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Der groe macht Aber ob sie gut oder schlecht sind... Und damit meine ich nicht (nur) die anderen
I Love Donald Trump Trump est en train de dconstruire les tats-Unis, tout comme Eltsine a dconstruit lUnion sovitique, selon elle.For : & pray for the best, if they don't do anything good then defend them no matter what they do even if they hurt other people overseas.
For : Elect Better , they're specifically allowed to be who they are but know will mold them into their own will.
This is why I think do this. They don't care about anything, they only care about their selfish needs they get from their system they benefit off of.
They posture as they care about people in other countries, but they don't do anything effective for them at the end of the day.
I'll say this yet again: If , who have influence to mobilize a few million to pressure & the from allowing a , can't do anything other than defend said people doing it cos is a boogieman then you're laying it out that deserves .
National Science Foundation staffers express concerns about politically motivated and legally questionable Trump actions The Hill
National Science Foundation staffers express concerns about politically motivated and legally questionable Trump actions
by 07/22/25 1:25 PM ET
Employees of the National Science Foundation (NSF) are going public with concerns about politically motivated and legally questionable actions by the Trump administration related to their agency.
Their concerns range from mass firings by the administrations Department of Government Efficiency to interference with the grant process.
In particular, the employees allege that for grants a covert and ideologically driven secondary review process by unqualified political appointees is now interfering with the scientific merit-based review system.
The accusation and others are detailed in a letter addressed to Rep. (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. Lofgren said at a press conference that the letter was being submitted to her office as a protected whistleblower disclosure.
It was signed by 149 staffers, virtually all of whom signed either anonymously or whose names were redacted in the version of the letter that was made public on Tuesday.
The NSF is an independent science agency that supports scientific research across various fields including biology, engineering, computer science and geoscience.
The agency declined to comment on the letter.
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Trump accuses Obama of treason, annotated CNN Politics
President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Kent Nishimura / ReutersAnalysis by , CNN
4 min read, Updated 10:04 AM EDT, Wed July 23, 2025, 02:58
Trump pivots Epstein question into attack on Obama
A version of this story appeared in CNNs What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free .
CNN Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Friday released a slew of documents that she said implicate members of the Obama administration for treasonous behavior during the 2016 election.
The claims confuse the allegation that Russia interfered in the 2016 election with the idea that Russia actively tried to change results by hacking into voting systems. CNNs Jeremy Herb and Katie Bo Lillis went through them and talked to people who worked on a bipartisan Senate review of the 2016 election.
Wildly misleading is how the information was described by one source in .
But that didnt stop President Donald Trump from accusing former President Barack Obama of treason, a crime punishable by death in the US, when he was asked about it in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Trump made the accusation while appearing at an event to discuss trade with Philippines leader Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Trumps very long, meandering answer is a window into how his mind works. All roads lead back to immigration and his 2020 election loss.
Obamas office issued a rare statement in response:
Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one, said spokesman Patrick Rodenbush. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction. Nothing in the document issued last week undercuts the widely accepted conclusion that Russia worked to influence the 2016 presidential election but did not successfully manipulate any votes. These findings were affirmed in a 2020 report by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee, led by then-Chairman Marco Rubio.
Heres a look at what Trump said, along with some context from CNN reporting.
QUESTION from reporter: Tulsi Gabbard has submitted a criminal referral to the Department of Justice. From your perspective, who should the DOJ target as part of their investigation, what specific figures in the Obama administration
TRUMP: Well, based on what I read, and I read pretty much what you read, it would be President Obama. He started it. And Biden was there with them and (then-FBI Director James) Comey was there and (then-Director of National Intelligence James) Clapper. The whole group was there (then-CIA Director John) Brennan. They were all there, the in a room. Right here, this was the room.
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How Donald Trump is using the courts to push through his agenda BBC News
2 days ago, by Gary ODonoghue, Chief North America correspondent
It was a warm, late May afternoon in 2024 in lower Manhattan. The jury in Donald Trumps trial over hush money paid by his former lawyer to adult film star Stormy Daniels was out deliberating for a second day.
US Supreme Court justices at the Supreme Court in 2022Assuming we were in for a long wait, I took myself off to lunch with the BBC team at the world-famous Katzs deli for a Reuben sandwich.
Then all hell broke loose. The jury was returning.
According to one rumour, they were just being sent home for the day another suggested there was a verdict.
Seconds before the BBC News at Ten went on air, I arrived breathless at the live television point outside the courthouse, smashing my phone screen on the pavement in my hurry.
One by one, the verdicts filtered through: guilty guilty guilty it went on.
During his recent interview with Gary ODonoghue, Donald Trump called judges who have suspended presidential executive orders radical left lunaticsAll 34 charges came back guilty, and I spent that nights main news bulletin explaining the enormity of the idea that a former president was now a convicted felon a first in US history.
As the BBCs senior North America correspondent, Id spent months covering the multitude of Trumps legal problems in courts up and down the East Coast. Four separate criminal cases several civil actions it was coming at him from all sides, threatening not just his liberty but his whole political and commercial existence.
Spool on a year, and the boot is thoroughly on the other foot.
Three major Supreme Court judgments one giving presidents and former presidents broad immunity from prosecution a second dismissing the ruling that Trumps attempts to overturn the 2020 election results disqualified him from running for office again and a third, just last month, curbing district judges abilities to stall the presidents agenda have all emboldened this president who, having reshaped the Supreme Court with a solid conservative majority, now has the lower courts in his sights.
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"The plan to get Maxwell to cooperate is so obvious, even the Jewish Space Lasers lady, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q-GA), asked the right question. As the New York Times reported,
Ms. Greene also expressed skepticism about Ms. Maxwells testimony, noting that she was most likely 'bartering for something,' like a presidential pardon."
Also here's Former City Councilmember of & now Congress Candidate: Kshama Sawant calling out for hiring this son of a bitch.
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Conover Kennard reports startling revelations from CNN's Kfile: "never-before-seen" photos and video showcase the close ties between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. These include images from Trump's 1993 wedding and a 1999 Victoria's Secret event, sparking controversy. Trump dismissed this coverage as fake news in his response. The full depth of this relationship is truly eye-opening. Read more here:
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Ron Wyden said that his investigators had discovered that four big banks had flagged to the Treasury Department $1.5 billion in potentially suspicious money transfers involving Epstein, much of which appeared to be related to his massive sex-trafficking network.
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Trump and Epstein ogle young women at a Mar-a-Lago party.
The Epstein story is still leading the news as Trump continues to panic and try desperately to distract from the scandal.
Yesterday, in a bizarre and incoherent oval office rant, he actually accused former president Barack Obama of committing treason by ordering an investigation of Russias interference in the 2016 election.
Trump doesnt understand the concept of treason, which is as follows:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
But for malignant narcissist Trump, treason means any fantasized attack on him personally. ABC
Days after President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated fake video showing former President Barack Obamas arrest on his social media platform, the current president pushed conspiracy theories about Obama in the Oval Office on Tuesday, accusing him of treason without providing evidence regarding the 2016 presidential election.
They tried to rig the election, and they got caught. And there should be very severe consequences for that, Trump told reporters on Tuesday.
Trumps comments come after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard submitted a criminal referral to the Department of Justice threatening the Obama administration.
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Former President Barack Obamas office issued a rare rebuke of President Donald Trump on Tuesday after the president accused his predecessor of having committed treason and rigging the 2016 and 2020 elections.
Out of respect for the office of the presidency, our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response, Obama spokesperson Patrick Rodenbush said. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and
When reporters on Tuesday asked Trump about the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, he pivoted to what he called Obamas criminality.
After what they did to me and whether its right or wrong, its time to go after people. Obamas been caught directly, Trump told reporters. What they did in 2016 and 2020 is very criminal. Its criminal at the highest level. So thats really the things you should be talking about.
Look, hes guilty. Its not a question, Trump added. This was treason. This was every word you can think of. They tried to steal the election. They tried to obfuscate the election.
Imagine if any other president had said something like this. But Trump gets away with it.
Trump was referring to by National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe in social media posts and television appearances that they had found Obama administration officials manipulated intelligence and conspired to undermine the legitimacy of Trumps electoral victory in 2016.
Gabbard on Friday that she was making a criminal referral to the Justice Department.
At an event with congressional Republicans later Tuesday, Trump praised Gabbard and again accused Obama of being part of an effort to rig the elections. These are vicious, horrible people, he said of the former president and others.
Trump sits next to Epstein with two Don Jr. and Ivanka
Of course the Supreme Court claims the Constitution makes presidents immune from prosecution for official acts. But Trump is obviously freaking out about what releasing the Epstein files would reveal about him and desperately lashing out at his political enemies.
This is analysis by Stephen Collinson at CNN:
Donald Trumps bid to smother the uproar over accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein shows that hes already achieved one goal his critics most feared from his second presidency.
The Justice Department and the head of the US intelligence community are now openly operating as fully weaponized tools to pursue the presidents personal political needs in a degradation of a governing system meant to be an antidote to king-like patronage.
This new dynamic underpinned a wild Oval Office press appearance by Trump on Tuesday, his latest attempt to put out the Epstein fire that had only of feeding the flames.
The extent of the presidents capture of two key agencies that are vital to keeping Americans safe was revealed when a reporter asked a question about his administrations refusal to open all files related to the Epstein case.
The president pivoted to a tirade against Barack Obama, against him basing his assault on a convenient and misleading memo about Russias 2016 election meddling that was by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
The Justice Department has also been activated, yet again, to give Trump cover.
that he will take the highly unusual move of meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell who was sentenced to for carrying out a yearslong scheme with Epstein to groom and sexually abuse underage girls to ask what she knows but hasnt so far told. Epstein died in jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
I dont know anything about it, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Tuesday.
This seems a stretch, since Blanche is Trumps former personal lawyer and plans to speak with a prisoner who has a clear incentive to offer testimony that could help a president who has the power to let her out of prison.
Read the rest at CNN.
Meanwhile, Trump sycophant House speaker Mike Johnson took action by cancelling the rest of the House session. Paul Waldman at MSNBC: .
Its been a week and a half since on Truth Social that his many, many accomplishments were being overshadowed, all over a guy who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. There is a kind of truth in Trumps lament: Six years after his death in a Manhattan jail cell, and he has Republicans in something approaching panic. Its gotten so bad that before leaving town.
Things fell apart for the GOP in the House Rules Committee, which determines which legislation reaches the House floor. Knowing how much GOP leaders would like this issue to just go away, Democrats attempted to force the House to vote on releasing all . To avoid embarrassing votes on Epstein, , Republicans decided to recess the committee and not attempt to pass a rule for bills this week. Without a rule, Republicans would be left with nothing to vote on after Wednesday. Instead, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., began the chambers five-week summer recess early, apparently in hopes that by the time the members return in the fall, the affair will all have blown over.
The whole episode recalls the from All the Presidents Men: The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of control.
Jeffrey Epstein at Trumps and Marla Maples wedding.
Waldman notes that most Republicans dont buy all the conspiracy theories cooked up by their base, but the Epstein conspiracy theories are base in reality.
Unfortunately for the president and his party, the public interest and the political debate around Epstein concerns real life, including his relationship with Trump. Epstein really was a fabulously wealthy and well-connected pedophile and sex trafficker. He really did die in jail, awaiting trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges. Both that Epstein did not commit suicide. There really are a huge number of documents from the governments investigation of Epstein that have not been made public.
And before the pair had a in the mid-2000s, Epstein really was good friends with Donald Trump. Ive known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy, Trump . Hes a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.
After reiterating that Epsteins death was a suicide and the case was closed, the administration faced a revolt from right-wing influencers who had been telling their audiences for years that the new Trump administration would blow the lid off everything Epstein was involved in. Then though his pleadings are falling on deaf ears. And on Tuesday, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that at Attorney General Pam Bondis request , currently serving a 20-year sentence for conspiring to aid Epstein in sex trafficking. The idea that Bondi and Blanche both Trump loyalists who previously are suddenly interested in Maxwell for solely apolitical reasons strains credulity, to say the least.
Waldman writes that Republicans are faced with an uprising from the base and Trumps desire to prevent any further Epstein revelations, and so they decided to get out of town instead of taking a vote on the release of the Epstein files.
New Epstein Revelations
CNNs and
Newly uncovered archived video footage and photos reveal fresh details about Donald Trumps past .
Photos from 1993 confirm for the first time that Epstein attended Trumps 1993 wedding to Marla Maples. Epsteins attendance at the ceremony at the Plaza Hotel was not widely known until now.
In addition, footage from a 1999 Victorias Secret fashion event in New York shows Trump and Epstein laughing and chatting together ahead of the runway event. CNNs KFile uncovered the raw footage during a review of archival video of Trump at events in the 1990s and 2000s. Trump and Epstein appeared together in at least one video among the limited archival footage reviewed.
The new footage and photos, which have not been widely reported and pre-date any of Epsteins known legal issues, come amid renewed scrutiny of Trumps past relationship with Epstein. The Justice Departments not to release long-promised files related to Epstein has spurred outrage in some corners of Trumps MAGA movement, where people developed an expectation for bombshell revelations into Epsteins alleged co-conspirators.
In a brief call with CNN on Tuesday, President Trump, asked about the wedding photos, responded, Youve got to be kidding me, before repeatedly calling CNN fake news and hanging up.
In a statement to CNN, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said, These are nothing more than out-of-context frame grabs of innocuous videos and pictures of widely attended events to disgustingly infer something nefarious.
The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.
Read the rest at watch videos at CNN.
Greg Sargent at The New Republic: .
A few days ago, as the Jeffrey Epstein scandal gripped Washington, Senator Ron Wyden with The New York Times. The Oregon Democrat said that his investigators had discovered that four big banks had flagged to the Treasury Department $1.5 billion in potentially suspicious money transfers involving Epstein, much of which appeared to be related to his massive sex-trafficking network.
Trump with Jeffrey Epstein at Victorias Secret event in 1999.
The revelationwhich emerged via Wydens work as ranking Democrat on the Finance Committeeratified widespread suspicions that there is still much we dont know about Epsteins relations with some of the most powerful and wealthy elites in the world in the lead-up to his 2019 arrest on sex-trafficking charges.
Now Wyden is ratcheting things up once again. Wydens office just sent a new letter to Attorney General Pam Bondiwhich The New Republic obtainedsuggesting seven potent lines of inquiry that the Justice Department could follow, right now, to dig more deeply into Epsteins web of financial relations with global elites.
I am convinced that the DOJ ignored evidence found in the U.S. Treasury Departments Epstein file, a binder that contains extensive details on the mountains of cash Epstein received from prominent businessmen that Epstein used to finance his criminal network, Wyden writes in the letter.
The Treasury Department has this information because thats where banks file suspicious activity reports, or SARS. Wydens letter says his staff has documented that Epstein-related filings by banks contain information on more than 4,725 wire transfers involving Epsteins accounts, all of which merit further investigation.
Wydens letter seeks to demonstrate what the Trump administration is not doing to examine Epsteins financial relations with the rich and powerful.
Wydens move here is in some ways a trolling exercise, since DOJ wont act on it. But such trolling by lawmakers can be constructive if it communicates new information to the public or highlights the failure of others in power to exercise oversight and impose accountability. Wydens letter does both.
Read more at TNR.
Immigration News
I want to recommend a powerful article by Stephen W. Thrasher that was published at Literary Hub: What ICEs Assault on Ventura County, California Means for the Rest of America. The piece is very long, so I cant really summarize it with a few quoted paragraphs. I hope youll go read the whole thing.
Mom is gone. They took her away.
These are the words of an 8-year-old Mexican-American girl I will call Maria, in my hometown of Oxnard, California. She spoke them to her summer school teachers this past week, one of whom is a friend of mine.
Marias mother was disappeared by ICE, the worst fear for many families in Ventura County, which emerged on the world stage recently on the Glass House cannabis farm in Camarillo resulted in the death of farmer Jaime Alans, the kidnapping of California State University Channel Island professor Jonathan Caravello, and the disappearance and presumed deportation of at least 200 farmers.
Fortunately for Maria, her two tias picked her up the day her mom was kidnapped, and they took me to Toppers, and I got to eat the ice cream cookie! Her teacherIll call her Miss Garvintold me how Maria had never had the ice cream cookie at Toppers before, and that she was trying to hold onto this treat. It seemed as if the adults in Marias life were letting her have anything special to distract herbecause they did not know when, or even if, she was going to see her mother again.
Miss Garvin told me that it was a shitshow of a day as she kept Maria in her line of vision throughout the breakfast and lunch periods.
It broke my heart, she told me, to see this normally vivacious girl sitting shell shocked and mute around her friends.
Like Maria, I hail from Ventura County, and am a product of its Title 1 schools. From six to nine years old, I was bused through Oxnards bountiful agricultural fields and (literally) across the railroad tracks to the La Colonia neighborhood, where Ramona School educated students like me pretty well despite how economically neglected we were. (I still remember how few streetlights there were when we were bused before dawn, and that there were chickens running through the pot-holed streets just outside our schools windows).
A bit more:
Like Maria, my biological mother disappeared when I was about her age, though not because she was kidnapped. (She just disappeared for three years while no one, including the private detective my dad and stepmother hired, could find any trace of her beyond an abandoned car.) Like Maria, my survival depended on the care of an Oxnard teacher like Miss Garvin.
Like Maria, I am also a product of Ventura Countys fields, which gave me a place to play, taught me about labor politics, employed the vast majority of my classmates parents, and fed me.
But you, wherever you are reading this, you are likely a product of Ventura Countys fields, tooespecially if youve ever eaten a strawberry. Strawberries are harvested with backbreaking work usually done by undocumented migrant farmers. Oxnard is the largest producer of strawberries in California and is the strawberry capital of the world. Our of farmland provides California, the United States, and even other countries not just various berries but avocados, mushrooms, corn, citrus, and even marijuana.
And you are also a product of Ventura County because the Oxnard plain is a hot bed of radical politics. Historically, Ventura County has played a pivotal role in the evolution of labor organizing, as lived there for a time and had a strong base of operations during the rise of United Farm Workers.
Just as importantly, Ventura County is playing a crucial role in the attempt to stop fascism right now, for the good people of Ventura, Camarillo, and Oxnard are not taking ICE raids without a fight. Since Trump came back into office, groups like and the have been training volunteers to patrol for ICE agents. And when theyre spotted, a call goes out for community members to show upand people from all walks of life (students, citizens, senior citizens) do.
Thats what happened on July 11: a scout patrol spotted ICE agents and tipped off hundreds of people who showed up at the Glass House Farm to bear witness to the ICE raid.
Scene from Glass House raid in Ventural Country, CA
During that raid, a man was chased off a rooftop to his by masked ICE agents. An activist professor from Cal State Jonathan Caravello was also arrested and jailed after he tried to help a man escape from a tear gas cannister under his wheelchair. Thrasher describes the state of terror that immigrants face in Ventura county. He writes:
If Ventura County falls, we are all going to fall. And the way people there have been treated as threats for interfering with the duties of policea criminal charge I briefly faced as a professor under similar circumstances as the CSUCI professorreveal the terror hundreds of millions could face if ICE does, in fact, get a six-fold increase in funding and becomes a internal force than most countries militaries.
Even without the threat of ICE, farming has long been identified as one of the . Given that more people die while farming than while serving as police officers, firefighters or other emergency responders, the idea that ICE officers fear for their lives while approaching farmers is absurd.
But the terror of ICE has pushed immigrant families in Ventura County to their deaths in ways fast and slow.
Immigration expert Jeff Crisp at The New York Times (gift link): .
In May, the United States flew a group of eight migrants to Djibouti, a small state in the Horn of Africa. For weeks, the men who are from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam and South Sudan were detained in a converted shipping container on a U.S. military base. More than a month later, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the men, who had all been convicted of serious crimes, could be transferred to their final destination: South Sudan, a country on the brink of famine and civil war. Tom Homan, the border czar, acknowledged that he didnt know what happened to them once they were released from U.S. custody. As far as were concerned, he said, theyre free.
Deporting foreign nationals to countries other than their homeland has quickly become a centerpiece of the Trump administrations immigration policy. Thousands of people have been sent to countries in the Western Hemisphere, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico and Panama. At a recent summit of West African leaders, President Trump pressed them to admit deportees from the United States, emphasizing that assisting in migration was essential to improving commercial ties with the United States. All told, administration officials have reached out to to try to strike deals to accept deportees. The administration is making progress: Last week, it sent five men to the tiny, landlocked country of in southern Africa after their home countries allegedly refused to take them back, according to an assistant homeland security secretary, Tricia McLaughlin. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
In some ways, this is nothing new. It has become increasingly common for the worlds most prosperous countries to relocate immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees to places with which they have little or no prior connection. Previous U.S. administrations from both parties have sought third-country detentions as easy fixes. In the 1990s, Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton both sent thousands of Haitian refugees to detention camps in Guantnamo Bay before forcibly repatriating most of them to Haiti.
What is new about the Trump administrations deportation efforts, unlike previous European or even past U.S. attempts, is their breadth and scale, effectively transforming migrant expulsions into a tool for international leverage. By deporting foreign nationals to often unstable third countries, the Trump administration is not only creating a novel class of exiles with little hope of returning to either the United States or their country of origin, but also explicitly using these vulnerable populations as bargaining chips in a wider strategy of diplomatic and geopolitical deal making.
This strategy marks a significant evolution in a practice that has been gaining traction throughout the developed world. In the early 2000s, Australia devised the so-called Pacific Solution, an arrangement that diverted asylum seekers arriving by boat or intercepted at sea to holding centers in the island states of Nauru and Papua New Guinea in exchange for benefits, including development aid and financial support. In 2016, amid what was then the in Europe since World War II, the European Union struck a deal that allowed it to send migrants arriving in Greece from Turkey through irregular means back to Turkey to the tune of six billion euros.
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The Washington Post (gift link):
Julio Gonzlez Jr. had agreed to be deported to Venezuela. When the 36-year-old office cleaner and house painter boarded the flight in Texas in March, he assumed it would take him back to his home country.
Instead, the plane landed in El Salvador.
The horror movie started there, Gonzlez said Tuesday.
When the shackled men refused to get off the plane, Gonzlez and two other detainees told The Washington Post that they were yanked by their feet, beaten and shoved off board as the planes crew began to cry. Dozens of migrants were forced onto a bus and driven to a massive gray complex. They were ordered to kneel there with their foreheads pressed against the ground as guards pointed guns directly at them.
Welcome to El Salvador, you sons of bs,a hooded figure told them, Gonzlez recalled. They had arrived at El Salvadors Terrorism Confinement Center, known as CECOT. The United States has paid the Salvadoran government of President Nayib rounded up in many without ties to El Salvador, many without criminal charges at the worlds largest prison.
In the four months they spent there, the detainees said, they were beaten repeatedly with wooden bats. Gonzlez was robbed of thousands of dollars, he said, and denied access to lawyers or a chance to call his family. Joen Surez, 23, was taken several times to a dark room known as La Isla or the island and beaten, kicked and insulted. Angel Blanco Marin, 22, said he was hit so hard he lost half of a molar. He asked for painkillers and medical attention but was given none for more than a month.
The three men returned to their familys homes in Venezuela this week, among the 252 Venezuelans released from CECOT and taken to the South American country in . They arrived on two flights in exchange for the release of 10 American citizens and permanent U.S. residents imprisoned in Venezuela.
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