Donald Trump launched an attack on CNN journalist Caitlan Collins during a press conference with El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele because he did not like the question she asked him.
The CNN reporter asked whether Salvadoran immigrant Ambrogo Garcia, who a court ruled was wrongly deported from the United States, would be returned. She also asked the president of El Salvador about it.
Immediately after the question, the American president began to mock her, calling CNN "the channel with the low numbers."
"Is it possible that you are telling the president of El Salvador what to do with his citizens?" Trump asked, continuing with an attack on CNN: "That's why no one sees you. You want us to let criminals go free. You are sick people."
"I do not have the authority to return him to the United States," Bukele said when asked by a reporter.
“How could I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?” he added, repeating the Trump administration’s claim that Ambrogo Garcia is a “terrorist” member of the MS-13 gang – something it has not argued in the legal battle over his fate.
The tension peaked with Donald Trump verbally attacking former US President Joe Biden. "He was a president with impaired perception. I took my exams. I feel great," he emphasized.
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CNN cut the live broadcast six minutes before the end of the press conference, with anchor Dana Bass commenting that "we've heard a lot of information, but also misinformation. President Trump said CNN hates our country. That's not true. I've been here 32 years, and this rhetoric is unprecedented."
The story of Aprego Garcia
Kilmar Ambrogo Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant, a Maryland resident married to an American woman, and the father of a young child, was arrested on March 12 by members of a police force responsible for enforcing immigration laws.
Then, along with more than 200 other people, he was deported by the Trump administration on March 15 to El Salvador.
Washington assured that most of these people belonged to the international gang Tren de Aragua, which was founded in Venezuela and declared a "terrorist" organization by the Trump administration earlier this year.
The US government then admitted before the courts that his deportation was due to an "administrative error", as an arrest warrant against him had been definitively canceled by a federal court in 2019.
Source: in.gr
