Fox News Reporter Confronts Trump AG Bondi on ‘Gang Member’ Claims — Straight-Up Asks ‘Why Not Show the Evidence?’
Trump Attorney General Pam Bondi was confronted at a press conference by Fox News Washington, DC correspondent David Spunt, who straight-up asked her “Why not show the evidence” to support Trump administration claims that Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the wrongly deported Maryland man at the heart of a Supreme Court ruling — is a “gang member.”
Available evidence suggests the basis for the “gang member” claim is an allegation by a since-suspended detective’s anonymous informant that Garcia belonged to a gang several states away from his home state, and the fact that he was “was wearing a Chicago Bulls hat and a hoodie.”
But at a press conference on actions against the State of Maine for defying President Donald Trump, Spunt repeatedly pressed Bondi to provide proof of the claims. Bondi offered only court transcripts that cited the information that’s already public — the Bulls hat and the informant:
DAVID SPUNT: Big topic over the past few weeks, Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Maryland. He’s in a prison now in El Salvador. He was sent there.
You insist, the president, everybody in the administration insists that he is MS-13. It appears that there’s not going to be any sort of trial. He’s not gonna come back. DHS said he would be arrested and re-deported if he comes back.
Why not show the American people the evidence that he’s MS-13 so they can make an informed decision?
And that goes the same with this Henry Josue Santos, who was picked up in Virginia, who is now presumably going to get deported as well. Why not show the public the evidence?
ATTRNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI: Well, he is an illegal alien who has been living illegally in our country from El Salvador. ICE testified, an immigration judge ruled he was a member of MS-13, an appellate judge ruled he was member of MS-13. Hard stop.
He should not be in our county. He was deported.
They needed one additional step in paperwork, but now MS-13 is characterized, as they should be, as an FTO, as a foreign terrorist organization. So he is not coming back to our country.
President Bukele said he was not sending him back. That’s the end of the story. If he wanted to send him back, we would give him a plane ride back. There was no situation ever where he was going to stay in this country. None, none.
He would have come back, had one extra step of paperwork, and gone back again. But he’s from El Salvador, he’s in El Salvador. And that’s where the president plans on keeping him.
DAVID SPUNT: But the evidence. We’re not going to see the evidence?
ATTORNEY GENERAL PAM BONDI: We have the transcripts from the court hearing, so I’d be glad to give you the court hearings from 2019, what we have, sure, with the rulings from the judges gladly.
Watch above via the Justice Department.
