Tuesday, April 15, 2025

No, CBS, Maryland is not part of El Salvador

Don Surber  

"Dear CBS: Maryland is not part of El Salvador." . . .


. . ."I realize your propaganda machine foams at the mouth over the thought of President Trump but just as biology does not allow you to magically turn a man into a woman, so geography does not allow you to call a citizen of El Salvador a Maryland man.
"The person in question arrived here illegally and was deported to his homeland—El Salvador, not Maryland—as required by law.
"I realize, CBS, that Presidents Bush (both of them), Clinton, Obama and Biden ignored and openly defied the law with Biden serving as a human trafficker flying about a half million illegals and depositing them in places that have not declared themselves to be sanctuaries for these lawbreakers.
"But President Trump is enforcing the law because the rule of law that CBS lectured on us for four years concerning Democrat lawfare against Donald Trump also applies to Kilmar Abrego Garcia—the illegal alien the USA just deported to his homeland and other people who actually commit real crimes.
"Your reporting overlooks Dan Moynihan’s admonition: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
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"There. I got that off my chest. Now for the story of how Trump’s return of Abrego Garcia to his native country became a national story because Judge Paula Xinis said his deportation was a mistake." . . .

President Of El Salvador Nayib Bukele Helps Trump Troll Media  . . ."Yes, it took three writers to type up the article: “Trump’s new favorite authoritarian is helping him sidestep court orders”. The sub is “El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is urging Trump to emulate his iron-fisted playbook.” Hmmmm. For the last decade, the legacy media has been telling us Trump’s dictatorial instincts were all his own. Now, writers Kyle Cheney, Josh Gerstein and Hassan Ali Kanu assert that Trump needs a back-up dictator to give him the cojones to dictate. Here are the opening paragraphs of the piece of ****
Though Trump has long admired foreign authoritarians, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s repressive regime is in some ways the beta test for Trump 2.0. Bukele calls himself the “world’s coolest dictator.” Trump said he would be a dictator on Day 1. And Trump has floated or deployed many of the same tactics Bukele used to consolidate power: removing judges, intimidating political adversaries, bypassing due process and evading term limits.

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