The White House has dug in on its refusal to return a man who US officials have acknowledged was wrongly deported last month from Maryland to an El Salvador mega-prison.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt doubled down on accusations that Salvadoran national Kilmar Ábrego García was a member of the MS-13 gang, which his lawyer denies.

Leavitt also accused the 29-year-old of domestic violence, citing records showing his US citizen wife once filed a protective order against him.

A Maryland judge has ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to bring Mr Ábrego García back to the US. But El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said on a visit to the White House this week that he did not “have the power” to return him.

  • GeetnerdEnglish
    0•10 days ago

    Trump has never been the true threat, it’s the billionaires.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness
      0•9 days ago

      No I assure you he is. Trump is a fascist dictator; he’s a true threat in the same way Hitler was a true threat.

      • GeetnerdEnglish
        0•9 days ago

        Yes… I said he was a threat.

        But the people who a richer than him, and fund all of this Right Wing Media, and put him in power are worse.

        I’m done with this.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness
          0•9 days ago

          You’re not seeing it. This man will put the oligarchs in concentration camps if they piss him off. The power dynamic completely changed after Jan 20th; now he is in charge and they are his lackies.

          • @[email protected]
            0•9 days ago

            I don’t think it’s in his interest to do any of that. He does not control the machinery that influences public opinion and he doesn’t have money like the richest people in the world have money.

            You’re not completely wrong, but I think he still needs at least most of them. They help inform him of strategy via data harvesting and the means of selling it to his supporters, trump does not have the ability to do that all on his own.

      • GeetnerdEnglish
        0•9 days ago

        A useful puppet, that can’t be entirely controlled like Reagan, but is mostly getting the oligarch’s desires achieved.

        He’s absolutely dangerous, but he’s not the true threat.

      • @[email protected]English
        0•9 days ago

        Not a billionaire, that’s for sure. Him being so sensitive about it and never wanting to appear less than that, proves it, and it’s been the case for decades.

        • @[email protected]
          0•9 days ago

          He definitely wasn’t in term 1, but all the grifts and that stupid meme coin likely put him over the threshold.

          • @[email protected]English
            0•9 days ago

            That assumes he didn’t need all that to pay back Russian debts immediately.

            I wouldn’t be surprised if 20 years from now we find out that Trump money directly funded the continued Russian invasion of Ukraine.