Judge DISMISSES CRIMINAL CASE Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Okay, so I mentioned, you know, it was going to be a lot of good news tonight and now there's not so much good news tonight. But there is a little good news tonight and that is that judge has dropped criminal case against Kilar Bgo Garcia, deeming it vindictive. A federal judge on Friday dismissed the Justice Department's human smuggling case against Kilmargo Garcia, ruling that the Trump administration improperly brought it to punish him for successfully challenging his illegal deportation last year. US District Judge Waverly D.

[00:00:31]Krenshaw Jr. in Tennessee wrote that evidence before this court sadly reflects an abuse of prosecuting power.

[00:00:39]Understand it's very very rare that a judge says that a case needs to be tossed because of vindictive and malicious prosecution. That does not happen very often. So that shows you how obvious it was >> in this case, which is what we said from the very beginning. The decision delivered an extraordinary defeat for the administration which marshaled the resources of multiple federal agencies to publicly malign Abrao after court rulings concluded that officials had unlawfully deported him to his native El Salvador in violation of a 2019 immigration court order. In a decision released Friday afternoon, the judge acknowledged the incredibly high bar defendants must meet to warrant a case's dismissal on those grounds. It requires defense attorneys to prove that charges would not have been brought but for improper vindictive motives on the part of government attorneys. Krenshaw, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, oh well that explains it. An Obama judge, a commie judge, >> wrote that in Abrago's case it was clear that the investigation into him was tainted with a vindictive motive. The judge wrote in a 32-page opinion that while he found insufficient evidence of actual vindictiveness, he also concluded that the Trump administration failed to rebut the presumption of vindictiveness.

[00:02:01]Krenshaw said he did not reach the conclusion lightly. But the evidence he wrote showed that if Abrago had not challenged his deportation, the Trump administration would not have brought this case. So this is separate from the deportation proceeding. The Justice Department assailed the decision.

[00:02:20]Another activist judge has placed politics. It's a shame Pam Bondi's not there anymore.

[00:02:25]>> I swear to God, that's what I was thinking. I really miss Blanch Dubois Bondi.

[00:02:29]>> Another moment like this judge has placed politics above public safety.

[00:02:34]>> It's the only time where you wish you were there still.

[00:02:36]>> Yeah.

[00:02:37]>> You know, >> uh a spokesperson said in a statement, "The judge's order is wrong and dangerous, and we will appeal. We we will revive Pam Bondi's career.

[00:02:47]>> Her her her ghost lingers.

[00:02:49]>> Yeah. For purposes of uh impersonation and mockery. Despite Krenshaw's decision, US immigration authorities have previously signaled they still intend to deport Abrao, 31, who entered the country illegally from El Salvador as a teen. But their ability to do so has been temporarily blocked by a federal court ruling from Maryland, where Abrago lives with his wife, a US citizen, and children. Abrago praised the judge's ruling. "Justice is a big word and an even bigger promise to fulfill and I am grateful that today justice has taken a step forward," he said in a statement released by weasa, an immigration advocacy group. So when you talk about malicious prosecution, abuse of power, uh just understand the railroading of this man, the obvious railroading of this man from day one was a real sign that this second Trump term was going to be a total nightmare. It's a very very important case. That's why we covered it as closely as we did at the time because it was very very obvious that what they were trying to do was see if they could just deport people to a foreign country even improperly.

[00:04:03]And then once they were ordered to bring him back, say, "Well, that's not our problem anymore. He's not in our jurisdiction anymore. It's up to the foreign leader to decide whether or not to return him." So if you remember when Boule was at the White House, he was asked about returning Abrego Garcia.

[00:04:22]This is back when Abrego Garcia of course was in Secot and he said, "No, I can't do that. I'm not going to smuggle a terrorist back into America in the Oval Office with the president and leader of the free world. Um we're very happy and we're very eager to help.

[00:04:41]We know that uh you have uh a crime problem, a terrorism problem that you need help with.

[00:04:49]>> And we're a small country, but if we can help, we will do it.

[00:04:53]>> Do you plan to ask President Mle to help return the man who your administration says was mistakenly deported? The man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador.

[00:05:01]>> Well, let me ask Pam, would you ask answer that question?

[00:05:05]>> Sure, President. First and foremost, >> he was illegally in our country. He had been illegally in our country.

[00:05:11]>> Can President Blei weigh in on this? Do you plan to return him?

[00:05:14]>> Well, I guess >> I have to talk to Crockett to the United States, right?

[00:05:21]>> How can I smuggle how can I return him to the United States? It's like I smuggle him into the United States or what do I do? Of course, I'm not going to do it. It's like I mean the the question is preposterous. How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I I don't have the power to return him to the United States. a terrorist. See, this is this is why they threw out the case uh due to malice. And then who could forget this? Trump literally thinks the MS-13 labeled on the pictures are actual tattoos. Yes, he's that [ __ ] dumb. Remember this? I mean, this is really in the Hall of Fame in terms of like dumbest video clips ever. Of course, the marijuana, the smile, the cross, and the skull, >> which somebody labeled MS13, as if that's what that stood for. Um, what I've heard it stands for, which I don't know for a fact, but it makes a hell of a lot more sense, is smoke weed to get high, praise God, till you die. I mean, that makes perfect sense. That's >> yeah, >> what it looks like it says to me. Um, but uh, Trump actually thought that the coded symbols, which were clearly photoshopped on there, not even for the purposes of deceiving people, but just as a key to signify what they meant, uh, he actually thought that he had the figures MS13 on his finger. Remember this >> gang? And then they looked and on his knuckles he had MS3.

[00:06:46]>> There's a dispute.

[00:06:46]>> Wait a minute. Wait a minute. He had MS13 on his knuckles. Oh, he had some tattoos that are interpreted that way.

[00:06:53]But let's move on.

[00:06:54]>> Wait a minute. Hey, Terry. Terry, >> he did not have the letter MS13.

[00:06:58]>> It says MS13.

[00:07:00]>> That was photoshopped. U So, let me >> That was photoshopped. Terry, you can't do that. Hey, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. You know, you're doing the interview. I picked you because frankly, I never heard of you, but that's okay. I picked you, Terry.

[00:07:13]But you're not being very nice. He had MS13 tattoo.

[00:07:16]>> We'll agree to disagree. I want to move on to something else. Terry, >> do you want me to show you the picture?

[00:07:21]>> I saw the picture. We'll >> photoshop. Here we go. Here we go.

[00:07:25]>> Don't Photoshop.

[00:07:26]>> Okay. So, not only was this >> Dude, that that is some Christopher guest.

[00:07:30]>> Of course.

[00:07:31]>> Do you want me to show you the picture?

[00:07:34]>> But not only was this Donald Trump at his dumbest, but this was also journalism at its worst. Because of course, of course, what's the number one rule of improv? Always say yes. If you're a journalist and you have the opportunity to explain to the president that no, what you're looking at is a key to an image, not an actual tattoo. Of course, you say yes. Let's take the photo out, Mr. President. I'll show you what I mean. And who knows, maybe Trump maybe he has a cuz he clearly like Trump is a a total liar. Uh but he's clearly not lying here. I mean, he clearly really believes that it says that. So, you had the opportunity to take him out and show it and you might get a Oh, h interesting. Stephen, did you tell me that was him? I said, "Get out here.

[00:08:24]Let's bring Let's bring the team out here." Who told me?

[00:08:27]>> You told You told me that was real.

[00:08:29]>> You told me that was real. You told me that was real. What What are you doing to me? What do you I mean, so I I think I think the interviewer did just as bad a job there as Trump. But here is Chris Van Golland, a guy who to his credit showed tremendous courage going down to El Salvador um and going to bat for his constituent, I guess, a Maryland man. Um because this was a very very important time where the administration was trying to set the president that we could basically just disappear whoever we want and as long as we do it fast enough, there's nothing anybody can do about it.

[00:09:04]Right? And if that had succeeded, uh, we'd be living in even darker times than we are right now. And it is largely due to the work of Chris Van Holland and some of his other colleagues who went down there who forced this story into the mainstream uh, that got him out of SECOT, which was a huge I mean, that was that's really the main part of the battle from a political standpoint. Um, so let's take a look at this.

[00:09:28]just determined what we've really known all along, which is that the Trump administration's criminal case against Kilar Abrego Garcia was well trumped up.

[00:09:40]The judge said that it was a selective vindictive prosecution. And the fact is the Trump administration brought this case against Kilar Bgo Garcia because he chose to exercise his constitutional due process rights after they illegally disappeared him to El Salvador. So this is an important win for the rule of law, but underscores once again that the Trump administration's justice department is simply an arm of Donald Trump himself. They don't stand up for the rule of law. In fact, they undermine the rule of law. This case has never been about one man. It's never been about Kilar Bgo Garcia alone. It's been about all of our rights because if you trample on his rights, you threaten all of our rights. So, this was a good day, but the Trump administration will continue its vindictive efforts. Let's keep going.

[00:10:39]Yes, of course they are going to appeal this decision because they are just not going to let this go. But at every level, they have been thwarted by the courts in this case because the railroading of this man was just so obvious from day one. It was so obviously mean-spirited. It was so obviously political uh and so obviously not done in the interest of border security or law and order or any of those things. And uh you know this was an early sign that this administration was going to be a total nightmare. And this happened at a time when Trump's popularity ratings were essentially at their peak. You know, he he tried to get this done March April of last year when he still had an approval rating of 45 to 50% which for him is is a high uh virtually uh unanimous approval within the uh Republican party. So he had a lot of political capital here, especially on the immigration issue. And so for guys like Van Holland to stick their neck out on an issue like this, there was really no political upside to it. Uh but it's a good thing they did. It's a good thing they did. And it's a good thing that in this case, it seems uh the uh judicial system seems to be doing its job.

[00:11:59]Yeah, this is when I think about uh some of the moments in this presidency since the election that have made me most disgusted with sectors of American society. It was definitely this like the absolute moronic chanting of, "Oh yeah, he's a Maryland man. Oh yeah, he's a Maryland man." It was just that's the kind of [ __ ] that just makes you say this country really deserves to just go up in flames. Um that was one of the most disgusting displays of jingoism and one of the most horrifying examples of you know the country is you spoken of as a fascist nation as a as a you know uh totalitarian nation. It's really a Jerry Springer nation. That is what it is. It is a bunch of people trying to be in the studio audience and not on the stage as the subject. Oh yeah, IT'S THE MARYLAND MAN. HE'S THE MARYLAND MAN. I'M NOT THE MARYLAND MAN. HE'S THE MARYLAND MAN.

[00:13:11]It's so disgusting. And it just, you know, the the fascist appeals always involve this stabbed in the back element, right? You got stabbed in the back. That's kind of what underlies all of this. Um, it's very bleak when you see how easy it was to get huge swats of the population to go along with something that so obviously is a threat to your freedom. And that's the point Van Holland made there. That's the point we made at the time. It's not even about him. It's not about him. It's about how dangerous it is if you let them do this.

[00:13:49]>> Right. If he's a criminal, bring him back and prove it. And you point out Trump was at the height of his popularity. He didn't stay that way because he's awful. He's awful. He's not a president. He's a puppet for the interests around him that manipulate him into doing terrible things. And you combine that terrible things for himself politically, for his own political interest. And you combine that with his narcissism and his greed that would make him just, you know, do these obvious corrupt crypto deals from day one.

[00:14:24]Really, just obvious cartoonish corruption. But when you think back to that moment where you essentially had a fascist army in waiting and a lot of them didn't stay in waiting, a lot of those a lot of those freaking cracker white supremacist racist [ __ ] went and joined ICE. That's how you wound up with people getting shot. I promise you there's there's a lot of ven diagram overlap between people who were screaming Maryland man and people who applied to be ICE agents during the big push to hire these people. And uh we could see the result if Trump had made better moves if he had been less owned by Israel. Um you you you could he could have ridden that into a real fascist takeover. Uh but he [ __ ] up his popularity too much. Like he doesn't have enough support. If he had been able to demonstrate, yeah, no, the economy is great. He got us out of the wars. what I saw at that moment, not just with the Abbrego Garcia thing, but with a lot of other things with the USA ID and all that, if he had played his cards better, you would had a lot of people, even people who should have known better, who would have supported a fascist takeover of this country. I saw a lot of that in a Brabo Garcia almost more than anything else that happened during all of this.

[00:15:51]>> Yeah. Yeah. It was an early sign. It was an early sign. Um, you know, there was there was some disappointment and and some um uh sense of betrayal over the Doge cuts, which were not popular amongst most people. If you remember, Marjorie Taylor Green got shouted down in town hall over Doge, right? So, there were early signs that they were going to overplay their hand, >> but despite that, his polls were poll numbers were still pretty high. He had a lot of capital which meant that was a really really precarious time because he had won the election based on a promise to deport the violent criminals and they just made up that this guy was someone who I'm I'm not going to say he wasn't.

[00:16:34]I'm going to say the the the uh onus is on the government to prove their case.

[00:16:38]So like if you can't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a guy's a criminal, then you can't just disappear him to some [ __ ] foreign >> Well, and you can't do that anyway. And that's and that's what they they tried to do. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. So, uh, no, it was a mistaken deportation.

[00:16:54]It was a mistaken deportation. And you had the Supreme Court say nine nothing.

[00:16:58]You had to bring him back and he wasn't bringing them back. And no, I mean, you had a real crisis on your hands. That was a very very serious case that I think a lot of people did not take as seriously as they should have at the time because it was a new presidency and people still had some kind of hope that this was going to be uh you know something other than what it is. Um but didn't work out that way.

[00:17:20]>> I'm sorry there's a little reporting on this now. This was all around the same time. And again, who are we? Who are me and Kate? We're a couple of We're a couple of schmucks, right?

[00:17:30]We saw that with USAID, what they're going to do is strip out the good parts and keep the regime change parts. And that's exactly what happened. They didn't get rid of USA ID. USAD moved into the State Department. Now it's controlled by Marco Rubio. They got they got rid of giving, you know, giving people AIDS prevention and they kept the overthrowing government parts. It's amazing to me that so many people who are experts in deep state and the workings of government got rid Oh yeah.

[00:18:01]No, these guys what they're going to do what they're going to do is clean up corruption and get rid of the ability to do black ops. Yeah. No, these really seem like the kind of people who are interested in doing that.

[00:18:14]Incredible, man. That's that's a moment that is going to be poured over and examined and litigated at a future date quite a lot. So, you're saying they kept the aid in USAD?

[00:18:27]>> They kept Well, while Well, they kept the AIDS.

[00:18:29]>> The aid and the S. Yeah. You can't spell USA ID without aids. There you go.

[00:18:34]>> That's a good slogan for them.

[00:18:36]>> That is a good slogan. Yeah, >> they should. If >> anyone from the State Department's watching, >> that's a free one.

[00:18:43]>> Hey, Marco, we think you're going to probably run in 2028. There's a good one. Can't spell USA ID without AIDS.

[00:18:49]There you go.

[00:18:49]>> There you go.

[00:18:50]>> Boom.

[00:18:50]>> Yep. Please clap.