My money is that they're currently torturing him on the daily to send a message with his body when they eventually follow the courts order. They're prepping the narrative with their supporters and making him an unreliable testifier for his own trauma.
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Why has not a single reporter directly asked Trump or any of the administration what would happen if a US citizen were "accidentally" deported there?
Because they don't want to be the US citizen in question.
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Sadly the injustice done to this man and the 70% to 90% of the people deported without having committed a crime is just a distraction while they plan their next financial rug pull.
The rot really has reached the core.
I think that's only part of it. The really disturbing thing is that a significant number of his supporters actually want this and he needs to keep doing it to keep them on side.
The reaction of these people to a senator traveling to another country to try to correct their admitted mistake is fucking disgusting.
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I kind of assume they are so adamant of not returning this guy, cause they can't find him in their death camp. He might have been killed already.
That is what I've been thinking. Guy has been dead from almost day one, and in fact that is likely the point of these prison camps.
They want to be able to disappear people, and it's a lot more effort and money to keep them alive. El Salvador is just an off site extermination facility, and they are playing "Well, we can't bring him back" cause they won't admit what they have done.
The family should be sueing the fuck out of every member of government for defamation. Get as much money from them while you can.
The courts have ordered the government to return him to the US, and they are refusing. What good is a court ordering the government to pay this family anything going to do?
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A court has demanded the Trump admin return this man, and their defense has been that they don't have the power to do it. Now they publicly criticize a Senator for trying to get the man returned.
They really are stupid when it comes to undermining their own case, aren't they?
They don’t want this guy to be free and doing a press tour about his experience.
Can't release a dead body.
They really are stupid when it comes to undermining their own case, aren’t they?
No, they are not. It's a mistake to think of them as stupid, as that leads to underestimating the threat they pose.
They don't care about winning this case in the conventional sense. Trump and his allies couldn't care less what happens to Kilmar Abrego Garcia; what they're after is the power to exile or imprison people without due process of law.
They are stupid. It's required for fascism to fascist.
It's because they are stupid it makes them dangerous. They will say "NO I AM RIGHT!" when the obvious answer sits in front of them.
They JUST DON'T CARE.
Don't give them credit for a "well thought our plan." This regime will destroy itself, with or without resistance. Look at Putin's Russia. When he dies, there will be a massive power struggle and no one knows what the fuck will happen.
To be fair, Trump really is pretty stupid. His handlers aren't.
A lot of his handlers are also stupid, especially this term. Some of them aren't, so there's still a chance of a coherent plan coming through, but most of the time it's just stupidity.
No, there absolutely is a coherent plan, it's just that part of that plan is to create chaos and the appearance of incoherence. We absolutely should keep that straight.
It's also true that Trump's orbit contains a lot of other useful idiots, but they are hangers-on, not who I would consider to be his handlers.
Of course it does take a certain kind of idiot to ever embrace fascism, but we can't mistake that for incompetence.
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If there's anything I've learned about Leon, Trump, and the other neofascists we're bombarded with--it's that they really really don't like anyone questioning or disagreeing with them. It's telling, because if they truly were confident in their words and deeds, they would have nothing to fear. Someone questioning them should be a chance for them to educate everyone on the reasons why their ideas are good... but instead it goes directly to ad hominems, bans/removals, etc. They want to think they're brilliant, but they also don't want to be questioned since they don't want to risk getting dunked on in the public arena and lose credibility (but they also really don't want to be faced with facts proving them wrong, their tremendous ego can't handle it)
That's because fascism relies on the "Mythic Truth."
Their "Truth" supersedes reality. Most of the time they don't give two shits about evidence. What they can't stand is being told "no" or "shut up you're being an asshole" or "fine, if you won't do the right thing, I will."
Yep, so we keep doing it (critiquing them) without fail and as loudly as we can forever and do our best to make them burn their candles out and finally appear as stupid as they are in front of their followers.
Another post suggested calling him with support. Googled him last night and left a message. Took one minute.
He’s obviously the second coming of Jesus. Killing people and all that.
If only there had been some way to prevent this but honestly, who hasn't accidentally misplaced a living human being in an El Salvador torture prison once or twice? Glass houses, stones, all that.
The White House also brought Morin’s mother to Leavitt’s press conference today, while launching into a tirade against Abrego Garcia
Wow, that mother must be a real proud Mamma Hen, using her daughters death to politically justify abducting a human without convictions who was in Maryland legally. What a fucking disgrace.