Fox News Channel host Jesse Watters went nuclear on “The Five” co-host Jessica Tarlov during the Monday, April 21 broadcast of the program, totally dismantling her claims about the Trump Administration’s deportation of Kilmar Abrego García, the illegal alien formerly living in Maryland who was linked to MS-13.
As background, Garcia was deported to El Salvador and interned in its CECOT prison over his alleged ties to MS-13, the extremely violent El Salvadorian gang, when President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. Democrats seized on his case as being an example of a supposed wrongful deportation, but it soon emerged that Garcia had MS-13 gang tattoos, beat his wife, and was connected to human trafficking.
It was Watters who kicked things off, schooling Tarlov on telling lies about the Trump Administration, noting in the process that the supposed mistake of Garcia’s deportation was not a mistake at all. He said, “Well, Jessica keeps on saying there’s all these mistakes. First, she said this guy was picked up because he had a bull’s hat. And then he has tattoos on his hand that spell MS-13.”
Tarlov interrupted him and snapped, “That’s not true.” Watters, in turn, shot back that the tattooed symbolism on Garcia’s hands, noting that it showed Garcia’s connection to the infamously awful gang. He said, “Yes, it is. Read the symbolism, Jessica.”
Building on that, Watters noted that there was a great deal of other evidence that Garcia was involved with the gang, saying, “Then he’s wearing paraphernalia that says the slogan of MS-13. And then he gets caught up in a gang sweep with ranking members of MS-13 as part of a murder investigation, then gets pulled over and is suspected of human trafficking, then gets accused of slugging his wife twice and she has it on video. And suddenly his name isn’t Maryland Dad, it’s Due Process. You transitioned pretty quickly, Jessica.”
Turning from Garcia specifically to the border situation generally, Watters explodes, “And to say this administration never admits a mistake. You guys never admitted you opened the border for four years.” Tarlov fired back, again dismissing his claims and saying, “Yes, we did.”
Watters hammered her for that claim, saying, “Come on. You’re saying this guy is afraid to go home? Because that’s funny. In 2019, when he was popped, he said he wasn’t afraid to go home. Jessica, funny that you’re in the due process now, after bringing us the Me Too movement, cancel culture and the Trump trials.”
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He added, further toasting her, “You can’t break into the country and ignore the process of coming here and then want a process to leave. You cannot cut the line to come here and then ask to be put in a line to go home. If you guys are going to be the defense attorneys for every criminal gangbanger in America, after you’ve allowed the gangs to invade and now say all of them need lawyers, it’s gonna be an eternity, Jessica, to get these people out of here.”
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