Hillary Clinton delivered a characteristically unvarnished assessment of President Donald Trump and his administration.
“Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism,” the former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential candidatewrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Clinton was referring to the Trump administration’s defiance of a Supreme Court order to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man with protected legal status who was mistakenly deported to a notorious Salvadoran prison.
Hillary Clinton reminded her social media followers that she has been calling out the danger of Donald Trump for years. Dominik Bindl via Getty Images
“If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison — accused of no crime, with no trial — they can do it to anyone,” she continued.
Clinton ended her statement with a call to action, urging “Americans of conscience” to stand up and resist the current administration.
The Justice Department has said Abrego Garcia’s deportation was an “administrative error,” but still maintains they cannot bring him back to the U.S. When pressed by the courts to explain further, the administration has repeatedly focused on accusations that he was a member of the MS-13 gang.
On Monday, White House adviser Stephen Miller appeared on Fox News and told “America’s Newsroom” host Bill Hemmer that the record needed to be corrected.
“First, we won the Supreme Court case already, 9-0,” he declared.
Clinton attends a conversation with Reid Hoffman at 92NY on Jan. 28 in New York City. Dominik Bindl via Getty Images
But the administration did not win the case. Rather, the justices released an unsigned opinion last week, with no recorded dissents, stating that action must be taken to return Abrego Garcia to the United States.
On April 11, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) offered her own unfiltered assessment of the administration’s behavior.
“I feel like I’m in an abusive relationship,” Crockett said. “I think all Americans may feel like we’re in an abusive relationship with this administration, as well as with the Supreme Court.”