As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made good on a promise to detain and then deport Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia, CNN still couldn&#8217;t let go of the &#8220;Maryland man&#8221; narrative with which legacy media outlets have flooded the airwaves since his story first made the evening news.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, the Trump administration is asking that Abrego Garcia be deported to Uganda — but his attorneys have already filed a new lawsuit asking that he be kept in the United States while they contest that order.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-baltimore-rally?Date=20250825&amp;Profile=cnnbrk&amp;utm_content=1756124905&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">reported</a> on the latest turn of events, but could not let go of the &#8220;Maryland man&#8221; narrative:
<blockquote>Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was unlawfully deported to El Salvador earlier this year, was taken into custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after turning himself in to a facility in Baltimore.</blockquote>
A number of others dropped the nearly-ubiquitous term, but most of them did so in mocking tones:
&#8220;Goodbye, &#8216;Maryland Man,'&#8221; Townhall posted.
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Goodbye, “Maryland Man”. <a href="https://t.co/DR2nwaPsCS">pic.twitter.com/DR2nwaPsCS</a>
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1959970611893014720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
Several shared video footage of a press conference where Abrego Garcia pleaded with the public for support as he fights the deportation order — and most pointed out the fact that he gave his remarks in Spanish, arguing that a person who was truly from Maryland might have done so in English.
&#8220;How many &#8216;Maryland Men&#8217; can&#8217;t speak English?&#8221; one asked.
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How many &#8220;Maryland Men&#8221; can&#8217;t speak English? <a href="https://t.co/hxEO1Szt5y">pic.twitter.com/hxEO1Szt5y</a>
— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) <a href="https://twitter.com/nataliegwinters/status/1959992805478318129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;The Maryland man brand lives on!&#8221; Fox News National Correspondent Bill Melugin added.
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The Maryland man brand lives on! <a href="https://t.co/mF0NapW0qs">https://t.co/mF0NapW0qs</a>
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1960023143084355988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-rallied-around-a-dangerous-criminal-alien-now-theyre-paying-the-price">Abrego Garcia</a>, a suspected MS-13 gang member and human trafficker, was initially deported to a Salvadoran prison, but was brought back to the United States — thanks in large part to the elected Democrats who went to the mat on his behalf and the media outlets that helped to paint him as an unwitting victim in what they suggested was President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to deport as many people as possible.
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NY Times: “Maryland man”
Fox: “Kilmar Abrego Garcia”
WaPo: “Maryland man”
Axios: “Maryland man”
USA Today: “Maryland father”
Only one of those stories is factual. The other four are pushing a narrative <a href="https://t.co/hcSYXRFsFC">pic.twitter.com/hcSYXRFsFC</a>
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) <a href="https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1931138677146616177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2025</a></blockquote>

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CNN Can’t Let ‘Maryland Man’ Narrative Go

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As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) made good on a promise to detain and then deport Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego Garcia, CNN still couldn&#8217;t let go of the &#8220;Maryland man&#8221; narrative with which legacy media outlets have flooded the airwaves since his story first made the evening news.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, the Trump administration is asking that Abrego Garcia be deported to Uganda — but his attorneys have already filed a new lawsuit asking that he be kept in the United States while they contest that order.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/politics/kilmar-abrego-garcia-baltimore-rally?Date=20250825&amp;Profile=cnnbrk&amp;utm_content=1756124905&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">reported</a> on the latest turn of events, but could not let go of the &#8220;Maryland man&#8221; narrative:
<blockquote>Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was unlawfully deported to El Salvador earlier this year, was taken into custody by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement after turning himself in to a facility in Baltimore.</blockquote>
A number of others dropped the nearly-ubiquitous term, but most of them did so in mocking tones:
&#8220;Goodbye, &#8216;Maryland Man,'&#8221; Townhall posted.
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Goodbye, “Maryland Man”. <a href="https://t.co/DR2nwaPsCS">pic.twitter.com/DR2nwaPsCS</a>
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1959970611893014720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
Several shared video footage of a press conference where Abrego Garcia pleaded with the public for support as he fights the deportation order — and most pointed out the fact that he gave his remarks in Spanish, arguing that a person who was truly from Maryland might have done so in English.
&#8220;How many &#8216;Maryland Men&#8217; can&#8217;t speak English?&#8221; one asked.
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How many &#8220;Maryland Men&#8221; can&#8217;t speak English? <a href="https://t.co/hxEO1Szt5y">pic.twitter.com/hxEO1Szt5y</a>
— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) <a href="https://twitter.com/nataliegwinters/status/1959992805478318129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;The Maryland man brand lives on!&#8221; Fox News National Correspondent Bill Melugin added.
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The Maryland man brand lives on! <a href="https://t.co/mF0NapW0qs">https://t.co/mF0NapW0qs</a>
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillMelugin_/status/1960023143084355988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-rallied-around-a-dangerous-criminal-alien-now-theyre-paying-the-price">Abrego Garcia</a>, a suspected MS-13 gang member and human trafficker, was initially deported to a Salvadoran prison, but was brought back to the United States — thanks in large part to the elected Democrats who went to the mat on his behalf and the media outlets that helped to paint him as an unwitting victim in what they suggested was President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to deport as many people as possible.
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NY Times: “Maryland man”
Fox: “Kilmar Abrego Garcia”
WaPo: “Maryland man”
Axios: “Maryland man”
USA Today: “Maryland father”
Only one of those stories is factual. The other four are pushing a narrative <a href="https://t.co/hcSYXRFsFC">pic.twitter.com/hcSYXRFsFC</a>
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) <a href="https://twitter.com/SonofHas/status/1931138677146616177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 6, 2025</a></blockquote>

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President Donald Trump took a swipe at Governor JB Pritzker (D-IL) as he touted the success of his crime crackdown in Washington, D.C. — and discussed the possibility of sending National Guard troops to other cities in the hopes of seeing similar results.
Trump began by saying that it was not his intent to have the National Guard &#8220;barge in on&#8221; cities — and that it would be better if mayors or governors who clearly needed help would ask for it — but that the results in the nation&#8217;s capital spoke for themselves.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>: &#8220;I hate to barge in on a city and then be treated horribly by corrupt politicians&#8230;
Take a look at D.C. &#8230; For eleven days, there have been NO murders.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/EZKVcnYbXS">pic.twitter.com/EZKVcnYbXS</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959995167798378785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;You really want to be asked to go, you know,&#8221; he began. &#8220;I hate to barge in on a city and then be treated horribly by corrupt politicians and bad politicians, like a guy like Pritzker. He ought to spend more time at the gym, actually.&#8221;
&#8220;That guy is a disaster,&#8221; he continued, swinging at Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and legacy media as well. &#8220;Gavin Newsom&#8217;s a disaster. When we went — we saved Los Angeles, you wouldn&#8217;t have been able to have the Olympics in Los Angeles, you&#8217;re barely able to have it now. They did lose 25,000 houses to a fire that should have never occurred because they didn&#8217;t let the water come down from the Pacific Northwest, which you guys don&#8217;t want to write about.&#8221;
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Trump pivoted back to the crime issue, adding, &#8220;I don&#8217;t like going to a town, a city, a place — a state, and then be criticized by some corrupt or incompetent governor where crime is rampant. Like take a look at D.C. — crime was rampant, it was at the all-time worst. It got really bad during the Biden four years, and then I have a mayor stand up and say how crime has reached a 30-year low.&#8221;
After a pause and a glare at the gathered member of the press, Trump repeated, &#8220;Thirty-year low? People are being killed left and right. It&#8217;s not a 30-year low.&#8221;

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‘That Guy Is A Disaster’: Trump Rips Into Another Blue-State Governor With Presidential Dreams

&#8220;Harry Potter&#8221; author J.K. Rowling planted a red flag on the clear message radical trans activists are sending to women and girls when they demand access to single-sex spaces that are meant to be for women only.
Rowling, whose support for sex-based rights and privacy has often put her at odds with the trans community, said that the obvious takeaway was as simple as it was insidious: women, to them, were little more than costumes that afforded the wearers everything that went along with actually being women.
&#8220;The message to girls everywhere: you are a costume that any man can put on. Once he’s wearing it, he gets to take your rights,&#8221; Rowling&#8217;s post was concise.
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The message to girls everywhere: you are a costume that any man can put on. Once he’s wearing it, he gets to take your rights. <a href="https://t.co/BlQvL8bbyR">https://t.co/BlQvL8bbyR</a>
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) <a href="https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1958821381971300800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
The <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/neo-nazi-womens-prison-changing-gender-vj5zvwm89">article</a> Rowling shared to back up her statement was published in The Times and detailed the story of a man who was headed to a women&#8217;s prison in Germany just months after claiming that he was, in fact, a woman.
Marla-Svenja Liebich, 53 — who went by the name Sven until December of 2024 — was the leader of a banned local Nazi group called Blood and Honour in Saxony-Anhalt. He has campaigned for Russian President Vladimir Putin and cheered on the war against Ukraine.
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Liebich was arrested on several charges including inciting hatred, criminal insults, and &#8220;trying to sell a baseball bat over the internet as a &#8216;deportation aid.'&#8221;
Despite previously claiming that trans-identifying people were &#8220;parasites on society,&#8221; Liebich made use of a recently-changed policy in order to adopt his new identity. While in years past, trans-identifying individuals had to present evidence from two doctors in order to change gender on official government documents, a new policy adopted last November allows individuals to simply fill out a form at a local government office.

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Vice President JD Vance treated &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; anchor Kristen Welker to a whirlwind trip around the globe during an interview that went to air during Sunday morning&#8217;s broadcast — and he addressed everything from President Donald Trump&#8217;s domestic policy to the administration&#8217;s dealings with communist China and Russia.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Vance sat down for a full interview with Welker, who questioned him about the recent negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
&#8220;The Russians have made significant concessions to President Trump for the first time in three and a half years of this conflict,&#8221; Vance said, adding, &#8220;We&#8217;re trying to negotiate as much as we can with both the Russians and Ukrainians to find a middle ground to stop the killing.&#8221;
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&#8220;The Russians have made significant concessions to President Trump for the first time in three and a half years of this conflict,&#8221; says <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>.
&#8220;We&#8217;re trying to negotiate as much as we can with both the Russians and Ukrainians to find a middle ground to stop the killing.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/b487LlfIyx">pic.twitter.com/b487LlfIyx</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959608502009184631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
Vance gave some details on the concessions made by Russia, and went on to explain that Trump&#8217;s goal — rather than trying to deconstruct all the reasons the war started — was to &#8220;focus on the nit-picky details of now&#8221; and get to where they could stop the fighting.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>: &#8220;[<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>] is not trying to focus on every nit-picky detail of how this thing started&#8230; He&#8217;s trying to focus on the nit-picky details of now — of what do the parties disagree on, what do they agree on, and how do you build a foundation from one side of that ledger to the… <a href="https://t.co/9C2aXYtFHM">pic.twitter.com/9C2aXYtFHM</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959609236175864214?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
Welker immediately challenged him on the Trump administration&#8217;s position with regard to China. Noting that China was one of the world&#8217;s biggest consumers of Russian oil, she pressed Vance on why the United States was not putting China under heavier sanctions.
&#8220;China&#8217;s actually the largest buyer of Russian oil,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Why no sanctions on China?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, obviously, we have a 54% tariff on the PRC right now, so we&#8217;ve already applied pretty hefty sanctions on the Chinese,&#8221; Vance shot back. &#8220;And we&#8217;ve had a number of conversations at all levels over the government to try to encourage the Chinese to be better partners and bring this war to a close.&#8221;
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NBC: &#8220;Why no sanctions on China?&#8221;
.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>: &#8220;Obviously, we have a 54% tariff on the PRC right now, so we&#8217;ve already applied pretty hefty sanctions on the Chinese&#8230;&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/IUeug9nkkU">pic.twitter.com/IUeug9nkkU</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959611584226967880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
Welker continued to press, asking, &#8220;Where exactly is the pressure on Russia to do anything if you&#8217;re not right now imposing new sanctions?&#8221;
&#8220;The President has applied more economic pressure to the Russians to stop this war than Biden did in three years,&#8221; Vance replied. &#8220;This is how negotiation works.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>: &#8220;The President has applied more economic pressure to the Russians to stop this war than Biden did in three years&#8230; This is how negotiation works.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/89lsaNlz8u">pic.twitter.com/89lsaNlz8u</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959611642599104891?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;This is how wars ultimately get settled,&#8221; Vance continued. &#8220;They all end with some kind of negotiation &#8230; He&#8217;s not going to force these parties to walk through the door. All he can do is open the door and ask them to negotiate in good faith.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>: &#8220;This is how wars ultimately get settled&#8230; They all end with some kind of negotiation&#8230; He&#8217;s not going to force these parties to walk through the door. All he can do is open the door and ask them to negotiate in good faith.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/OcFx8ZCYGq">pic.twitter.com/OcFx8ZCYGq</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959612590490804407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
Despite hearing it directly from President Donald Trump in recent weeks, Welker asked Vance to &#8220;guarantee&#8221; that there would not be American &#8220;boots on the ground&#8221; if it came to defending Ukraine in a more direct fashion.
&#8220;The President has been very clear. There are not going to be [American] boots on the ground in Ukraine,&#8221; Vance replied.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>: &#8220;The President has been very clear. There are not going to be [American] boots on the ground in Ukraine.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/21LqlibKcU">pic.twitter.com/21LqlibKcU</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959612715816604149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;We don&#8217;t control what Russia does. If we did, the war would&#8217;ve been over seven months ago,&#8221; Vance continued. &#8220;What we do believe, though, is that &#8230; the President of the United States has a lot of cards left to play to apply pressure.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>: &#8220;We don&#8217;t control what Russia does. If we did, the war would&#8217;ve been over seven months ago. What we do believe, though, is that&#8230; the President of the United States has a lot of cards left to play to apply pressure.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/qOvXQB9NEQ">pic.twitter.com/qOvXQB9NEQ</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959613859490091462?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
On the domestic front, Welker pressed Vance to defend Texas Republicans and their newly-drawn Congressional map — one that is likely to afford Republicans as many as five additional seats in the 2026 midterms. Vance pushed right back, arguing that Democrats had been gerrymandering their states to unfair advantage for decades and saying that Republicans only meant to tip the scales back into balance.
&#8220;All we&#8217;re doing, frankly, is trying to make the situation a little bit more fair,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Democrats have gerrymandered their states really aggressively. We think there are opportunities to push back against that, and that&#8217;s really all we&#8217;re doing.&#8221;
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&#8220;All we&#8217;re doing, frankly, is trying to make the situation a little bit more fair,&#8221; says <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> on redistricting.
&#8220;Democrats have gerrymandered their states really aggressively. We think there are opportunities to push back against that, and that&#8217;s really all we&#8217;re doing.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/q06A8CkniT">pic.twitter.com/q06A8CkniT</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959614788557836519?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;We&#8217;re literally losing representatives for American citizens in order to give congressional representation to illegal aliens,&#8221; Vance added, explaining that illegal aliens were being counted in the census for the purposes of congressional apportionment, meaning that &#8220;they end up getting congressional representation that ought, by right, go to American citizens.&#8221;
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&#8220;We&#8217;re literally losing representatives for American citizens in order to give congressional representation to illegal aliens,&#8221; says <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>.
&#8220;Republicans are trying to balance out the scales a little bit for basic fairness and for the integrity of our democracy.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/uxxDXQJege">pic.twitter.com/uxxDXQJege</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959618633765896314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> on illegal aliens in the Census: &#8220;They do go in the congressional apportionment. That&#8217;s why California has so many more seats is because they count illegal aliens&#8230; They end up getting congressional representation that ought, by right, go to American citizens.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/Lfu3kYaM6N">pic.twitter.com/Lfu3kYaM6N</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959619304350945548?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
And when it came to the deployment of the National Guard and the crackdown on crime in the nation&#8217;s capital, Vance once again laid out the reasoning in straightforward fashion. &#8220;Allowing vagrants and armed robberies to take over your city — that&#8217;s a policy choice. What President Trump is showing that if you just empower local law enforcement to arrest and prosecute the bad guys, we can take back American streets,&#8221; he said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a>: &#8220;Allowing vagrants and armed robberies to take over your city — that&#8217;s a policy choice. What President Trump is showing that if you just empower local law enforcement to arrest and prosecute the bad guys, we can take back American streets.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/upsNXlZDui">pic.twitter.com/upsNXlZDui</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959621293847753130?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
Watch the full interview below:
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WATCH IN FULL: <a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a>&#8216;s interview on <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MeetThePress</a> <a href="https://t.co/s7s0eCZXAG">pic.twitter.com/s7s0eCZXAG</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1959708596356239868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>

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Spin Cycle: JD Vance Goes Around The World In 20 Minutes With ‘Meet the Press’

ABC News anchor Jonathan Karl conceded that he did not know what evidence the FBI might have had prior to executing a raid on the home and office of John Bolton, who had previously served as President Donald Trump&#8217;s National Security Adviser — but then proceeded to paint the law enforcement action as an act of &#8220;retribution&#8221; on Trump&#8217;s part.
&#8220;We don’t know what evidence the DOJ has against John Bolton. But we do know that he is the latest Trump critic to be targeted by his administration,&#8221; Karl said of Friday&#8217;s events.
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&#8220;We don’t know what evidence the DOJ has against John Bolton. But we do know that he is the latest Trump critic to be targeted by his administration.” <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> reports on President Trump&#8217;s promised &#8220;retribution&#8221; against political enemies. <a href="https://t.co/x5qomsiCQa">https://t.co/x5qomsiCQa</a> <a href="https://t.co/JWICYLBK0i">pic.twitter.com/JWICYLBK0i</a>
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1959627849846947864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
&#8220;In a minute, we&#8217;ll get to the stunning developments coming into the weekend with FBI agents swarming around the home and office of former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton, but first the context,&#8221; Karl said. &#8220;This didn&#8217;t happen in a vacuum.&#8221;
&#8220;John Bolton is on a long list of Trump critics who are not facing the wrath of President Trump and his Justice Department,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Trump himself has suggested that dozens of his enemies, real and perceived, belong in prison.&#8221;
Karl went on to list a number of people Trump has said should go to prison — many of whom were named in recent documents pertaining to the Russian collusion hoax — such as former President Barack Obama and former FBI Director James Comey.
He also mentioned Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Attorney General Letitia James (D-NY), both of whom are already being investigated by DOJ attorney Ed Martin, and claimed that those investigations were also retaliatory efforts on behalf of President Trump.
Karl then complained that an outsized percentage of the high-ranking military officers who had been fired under the Trump administration had been women — a move that he said left the military without even one female active duty four-star general — but made no effort to explain why that was necessarily a bad thing.
&#8220;President Trump promised retribution against his political enemies,&#8221; Karl declared. &#8220;And there is no doubt that he is serious about keeping that promise.&#8221;
Karl then pivoted to the raid on Bolton&#8217;s home — which, according to the Justice Department, was part of an investigation into Bolton&#8217;s handling of classified information — and repeatedly suggested that it was simply more evidence that Trump was attacking and punishing his political enemies.

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ABC Frames Bolton Raid As Trump’s Latest Act Of ‘Retribution’

CNN anchor Dana Bash brought in House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for a Sunday morning interview on &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; and he spent most of his time declaring President Donald Trump&#8217;s recent actions and policy positions to be racially motivated.
Jeffries was particularly concerned with Trump&#8217;s efforts to reframe a number of exhibits that are part of the Smithsonian Museums in the nation&#8217;s capital — exhibits that Trump said work overtime to paint the United States in a less than flattering light.
Jeffries claimed that Trump was &#8220;behaving like a racial arsonist&#8221; and attempting to whitewash America&#8217;s history with regard to slavery.
&#8220;It&#8217;s extraordinary that he would make such a historically ignorant statement,&#8221; Jeffries complained, adding, &#8220;The Smithsonian should continue to hold the line and make sure that this very painful part of American history is not erased.&#8221;
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House Democratic Leader <a href="https://twitter.com/hakeemjeffries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@hakeemjeffries</a> reacts to Trump&#8217;s review of the Smithsonian museums: Donald Trump is &#8220;behaving like a racial arsonist. &#8221; <a href="https://t.co/vJcH32CSFQ">pic.twitter.com/vJcH32CSFQ</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1959617204892144005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
From The White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/08/president-trump-is-right-about-the-smithsonian/">website</a>:
<blockquote>The exhibits marked by the Trump administration as part of the problem were not the ones that directly addressed slavery — but rather those that attacked &#8220;white culture &#8220;The National Museum of African American History and Culture debuted a series to educate people on “a society that privileges white people and whiteness” — defining so-called “white dominant culture“ as “ways white people and their traditions, attitudes, and ways of life have been normalized over time” and portraying “the nuclear family,” “work ethic,” and “intellect” as white qualities rooted in racism.</blockquote>
Jeffries also pivoted to race when the discussion turned to the recent redistricting fight in Texas, blaming Trump — who supported the new map — and claiming that the Republican-driven map was also rooted in racism.
&#8220;This is a racial, partisan gerrymander ordered by Donald Trump as part of an effort to rig the midterm elections,&#8221; he claimed.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/hakeemjeffries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HakeemJeffries</a> on what&#8217;s happening on Texas redistricting: &#8220;this is a racial, partisan gerrymander ordered by Donald Trump as part of an effort to rig the midterm elections.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/jG30xxrDKK">pic.twitter.com/jG30xxrDKK</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1959632824543449179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>

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