Marco Rubio’s Disingenuous Explanation of the Abrego Garcia Case

As absurd as was Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s commentary about the Abrego Garcia case in the Oval Office on Monday, he was matched whopper-for-whopper by Trump administration officials. Consider the secretary of state.

Marco Rubio is too smart not to know that what he was saying was utter nonsense. The secretary haughtily pronounced that he didn’t see what all the fuss was because Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran national who was illegally in the United States, and who was simply deported to his own country, which is what’s supposed to happen.

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

Featured Tags

As absurd as was Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s commentary about the Abrego Garcia case in the Oval Office on Monday, he was matched whopper-for-whopper by Trump administration officials. Consider the secretary of state.

Marco Rubio is too smart not to know that what he was saying was utter nonsense. The secretary haughtily pronounced that he didn’t see what all the fuss was because Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran national who was illegally in the United States, and who was simply deported to his own country, which is what’s supposed to happen.

About the Author

Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.