𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐟𝐰𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤­𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫­𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐚 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞
𝐸𝑑𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝐿𝑢𝑐𝑒 — 𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠

At around noon on April 14 2025, Amer­ica ceased to have a law-abid­ing gov­ern­ment. Some would argue that had already happened on Janu­ary 20, when Don­ald Trump was inaug­ur­ated. On Monday, however, Trump chose to ignore a 9-0 Supreme Court rul­ing to repat­ri­ate an illeg­ally depor­ted man. He even claimed the judges ruled in his favour. The US pres­id­ent’s middle fin­ger to the court was echoed by his attor­ney-gen­eral, sec­ret­ary of state, vice-pres­id­ent and El Sal­vador’s vigil­ante pres­id­ent Nayib Bukele. The lat­ter is play­ing host to what resembles an embryonic US gulag.

…. Trump’s team nod­ded when Bukele said he would not con­sider return­ing the wrongly depor­ted, Kil­mar Armando Abrego Gar­cia. All base­lessly agreed Gar­cia was a ter­ror­ist.… Amer­ica’s gov­ern­ment pays greater respect to a for­eign strong­man than its own Supreme Court.

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