bimbo who mouths rump's words. As most of his "chosen," she is too stupid to understand what is actually going on, I hope she will he held to account soon.
She's not stupid. She's power mad.
she is stupid in that she cannot see the big picture
According to Christian Nationalist expert Andra Watkins, these people are raised to not have empathy.
https://open.substack.com/pub/andrawatkins/p/christian-nationalism-and-the-sin?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
https://open.substack.com/pub/andrawatkins/p/christian-nationalism-where-empathy?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Also here is the type of personality she says that members of the Trump Administration has.
https://andrawatkins.substack.com/p/how-the-signal-scandal-is-a-master
According to this, I would be finding a work around for Abrego Garcia and others. Can we find a country that will take him and others and they can fight for due process from there. A goal would be to get him out, and these people will never admit wrong. I am thinking Canada or Costa Rica. Some place that he and his wife agree to. My friends all say it is important to force Trump to follow due process, but that can happen while he is outside of that horrid prison. That is caring about him over being right.
No. He must come back to the US. Sovereignty issues.
As Timothy Snyder says in his book On Freedom, sovereignty should like in the person, not the country.
I hear this from everyone. I do not care about the rules, which are broken. I care about saving the man. Sovereignty be da**ed. Get him out to anywhere that is not El Salvador or the US. If Trump won't let him back int he US, get him somewhere else, and then negotiate his due process. GET HIM OUT NOW!
I’m going to read all the links. I’ve been thinking so much about the apparent fact that conservatives lack empathy and that empathy is a characteristic only of the left. DNA or lifelong conditioning?
Janet, according to what Andra Watkins is saying, and she just had a Podcast with Rev. Dr. Shannon Fleck on who is the Executive Director at Faithful America based in Oklahoma, who is fighting Christian Nationalism in the US, and the bad name it gives to christianity. https://faithfulamerica.org/
They were discussing the lack of empathy in CN. Everyone in the Heritage Foundation is a CN, as are the MAGAs in Congress and the Trump administration. Andra points out how one would be punished as a child for showing empathy in her pieces. I find this shocking and actually a form of emotional abuse. None of these people know what healthy parent-child relationships should be. It is so unfortunate for their children and for the rest of us.
Historically "christians" have been warlike and arrogant. Sp Inquisition,sending missionaries around the world,buring in hell and all that. Power grab.
Patricia, I am not a Christian, and I don't know that they differ from other groups historically, because historically people have been warlike and arrogant, or they have been run over by those who were.
they have done it in the name of God
Thank you for your response and links. I remember a time 30+ yrs ago when my biggest complaint about churches in my community was that most never reached beyond their congregations to provide events or service(s) - Mother’s Day Brunches, food banks, etc. Seems I’ve gotten way more than I’d hoped for now that their beliefs and demands have spawned political overreach.
Yes Janet. Now Christian Nationalists, whom my friend calls by their more apt name White Nationalists, want to turn the US into a White Nationalist Theocracy. That is what Project 2025 is all about.
In the near future these CN kids will be held hostage in the “Home School” or more and more likely trained in private institutions (schools funded by our tax dollars) to hate thy neighbors, steal from the poor, and help make Christo-Fascism the law of the pre-Rapture land.
Janet, I think this already goes on from what I know. However, I think they will get a greater percentage of our tax dollars will go to supporting this hateful and inhumane upbringing of children.
bondi barbie has made the statement that no one is above the law. We know now know this applies to everyone except the chief felon.
When are the weiners called Democrats going to do something. Our beloved Pope Francis said more about him than the Dems have.
Pam Bondi is just a mouthpiece for Trump, and a tool to boot. Period. No redeeming qualities.
Pam Bondi should be impeached, removed from office, and disbarred.
https://factpac.org/disbar-pam-bondi-a-lawless-attorney-general/
I really find it both wasteful and obnoxious that people can NOT face reality. Florida is NOT going to disbar Pam Bondi. She probably could go out in broad daylight on 5th Avenue in NY and shoot someone and not be disbarred. There is NO WAY the Florida bar, which I might politely point out is virtually ALL Republican, is going to disbar a "favorite daughter" of their state.
You who do this waste your own valuable time and the time of others by posting this NONSENSE and yes, that is what it is. Be truthful in your analysis. If something COULD happen, that is great. I was thrilled that the Congressman who went to El Salvador was able to at least confirm that Garcia was still alive. But El Salvador isn't going to send him home unless Trump says to do that, and Trump doesn't seem ready to do that anytime soon.
And the idea of getting Bondi disbarred is SO MUCH FURTHER out in left field than getting Garcia back to the US, at least while the GOP is in charge of Florida's government, that it is actually tiring to have to write this kind of post over and over again. But I will not stop writing it, because infusing our politics with at least a semblance of reality is important... no its critical, to keep us focused on what CAN be accomplished instead of going off on tangents that are virtually impossible.
No one is saying she will be removed, only that she should be, and shaking your finger in peoples faces isn't helpful. Each voice matters. That is what distinguishes us from the party where no voice matters but the emperor's.
People wishing for Pam Bondi to pay a price is not ignoring the reality we are in…it is just a wish!
perhaps you should stick to musical theater
LOL!
At least someone is paying attention!
Ah, once again a dewy-eyed idealist.
Folks, it is a great thing to fantasize about, but please understand nobody in Trump's administration is going to be removed from office via impeachment OR disbarred. Trump and the GOP control the White House and the two houses of Congress, and without 2/3 of the Senators to convict, no impeachment trial will end in removal for anyone (and that includes both GOP AND Democrat... the current Senate count is 53-47 GOP leading, and it takes 67 Senators to remove anyone from office, whether a government officer or a judge. As they say "you do the math". In this Congress, there will never be 20 GOP Senators willing to join all 47 Democrats to convict any GOP officer for an impeachment, and there will never be 14 Democratic Senators to join all 53 Republicans to convict a Democrat, unless someone literally commits premeditated murder on Fox TV. If it is a Democrat who does that, you MIGHT find enough Democratic Senators to join for a conviction. And as for GOP accused, even if the murder was cold-blooded and shown live on TV, I am not sure you could find enough GOP Senators to convict.
Face it, impeachment is simply a dead issue for at LEAST the rest of this term of Congress. And to get it back on track, the Dems will need to win probably 15 to 20 of the GOP Senate seats out of 32 up for grabs in 2026, which is unfortunately virtually. impossible. I think the Dems can take back the Senate in 2026, but the majority will still be in the 55-45 or closer range, no where near enough to get an impeachment conviction for ANYONE.
I am NOT thrilled by this, but it is fact as opposed to fantasy.
I find your posts far more tiresome than other’s wishes.
Tough luck. "If wishes were fishes". Someone around here had to deal with reality and if that lot falls to be, so be it. Sigh... it doesn't cheer me up to have to be a naysayer after spending my life being av radical but truth needs to be told. My apologies.
And sorry anyone finds it tiresome. After 55 years being politically radical, I find a LOT of what we deal with tiresome.
But necessary.
America will be safer when convicted criminal Donald Trump is in custody, and I honestly don't care where as long as it is secure and he has no access to cameras, microphones, or media. The Felon in the Whitehouse received every possible benefit of "Due Process", and then some. On this Passover, when we commemorate the release from captivity, let's continue to demand that Mr. Garcia is released.
I would add that he have no access to a cell phone.
I recommend the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado for Trump. 23 hours solitary each and every day.
Solitary- for Donald, a fate worse than death.
Actually a fate so dire that it is considered inhumane, yet many prisoners are still forced to endure it.
Love it! Well deserved, but they might want to pad the walls of his cell.
Send him to CECOT in El Salvador
Correct! No contact of any sort.
Okay, now that you have all indulged in your absurd fantasy, can we get back to actual politics?
Trump is not going to be confined anywhere. He is not going to be stripped of his phones or other media outlets. He is the President, and like it or not, WE (yes WE, because we act as a country, even when we hate the result) ELECTED HIM PRESIDENT and now we have to suffer with the consequences.
And there is no, literally NO, actual path to getting him out of office before his term expires on Jan 20, 2029, other than death.
Forget impeachment, it's not going to happen.
Forget trying to enforce the law against him, it's not going to happen.
The only way he leaves the White House before Jan 20, 2029, is in a casket.
And I do not condone assassination under any circumstances no matter who the offender, so it will have to be a natural death.
And unfortunately, he doesn't look like he is ready to go naturally any time soon.
People need to vent, Jon, and give voice to what should be happening in the face of such abject malfeasance. I, too, harbour fantasies of the justice which should be meted out to the sociopaths in DC, but I know it might never happen unless the Dems can work magic in the ‘26 elections. To that end, I will support the candidates who need help, and use my feet to march, and my voice to shout truths which need to be heard. Peace, Jon.
it is the voters who need to make magic in the 26 elections........dems and repubs
I appreciate the need to vent. We used to expect people to put in notations like /rant or /vent around an email or post that was intended to be that and not an actual reflection of reality. In this space, it is hard to differentiate between those who are just venting and those who seriously believe that they should expect "answers" and "results" from within this rather limited space.
I spent many years marching (during Vietnam War times, 1967-1974) and got mostly nothing but frustration from what mostly never happened. So it certainly helps when I think people are just venting to vent and when I think (as I did in this case) that their vents are actually in the hope or expectation of an actual change in what is happening.
I am all with you on venting and marching and shouting our truth to the highest rooftops, but I also would appreciate seeing that made clear as I typically do when I decide to vent (as I sometimes do).
But when I am looking for serious ideas and feedback, i think it is important to know that.
Best to you too, Derek! Peace out!
Jon, when I am writing venting-type things, it is usually in response to a thread of conversation. I have written at least a couple of things that I did label as rants, because that's what they were and they were original comments, not replies to what someone else said There are some things people write that leave me shaking my head, and I usually don't like or reply to those.
I agree, but it's nice to dream about what he deserves. There is a possibility of impeachment if the Dems can take both the house and senate in the midterms. From what I've been hearing, there are a number of republicans who are expressing their disapproval more freely. Probably also a dream, but it's a good one, IMO.
I even think impeachment is possible right now. It would only take 4 or 5 GOP Congress critters to get an impeachment resolution passed.
What is true though I think is that even if the Dems Claim back the Senate in 2026. A CONVICTION on impeachment is virtually impossible. To convict requires 67 votes and right now the Senate is 53-47 for Trump. Even if the Senate was 53-47 Democratic, it would require 14 more GOP votes to convict him.. unless he is accused of shooting children himself, there is no universe I can imagine where that many GOP Senators would vote to oust him.
And then what? Jd Vance? Is that even better?
In the world we currently live in, of course vance would be better - because in their minds everything is the opposite of what well-grounded people see. I think I had forgotten that I ever knew that impeachment would require a ⅔ majority to happen. I take your point, but I have a question: do you think that sending his political enemies to CECOT would precipitate a successful impeachment?
Again, impeachment (which happens when the HOUSE votes articles of impeachment and passes them by a simple majority) is one thing, convicting and removal from office is something else. Impeachment is like an indictment. By itself it has no real effect except to require an impeachment trial in the senate. To be noted from office requires a CONVICTION in the Senate by 2/3 majority.
So to be a stickler for terminology I think there are situations right now which in the right moment coughs result in a "successful impeachment" but that is just the first part.
I see NO scenario where Trump is EVER CONVICTED nyb the Senate unless there is REALLY something drastic that happens (I know we all think what is happening now is drastic but for impeachment purposes ot is not IMHO), something like the President actually murdering someone in the White House or something like that. It takes enough GOP Senators to move to convict him that he is essentially impeachment conviction-proof.
That of course is just my opinion.
Dems don't have the stomach for it. GOP as gotten away with a lot over the years.
I agree, Jon, trump will never be impeached or convicted but let people vent and indulge their fantasies. I would do so myself except that mine involve stakes and heads.
Sorry if this is pedantic but we really should distinguish impeachment from conviction and removal. That is often blurred by incorrect usage.
Impeachment is what the House did by voting to try someone in the Senate to remove them from office.
Trump has been impeached TWICE, Bill Clinton once and Andrew Johnson in 1867 once. Nixon was not impeached because he resigned before the vote could be held although it is almost certain he would have been without his resignation
Trump very well may be impeached again as the House is very closely divided and it only takes a majority of the House to impeach.
Conviction and removal requires a trial in the Senate and two thirds of Senators voting in favor (currently 67). There were a few judges who WERE impeached AND convicted and removed but a LONG time ago. ⌛️
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No President has ever been convicted in the Senate and it is almost impossible for it to occur today given the political division and the 2/3 majority required.
I would love to see republicans regrow their spines and/or cojones, and vote to convict.
Of course. I would love to win the lottery too. :-)
In solitary.
Pam Bondi like Donald Trump is an accomplished liar. Who would have thought we’d ever see criminals in the capacity as President and Attorney General.
It’s unthinkable , yet here we are . Two pathetic liars in plenty
of MAGA company.
They are both a disgrace.
And let’s not forget his first choice, a pedophile.
We blew it. We shouln't object when Trump picks a knuclehead for his close advisor. Hegseth is the kind of fool you'd want as your unworthy opponent.
Whereas Bondi is effective, he can't find a courthouse on a clear day...was pending indictment.
Lots of us remember Richard Nixon, John Mitchell, and to round out the trio Spiro Agnew. All of whom, despite being felons, did at least have some belief in the rule of law.
I don't think so....
John Dean, yes.
Who would have thought? Why is it such a surprise? We have had criminals in those offices before...
How about those of us who watched Nixon and John Mitchell in 1972?
Or even Ronald Reagan in 1986 (Iran Contra)?
We have had our share of criminals in the White House. Its just that Trump makes it look so much worse.
Could have been a sex predator.
Where did trump get $6million to give El Salvador to house prisoners? Doesn’t Congress have the power of the purse?
Good point!
Exactly. They stole it from taxpayers. I don't recall at all giving permission to the US Treasury to send my money to El Salvador. Did Trump write a check out of his personal bank account? Nope, he electronically submitted OUR money to the brutal dictator's bank account. Sickening.
And likely hasn't put a hold on that money, which should be of interest to Judge Xinis when she examines their list of what they've done to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return.
Good question!
Pardon me for stating the obvious, but the country and the world would be safer if we could deport the CONVICTED felon in the White House. You know, the one married to an immigrant?
Wonder if Trump could deport himself as the first "home-grown" criminal he wants to deport.
Melania Knauss…sure sounds like a deportable name to me. Can someone please check her birth certificate…
do blow up dolls have a birth certificate ?
Bondi lied to the Senate during her nomination hearing. She said she would uphold the rule of law and would not let her office be politicized. She has broken both promises. She would be removed from office if GOP Senators were not toadies for Trump who violate their oaths of office to keep their jobs.
Disgusting behavior.
And during her hearing we all knew Bondi was going to be a Trump toad as well as a few Supreme Court justices. At least those of us who aren't glued to Fox News 24/7.
beer boy and catholic girl also lied at their conf hearings.
Pam Bondi has it exactly backwards. Rather than making us safer, the abduction and deportation of Kilmar Abrego García makes all of us less safe. Why? Because if he can be denied his due process rights, so could you or I be denied ours.
I look forward to the day when we can refer to Ms. Bondi as "that woman" as she loses her Bar license for openly and, if I dare say, enthusiastically, violating the Constitutional rights of every one of the kidnap victims, and again, when the civil suits against her result in VERY large judgments against her.
Right! Disbar Bondi.
Before hanging her.
Nah - put her in just a plain old prison - NOT a Club Fed, without her bleach and her botox and she'll be miserable enough. Kristi Noem, too - and her without her hair extensions and lip filler. Lol
Honestly, I too can't wait for that day.
Gulags for profit...Trump & El Salvador Bukele's idea of "economic development". Trump: "Home-growns are next". Foreign gulags for US citizens while Trump's lackeys JD, Rubio etc laugh...Trump corruptly targets critics, & adversaries for baseless prosecutions & retribution. We allow the Trump administration to abandon the constitution & the rule of law at our peril. #Resist
The language used in the court orders and the hearings emerging from these cases including a scathing unanimous decision written by a Reagan appointee suggests how seriously the judges in the five separate courts that have touched them are taking the administration’s recalcitrant approach. The words and phrases they have employed — “grievous error” “shocks the conscience” “unconscionable” — are themselves an indication of how out-of-bounds and unchastened they believe the White House has been.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZbCyBMfy2c
And isn't it just possible thatcthat six million is going directly to Bukele and then to a tax haven?
More than possible. Where else would it be going?
to feed the hungry in his country I bet...
Ya think? Trump and Bukele's govt if you can call it that, have done business before. Two dens of thieves. The "cool dictator" has quite a scam game going . Can't wait for the El Salvadorans to wake up, stage a coup, and get rid of this scum. Not saying the gangs of the country should retake the country, absolutely not, but get someone in there who doesn't bend the knee to Trump and other dictators while protecting their citizenry. What an idea, hey?
We need to land the Marines and take care of tinpot Bukele and his toy army - as if El Salvador was ever something to be respected.
It is. People are people like you and I. Due to poverty that is significant gangs and criminals got a hold of things. Politicians were corrupt. bukele was charismatic and did, many say inhumanely, make San Salvador a safer place to live. Then he commandeered the presidency, as Trump is trying to do and made it the Office of Bukele, not the office of the presidency
I had to run errands in downtown Seattle today, so I made a sign highlighting this administration’s lawless disappearance of Abrego Garcia, and planted myself in front of the Federal Bldg. Just me and my sign. A nice security guard came out and asked a few questions, including whether I was expecting others. I said I was alone and there because of my conscience.
About half an hour in, I was joined by a whole group of protesters from the east side! Best sign: Lawless ruler on one side; Rule of Law on the other! Lots of Due Process signs too. I was so happy to have put myself out there—really gave me HOPE!
First, Bondi is a bald-faced liar. But, no, it doesn't matter if he was, or was not, a "bad" guy. It doesn't matter if any of the deportees were bad guys. Due process is required; it's not optional. The reason, however, that this has people so incensed is that he is not a bad guy - he's a family man who had been doing everything by the book. And, so, his case is important for a prospective deportees.
Which is exactly why this administration seeks chaos and not resolution
This would be the same Pam Bondi who at her confirmation hearings denied any allegation that the DOJ would conform to Trump’s agenda. And the Republican half of the Senate either believed her (hard to believe) or did their usual Tump adherence dance. What a surprise!
Thr GOP just rubber stamped a woman who is unfit to be anything more than a tour guide at Disney world.
Rubber stamped them all, bbb. Trying to think of some catchy play on "rubber". Failed. Too late in the day for my mind to be creative. Anyone awake enough to come up with something?
Try ‘Trumpstamped'
Nah, James, I was looking for something a little more gross for condoms. Come on, guys, what words do you use when you are talking amongst yourselves?? Ladies can play too if you have some good ideas.
I was a student at Penn State back in the sixties. One big football weekend when many young ladies were coming in from other schools for the festivities, the college found an empty dorm for them. One of my friends hid voice activated tape recorders in two of the bathrooms. Since then, I’ve had no illusions about the fact that ‘the ladies’ can play, too.
But if you are looking for gross, I’m probably not your guy. During four years in the army during the Vietnam war, my capacity for gross got well overused.
Sorry you had to go through that, James, and, yeah, I can understand how your "capacity for gross" would certainly get overused. A belated "Thank you for your service" that I'm pretty sure you didn't get when you came home. I hope the aftereffects were not lifelong as they were with some of my friends.
So did a few USSC "justices"
Absolutely!!!!!!!
The Plights of Edmund Dantes and Kilmar Garcia
What an eerie and ugly parallel may be drawn between the abductions of Kilmar Garcia and Edmund Dantes during the time of Napoleon in Alexander Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo".
For both Garcia and Edmund Dantes, neither had committed a crime and neither were afforded a trial before they were abducted and spirited away to notorious prisons, Garcia to the hellish prison of CECOT in El Salvador and Dantes to the infamous Château d'If on a desolate island in the bay off of Marseille (Which my wife and I visited a number of years ago and could almost hear the echos of the tortured prisoners still winding their way around the heavy walls.)
No one had ever escaped from the Château d'If before, and Garcia is unlikely to escape in the future where he will no doubt live out his tortured life because the man who put him there claims that it's no longer his responsibility.
I disagree. I think when this plays out he will be back, wealthy and a reminder of the stain on the US due to its reelection of a felon
If we can falsely accuse individuals of being criminals & then kidnap them & deport them, I'd like to suggest that trump should be rounded up & deported. We already KNOW he's a criminal. He's been convicted, he's a goddam felon. So, let's use their legal logic & throw his ass in jail. Oh, I forgot that only applies to immigrants but WAIT, he said HOME GROWNS ARE NEXT! What are we waiting for??!
He should fire himself because he's a DEI hire, considering all his mental pathologies.