Matt Gaetz Is Behind Trump Policy Of Sending Migrants To El Salvador Prison

According to new reports, it was Matt Gaetz’s idea to use the CECOT prison in El Salvador to house the people that Donald Trump wanted to deport. Gaetz visited the prison last summer and then immediately made the suggestion of sending migrants there to top Trump adviser Stephen Miller. Gaetz might be gone from the world of electoral politics, but his disgusting legacy lives on. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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So it turns out that Donald Trump's decision to send deported migrants from the United States to the El Salvador in prison was not just a crazy whim that popped up in a dream apparently, according to new reports, the entire idea of sending migrants to Sea cot in El Salvador came from none other than former Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz. Here's what happened. According to Time Magazine last summer, Matt Gaetz was invited down there by El Salvador's, president or dictator. He calls himself the world's coolest dictator, by the way. But anyway, Matt Gaetz was invited down there, and without thinking twice, he thought, sure, this sounds like a great opportunity. Let me go meet with a dictator. And at dinner the first night, again, this is according to Gates, um, president mentioned Sea Cot, right? This massive terrorism prison that human rights groups have repeatedly slammed for their massive abuses. And then the very next day, gates goes and takes tour of the facility and of the facility, gates told time, quote, the conditions had zapped the inhabitants of any will to fight. It's tough to see the state of the human condition drained of hope.

So he admits that like, basically these people are broken, like they have no hope left. They are just husks, soulless husks, like all life has been drained from them. And he says it like it's a bad thing because it is a bad thing. But then he gets back to the United States and he runs to Stephen Miller, Donald Trump's top creepy looking racist, and tells Miller that President dictator Bucha is offering us this prison to house migrants. Like we can send people from the US to this terrorism center, and he'll do it. He'll let us get away with it. So next thing you know, Miller pitches it to Trump, and then when they get in office, it becomes policy. Although Matt Gaetz, of course, was not here to oversee the policy because he withdrew his nomination because, well, he's a scumbag, but that's where this whole thing came from. Bouley invites gates down there, plants this idea in his head suggests that we could do this. Gates loves the prison because hell it, it breaks people. He gives it to Stephen Miller, who of course will take any opportunity to be cruel to people with non uh, white skin, and the rest is history. That's how we've ended up in this situation. Matt Gaetz, he may be gone from office, but his disgusting legacy lives on today.