Summary
Donald Trump threatened to send American citizens convicted of vandalizing Tesla vehicles to El Salvador’s infamous Terrorism Confinement Center, labeling the vandals as “sick terrorist thugs” deserving 20-year sentences.
This statement followed a major vandalism incident in Ontario, Canada, where around 80 Tesla cars were damaged.
Trump’s comments coincide with controversy over his use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants, halted by a court order.
The White House defended the deportation despite legal challenges, denying any violation of the court’s injunction.
People’s reaction: “This is tyranny!”
The reality: This is delusional.
Trump doesn’t have the power to give that kind of order and any official carrying it out can be convicted and imprisoned under state law that Trump can’t pardon them for. He actually doesn’t understand this despite being president once already because he either always has been retarded*, or got that way due to some sort of dementia.
*I mean that in the medical sense, not as an insult.
Trump literally and blatantly committed treason. I’m sure we’ll get around to doing something about that soon.
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So, do the people who, in this hypothetical scenario, get sent there wait it out in that prison for the U.S. courts to argue the case, charge and convict the low level officials, and then… send a bailiff or strongly worded letter to El Salvador?
I hope you’re right, but they will likely try. And the Rule of law has been eroded more and more. They already openly defied a court order to send Venezuelan people to the El Salvador work camp. They gloated about it, too.
And that was all without due process. Some even had hearings scheduled and still got deported into slavery.
Now that he successfully tested the waters with this, I’m not so sure about trusting the rule of law in the US.