• PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    https://archive.is/8oC6p

    Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Monday morning that he would take matters into his own hands later this week. Van Hollen, a Democrat representing Maryland, said in a statement that he had requested a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who is visiting the White House on Monday, to discuss Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release from an El Salvador mega-prison. And if Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Prince George’s County father, isn’t back by midweek, Van Hollen said he plans to travel to El Salvador “to check on his condition and discuss his release.”

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          Gotta figure he’s considered that possibility. Imprisonment of an elected federal official would be distinctly tougher for Trump to just shrug off.

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            They get their power from conservative news coverage. If a US senator got locked up in El Salvador and Fox didn’t cover it, who is to say he was missing at all? Even if they did cover it they’d point that he was trying to bring back an alleged criminal. And without any oversight of Fox News they’d get away with it. Shameless.

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      Weird im reading on the “totally unbiased” tangle newsletter claiming hes being held in a louisiana prison?