Hello, this is Michael Moss.

Heather Crox-Ritcherson is traveling today,

and her travel arrangements did not allow her time

to read today's letter,

so I will be reading it in her place.

April 14th, 2025.

Today, U.S. President Donald J. Trump met in the Oval Office with the President of El Salvador,

Naïbe Bukhili, along with a number of cabinet members and White House staff, who answered questions for the press.

The meeting appeared to be as staged as Trump's February meeting

with Ukraine President Volodomir Zelenskyy designed to send a message.

At the meeting, Trump and Buckeli, who is clearly doing Trump's bidding,

announced they would not bring Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia home, defying the U.S. Supreme Court.

Buckeley was live-streaming the event on his official ex-account and wearing a lapel microphone

as he and Trump walked into the Oval Office, so Trump's pre-meeting private comments were

audible in the video Bikaley posted.

We want to do homegrown criminals next. The homegrowns, Trump told Buckely. You got to build

about five more places. Buckely appeared to answer, yeah, we've got space. All right, Trump replied. Rather than being appalled, the people in the

room, including Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Attorney General

Pam Bondi erupted in laughter. At the meeting, it was clear that Trump's team has cooked up a plan to leave Abrago Garcia

without legal recourse to his freedom, a plan that looks much like Trump's past abuses of the

legal system. The White House says the U.S. has no jurisdiction over El Salvador,

while Buckele says he has no authority to release a terrorist

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