The Worst Thing Trump Did on 4/6/25

60 Minutes does what 60 Minutes does; it finds the truth.

Yesterday they aired a report that exposed the Trump administration's lies about the Venezuelans deported to Trump's Gulag in El Salvador.  Most of them have no ties to gangs, and SEVENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THEM have never done anything wrong!!!

Trump randomly deported any Venezuelans they could find, including people who were CLEARLY not criminals or gang members.  Of the 25% who were deported with criminal records, most of them are low-level offenses like traffic tickets or personal use drug charges.  Now they are all being tortured. 

Let's run what exactly has happened here.

• Trump during the campaign, realizing they can't just do what they want to do and deport all brown-skinned people, came up with a threat.  The Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua does exist, but not nearly to the extent that Trump told his followers. They made it sound like entire swaths of America were taken over by the gang. These lies really got racist and racist-lite white America on board with their campaign.
• He wins, and now he has to deliver.  Instead of acknowledging they overplayed the threat of the gang to Americans, they instead make a decision: any Venezuelan who is captured in America is to be deemed part of Tren de Aragua.
• Realizing they have no evidence on the vast majority of them, Trump envokes a wartime rule from 1798 to justify flying them out of the country with zero due process.  They insist they were all gang members, even though it is clear their own arguments lack any real evidence.
• They ship them to Trump's gulag in El Salvador, KNOWING that innocent people are about to get tortured and killed. 
• To further hide the fact they are torturing innocent people, they've now adopted the stance that the so-called evidence against the Venezuelans is classified as 'state secrets.' 
• The Venezuelans have done nothing wrong and Trump and his scum are frantically trying to hide what they've done in plain sight.

In a few years, when we have hearings and trials about all this, the same people running around with puffed-out chests and bravado will be presenting a VERY DIFFERENT tone: "I was ordered to do it," and "I trusted them to tell me the truth but now I realize they were lying."

It will never fix the damage they've done to innocent people.