Or more likely, Trump will drag this out for as long as possible until the charges are dismissed by a court.
The whole case is looking like it is truly dubious.
On Friday, the Trump administration finally complied with multiple court orders to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States.
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First, it is unclear why the Trump administration waited so long to bring this indictment if the facts are as damning and undeniable as it claims. The White House has been
desperately searching for
ways to smear Abrego Garcia since it first deported him in March. It incessantly alleged that he was a known gang member without proffering any credible evidence; the White House’s alleged “proof”
rested on the word of a disgraced former cop who
later pleaded guilty to providing confidential information to a sex worker he had hired. The administration also
accused Abrego Garcia of human trafficking because, in late 2022, he was pulled over while driving in a car with eight other Hispanic men. That episode now forms the basis of his indictment. But if that’s true, why did federal prosecutors wait two and a half years to charge him?
Second, and relatedly, the federal government took a very different view of the 2022 incident when it occurred. There was no overt evidence that Abrego Garcia was smuggling immigrants across the country, as prosecutors now claim. At the time, any inference of human trafficking rested entirely on circumstantial evidence and racial profiling. (A known construction worker, Abrego Garcia reported that he and his passengers were on their way to a construction site.) After pulling him over, Tennessee police reported Abrego Garcia and his passengers to federal law enforcement—but federal officers
directed local police to let them continue along their way. The federal government did not see fit to even detain or investigate him then. Now it has brought felony charges against him. What changed—other than the president and his suddenly urgent desire to find a justification for his
blatantly unlawful rendition program?