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Raw Story: 'Driving people crazy': GOP ex-lawmaker says Trump using 'deflection' to avoid big issue [View all]
Raw Story - 'Driving people crazy': GOP ex-lawmaker says Trump using 'deflection' to avoid big issue
Travis Gettys
April 16, 2025 7:23AM ET
A former Republican congressman speculated that president Donald Trump was fighting the courts to keep a Maryland man imprisoned in El Salvador as a distraction from an even more unpopular move.
U.S. District judge Paula Xinis ordered sworn testimony from Trump administration officials to determine whether they complied with her orders to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to a notorious high-security prison overseas, and former GOP congressman Charlie Dent told "CNN This Morning" why he thinks the president was picking that fight.
"Well, I have a kind of cynical view about this whole issue," Dent said. "I tend to think that Donald Trump would like nothing more than to talk about this issue ad nauseam, about whether or not a person who entered the United States unlawfully should be returned from his native country."
Dent argued that the president was defying the courts to turn attention away from his sweeping tariffs against virtually all U.S. trading partners that has rattled the stock market and lopped nearly 10 percent off the dollar.
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Travis Gettys
April 16, 2025 7:23AM ET
A former Republican congressman speculated that president Donald Trump was fighting the courts to keep a Maryland man imprisoned in El Salvador as a distraction from an even more unpopular move.
U.S. District judge Paula Xinis ordered sworn testimony from Trump administration officials to determine whether they complied with her orders to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to a notorious high-security prison overseas, and former GOP congressman Charlie Dent told "CNN This Morning" why he thinks the president was picking that fight.
"Well, I have a kind of cynical view about this whole issue," Dent said. "I tend to think that Donald Trump would like nothing more than to talk about this issue ad nauseam, about whether or not a person who entered the United States unlawfully should be returned from his native country."
Dent argued that the president was defying the courts to turn attention away from his sweeping tariffs against virtually all U.S. trading partners that has rattled the stock market and lopped nearly 10 percent off the dollar.
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