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Van Hollen: Trump Using ‘Secret Police’ Operations like ‘Authoritarian Regimes’
Breitbart ^ | 03/28/2025 | Pam Key

Posted on 03/28/2025 6:12:35 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said on Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that President Donald Trump was using “secret police” to cause people to “disappear” like authoritarian regimes do.

While discussing a Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, being detained by ICE agents, guest host Alicia Menendez said, “Let’s talk about that video that we all just watched, the tactics ICE agents use on Ozturk and then for the next 24 hours, her location being unknown even to her own lawyers.”

Van Hollen said, “You’re absolutely right. look, this is a terrifying video. It was obviously terrifying for her, Miss Ozturk. It’s also terrifying for our country that you could have these agents. unidentified swoop in sweep her off the streets and essentially disappear her to Louisiana apparently against a court order for exercising First Amendment rights. This should not be happening in America. This is the kind of secret police operation you would expect to see in authoritarian regimes.”

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Someone has diarrhea of the mouth. 🖕
1 posted on 03/28/2025 6:12:35 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hysterics.

ICE are not secret police. If they are, they are terrible ones. They wear “ICE” all over themselves.

I wonder how he feels about undercover police. Or covert agents. Or non uniform security he uses.


2 posted on 03/28/2025 6:16:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Does he mean Trump’s formation of a new group called the CIA and another new one called the FBI as he started as President last month?

Oh, wait. I guess someone else set those up.

Both of those were used against Trump and his associates such as Manafort, Gen. Flynn, Steve Bannon and Roger Stone.

Tossing family mementos and Melania’s underwear onto the floor as they pushed through Mar-a-Lago like the running of the bulls.


3 posted on 03/28/2025 6:18:03 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Secret Agent Man

A guy on Jesse Watters Primetime said he is going undercover on Saturday to gather information for reporting on the big protest against Musk.

He said “I will not wash or wear deodorant or brush my teeth. I won’t be able to be spotted.”


4 posted on 03/28/2025 6:20:15 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger

:)


5 posted on 03/28/2025 6:22:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
He tweets everything! His cabinet gossips on Signal Message groups. Nothing done by Trump is secret. Even his thoughts make social media rounds.

Van Hollen acts like he entered a boxing ring and he's angry someone punched him?! Think about this. The new #1 fear about the world is the fear of being a topic in a Trumpean Chat Group, because it ain't just chat. It's coming for real.

6 posted on 03/28/2025 6:25:22 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah. When authoritarian regimes want to disappear someone, no one ever sees that person again.

Deporting illegal aliens isn’t even remotely similar to disappearing someone. No one is being disappeared. We’re just sending people back who shouldn’t be here in the first place.

Leftists aren’t doing themselves any favors by repeating this hyperbole.


7 posted on 03/28/2025 6:26:22 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She is not an American citizen!
Take away her green card and visa and ship her home.
That looks like she disappeared.
In all likelihood she is back in the Shiite hole she came from.
I don’t dislike foreigners.
I have worked with people from Egypt traveling broadly westward to Russia. In other words just about every nationality you can name.
If I screw up in their country, I know what to expect,
they will enforce their law!


8 posted on 03/28/2025 6:32:09 PM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Paranoia will destroy ya…”


9 posted on 03/28/2025 6:35:38 PM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Do they mean like when Biden hunted down even people who were no where near Washington DC on Jan 6 and STILL tossed them in jail?


10 posted on 03/28/2025 6:37:46 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

11 posted on 03/28/2025 6:57:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wish Rush had lived long enough to witness the total breakdown of the demsit party.


12 posted on 03/28/2025 7:58:43 PM PDT by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Since WHEN are ICE officers members of a “SECRET POLICE FORCE”?


13 posted on 03/28/2025 8:00:50 PM PDT by nopardons
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... disappear her to Louisiana ...

I’ve solved her disappearance. She’s in Louisiana.

You’re welcome.


14 posted on 03/28/2025 9:08:48 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Golden Age of MAGA is upon us!)
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To: exDemMom

That’s correct.


15 posted on 03/28/2025 9:11:38 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

making south american criminals go poof in the night...

it’s the sound of MAGA

if you listen carefully enough you can almost hear “GTFO”


16 posted on 03/28/2025 11:57:59 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Bat Signal phrase for this week is “‘Authoritarian Regimes’”
All good comrades will use this phrase and discontinue “Hitler Hitler Hitler” until further notice.


17 posted on 03/29/2025 3:09:19 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Much like the maro lago attack?


18 posted on 03/29/2025 3:34:44 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He should thank God he doesnt live in North Korea


19 posted on 03/29/2025 4:14:49 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (DONT DRINK & DRONE 🤓 HAVE A NICE DAY 😀 )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

These Democrats come up with a new lie daily. how they can stand themselves is something to behold. sick and twisted all for their agenda of getting power back to lord over us again.


20 posted on 03/29/2025 6:06:35 AM PDT by alaskamomma
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