rump defers to DoJ in Abrego Garcia case: "I'm not involved in it"

[struggle4progress]

Francesca Chambers
USA TODAY

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump sidestepped a question in the Oval Office about whether he would take steps to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States and put him in front of a judge if a court holds him in contempt.

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office as he met on April 17 with Italy’s prime minister, “Well, I’m not involved in it. I’m going to respond to that by saying you’ll have to speak to the lawyers, the DOJ. I’ve heard many things about him. We’ll have to find out what the truth is.”

The president went on to defend his immigration policies, saying he was elected to expel migrants who have committed violent offenses. “Or to put them away, but to get them out of our country” ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/17/trump-abrego-garcia-case-justice-department/83146125007/

[Skittles]

1. "I've heard many things about him"

[dchill]

11. I'm sure he's heard many things about you, Moran!

Actually true things.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

15. Reminds me of:

"Michael Cohen is my attorney. You'll have to ask Michael."

He's so obvious when he's feigning innocence.

[SSJVegeta]

36. The idiot was having a roast fest about him with the El Salvador President just a few days agk

Suddenly he's weak, powerless, pathetic and "not involved."

[Skittles]

38. he's being bested by a tinpot dictator

I am sure there is mutual admiration between the two of them

[Scrivener7]

2. Jesus, what a creep.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. I guess the buck doesn't stop there.

Who's the fall guy?

[leftieNanner]

4. The only buck he doesn't pass

Is a green one. 💰

[SheltieLover]

5. Did he just toss bondi under the bus.

She was only a.covfefe girl...

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Yup, that's the question.

Somebody's making the decisions. Does a U.S. Attorney General unilaterally decide to override one of the most fundamental principles of the U.S. Constitution, that of due process? Just a loose cannon, right?

[SheltieLover]

13. Absolutely

I'm convinced he had bondi, noem, & gabbard slated to take the fall holding the bag all along. I mean, in his eyes, what else are women good for?

She does not have the immunity roberts so stupidly conferred upon cheeto...

[orangecrush]

28. Sure did!

[SheltieLover]

29. I hope she enjoys her orange jumpsuit!

[orangecrush]

32. Very chic!

[SheltieLover]

35. Kraznov crush color

[B.See]

30. 'badum tiss'

[SheltieLover]

33. Lol

[Lovie777]

6. STFU....

[GoodRaisin]

7. Krasnov must think everyone in the world is stupid, except him

to think anyone is going to buy that lie.

[Irish_Dem]

8. "We'll have to find out what the truth is."

Trump doesn't even bother to tell convincing lies.

[Ping Tung]

10. He read the book: "How to Wash You Hands for Dummies" by Pontius Pilate.

[MorbidButterflyTat]

12. What a filthy disgusting coward

Can't handle his own criminal bullying bullshit.

[johnnyfins]

40. you could have stopped at coward

[kentuck]

14. He wants Bondi to take the fall for him!

[Renew Deal]

22. Bondi will learn real quick what it's like working for Trump.

When she’s in trouble and he’s walking away.

[spanone]

16. That lying, twisted piece of shit. He just sat and talked about it with the dictator.

[everyonematters]

17. Translation: This is starting to really hurt my approval rating. I need to blame it on someone else.

[orangecrush]

31. Translation

I'm not going to jail over this shit

Get under that bus, Bondi!

[johnnyfins]

41. he is NEVER going to jail for anything

Jus sayin...

[2naSalit]

18. Bullshit...

He's having wet dreams about it, sees it as an accomplishment.

[Solly Mack]

19. SMH.

[LudwigPastorius]

20. To paraphrase Walter Sobchak, at least the National Socialists had an ethos.

Trump won't even stand up and defend his fascist actions.

[Renew Deal]

21. Now you know the heat is on.

He starts ducking when he knows he’s in trouble.

[tanyev]

23. Hey, remember when he said he didn't sign the proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act,

even though his signature was at the bottom of it, and his administration kept following the proclamation and not one single elected Republican expressed any concern? Seems like it just happened a couple weeks ago.

Oh, that’s because it did….

CNN - March 22, 2025

President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time that he hadn’t signed the proclamation, even as he stood by his administration’s move.

“I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump told reporters before leaving the White House on Friday evening.

The president made his comments when asked to respond to Judge James Boasberg’s concerns in court on Friday that the proclamation was “signed in the dark” of night and that migrants were hurried onto planes.

“We want to get criminals out of our country, number one, and I don’t know when it was signed, because I didn’t sign it,” Trump said. “Other people handled it, but (Secretary of State) Marco Rubio has done a great job and he wanted them out and we go along with that. We want to get criminals out of our country.”

The proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act appears in the Federal Register with Trump’s signature at the bottom.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/politics/trump-signature-alien-enemies-act-proclamation/index.html

[Jit423]

24. The man who would be King says he has nothing to do with it? He caused it. He can tell Rasputin to send him home. nt

[Sogo]

25. "Well, I'm not involved in it...."

"I'm too busy playing golf."

[BOSSHOG]

26. Find out what the truth is

No due process. YOU sent the man to El Salvador. YOU did what you knew. YOU are responsible. And yet now you want to know what the truth is. Imagine all the people that YOU don’t love knowing and telling the truth.

[Traildogbob]

27. He's just the coffee boy

But to watch Rubio, Bondi and Noem face the all out rath from the Law would quench my thirst for now. Throw in Gorka (Greetings) as well. He was crowing about the terrorist and all that support him should be punished for aiding and abiding a terrorist. And Miller.
Hell……every fucking body in that meeting with the coolest DICKtator.

[B.See]

34. DoJ??

he means his lackeys in the DoJ??

riiight.

[usonian]

37. Pontius Fucking Pilate

Which Barabbas will he release?
Tate?
I doubt he'll do his REAL Jesus imitation.

[rsdsharp]

39. Well, thanks, Donnie. You just blew your foreign policy argument out of the water.