Trump DESTROYS His Own Administration’s Legal Arguments In Disastrous Interview

The Trump administration has maintained both publicly and in court that they have no way at all to demand that El Salvador release Kilmar Abgrego Garcia back to the US because they are a sovereign country and we have to respect that. But during his disastrous ABC News interview this week, Trump admitted that he could very easily get Garcia back with just a phone call, he’s just refusing to do it. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what this means for Trump’s ongoing legal defense.

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Donald Trump's administration has been saying both publicly and in court that we have no way to get Kmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States. He's in a different country. We, we don't have jurisdiction over that country. Judge, you don't have jurisdiction over that country. Multiple Trump officials have said, so, you know what, what are we gonna do? Like we can't order another country to do a thing. It's out of our control at this point. That has been their public and their legal argument that they've used to justify defying the Supreme Court's order to do everything possible to facilitate his return. Well, during Donald Trump's disastrous interview with a BC news reporter, Terry Moron, this week, Trump admitted that, yeah, actually I could just get him back with a phone call. I'm just choosing to not do it. And with that statement, Donald Trump destroyed his entire administration's credibility with the public.

But more importantly, he completely destroyed their legal argument in front of Judge James Boberg. Here's how that conversation went down, moron, after a little bit of back and forth, he said, look, I'm not saying he is a good guy. It's about the rule of law. The order from the Supreme Court stands, sir. And Trump replied, he came into our country illegally and moron says, you could get him back. There's a phone on this desk, he said, pointing at the resolute desk. And Trump then goes, I could moron says you could pick it up with and with all. And Trump says, I could the power of the presidency, you could call up the president of El Salvador and say, send him back right now. Moron said, and Trump said, if he were the gentleman that you say he is, I would do that. I'm not the one making this decision.

Now, first of all, Morran never said he's a gentleman. But then Morran said, you are the president after Trump says, I'm not the one making the decision. You are the president. And then Trump said, I No, no, no, no, no. If follow the law, you want me to follow the law. If I were the president that just wanted to do anything, I'd probably keep him right where he is. And then Moron says, the Supreme Court says what the law is, and Trump says, I was elected to take care of a problem. And, uh, you know, it was an unforced error that was made by a very incompetent man talking about Biden, uh, whatever that means, like that. That's not even a response to anything that was said. But the fact of the matter is that Donald Trump admitted what I have literally been saying for weeks now, which is you could get him back with a phone call. You could call up President Bouley and said, listen man, I'm paying you $6 million to take these people. I could just find another country. Rwanda, by the way, has already agreed to do it for $200,000.

So if you want this 6 million, send this dude back on the next flight to the US right now. That's all Trump would have to do. And he's now admitting it, like, yeah, I could, I'm choosing not to. I wonder how that's gonna sit with that Supreme Court. That doesn't, that doesn't seem like a smart thing to say. I wonder how James Boberg is gonna rule based on what Trump has said. Now his administration maintains in court that, Hey, we can't, we have no control over this. But Trump just clearly admitted I do and I could. I'm just choosing not to. As per usual, Donald Trump should have just shut his mouth and said nothing, because now his big fat mouth is gonna get him in some big, fat legal trouble.