‘What’s going on here?’ MSNBC host stunned by White House court response
The refusal of Donald Trump’s administration to accept that the courts have ruled that it must bring back to the U.S. Kilmar Abrego García from a maximum security El Salvador prison where he was mistakenly sent left the panel on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” grasping for reasons to explain their refusal to accept the loss, have him returned and put out the firestorm.
Citing a brutal appeals court ruling that Trump and his Department of Justice are brazenly flouting rulings from a unanimous Supreme Court on down, co-host Joe Scarbrough was incredulous the president and his advisers have failed to read the room when even conservative Trump allies have also taken the side of the Maryland father of three.
After pointing out that Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III wrote the case “should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear,” Scarborough piled on.
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“It’s pretty unambiguous,” he exclaimed. “I mean in 2019 a judge ruled he [Abrego Garcia] couldn’t be taken out of the country. The Trump administration then obviously agreed –– they didn’t appeal it. The Trump administration this time said we made a mistake and, again, it’s just like the Signalgate thing : know when to say, ‘Hey, we made a mistake, we’re going to bring you back and move on.'”
Noting that some in the White House are trying to “paint this as left wingers” who are furious about the deportation without due process, he added, “I mean, this isn’t MSNBC and CNN, the New York Times editorial. No, it’s not, it’s Joe Rogan, right? Joe Rogan is going out there and saying, what’s going on here, man?”
He then stated, “I don’t understand this.”
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