Experts on Nicole Wallace today saying that Trump has been letting high level M13 gang members go.

[Irish_Dem]

Some have been arrested, facing trial here in the US.
But the DOJ lets them go because they have incriminating information on Bukele.

No wonder Bukele is so happy to work with Trump.

All the stuff we see on TV are just performative stunts.
If the US really wanted to go after gangs, they would do their investigative work,
then make sophisticated, targeted arrests. Bring them to trial here in the US.

Not all the ridiculous rounding up of innocent people.

[obamanut2012]

1. Bukele apparently makes deals with M13 and other gangs

[Irish_Dem]

2. It must be bad if Trump doesn't want the info to come out at trial here in the US.

[surfered]

4. As did the previous El Salvadoran government...

https://apnews.com/article/nayib-bukele-el-salvador-gangs-c378285a36d55c18f741c3f65892f801


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54192736

[Lovie777]

3. Say what?..............

[groundloop]

5. What do we expect from someone who pardoned cop killers?

[AntiFascist]

6. Our criminal president prefers working with other criminal leaders n/t

[blue-wave]

7. You're kidding

Bukele is just another dirty rat?

I'd love to know what the dirty is that they have on El Presidente.

[Irish_Dem]

11. He rose to power breaking gang power, but probably is on the take from them too.

[blue-wave]

13. You are likely

on to something there.

[Clouds Passing]

8. They will deal all the fentanyl bondi was bragging about apprehending

[Irish_Dem]

9. Trump would love a cut of the fentanyl trade, just like Putin.

Putin is said to be heavily involved in sex and drug trafficking.
He is most likely the richest man in the world.
And needs a lot of cash to install his puppets in western democracies.

[John1956PA]

10. The high-level gang leaders can afford to pay a Trump for Gold Cards which spring them from jail.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Good point. I didn't think of that.

Of course they can pay the price to get favors from Trump.

[IbogaProject]

14. Or he is leaving them out to crime and make a big PR stink later about it

There is some kind of angle with that, either they are informants, giving bribes or part of an ulterior scenario is underway.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Yes. Exactly what I think Trump is doing.

Trump doesn't do anything unless there is something in it for him.

[littlemissmartypants]

16. President Psychopath knows all about...

Performance "Art" because it's how he became famous.

I hope we can all gather together in front of him some day and in loud unison say, "You're fired!!"

❤️

[Irish_Dem]

17. Or GO TO JAIL DO NOT PASS GO.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. Maddow Blog-On fentanyl seizures, AG Bondi credits Trump with saving three-quarters of U.S. population

The attorney general claimed recent fentanyl seizures will save “258 million lives.” That's ... not quite right.

On fentanyl seizures, AG bimbo Bondi credits Trump with saving three-quarters of U.S. population.
The attorney general claimed recent fentanyl seizures will save “258 million lives.” That's ... not quite right.
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— hateGOP (@hategop.bsky.social) 2025-05-01T20:22:53.248Z

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/fentanyl-seizures-ag-bondi-credits-trump-saving-three-quarters-us-popu-rcna204091

Take Attorney General Pam Bondi, for example.

The Republican AG appeared on Fox News this week, and marked Fentanyl Awareness Day with a curious claim. “In President Trump’s first 100 days, we’ve seized over 22 million fentanyl laced pills, saving over 119 million lives,” Bondi said.

According to the Census Bureau, the current population of the United States is over 341 million people. According to the attorney general, fentanyl laced pills were poised to kill roughly one in three Americans — which seemed difficult to believe.

A day later, Bondi attended a White House Cabinet meeting, where she gushed for quite a while about how awesome Donald Trump’s awesomeness is, before turning her attention to fentanyl seizures.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lo27p7wrls2d

Link to tweet

After prefacing her comments by asking whether journalists were “ready” for her big announcement, Bondi credited Trump with saving “258 million lives” — or roughly three-quarters of the population of the United States......

So, a few things.

First, the Trump administration really should stop coming up with weird mathematical formulas. Readers who were baffled by what the DOJ told the Daily Beast can take comfort in the fact that they're not alone, though it's about as strange as the White House's tariffs formula.

Second, the first hint that this formula was flawed should’ve been obvious to Bondi and her team given that fentanyl-laced pills, though extremely dangerous, were never going to wipe out 78% of the American population.

Finally, let’s also not overlook a recent report from Reuters, which noted that under the Biden administration, there was a sharp decline in overdose deaths from fentanyl, but those directly involved in the anti-narcotics fight are concerned about a reversal due to “federal spending cuts instigated by” the Trump White House.

[Irish_Dem]

19. Trump is putting on a reality TV show. His cabinet reads their lines from his script.

None of it has any relationship to governance, truth, reality, professional leadership.

Trump is just going for ratings.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. Bondi is bad at math

[Irish_Dem]

21. She is also lacking in science and logic.

75% of the US population are not ingesting illegal fentanyl.