‘What American justice looks like”: The torture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

Pam Bondi, officially the U.S. attorney general, though she considers herself part of the personal legal team of Donald Trump, has tried to say that the way her office has handled the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is “what American justice looks like.”

Here’s “what American justice looks like.”

Lawyers for the Trump administration have admitted in court that the administration erred in arresting Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant that the political appointees have since tried to paint as a member of MS-13.

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To cover for the screwup, the political appointees, who aren’t bound to sticking to actual facts, have given immunity to a living, breathing, criminal immigrant felon, who was himself convicted of smuggling migrants, illegally reentering the United States after having been deported, and also pleaded guilty to “deadly conduct” after admitting to drunkenly firing a gun in Texas, to make a case against Abrego Garcia that the DOJ didn’t begin investigating until it had already sent him to an El Salvador prison.

Let that sink in.

“What American justice looks like” is the Trump DOJ letting an actual criminal walk to try to cover for its f**kup.

Here’s what else “American justice looks like”: Abrego Garcia, again, innocent man, who the career people in the DOJ have conceded never should have been picked up and sent to the El Salvador prison, was tortured there.

According to a lawsuit his wife has filed against the DOJ, Abrego Garcia was kicked and hit by prison guards on the day of his arrival to the point that he had visible bruises and lumps all over his body on Day 2.

Prisoners “were confined to metal bunks with no mattresses in an overcrowded cell with no windows, bright lights that remained on 24 hours a day, and minimal access to sanitation.”

Abrego Garcia and a group of prisoners were forced to kneel all night long, from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., and guards beat with sticks anyone who fell.

Guards told Abrego Garcia on multiple occasions that they were going to transfer him to cells with people who were gang members who would “tear” him apart.

One more what else “American justice looks like”: a judge has ordered Abrego Garcia’s release, but his lawyers are actually fighting that, because the Trump administration has indicated that if he’s released, he’ll just be deported again, and again, without due process, but this time, instead of El Salvador, he’d be sent to another, unidentified, country.

This is “what American justice looks like.”

Did you vote for this, and if you did, how do you look at yourself in the mirror?