The Worst Thing Trump Did on 4/4/25

Let's get an obvious fact out of the way. Trump and his DOJ could get Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador in 6 hours if they asked.  They could. 

District Judge Paul Xinis ordered the DOJ to get the innocently deported Maryland man back from the El Salvadoran gulag Trump sent him to, a notorious prison designed to torture and kill the people who enter.  The administration has admitted the man was deported in error. 

Pam Bodi, the least qualified Attorney General in history, released a statement through the White House to the judge, insisting if they wanted Garcia back, they needed to contact the President of El Salvador, as they say they have no jurisdiction to get the man back.  This is them trying to argue their mistake has no consequences.

My guess is they don't want him back because it will be revealed that 1) Garcia indeed has been tortured and they don't want him revealing what happened to him, and 2) that indeed Trump, Bondi, and the White House ORDERED the people they shipped to the gulag to be tortured and killed by the EL Salvadoran government.  It's not that they're not proud of what they've done, but they know if the American people find out the truth, most of his own supporters will be saying "I wanted them gone, but I sure as heck didn't want that to happen.

The lawsuit Garcia will have against the US Government will be in the billions. Trump's administration trying to get the case dismissed by arguing they were only using a wartime decree in a time when we hadn't declared war on anyone will be laughed out of court.