Speaking in an absolutely fury-filled press conference in the wake of the media’s berserk freakout over the Trump Administration’s deportation of a suspected MS-13 gangster to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shredded the media for putting illegal aliens first and Americans last.
As background, the deported alleged gangster is named Abrego Garcia. He was living in Maryland as an illegal alien who was claiming refuge in America from the violence in El Salvador, though the Trump Administration contends he was doing so falsely to take advantage of our migration and refugee laws. When the Trump Administration deported the first batch of Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangsters to El Salvador, Garcia was included among them.
Since then, the media and Democratic Party generally has gone berserk, claiming that President Trump deported an upstanding immigrant who was peacefully living in Maryland, and the courts have ordered the Trump Administration to try and return him, though both President Trump and Nayib Bukele have indicated that they won’t do so.
In any case, Leavitt sounded off on the general media messaging surrounding Garcia in her press conference, arguing that it is “despicable.” Beginning, she said, “The Democrat and media outrage over the deportation of Abrego Garcia, an MS 13, El Salvadorian, illegal alien, criminal who is hiding in Maryland, has been nothing short of despicable.”
Continuing, she noted that the media was showing it cared more about illegal aliens like Garcia than murdered Americans, saying, “Based on the sensationalism of many of the people in this room, you would think we deported a candidate for Father of the Year. That’s because, unfortunately, many in this country care more about this, quote, unquote, Maryland father, illegal alien, MS, 13 gang member, than a Maryland mother and an American citizen who was brutally murdered at the hands of a different illegal alien.”
Building on that, Leavitt explained to whom she was referring with that comment, saying, “Of course, I am referring to Rachel Morin. And if you didn’t see yesterday, a Maryland jury found illegal alien Victor Antonio Martinez Hernandez guilty of murdering Rachel Morin in August of 2023. She was a 37-year-old mother of five who was jogging in an otherwise safe community northeast of Baltimore when this monster ambushed strangled and beat her to death before stuffing her brutalized body in a tunnel drain.”
Concluding, Leavitt noted that it is only with the deportation and holding to account of illegal aliens that the families get justice, saying, “The Moore and family finally got justice yesterday, but they will never get Rachel back. Our hearts go out to Rachel’s family, her five children, and her mother, Patty, who has suffered the unimaginable loss of her daughter.”
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Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, commenting on the matter in a post on X, emphasized much the same point as Leavitt, saying, “Karoline Leavitt just SHREDDED the media for defending the so-called “Maryland father” illegal MS-13 gang member over a real Maryland Mother, Rachel Morin, who was brutally murdered by a different illegal. Why does the left always side with criminals over Americans?!”
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