The Daily Blast: Trump’s Fury over Abrego Garcia Case Darkens as Crushing New Polls Hit

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Chris Cotnoir

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Over the weekend, President Trump raged on Truth Social at judges who are ruling that Trump must follow the law in the case of wrongfully-deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia and others illegally deported to prisons in El Salvador. Trump again threatened to dispense with due process for migrants. Yet this comes even as Trump admitted in a new interview that he’s open to bringing Abrego Garcia back and retrying him for deportation through lawful channels. For Trump to acknowledge he has this option while nonetheless threatening to end due process for Abrego Garcia and other migrants is a dark development. All this comes as two new polls show Trump badly losing the war of public opinion over all these illegal renditions. We talked to Chris Newman, a lawyer for the Abrego Garcia family, who powerfully explains why Trump is losing the war over public opinion, how Trump is importing Bukele-style authoritarianism into the United States, and why Trump will ultimately lose in court. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.4	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:31.6	President Donald Trump's lawlessness is getting worse, but the public is now clearly rejecting it.
0:37.9	Trump gave a new interview in which he made some striking admissions about the wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrago Garcia that only demonstrate how reprehensible his treatment of this whole saga has become.
0:45.0	Meanwhile, new polling shows a large public backlash to Trump's extra-legal tactics.
0:51.3	We don't think that Trump and Stephen Miller anticipated this public response.
0:55.7	We think they thought they had successfully acclimated voters to their lawlessness.
1:00.7	The opposite is happening.
1:02.5	Yet all signs are that they'll continue plunging us into this abyss.
1:06.6	Today we're talking about all of this with Chris Newman,
1:09.2	who's one of the lawyers for Abrago Garcia's family and his general counsel for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.
1:16.2	Chris, good to have you on.
1:18.3	It's my pleasure. Thank you.
1:21.3	Let's start with what Trump said in a new interview with Time magazine.
1:25.8	To catch people up, Abrago Garcia was wrongfully deported to a
1:29.3	prison in El Salvador, and the Supreme Court has said this is illegal and that the administration
1:34.2	must facilitate his return. Trump and his people keep saying that this is not their issue anymore,
1:40.2	that they can't make El Salvador and President Naïeb Buckele release him.
1:45.1	So Time magazine asked Trump, have you asked Buckele to return him?
1:49.6	Trump admitted, I haven't, and said his lawyers have not told him he has to.
1:54.8	Chris, that's an astounding admission.
1:56.6	Your response?
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