Hey, everybody. It's Monday, May 25th, 2026. I'm Alison Gill and this is Beanstalk.

Wellie, welly, well, well, Todd Blanche may be in a bit of trouble, which pleases me.

Now, you know, he's been butt snorkeling for the

attorney general position for the past few months, bringing stupid cases like seashells and sandwiches

and creating illegal slush funds to pay terrorists like January 6th rioters, but try as he might,

he could not put Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia in prison.

On Friday, Judge Waverly Crenshaw in the District of Tennessee dismissed the human smuggling

charges against Mr. Abrago, saying that the government failed to rebut the presumption of vindictive

prosecution.

That's an important distinction we'll talk about in a minute.

But the charges were brought against Mr. Obrego for a 22 Tennessee traffic stop,

during which he didn't get so much as a traffic ticket.

He was let go.

That case was closed. And it was only opened up after a Maryland judge named

Policini ordered that Mr. Obraygo be returned to the United States after he was abducted in March of

2025 with 200 plus others who were put on a plane, two planes bound for El Salvador, Seacoat Prison.

At Judge, Judge Bozberg ordered those planes turned around, but Emil Bovi told lawyers at the

Department of Justice to instruct the courts to fuck off. That's a direct quote, according to a

whistleblower named Arez Rivenny. We've talked about his report on these podcasts as well.

So Todd Blanche himself made an appearance on Laura Ingram show, the Ingram angle, on Fox News, and said with his own mouth that they were charging Mr. Obrego because that Maryland judge did them dirty.

And that, that utterance is what made the judge in Mr. Abrago's criminal case rule that there

was a presumption of vindictiveness. That's a really, really important thing. Because, first of all, getting charges

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