My Take on the Latest Kilmar Abrego Garcia News
Directing You Past the Misdirections
As I said in my last post, the Trump Administration specializes in the art of misdirection. Whether it be by “flooding the zone” or simply creating manufactured crises like the one in Los Angeles, the Trump-Bannon-Vance-Musk-etc. team is a master of distraction.
Which is why this week—especially now—I want to put the focus back on events that I think deserve more attention.
Like the latest updates in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia saga.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, you might say? Isn’t that old news? Passé? Irrelevant? Well, not if you care about your constitutional rights, not to mention the true motivations of this Administration’s immigration policy.
Let me explain. Regardless of what ultimately happens at the man’s trial, there are a few things we know for sure. First, we know that, among others, his wife and his Union family, SMART Transportation Division (SMART-TD), have been lobbying relentlessly for his release.
Second, we know that this Administration apparently could free Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the hands of El Salvador’s Bukele (a.k.a. the guy who teamed up with MS-13 to become a dictator until MS-13 didn’t serve him any use anymore). At least, when it wanted him to face “American justice” after Elon Musk embarrassed Trump just days earlier in a very public feud (even claiming the Administration had not released the Epstein files because they implicated Trump).
Yet somehow, the Administration was virtually powerless to do so when the Supreme Court asked him to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s release almost 2 months ago. In fact, in mid-April, Pam Bondi vowed that Mr. Abrego Garcia “is not coming back to our country” (nota bene: I am citing no less than FOX NEWS here). For the record, that was just about a week after the Supreme Court ruling.
At another time in April, no less than Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson II, a federal appeals court justice nominated by Ronald Reagan, declared that, “the Trump administration’s claim that it can’t do anything to free Kilmar Abrego Garcia” “‘should be shocking.’”
It should have been then. But now, it should be doubly shocking. Because the Trump Administration just (perhaps unintentionally) proved that it could have freed Abrego Garcia all along. It is no wonder, then, that Abrego Garcia’s lawyers made that exact same argument in court.
Indeed, Bukele might be their best evidence. As he put it after releasing Abrego-Garcia to America, “of course we wouldn’t refuse” the Trump Administration’s request. Does that mean he is admitting that the Trump Administration did not make a request before? When the Supreme Court ordered the Administration to make concrete efforts to get Abrego Garcia released?
Hmmm, very suspicious, I would say. Yet that is not all. The grand jury indictment, as it happens, was sealed by a Tennessee court late last month (see the indictment itself here). Once again, it just seems very odd that they would choose to make that indictment public after the fallout from the Trump-Musk feud.
So maybe it is not just Kilmar Abrego-Garcia that will be on trial soon. Because I think the entire Administration will have some questions of its own to answer for.
But stay tuned for the next constitutional crisis. Same bat station, same batsh*t content. :)
Thank you.
More detail than I've heard anywhere else.