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Aug 25 • 11 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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As you watch the extraordinary spectacle of Trump's government attempting to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, let's not lose sight of just how lawless and indefensible Trump's misconduct has been all throughout.

Here's a thread recapping all of it. 1/
DHS Sec Kristi Noem's announcement of this states AS FACT numerous charges against Abrego. But the admin couldn't produce real evidence of MS-13 ties despite trying for MONTHS. He has been convicted of NONE of the criminal charges lodged here. Guilty until proven innocent. 2/ Image
Noem's announcement notes that when he was arrested in 2019, the PG County Gang Unit validated his MS-13 ties. But as we reported, the cop whose testimony this was based on was suspended soon after and indicted for serious professional misconduct. 3/

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Internal emails released by whistleblower revealed top DHS officials internally debating the urgent need to "find" evidence that Abrego was in MS-13.

"I have not found anything," said one, "but I'll keep looking."

They never found anything. 4/

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ICE released declaration that he was "verified member" of MS-13, but proof of this never materialized, either. It was rooted in a judge's declaration that proved to be based on incredibly thin evidence. Trump, Vance used this to smear him for months. 5/

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JD Vance, Miller and others lied that Trump couldn't bring Abrego back because his fate was up to Bukele. They defied SCOTUS on these grounds. But the claim was absolute nonsense.

Vance's bad faith has been extraordinary all throughout. 6/
After Trump finally caved and brought Abrego back, the admin moved to prosecute him for trafficking. But don't forget this: A leading prosecutor in the office bringing the case resigned. The reason was plainly that the prosecution stank to high hell. 7/

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Now the admin seems to have tried to coerce him into pleading to trafficking (dubious to begin with) by offering a choice: A plea and you go to Costa Rica. No plea and it's Uganda.

That's vile. And @AnnaBower shows it exposes still more bad faith. 8/

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@AnnaBower Let's not forget, as @LeahLitman says, that this coercion has been enabled by the Supreme Court allowing deportations to third countries to go forward.

SCOTUS has enabled this "campaign of terror" against Abrego to go forward, Litman writes. /9

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@AnnaBower @LeahLitman Trump and Miller had the option AT ANY POINT to simply bring him back and attempt to remove him to a third country or contest his "withholding of removal" status.

That they're doing exactly this now exposes how corrupt this has been all throughout. 10/

@AnnaBower @LeahLitman As @TPM_dk notes, this case has been a test of whether our system can withstand levels of bad faith and abuses of power that seem designed to strain the law's very ability to function.

I hope this thread demonstrates how unfathomably terrible their conduct has truly been. 11/11 Image

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Aug 23
Lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has been released, have been informed by ICE that he could now be subject to deportation to Uganda, and he's been told to report to ICE next week, a source confirms to me.

A few points about this, b/c there will be a lot of BS about it. 1/
What this confirms is how deeply corrupt and indefensible Trump and Stephen Miller's handling of this has been all throughout.

Those of us commenting on this have argued all along that Trump *always* had the option of bringing him back and proceeding through lawful channels. 2/
In other words, after illegally renditioning Abrego Garcia to a Salvadoran gulag, Trump could *at any point* have brought him back and moved to deport him to a third country or contested his "withholding of removal" status.

We argued for this for months. 3/
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Aug 2
NEWS --> An internal DHS memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming.

We obtained the memo:
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The DHS memo lays out the agenda for a July 21 meeting among top level officials from DHS and Defense Department. It was authored by Philip Hegseth (yes, he's Pete Hegseth's brother), a top adviser to DHS Sec Kristi Noem and liason to the Pentagon.

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Memo says bluntly that US military leadership need to better grasp the threat of illegal immigration *in the homeland.*

Experts say this means DHS, maybe w/Pete Hegseth's help, may be pressuring top Defense officials to get more involved domestically.

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Jul 28
Striking: Zohran Mamdani's video about returning to Uganda racked up 4.5 million Instagram views, 56% among nonfollowers, per data given to me.

He's offering a new answer to Dem digital woes. I talked to his team in depth about it. Fascinating. 1/

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Zohran's campaign provided me with data on the reach of a number of his most recent videos on Instagram. We're talking millions and millions of views on content about things like traffic and city council bills impacting street vendors.

Details below. 2/

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National Dems are noticing.

“His campaign is putting digital practitioners in charge who understand what’s going to resonate online,” the exec director of a top Dem super PAC says. The secret? “Letting him speak authentically to what he believes." 3/

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Jul 23
NEWS --> Sen Ron Wyden writes to Pam Bondi, urging DOJ to probe $1.5 billion in Epstein financial transactions that banks flagged for Treasury Dept. He lays out roadmap for DOJ to examine money flow related to sex trafficking. Calls Bondi's bluff.

Read:
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“I am convinced that DOJ ignored evidence found in the Treasury Department’s Epstein file [involving] mountains of cash Epstein received from prominent businessmen...to finance his criminal network,” Wyden says.

Wyden's investigators viewed these docs:

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This from Wyden is striking:

"Epstein clearly had access to enormous financing to operate his sex trafficking network, and the details on how he got the cash to pay for it are sitting in a Treasury Department filing cabinet."

Lays out roadmap for DOJ:

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Jul 17
The real story behind the new DOJ referral for Adam Schiff is *Trump's* corruption. It's based on the findings of an inspector general, but experts and a former IG looked at the details and they tell me the whole process is highly suspect.

New piece:
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Trump's claim of fraud rests on a Fannie Mae memo resulting from an IG request for info on Schiff's loans. It's not clear what drove any of this or how WH got it.

“From beginning to end, this process is highly irregular,” former IG Michael Bromwich says.

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Another expert poses these good questions on the Schiff story:

"What drove this through the bureaucracy? What drove it to DOJ? How did the story find its way into the president’s social media feed?"

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Jul 14
Awful: Stephen Miller is urging red states to build their own versions of "Alligator Alcatraz." And buried in the budget bill is funding that states can try to tap for exactly that.

This could become a route to MAGA glory for young GOPers. 1/

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“We want every governor of a red state: pick up the phone, call DHS, work with us to build facilities in your state,” Stephen Miller said on Fox.

Gubernatorial offices contacted by Fox were eager to boast of their plans for new detention centers. 2/

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Buried in Trump's budget bill is a fund that makes $3.5 billion available to “eligible states” for immigration purposes, like the “temporary detention of aliens.”

This can be tapped for states to build their own versions of "Alligator Alcatraz." 3/

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