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A power-drunk and demented president gone rogue defies the rule of law - Alternet
The farce
In response to last week’s unanimous Supreme Court order directing Trump “to facilitate” Garcia’s return to the US, Trump said he had ‘no control’ over El Salvador and that it was ‘up to President Bukele to decide’ what to do. For his scripted response, Bukele said there was ‘no way’ he’d send Garcia back to the US, calling the idea “preposterous” because releasing him would be like “smuggling a terrorist into the US.”
Every judge in every courthouse in the nation, including Judge Boasberg, who ordered the administration to turn planes headed to El Salvador around, knows that all Trump has to do is ask, and Bukele would release Garcia to the custody of US officials within an hour. On Wednesday, Boasberg found probable cause that Trump’s team acted in criminal contempt of court.
Trump and Bukele, together, put Garcia into CECOT. Now pretending that they can’t get him out insults the intelligence of every American outside the Fox News bubble.
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El Salvador today, under the Bukele regime’s continuing state of emergency, arrests and imprisons people on mere suspicion, detaining thousands of people on suspicion alone- no due process, no trial, and no review. According to NPR, a news outlet Trump now seeks to silence, Bukele’s state of emergency has led to the imprisonment of 85,000 people, of which only 1,000- less than 2%- have been convicted of a crime.
In response to last week’s unanimous Supreme Court order directing Trump “to facilitate” Garcia’s return to the US, Trump said he had ‘no control’ over El Salvador and that it was ‘up to President Bukele to decide’ what to do. For his scripted response, Bukele said there was ‘no way’ he’d send Garcia back to the US, calling the idea “preposterous” because releasing him would be like “smuggling a terrorist into the US.”
Every judge in every courthouse in the nation, including Judge Boasberg, who ordered the administration to turn planes headed to El Salvador around, knows that all Trump has to do is ask, and Bukele would release Garcia to the custody of US officials within an hour. On Wednesday, Boasberg found probable cause that Trump’s team acted in criminal contempt of court.
Trump and Bukele, together, put Garcia into CECOT. Now pretending that they can’t get him out insults the intelligence of every American outside the Fox News bubble.
snip
El Salvador today, under the Bukele regime’s continuing state of emergency, arrests and imprisons people on mere suspicion, detaining thousands of people on suspicion alone- no due process, no trial, and no review. According to NPR, a news outlet Trump now seeks to silence, Bukele’s state of emergency has led to the imprisonment of 85,000 people, of which only 1,000- less than 2%- have been convicted of a crime.
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/power-drunk-trump/
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