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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    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.