Trump's counterterrorism czar (Gorka) says Kilmar Abrego Garcia's supporters could be charged with 'aiding and abetting' [View all]
Source: The Independent
Trump’s counterterrorism czar says Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s supporters could be charged with ‘aiding and abetting’
Sebastian Gorka says critics are ‘on the side of the terrorists’ as administration attacks opponents of president’s deportation agenda
Alex Woodward, Madeline Sherratt
Thursday 17 April 2025 18:07 BST
Donald Trump’s counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka claims Americans who don’t support the president’s anti-immigration agenda and deportations policy are “on the side of the terrorists.”
He suggested advocates for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran father living in Maryland who was mistakenly deported to a brutal prison in his home country, could be prosecuted for “aiding and abetting.”
“It’s not left and right, it’s not even Republican or Democrat. There’s one line that divides us: Do you love America, or do you hate America? It’s really quite that simple,” Gorka told Newsmax on Wednesday.
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Gorka, who serves as a deputy secretary to the president and the White House senior director for counterterrorism, is tasked with developing the Trump administration’s approach to combating domestic terrorism.
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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/sebastian-gorka-kilmar-abrego-garcia-activists-b2735153.html
Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-counterterrorism-czar-says-kilmar-161028821.html
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"Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists," said a certain dim-witted politician many years ago. So they really want to go down that road again.
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