MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump throwing his DOJ lawyers under the bus and blaming them for the Abrego Garcia fiasco. Helix: Go to https://Helixsleep.com/meidas and get 25% Off Sitewide! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is Donald Trump's stance on the DOJ lawyers regarding the Abrego Garcia case?
So Trump is doing it again. He's throwing his DOJ lawyers under the bus. These DOJ lawyers really need to be careful because they may find themselves losing their bar license soon, getting disciplined, getting sanctioned and just having their reputations tarnished. as Donald Trump doesn't give a crap about them. They're like cannon fodder for him.
You know, when you look at this recent New York Times-Siena poll that analyzed the issue of a lot of issues, but also how American people feel about Abrego Garcia, Donald Trump's 21 points underwater. He's negative 21, only 31% of Americans underwater. approve of the way Trump is dealing with the Abrego Garcia situation by defying Supreme Court orders to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia.
So Trump was asked about Abrego Garcia in this recent Time magazine interview. And the Time magazine interviewer said, you know, are you aware that you're defying the court order? It was a nine to zero decision. saying facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia. The Time magazine reporter then read from the Supreme Court's order and from the lower court's order.
And then Donald Trump's response was, I leave that to my lawyers. I give them no instruction. And then he says that his lawyers actually told him something very different about what the ruling said. He said that my lawyers did not say that that's what the ruling said. And I rely on what my lawyers ultimately tell me to do. Here's just the questioning.
You committed to complying with all Supreme Court orders. Yeah. When you and I last spoke in April, are you still committed to complying with the Supreme Court order? Sure. I believe in the court system. The Supreme Court ruled nine to zero that you have to bring Abrego Garcia back. You haven't done so. So aren't you disobeying the Supreme Court?
Well, that's not what my people told me, referring to his lawyers. They didn't say it was. They said it was. They said it was nine to nothing or something entirely different. So then the reporter goes, OK, I'll quote from the ruling, quote, the order properly requires the government to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador. Are you facilitating the release?
What are you doing? And then Trump says, I leave that to my lawyers. I give them no instructions. They feel that the orders said something very much different from what they are saying, but I leave that to my lawyers. If they want, and that would be the Attorney General of the United States and the people that represent the country, I don't make that decision.
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Chapter 2: How do public opinion polls reflect Trump's handling of the Abrego Garcia situation?
who has no criminal history, who's been checking in with ICE regularly every year to restore his work permit every year or to renew his work permit every year, who's married to an American woman, has three American children. This guy should have due process, right? And what does Trump say? I really give that to my lawyers to determine. That's why I have them. That's not my determination.
It's something that, frankly, bringing him back and retrying him wouldn't bother me. But I leave that to my lawyer. You could bring him back and you could retry him. You see what Trump is doing there? He's good at two things, fraud, criming, which put them together, and throwing people under the bus. And he does that there. Of course we could retry him.
And I think he also knows how underwater he is on the issue. So he's scapegoating his lawyers right there. And the Time Magazine reporter goes, that's exactly right. You could fix this simply by bringing him back and going through the legal process. And what does Trump say? But I leave that decision to my lawyers. At this moment, they don't want to do that.
They say we're in total compliance with the Supreme Court. So it is a total throwing of the lawyers under the bus right there. And you see a pattern of this, too. Remember a few weeks back when Trump was asked by a reporter, will you ask for the return of Ebrego Garcia? Trump said, I must tell you, I'm going to have to refer this to my lawyer. You're going to have to speak to my lawyers.
They're the ones. I don't have anything to do with this. Play this clip. Okay.
Well, I must tell you, I have to refer again to the lawyers. I'll have to do what they asked me to do. I had heard that there were a lot of things about a certain gentleman. Perhaps it was that gentleman that would make that case be a case that's easily winnable on appeal. So we'll just have to see. I'm going to have to respond to the lawyers.
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Or then Trump was asked, what about a judge who was issuing contempt, you know, criminal contempt against the behavior of your administration? What are you going to do when they go find people in contempt? Trump's like, not my problem. Go speak to the lawyers here. Play this clip.
Are you trying to remove him, Mr. President?
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