The White House has dug in on its refusal to return a man who US officials have acknowledged was wrongly deported last month from Maryland to an El Salvador mega-prison.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on accusations that Salvadoran national Kilmar Ábrego García was a member of the MS-13 gang, which his lawyer denies.

Leavitt also accused the 29-year-old of domestic violence, citing records showing his US citizen wife once filed a protective order against him.

A Maryland judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to bring Mr Ábrego García back to the US. But El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said on a visit to the White House this week that he did not “have the power” to return him.

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    None of these men will ever be heard from again. CECOT brags about how the only way out is in a coffin.

    It’s only a matter of time before US born citizens are extraordinarily renditioned to CECOT.

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    His lawyers can try to split hairs about “facilitate” vs. “effectuate” but saying he will never come back to the US after being ordered to try to get him back to the US seems like the most obvious violation possible of a 9 - 0 supreme court decision. If republicans were honest, trump could be removed from office by Saturday morning. What would there be to even investigate?

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    If a domestic violence allegation is all it takes to get send away, then 40% of all police officers in this country need to GTFO on that alone.

    (Not saying domestic violence is good, obviously. Just using their logic here.)

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    Daily reminder that he wasn’t deported, because deportation is a process and they skipped the process and sent him straight to a death camp

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      Daily reminder that the admin is in its second possible violation of a court order, with the first one being already confirmed as contempt by judge Boasberg and in which he’s seeking criminal contempt.

      It’s his third month in office.

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      Daily reminder that the USA is literally falling to a dictatorship no different than any of the other dictator-led nations around the world like Chad, Sudan, North Korea, Burma, Iran, Pakistan, Laos and so many others.

      What? You can’t relate because they’re not white? Get it together people, skin color has been a distraction since the dawn of human migration, if you’re still compartmentalizing nations and people’s by how they look, you’re going to all lose all your happy comforts and shiny toys.

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      Those change.org petitions always go right into the round filing cabinet. I’ve signed so many of them, and not once have I ever seen one come into fruition.

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    Kilmar Ábrego García: Deported without due process will never live back in US, says White House

    That’s the correct title.

    Unfortunately, the guy is -probably- dead.
    It’s not that they won’t bring him back, it’s that they can’t bring him back.
    tRUMP directly killed this guy with his policies. What will be done about it? Tell me, what will be done…

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      The US drone strikes schools on the regular, mercing innocent people is just a function of our sadistic govt

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        The term normally shortened to “Habeus Corpus” has a full meaning “habeas corpus ad subjiciendum”, meaning “You (shall) have the body to be subjected to (examination)”

        In most cases it’s referring to a person, not a corpse. But, in this case…

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        Hey, you’re a gang member with a criminal history in El Salvador, let’s get you deported.

        What’s that, you say you’re not one?

        Prove it without due process.

        What’s that, you couldn’t do that? Too bad, the administration doesn’t care and you’re now in a foreign prison (and maybe dead)

        Do you see why due process is important?

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        All of those facts are irrelevant and distractions though. Assuming that is the case then he should have been tried according to the rules of this country. The point in concentrating on this isn’t about the individual, it’s about the implication and precedent that is being set for everyone in the future.

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        Is the left wing media in the room with you right now? No? Do you know why?

        Because there is no left-wing media in the US. There are varying degrees of capitalist media corps and their apologists with a smattering of actual journalists trying to get their stories out in between but mainly being drowned out.

        Cut it out.

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        Zero evidence for any of that shit you said.

        I’d love to be proven wrong, but you won’t deliver.

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        I don’t care about him personally. I care about how they did this. That is the crux of the issue.

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          From Fox News, because it’s patently bullshit. Garcia was never proven to be a gang member and the only connection was coerced testimony from a confidential informant who was facing deportation if they didn’t act as an informant, who gave the information to a detective who has since been fired from his position for multiple abuses of power and for lying under oath. Garcia was arrested for being brown outside of a home depot, not for any actual crime.

          Every single attempt that has been made to force the US DOJ to produce proof of his gang membership has been denied, because it’s all a lie. FugginJerk just drank the kool-aid while telling other people not to drink the kool-aid.

          But even that is beside the point – even if it wasn’t bullshit, he’s still owed due process as part of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

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            He was a criminal in El Salvador.

            As far as being a criminal in El Salvador, it’s alleged, not proven…

            So was he a criminal or not in El Salvador? Because to me it sounds like you just lied and are now trying to move the goalposts. Due process is the issue here, if you can’t understand that then don’t be surprised when people you know are wisked away to a prision in a foreign country.

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            That’s a lot of typing to say you don’t give a fuck about the constitution. Why don’t you just say you don’t believe the gov’t should be bound by the constitution?

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        Why not deport him using the actual process if he’s as bad as you say? Why do they have to wipe their ass with the Constitution to do it?

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      Aaaand which one do you think it is?

      America has been lost for a while, Trump is just not smart enough to keep it together.

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          Got to admit, he’s accomplished a shit ton in his first 100 days already, way more than basically any president in history.

          He’s doing a fantastic job of destroying the country in every single way simultaneously. Not just destroying the democracy directly, but all American influence and soft power worldwide. He has already managed to do more damage to America than any terrorist attacks ever could have imagined, in record time.

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            His handlers and controllers had 4 years (or 10+) to plan for this. He’s just the meat puppet in front of the camera signing all the orders.

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              See, that’s very true… but he clearly is doing some shit on his own. The tariffs serve no useful purpose, not for political gain, or for the billionaires, it is actually bad for them. They’re stuck trying to ride the wild and unplanned market volatility from the inconsistencies and rollbacks.

              If anything, it seems like that’s the shiny thing they’re letting him focus on so he doesn’t do other stupid shit that gets in the way of the actual plans.

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                Pfft they are buying low and selling high. Trump tells them his next move. Insider trading to make millions.

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                I imagine the stuff he’s doing on his own are the more whacky things like shower head pressure

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                The tariffs destroyed the US dollar and legitimized China cutting the world off from rare earth metals. It also did a reverse pump and dump so Trump and friends could insider trade the whole thing.

                The tariffs absolutely accomplished something. Just nothing in the interests of anyone but those who want the US weakened or are happy to get paid to help do that.

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            He has already managed to do more damage to America than any terrorist attacks ever could have imagined, in record time.

            There’s an argument that the war on terror gave rise to Trump, so in a way Bin Laden gets to claim this.

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                1. USA is the world’s only superpower, and puts military bases around the world
                2. Saudi Arabia is one of the countries with military bases
                3. A Saudi man is angry with US military bases in his country
                4. That Saudi man executes a plan to crash airplanes into American skyscrapers
                5. USA invokes NATO’s article 5, the one and only time it has ever been invoked

                I’m not sure that the famous US military is keeping Americans safe. Crazy as it may be, sometimes a big military makes you a target.

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              Nah, Bin Laden couldn’t do this. He didn’t own media empires or any kind of business in America. The likes of Thiel, Musk, Trump, DeSantis, and so forth are the true architects of America’s death. They are the embodiment of the saying…

              “Better to rule over hell, than to serve in heaven.”

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              If he could he would probably be laughing real hard right now, at the very least.

              Both of the global powers he fought during his lifetime are extremely busy at destroying themselves at an accelerated speed.

              Meanwhile everyone else suffers.

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          I’ve let my friends know for many decades that if my wish comes true, and I am taken out by a meteor, I expect them to laugh their heads off and say cheers. I just wanted it to be a little micro-meteorite or something, but I’m OK with a large scale extinction size rock, I think.

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          No I assure you he is. Trump is a fascist dictator; he’s a true threat in the same way Hitler was a true threat.

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            Yes… I said he was a threat.

            But the people who a richer than him, and fund all of this Right Wing Media, and put him in power are worse.

            I’m done with this.

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              You’re not seeing it. This man will put the oligarchs in concentration camps if they piss him off. The power dynamic completely changed after Jan 20th; now he is in charge and they are his lackies.

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                I don’t think it’s in his interest to do any of that. He does not control the machinery that influences public opinion and he doesn’t have money like the richest people in the world have money.

                You’re not completely wrong, but I think he still needs at least most of them. They help inform him of strategy via data harvesting and the means of selling it to his supporters, trump does not have the ability to do that all on his own.

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                  Here’s the thing: He can just seize all that stuff; the left doesn’t have a monopoly on seizing the means of production. Of course it’s not in his interest to do that, but he can if push comes to shove, like say if they suddenly team up with the liberals. Of course this is much more true in the later stages of fascist dictatorship so in the earlier stages it’s more of a symbiotic relationship, but even then I’d consider both Trump and the oligarchy equally threatening rather than the latter being the true threat. It’s still imperative to take out the first so you can get to the latter.

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            A useful puppet, that can’t be entirely controlled like Reagan, but is mostly getting the oligarch’s desires achieved.

            He’s absolutely dangerous, but he’s not the true threat.

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            Not a billionaire, that’s for sure. Him being so sensitive about it and never wanting to appear less than that, proves it, and it’s been the case for decades.

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              He definitely wasn’t in term 1, but all the grifts and that stupid meme coin likely put him over the threshold.

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                That assumes he didn’t need all that to pay back Russian debts immediately.

                I wouldn’t be surprised if 20 years from now we find out that Trump money directly funded the continued Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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      Really? You think the courts will do something? You allowed a self proclaimed dictator to take power who has 34 felony convictions on record and has never spent one second in prison.

      Someone should go to prison…You’re joking right?

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        They allowed a self proclaimed dictator to take power a couple of months after the courts decided that presidents should have dictator powers and the full plans for what they’re doing now called project 2025 was doing the rounds.

        I truly feel bad for the good and decent people that were born into a country of fucking sociopath illiterate inbred clowns but Donald Trump’s ‘approval’ rating has never even gone below 40%. In fact just last night I saw an article saying that his approval rating has actually rebounded a little bit.

        I used to love Americans. There’s still a few that I think are pretty cool. But this whole thing has changed my opinion of them in general. In a not at all good way. I think I despair more about the otherwise decent seeming people who claim they voted for the price of eggs or some shit than I do about the stereotypical ‘Murica’ people that worship Trump like Jesus. My image of the USA was betrayed the most by those people.

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          I can admit I haven’t been the biggest fan of americans since Bush Jr. I stopped travelling to and even buying a lot of American products then and never restarted. That was the beginning of the end for me. I was in my 20’s now I’m in my 50’s. It’s been a quick slide downhill ever since. When citizens were being attacked for opposing a violent incursion into a country for no reason other than to placate a president and his wealthy cronies, that was enough to see the direction they chose. Openly, without shame and even aggressively pushing their opinion down the throat of not just their own citizens but the world.

          Bush Jr was the speed run for trialing dictatorship in the US in modern times. He was a great trial run and very effective at advancing the message.

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          I like Americans individually. When they start to group up, then the political, geographical, belief lines appear and the jingoism destroys everything.

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        Whether the courts will or won’t do something is irrelevant to the fact that Trump and probably most of his administration should be in prison.

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      Someone did go to prison, and we are cooked as a country. :(

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      A lot of people will. People this Administration doesn’t like.

      Which, to be clear, is a very bad thing that I’m not defending.

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    Of course not - the U.S. is run by a dictator who is being run by a foreign dictator.

    Republicans all do what putin tells them to do - else no more money.

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    It’s such a wonderful coincidence that they managed to pick up and deport, what is reportedly, the most dangerous man in America by accident. These guys are really batting for a thousand here.

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    Oh yeah. Very dead. Although my guess is he got murdered in the prison within a couple days or even hours. Probably the moment they went from “administration error” to “that guy was obviously in a gang”.