I think today was an inflection point - maybe small, but real.
The President, having launched a global trade war, feted in the Oval Office a Central American dictator who runs a mega-prison known for starvation and torture - a prison to which our government has, by its own admission, sent at least one person "in error."
They disappeared a man without a single criminal charge who's lived and worked here for 15 years - who was alleged to be a member of a gang based in a state he never lived by one anonymous informant. No other evidence. No trial. No conviction. Nothing but a legal order that he not be deported to El Salvador, where he's now serving a life sentence.
The Supreme Court just ruled, without any noted dissent, that the government must facilitate the man's release.
But Trump and his dictator friend said no. They laughed. They mocked the journalist who asked whether they'd abide by the Court's order. The Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the White House Deputy Chief all lied about the facts of the case. Then the President repeated his proposal to send American citizens to the dictator's prison, and asked him to build five more.
The same day we found out that the government knowingly disappeared a PhD student for nothing but an op-ed, a man's 19-year old son who agents admitted was the wrong kid, and a visa-holding Russian scientist at Harvard who forgot to declare frog embryos at the border.
But: it's all breaking through. It's getting more coverage. More people are paying attention. More elected Democrats are speaking up. More conservative pundits and legal scholars are speaking up. Even Joe Rogan thinks it's bullshit.
Now we have to keep pushing. This is much bigger than immigration or deportation policy - this is about whether we live in a free country or a police state. It's the whole ballgame.
We must all stand as a united front against the kidnapping and illegal detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.
Senator, I am willing to join you and help Organize other members of the House to do the same. @VanHollenForMD
If you're an elected Democrat and you don't speak out about Trump's proposal to jail American citizens in a foreign torture dungeon for life, what are you even doing in public office? Why have the job?
So he acts mean, nasty, callous, cruel, dangerous and destructive on social media, at pressers, in speeches, and in his policies...but in person he's just a swell guy? That makes him a sociopath... https://t.co/DRIjvS9rOz
We are all angry and anxious as we watch Trump manipulate the stock market for his billionaire friends and Congress passes a budget resolution that looks to cut Medicaid to give more tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy. Sen Murphy knows👇#HandsOffOurMedicaid
This is GOP Congressman David Valadao, who just voted to cut $1 TRILLION in Medicaid funding. He represents a district with the second most Medicaid recipients in the U.S.
RETWEET to let @RepDavidValadao’s constituents know he voted to cut Medicaid!
JUST IN: Following the Supreme Court’s order, Judge Paula Xinis orders the Trump administration to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia “as soon as possible.”
She gives the DOJ until 930 AM tomorrow to detail where Abrego Garcia is and the steps taken to bring him back.
@reesetheone1 Other countries are dumping our debt, and the dollar is weakening because we are no longer seen as a reliable country. The interest America pays on its debt is going to rise. I fear we are headed for a recession.