{"id":2425078,"date":"2025-04-18T12:23:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-van-hollen-a-fool-for-meeting-with-kilmar-abrego-garcia\/"},"modified":"2025-04-18T12:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:23:48","slug":"trump-calls-van-hollen-a-fool-for-meeting-with-kilmar-abrego-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-van-hollen-a-fool-for-meeting-with-kilmar-abrego-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls Van Hollen a \u2018fool\u2019 for meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-calls-van-hollen-a-fool-for-meeting-with-kilmar-abrego-garcia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2425078&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump criticized Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) on Truth Social, calling him a &#8220;fool&#8221; for his meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in el Salvador. Abrego Garcia was deported to El Salvador due to an administrative error, despite having a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-calls-van-hollen-a-fool-after-meeting-with-kilmar-abrego-garcia\/\" title=\"... a \u2018...\u2019 after meeting with ...\">standing court order<\/a> protecting him from deportation due to a threat from gangs in his home country.van Hollen expressed his intention to connect with Abrego Garcia during teh trip and shared updates on his interactions with him. The senator\u2019s efforts were labeled by Trump as &#8220;grandstanding&#8221; in an attempt to gain media attention. The controversial deportation was linked to Abrego Garcia&#8217;s alleged ties to the MS-13 gang, claims that he has disputed.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump calls Van Hollen a &lsquo;fool&rsquo; for meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2092058\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump <\/a>took to Truth Social to call Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/chris-van-hollen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Chris Van Hollen<\/a> (D-MD) a &ldquo;fool&rdquo; following his visit with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">deported<\/a> to El Salvador due to an administrative error.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland looked like a fool yesterday standing in El Salvador begging for attention from the Fake News Media, or anyone. GRANDSTANDER!!!&rdquo; Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114359025219551578\">posted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3384403\/immigration-officials-mistakenly-send-deportation-notices-citizens\/\">Immigration officials mistakenly send deportation notices to American citizens<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3384229\/van-hollen-meets-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-failed-attempts\/\">Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia after several failed attempts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3384033\/judge-denies-bond-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-immigration-case\/\">Judge denies bond to Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk in immigration case<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Van Hollen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3384229\/van-hollen-meets-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-failed-attempts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">met with Abrego Garcia<\/a>, who lived in Maryland, on Thursday evening after several failed attempts to speak with him.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChrisVanHollen\/status\/1913034619710034094\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">the senator <\/a>wrote on X on Thursday night, with a photo of them talking. &ldquo;Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration deported Abrego Garcia on March 15 to El Salvador&rsquo;s Terrorism Confinement Center, in violation of a standing court order that protected him from deportation to the country due to a gang threat he faced there. A government lawyer wrote in a court filing that Abrego Garcia&rsquo;s deportation was an &ldquo;administrative error.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security targeted Abrego Garcia for deportation due to his alleged MS-13 ties. On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3382729\/dhs-reveals-evidence-abrego-garcia-ms-13-ties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">released<\/a> 13 pages of police and immigration records on Abrego Garcia dating back to 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3225950\/deporter-chief-what-expect-trump-promised-mass-deportation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>WHAT TO EXPECT FROM TRUMP&rsquo;S MASS DEPORTATION PLAN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Local authorities apprehended Abrego Garcia in 2019 in a Home Depot parking lot while he engaged with known MS-13 gang members, who were dressed in MS-13-affiliated clothing. An informant who had &ldquo;provided truthful, accurate information in the past&rdquo; had identified Abrego Garcia as an active MS-13 gang member. Abrego Garcia disputed the claim. An <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">immigration judge ruled<\/a> that the informant&rsquo;s information was &ldquo;proven and reliable,&rdquo; but Abrego Garcia could not be deported to El Salvador.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge ruled the Trump administration must &ldquo;facilitate and effectuate&rdquo; Abrego Garcia&rsquo;s return to the United States by April 7, which the Justice Department appealed. The Supreme Court agreed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-alito-moves-up-deadline-for-supreme-court-briefing-in-pennsylvania-lawsuit-to-flip-the-election\/\" title=\"Justice Alito Moves Up Deadline For Supreme Court Briefing in Pennsylvania Lawsuit to Flip the Election\">lower court&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s ruling that the Trump administration must work to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2092058\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2092058\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump labels Van Hollen a &#8216;fool&#8217; for meeting deportee Garcia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2542,"featured_media":2425079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-doge.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[53300,5894,3634,51466],"class_list":["post-2425078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-kilmar-abrego-garcia","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-van-hollen"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/trump-doge.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2425082,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425078\/revisions\/2425082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2425079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}