It has to be asked: did President Trump and his staff just plain set up the Democrats for failure?

Following the arrest and deportation of the “Maryland man” Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the left waxed wroth and have trumped it up that his deportation was unjustified, that Mr Abrego Garcia was as pure as the wind driven snow. Several Democratic lawmakers even traveled to El Salvador, to try to rescue the poor, abused soul and return him to the United States.

Oops!

Dem immigration talking points fizzle as dark picture of Abrego Garcia emerges

‘The fact that they went to the mat for this guy just shows exactly who they are,’ DHS Secretary Noem said of Democrats defending Abrego Garcia

By Emma Colton, Fox News + Sunday, May 4, 2025 | 1:05 PM EDT

Democrats rallying around illegal immigrant KIlmar Abrego Garcia are facing a narrative reckoning as allegations of violent and criminal behavior mount against the man they made a poster child in the fight against President Trump’s mass deportations.

In recent weeks, evidence has emerged that Abrego Garcia beat his wife and was caught trafficking migrants during his time living illegally in Maryland. He has since been deported to El Salvador, where several Democrats, including Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen, have rushed to meet with him and decry what they say was a lack of due process extended to him.

“The fact that they went to the mat for this guy just shows exactly who they are,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on “Fox & Friends Weekend” on Saturday. “That they are people who don’t put America first. They don’t care about our citizens and protecting our communities. So, I’m glad that the onion’s been peeled back and that their true motivations have been revealed, and this is just one of the cases that we’re getting off the streets.”

Van Hollen has led the surge of Democrats traveling to El Salvador since April, after Abrego Garcia was deported to the country in March and sent to its notoriously high-security prison equipped to handle violent gang members, known as CECOT. The Trump administration has repeatedly cited court and police documents showing that the El Salvadoran man was not only in the U.S. illegally, but also connected to the MS-13 gang and that his wife had sounded the alarm to police about his violence.

That Mr Abrego Garcia was in the United States illegally was sufficient to kick him out!

But our good friends on the left have a rather consistent history of championing the wrong people. Michael Brown of Ferguson, Missouri, turned out to be exactly the kind of thug that was said about him, a physically large teen who had roughed up a convenience store owner in a robbery just a few minutes before he was killed, and stupid enough to attack the police officer who was trying to question him. George Floyd turned out to be a fentanyl-and-methamphetamine-addled, previously convicted felon. Breonna Taylor was connected to a notorious drug dealer. Trayvon Martin physically attacked and assaulted George Zimmerman.

Democrats and the media had characterized Abrego Garcia as a “family man” and a “Maryland man” who was wrongly deported back in March and the following weeks.

Van Hollen met last month with Abrego Garcia and advocated for his release, declaring that the deportation risks “the constitutional rights of everyone who resides in the United States of America.” Van Hollen’s trip sparked other left-wing lawmakers to also make the trip south, including Reps. Yassamin Ansari of Arizona, Maxine Dexter of Oregon, Maxwell Frost of Florida and Robert Garcia of California last month. At one point, Dexter pledged to remain in El Salvador until Abrego Garcia was brought back to the U.S.

“At one point.” 🙂 Mrs Dexter did return to the United States, but without Mr Abrego Garcia in tow.

The article notes that the Democrats have mostly stopped yapping about the “Maryland man,” because the evidence has been overwhelmingly against him being anything other than a scumbag. Vice President J D Vance asked why “congressional Democrats care more about this man than the victims of illegal immigrant crimes,” and it’s a question they do not want asked. A reasonable case could be made that the procedures used to kick him out of the country could have been better, but he did have a valid deportation order, but this is not the kind of guy on whom the Dems would want to build their propaganda.

It has to be asked: did President Trump and his staff guess that the left would fall into a trap over Mr Abrego Garcia, and set it? Information about the “Maryland man” was released slowly enough that it seems like the left were given enough rope to hang themselves! That would be a clever trick, and I’d like to think that is exactly what happened, but, clever trap or not, the Democrats stepped right into it.

Bad causes attract bad people, and the Democrats certainly chose a bad cause!