Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Sunday repeatedly dodged questions about whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia was an MS-13 gang member as the Trump administration has alleged, despite being asked directly on CNN’s “State of the Union” if he could say “with absolute certainty” that the deported illegal migrant did not belong to MS-13.
When CNN’s Dana Bash asked Van Hollen, “Can you say with absolute certainty that he is not, nor has he ever been a member of the MS-13 gang,” the Maryland Democrat said that “what Donald Trump is trying to do here is change the subject. The subject at hand is that he and his administration are defying a court order to give Abrego Garcia his due process rights.”
Van Hollen emphasized that ‘”they are trying to litigate on social media what they should be doing in the courts. They need to put up or shut up in the courts.”
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