‘I Thought This Day Would Never Come’: Ex-Prosecutor Reveals Trump’s ‘Crisis’ Moment | EUROtoday

Ex-federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann sounded the alarm on President Donald Trump’s deportations Monday after he overtly defied a Supreme Court and decrease court docket order to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States.

“It is now going to be up to the Supreme Court to actually show some steel and backbone, to find that this is in violation of their order and take as drastic steps as they can — and ideally again, unanimously — about what is happening here,” Weissmann instructed MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.

“Or we really won’t have a country left.”

On Monday, Trump met with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele within the Oval Office the place reporters requested in regards to the case of Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was legally within the United States earlier than being deported to a brutal jail in El Salvador.

Attorney General Pam Bondi, within the assembly, claimed it’s as much as El Salvador “if they want to return him” and it’s “not up to us.”

“I thought this day would never come but I want to make sure people understand we are here. At least I have tried to say we’re not yet in that constitutional crisis ― that is what is going on right now,” Weissmann stated.

He stated the Trump administration is “hiding behind the sort of thinnest veneer” in saying that it “can’t possibly do anything” now that Abrego Garcia is in another country.

“It is a complete flouting of the district court, the court of appeals and now Supreme Court orders. It is truly remarkable,” he harassed.

He continued, “The complicity is what makes this so, so different than Trump 1.0 that you don’t have the White House counsel, you don’t have the attorney general, you don’t have anyone to say ‘This is not legal, it is not constitutional, it is not how you’re supposed to behave in the United States of America.’”

Trump, in the identical assembly, additionally shared that he was “all for” sending U.S. residents to the jail. His feedback arrived lower than per week after White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shared that Trump was exploring authorized pathways to “deport” U.S. residents there, as nicely.