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Back to episode — Episode 2861 CWSA 06/07/25

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y the way, none of you want to watch the same show. So unless you're in it alone, the big screen isn't going to help you a bit. But I do think that the idea of just walking into your vehicle with a suitcase and saying, all right, vehicle, I'd like to go visit the Grand Canyon, so make sure you stop for meals and book me some hotels. And the AI just does all that for you. That would be amazing. So…

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those claims, which makes them I would say less credible. But the fact that the claim even exists, if the police picked you up, what are the odds that one of your co-conspirators would say that you were involved in the murder of a rival gang member's mother? And the answer is low. Low. Probably nobody would mention that at all. But apparently this gentleman, this Maryland dad, has a co-conspirator who is willing to accuse him of that. So that's not ideal.

So I think the Trump administration although they made mistakes for the process I would agree with Democrats who say independent of how bad this guy is there have to be some kind of process that makes sense for everybody and it looks like he got deported incorrectly. There was the claim by the Trump administration that once he got to El Salvador, hey what can we do? You know it's out of our hands. But apparently it didn't take much to get him back. All it took was all these indictments. So he might have the worst lawyer in the world. I heard Alan Dershowitz saying that if he had been the lawyer he would have said let me loose in some country where there's no risk. But coming back to the United States that almost guarantees he'll be in jail for the rest of his life.

And now if you ask yourself what parts will people remember? Now the Democrats will try to remember that the Republicans did not use the right process and it resulted in somebody temporarily being deported incorrectly and unlawfully and being in the wrong prison. So that's what they'll remember. Republicans will remember that they got an alleged gang member, possible assistant in a murder, wife beater off the streets and we'll put him in jail for many years. So who won? I mean obviously the Maryland dad lost but who won? The Trumpers won so hard because while I fully understand the argument on the other side it just shrinks to nothing, doesn't it? Like are you going to remember in 10 years that this guy had some kind of process problem that temporarily put him in the wrong prison? He's going to be in prison no matter how you slice it. It looks like I mean he's innocent until proven guilty but I've got a feeling they've got some goods.

So to me it's kind of hilarious that the people trying to help him may have ended up putting him in prison forever and they're still going to say yeah but we were right about that process part. This is the part that the Democrats get wrong every time. They don't

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quite understand that being technically right about something doesn't help them at all. It doesn't help at all. What matters to politics and to the country is what Trump understands perfectly, which is how does it make you feel? If you feel better because this individual is captive, then Republicans win. If you feel better because some process got followed with this one guy and by the way the mist…

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