President Donald Trump humiliated CNN’s White House correspondent Kaitlin Collins during a press conference.
Trump was hosting El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele at the White House.
Bukele and Trump administration officials took questions from the media about their deal to deport criminal illegal aliens to El Salvador.
Trump tore into Collins after she asked if there are plans to return an illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member back to the United States after he was recently deported.
Bukele mocked the question, noting that he would not be returning Garcia, who is a citizen of El Salvador.
He laughed while asserting that he will release him from the prison to live freely in the Central American country.
“The question is preposterous; how can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?” Bukele retorted, apparently stunned by the question.
“I’m not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country … we just turned the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the western hemisphere, and you want us to go back?” he added.
“That’s not going to happen.”
“Well, they’d love to have criminals released into our country,” Trump chimed in.
“These are sick people,” he added while pointing at the media.
Collins tried to push the question later.
Trump slammed her after she repeatedly asked the same question despite receiving multiple answers.
“How long do we have to answer this question from you?
“Why don’t you just say ‘Isn’t it wonderful that we’re keeping criminals out of our country?’
“Why can’t you say that?” Trump asked Collins.
“Why do you go over and over?
“And that’s why nobody watches you anymore.
“You know, you have no credibility.”
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Later in the press conference, Trump shut her down.
When she tried to ask another question, Trump said, “Not you.”
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.@POTUS shuts down a very rude @kaitlancollins of Fake News CNN (again)
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Attorney General Pam Bondi explained that Garcia was not only an illegal alien but that multiple courts concluded that he was a member of MS-13.
“He was illegally in our country … and in 2019, two courts, an immigration court and an appellate immigration court, ruled that he was a member of MS-13,” Bondi charged in response to Collins’ question.
“That’s up to El Salvador if they want to return him; that’s not up to us,” Bondi said.
She continued by explaining that the Supreme Court ruling doesn’t require the United States to return Garcia, but only to facilitate his return if it was requested by El Salvador.
United States Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller also shot back at Collins.
Miller reprimanded the CNN reporter for suggesting how a foreign nation should address issues concerning their own citizens.
“It is very arrogant, even for American media, to suggest that we would tell El Salvador how to handle their own citizens,” Miller charged.
He went on to explain that, since Trump designated MS-13 as a foreign terror organization, the illegal alien “was no longer eligible for any form of immigration relief in the United States.”
“No version of this legally ends up with him ever living here because he is a citizen of El Salvador,” Miller added.
Collins was also blasted by yet another Trump administration official.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio reaffirmed that the foreign policy operations of the United States are not decided by the courts.
“I don’t understand what the confusion is,” Rubio said.
“This individual is a citizen of El Salvador.
“He was illegally in the United States and was returned to his country.
“No court in the United States has the right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States.
“It’s that simple. End of story.”
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