This has been widely seen as an admission that Trump is defying the Supreme Court, which has directed the administration to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return. Yes, it is that. But these two moments are also their own story. They offer a unique glimpse into the deep rot of bad faith infesting Trump and Stephen Miller’s broader project to expand the president’s removal powers into something extraordinarily vast and entirely unaccountable. They also show how Trump is inadvertently sabotaging his case against Abrego Garcia—and that broader project as well—with his bumbling incompetence.
Trump was even more direct in a recent interview with ABC News. “I could,” Trump shrugged when asked if he could pick up the phone and get Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele to release Abrego Garcia from the prison in that country where he is currently wasting away.
By saying these things, Trump hasn’t just revealed that he is ignoring the Supreme Court’s directive. He has also opened up a new line of inquiry wide enough to drive a Tesla Cybertruck through.
“The president has now said on two occasions that he could easily bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States, but he’s been told not to do so,” Sandoval-Moshenberg emailed me. “We’re going to keep moving forward with the discovery process, with document requests and depositions, peeling back layer after layer of the onion, until we find out exactly which government officials gave him that instruction.”
“These lawyers appear to be obeying Stephen Miller and not the Supreme Court,” says Chris Newman, an attorney for the Abrego Garcia family. “Miller himself should be deposed under oath in federal court to determine his role in this ongoing affront to due process.”
“Trump keeps saying that he has the power to bring Abrego Garcia back but that the only hangup is his lawyers,” Roger Parloff, a senior editor at the Lawfare website who has closely tracked this case, tells me. “Trump is saying he can do it, and he won’t. I think Judge Xinis will try to get to the bottom of that.”
The administration keeps arguing that Trump does not have the power to command Bukele to release Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran himself. That’s already a weak defense—we are paying El Salvador to hold people at Trump’s pleasure—but Trump’s admission that he can bring Abrego Garcia back anytime he wants makes it even weaker. If Trump genuinely conveyed to Bukele that he wants Abrego Garcia back, it would happen tomorrow.
Trump has now admitted he can take this alternate path anytime he wants. So who is telling Trump not to? Who is directing that overall strategy? The more we learn along these lines, the more Trump’s whole case will collapse.
“The judicial process is for Americans,” Miller has said. “Immediate deportation is for illegal aliens.” He appears to want to dispense with due process for migrants entirely—the Constitution be damned.
The more transparency we have gained into the rot of corruption and bad faith at the core of this whole saga, the worse it has come to look. Trump himself is exposing it all for what it truly is: the stuff of Mad Kings.
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