If there is a more ridiculous figure in Congress right now than Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), I do not know who that could be. Van Hollen is making AOC look brilliant by comparison. Of course, there are people like Liz Warren, Cory Booker and Lisa Murkowski who gave it run. However, Van Hollen has come out on top by far.
Van Hollen flew to El Salvador to bring the repatriated Salvadoran MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia “home” to Maryland. Van Hollen droned on and on about the illegal alien’s status as a devoted father and union man. The image that Van Hollen tried to portray was that Abrego Garcia was one of his constituents whose “constitutional” rights had been violated.
Then the facts started appearing. It is becoming more and more difficult for lying leftists like Van Hollen to suppress facts.
Police reports appeared that showed that Abrego Garcia is an MS-13 gangbanger with a significant number of run-ins with law enforcement. PDJT provided photos of his hands showing MS-13 tattoos. Please understand that only MS-13 gangbangers have these tats. To have them without being a member is gambling with one’s life.
Then the wife-beating reports surfaced along with multiple orders of protection. After this a report surfaced from the Tennessee Highway Patrol. While driving without a license, it turned out that there were eight other people in his vehicle, none of whom had luggage. Abrego Garcia was suspected of being a human trafficker. The cops detained him and asked the Biden DOJ what to do. The answer from those quarters was to let him go. I wonder why that was done.
Initially Van Hollen was there to bring Abrego Garcia “home.” This is ignores the fact that Garcia is an illegal alien who had exhausted all avenues of appeal. There is an order of deportation. This means Garcia cannot remain in the US. The only fly in the ointment was a withholding order that Garcia got because he would be in imminent danger of violence from a rival gang known as Barrio. That gang does not exist anymore in El Salvador. The danger from those people is actually greater in this country than there. Of course, the withholding order does not permit him to stay in this country.
Once it became clear that El Salvador would not release Garcia, Van Hollen moved the goalposts. It became that he was there to see if Garcia was alive and healthy. As the tweet below illustrates, Abrego Garcia appeared to be quite healthy.
This makes Van Hollen seem even dumber. He is now shaking hands with a criminal who is the member of a murderous gang.
The backlash was so bad in this country that Van Hollen felt compelled to go on the Sunday morning media shows to defend the indefensible. Now the narrative is that he was there to defend the “constitutional” rights of a Salvadoran citizen in America. Yes, that as dumb as it siunds.
Van Hollen:
“I am not defending the man. I’m defending the rights of this man to due process,” Van Hollen told ABC News’ “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl on Sunday. “And the Trump administration has admitted in court that he was wrongfully detained and wrongfully deported. My mission and my purpose is to make sure that we uphold the rule of law, because if we take it away from him, we do jeopardize it for everybody else.”
The Trump administration has done no such thing. This man had more due process than almost anyone out there. Tom Homan pointed out that due process under the 1798 law is a bit different than everyday due process.
Van Hollen is a moron who is just trying to save face. This appears to be a step toward running for President in 2028.
Congress has announced that taxpayer dollars will not be given to him to cover his trip. This came on the heels of James Comer denying funding to a cohort of Democrats from the House that wanted to follow Van Hollen. Van Hollen is trying to do anything to stop twisting in the wind.