Shortly after the Trump administration announced on Friday that it would finally abide by a court order and return Kilmar Ábrego García to the United States from a brutal prison in El Salvador, Attorney General Pam Bondi held a press briefing and immediately began spewing one lie after another about the case.
A reporter asked Bondi why Ábrego García was being charged now, three years after a traffic stop. What changed?
“Donald Trump is president,” Bondi replied.
Bondi then began accusing Ábrego García of multiple crimes: Trafficking drugs, weapons, and people, including women and children. She also claimed Ábrego García had solicited explicit photos of a minor and played a role in killing several people.
That’s when a reporter for the Wall Street Journal pushed back on Bondi’s specious allegations, noting that Ábrego García had only been formally charged with human trafficking.
“Maybe I misunderstood you. You were mentioning, you know, that he had some involvement in a murder, you know, or was connected to groups that had, you know, been involved with this other smuggling ring,” the reporter said.
“But to be clear, the only charges he’s facing right now are the human smuggling charges,” the reporter added. “Just — that’s the one offense, but the other things that you have talked about are not actually in the indictment.”
Rather than respond to the reporter’s points, Bondi began ranting about human trafficking.
“No, co-conspirators alleged that, and we were clear to say that he is charged with very serious charges of alien smuggling, and again, there were children involved in that,” Bondi alleged. “You know, human trafficking, not only in our country but in our world is very, very real. It’s very dangerous.
“And as you saw recently in Virginia, the arrest we made of the MS-13 member, unrelated to this, we learned at that press conference that’s where they bring young children into our country, and they start grooming them at middle school age to become MS-13, full fledged members, commit violent crimes throughout our country. It is highly organized. It is very dangerous and they are living throughout our country, but no more because they are being arrested, they are being prosecuted, and being convicted and deported when appropriate.”
“That’s all for today. Thank you.”
Pam Bondi is a liar, just like the convicted sexual predator she works for. When their reign is complete, every last one of them should be criminally charged and locked up for the rest of their lives.
