A U.S. judge pressed a government lawyer on Wednesday on whether Republican President Donald Trump was telling the truth when he said he could secure the return of wrongly deported migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia with a phone call to El Salvador’s president.
Washington D.C.-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg asked the question of Justice Department lawyer Abhishek Kambli at a hearing in a different case, in which the government is arguing it cannot obtain custody of some 137 Venezuelan migrants being held in a Salvadoran mega-prison after being deported under an 18th-century wartime law.
“Didn’t the president say just last week that he could secure the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia simply by picking up the phone and asking the president of El Salvador to release him?" Boasberg said, referring to Trump’s comments in an April 30 ABC News interview. “So is the President not telling the truth?”
You allowed sending over 100 people to a death camp. But, yes, judge poked Trupm in the smallest most indirect way possible. Let’s celebrate the win. System is working. We csn rest.
Do you have a link? 'Cause afaik Judge James Boasberg is fighting Trump over his refusal to bring back at least one of the men sent to CECOT.
“You” was not direcred at the judge. It was you “The People”.
So where do you see “the people” celebrating the win and resting?
Are these people in the room with us right now?