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WATCH: Trump Cabinet Members Gang Up On Kaitlan Collins, Debunk Her Loaded Question One By One
A firing squad of Trump cabinet members lined up to take out CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Monday after the gadfly reporter stepped out of line and asked President Donald Trump if he plans to fight for the return of an illegal immigrant “mistakenly” deported to El Salvador from Maryland.
One after another, Trump, two cabinet members, and El Salvadorian president Nayib Bukele ganged up on the incorrigible 32-year-old journalist, denouncing the U.S. media’s fascination with coddling criminals while declaring that the administration is on solid footing with its decision to not pursue springing the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, from a mega-prison in his home country.
After politely fielding Collins’s question, Trump turned the floor of the Oval Office meeting in Bukele’s honor over to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who didn’t mince words in justifying Garcia’s deportation.
“First and foremost, he was illegally in our country… and in 2019 two courts, an immigration court and an appellate immigration court, ruled that he was a member of MS-13,” Bondi said, adding that it falls on El Salvador to determine what they wish to do with Garcia. But media cheerleading on the man’s behalf will get him nowhere.
Trump, in the same breath, praised Bondi and admonished Collins for her temerity to defend Garcia.
“Can you answer that question?” he asked immigration advisor Stephen Miller. “Because CNN asked it, and they always ask it with a slant, because they’re totally slanted because they don’t know what’s happening, and that’s why nobody’s watching ’em.”
Miller methodically explained why the U.S. Supreme Court’s 9-0 ruling against an appellate court vindicated the administration’s approach, much to Collins’s chagrin after she asked if Trump plans to extradite Garcia from El Salvador.
“That is the president of El Salvador,” Miller said, pointing to Bukele and looking straight at the CNN reporter. “Your questions about per the court can only be directed to him.
Undaunted, Collins tried a third time with Bukele, who politely smiled and shrugged, saying he failed to understand why the U.S. media is trying so desperately to see an alleged MS-13 gang member returned to the streets of Maryland.
“You’re not suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States, right?” he asked Collins. “Of course, I’m not gonna do it. The question is preposterous. I mean, how can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?”
He added, “We just turned the murder capital of the Western hemisphere into the safest country in the world, and you want us to go back to releasing criminals? That’s not gonna happen.”
“They’d love to have criminals released into our country,” Trump said gesturing to the gaggle of reporters. “These are sick people.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio put a nail in the discussion’s coffin.
“The foreign policy of the United States is conducted by the president, not a court. And no court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States,” he said.
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