Has anyone figured out the optics goal of letting Kilmar Abrego Garcia meet in street clothes in a restaurant? He looked about as far from the stereotype Trump’s goons are trying to sell and I’m just trying to figure out what Bukele was trying to achieve there, given his trolling afterwards.
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Stephen Miller and the other Trump Admin goons running point on this must be livid with Bukele right now.
1) What you said re: looking like an ordinary dad;
2) proving to the world that political pressure can get the Salvadorans to ask "how high" when asked to jump.
Is there any doubt that he’s being treated like the rest of the prisoners in that Gulag?
This is what it was!
Quid Pro Quo ... 'we'll let you see him on OUR propaganda terms'
They're trying to normalize it
The smart move for optics would have been to bring him out like he was the Mariette Mangler and CECOT was the only place that could hold him.
And if they may eventually have to release the man, and he's going to have the chance to speak about his treatment, they might want to start treating him better starting now
It had a VCR
https://bsky.app/profile/equaloppcynic.bsky.social/post/3ln2hqqzbnk2l
Who okayed Van Hollen's visit--Bukele or Trump?
Bukele has his own agenda. He's an aspiring Sonny Corleone. Did he go off on his own here?