Mixing it up with the press in the Oval…
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and members of the Trump Administration took turns shredding CNN’s narrative about the Maryland man with alleged ties to MS-13 being sent to a terrorist prison in El Salvador.
Kilmar Abrego García was deported last month to El Salvador’s notoriously brutal and overcrowded Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT), along with about 260 suspected gang members, under the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act.
“He was illegally in our country,” US Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters about Abrego García on Monday. “That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him. That’s not up to us.”
“The Supreme Court ruled that if El Salvador wanted to return him,” she added, “we would facilitate it, meaning provide a plane.”
Reporters then turned to Bukele and asked him about the prisoner’s return.
“I hope you are not suggesting that I smuggle terrorists into the United States,” Bukele told reporters while sitting alongside President Trump in the Oval Office. “Of course, I’m not going to do it.
“The question is preposterous,” Bukele added. “I don’t have the power to return him to the United States.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued that “the foreign policy of the United States is conducted by the president of the United States, not by a court.”
“I don’t understand what the confusion is,” he added. “This individual is a citizen of El Salvador. He was illegally in the United States and was returned to his country. That’s where you deport people — back to their country of origin.”
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JUST IN: President Trump has multiple members of his admin take turns ripping CNN's Kaitlan Collins after she asked why an alleged MS-13 member was deported to El Salvador.
Lmao.
Pam Bondi, Stephen Miller, Marco Rubio, as well as Nayib Bukele all ripped the media after Collins… pic.twitter.com/R7Y2ZOSt37
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 14, 2025
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