Posted on 04/19/2025 2:26:25 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., set out to El Salvador this week to find Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man at the center of an erroneous deportation, and get answers about his condition.
While he was relieved to get a chance to meet the Abrego Garcia face to face on Thursday, the senator slammed El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and President Donald Trump for what he said was a setup to defame him and the deportee.
Van Hollen said Friday that what he called "margarita-gate" was manufactured by Bukele and his officials after they posted a photo of his meeting with Abrego Garcia at a table with what appeared to be filled margarita glasses.
The senator said those glasses were put on the table partway during the meeting by El Salvador officials and that neither he nor the deportee touched the drinks.
"Everything happens because Bukele says it could happen. And if you look at the video you sent out right afterwards with the fake margaritas, you can see that all of that was a setup," Van Hollen told reporters.
The senator poked holes in the story that was being spread by Bukele's and Trump's allies and said the entire meeting was suspect from the beginning.
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Sorry but he was sipping Marguerite’s with a terrorist that he was trying to bring back to America.
-Shakespeare.
But Van Hole going to El Salvadore wasn’t about optics...
Show us you’re indoc tat Crissy.
I believe this fool of a senator wants to date the perp.
“Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?”
You’re a fool Van Hollen and embarrassed yourself and the country international. You’re a disgrace. Shut up.
Imagine how he'd feel if somebody brutally raped his daughter and smashed her skull in. Big crybaby. Wah.
Yeah, the margarita is the problem, Chris, not that you were even in a foreign country talking to him - a member of MS-13.
"That bitch waiter set me up!"
Hahahahahaha the swilling douchecanoe was had, and he is angry about it.
What a putz.
ABC lies in the first sentence. Van Holland didn’t set out to “get answers about his condition” nor was the deportation erroneous. Van Holland’s stated purpose was to bring him back as a macho senator which he categorically failed at. And, Garcia was deported legally but possibly to a wrong country which is also in debate since the so called hold to keep him from being deported went away once he was identified as a member of a terrorist group. But of course the damocrats and media (I repeat myself) don’t care about the truth.
Maryland Democrat Senator meets in Salvadoran Prison with the Mara Salvatrucha MS-13 Gangster Kingpin that owns the Democrat Party drug dealing and human smuggling in Maryland.
“Imagine how he’d feel if somebody brutally raped his daughter and smashed her skull in.”
At some point in time this is going to happen to families of some of the illegal lovers; it’s just a matter of time. And I don’t care.
I don’t understand the complaint. He’s delusional.
Oh yes the brave and courageous rat wasn’t duped -F Disney.
Technically it would be “Puerta de Margarita” instead of Margarita Gate.
Even if it happened to one of their family they they would not care they would take the side of the illegal
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