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Yet another gross spectacle in the Oval Office yesterday. The president of the United States meeting with a third-world dictator to discuss plans to build prisons to house U.S. citizens. Paid for by American citizens. An event as staged as Trump’s February meeting with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, solely designed to send a FU message. At the meeting, Trump and Nayib Bukele, who is clearly doing Trump’s bidding, announced they would not bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home, defying the U.S. Supreme Court. Bukele was livestreaming the event on his official X 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 Bukele posted. “We want to do homegrown criminals next…. The homegrowns.” Trump told Bukele. “You gotta build about five more places.” Bukele appeared to answer, “Yeah, we’ve got space.” “All right,” Trump replied. And the people in the room—including VP 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 Abrego Garcia without legal recourse to his freedom. They falsely claimed that a court had ruled Abrego Garcia was a terrorist, and insisted the whole case was about the president’s power to control foreign affairs. When Trump asked what the Supreme Court ruled, deputy White House chief of staff Stephen Miller said it had ruled “9–0…in our favor,” claiming “the Supreme Court said that the district court order was unlawful and its main components were reversed 9–0 unanimously.” Disgusting, lying propaganda. This is what we saw…”What we all just witnessed had all the earmarks of a criminal conspiracy to deprive Abrego-Garcia of his constitutional rights, as well as an impeachable offense. The fraud scheme was a phony agreement engineered by the US to have Bukele say he lacks power to return Abrego Garcia and he won't do it.” This is a completely transparent rhetorical game the administration is playing, where it pretends it lacks the power to ask for Abrego Garcia to be returned while Bukele pretends he doesn’t have the power to return him. All the nudge nudge wink wink showed obvious contempt for the Supreme Court—and for the rule of law. And the room agreed. Everyone present for that spectacle should be fired. It was beyond shameful. And anyone who has the power to do anything about the total betrayal of the country shown by this president, but stands by in silence, deserves their place in history’s dustbin. It was the lowest moment yet in a daily parade of low moments. It was truly despicable.