The Legacy Media continue their disgusting advocacy on behalf of Kilmar Abrego García, the illegal alien and documented MS-13 gangbanger deported to El Salvador and detained within its notorious CECOT supermax. And they did so while deliberately ignoring gut-wrenching testimony from Rachel Morin’s mother, Patty.
Additionally, the networks focused their attention on contempt proceedings initiated by Judge James Boasberg against the Trump administration for not turning planes around in midair. ABC and NBC ran this as their respective top story, running over four minutes on both ABC World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News. The only acknowledgement of Patty Morin aired on NBC: 12 seconds that contained no mention of the horrific details of the murder of Rachel Morin:
CALLED IT: Other than a 12-second pro forma acknowledgement from NBC, Legacy Media completely ignore Patty Morin's heartbreaking remarks at The White House. https://t.co/q0NZqL8omo pic.twitter.com/bEYfrEUwal
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 16, 2025
GABE GUTIERREZ: Late today, The White House highlighting the story of Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachel was killed by an undocumented immigrant.
PATTY MORIN: These are the kind of criminals President Trump wants to remove from our country.
That’s it. 12 seconds out of 8 minutes. We're not surprised that the legacy news ignored Patty Morin and even took into consideration the fact that NBC might run with some portion of her remarks. But this is still disgusting.
Perhaps this is why Patty Morin was invited to the White House Briefing Room in the first place- to force the media (and perhaps their elected Democrat counterparts) to reflect on their perfidy, their continued advocacy on behalf of criminal aliens, and on the real damage that these inflict upon society.
Based on the media’s reaction to her remarks, it appears that they’re all in on “Maryland Dad”. Even as the details of his gang affiliation and domestic violence allegations against him continue to drip, drip, drip.
Reasonable individuals might conclude that the unfolding of this story will humiliate the media. Unfortunately, this presumes that the media are capable of shame. Based on how we’ve seen them cover the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce the order, the exact opposite is true.
Speaking of shamelessness, I leave you with a portion of Tom Llamas' hysterical open to the newscast. "Dramatic tactics", indeed:
HYSTERICAL: NBC's Tom Llamas decries the tackle arrest of a fleeing Venezuelan illegal immigrant as "dramatic tactics". pic.twitter.com/0tqPMQjuyE
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) April 17, 2025
Click “expand” to view the full transcripts of the aforementioned reports as aired on their respective newscasts on Wednesday, April 16th, 2025:
ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
4/16/25
6:32 PM
LINSEY DAVIS: We begin with a federal judge blasting the Trump administration, threatening a contempt investigation over what he called a willful disregard of his order to halt deportations to a notorious prison in El Salvador. Judge James Boasberg is accusing the administration of a hurried removal operation. The planes landed in El Salvador, even though he ordered them to turn around. The judge is now preparing to launch an official contempt investigation, which could include requiring testimony under oath, and appointing an Independent lawyer to prosecute the government for contempt. Caught in the conflict, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland husband and father the administration admits was wrongfully sent to El Salvador. A unanimous Supreme Court ordered the administration to facilate his return. Today The White House said he will never live in the United States again. In his ruling on contempt Judge Boasberg wrote, "The willful disobedience of judicial orders without consequences would make a mockery of the Constitution itself." ABC's Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott leads us off.
RACHEL SCOTT: Tonight, a dramatic escalation in the battle between The White House and the courts. A federal judge threatening a contempt investigation into the Trump administration for deporting more than 200 Venezuelan immigrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador, despite his order to turn the planes around and return to the United States. Judge James Boasberg declaring the administration displayed a willful disregard for his order, determining there was probable cause to find them in contempt. The judge now preparing to launch an official investigation, which could include officials testifying under oath. He even raises the remarkable prospect of appointing an independent lawyer to prosecute the government for contempt. President Trump has praised the deportations, claiming without evidence the men are violent gang members, inviting El Salvador's president to The White House.
DONALD TRUMP: He's done a fantastic job.
SCOTT: But the administration tonight facing mounting questions about the fate of this man. Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Last seen, head shaved, in that Salvadoran prison. Abrego Garcia, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, was working and living in Maryland with his American wife and children when he was put on that plane, because the government made an administrative error, a mistake they acknowledge. Tonight, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen traveling to El Salvador, looking for any information about Abrego Garcia.
CHRIS VAN HOLLEN: I'm asking President Bukele, under his authority as President of El Salvador, to do the right thing and allow Mr. Abrego Garcia to walk out of prison, a man who is charged with no crime, convicted of no crime, and who was illegally abducted from the United States.
SCOTT: The Supreme Court has ordered the administration to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return to the United States. But President Trump, who is paying El Salvador $6 million to hold the immigrants, says it's up to that country to send him back.
PAM BONDI: He is not coming back to our country. President Bukele said he was not sending him back. That's the end of the story. If he wanted to send him back, we would give him a plane ride back. There was no situation, ever, where he was going to stay in this country. None. None.
SCOTT: The administration insists Abrego Garcia is a violent gang member, but he does not have a criminal record either here or in El Salvador. His family says he fled that country as a teenager in 2011 to escape gang persecution. A judge had ordered that he not be returned to El Salvador, because of potential danger. According to court documents, in 2019, a confidential informant named him as a member of the gang MS-13, but a federal judge this month found that evidence unconvincing. Today, The White House noting that in 2021, his wife Jennifer obtained a temporary protective order against him. But that case was later closed, and now Abrego García’s wife is on the front lines, pleading for his return.
SCOTT: And Lindsey, tonight El Salvador's president upping the ante, telling the Trump administration he plans to double the size of the prison of that prison in his country that’s now holding Abrego Garcia and those other migrants, Linsey.
DAVIS: Rachel Scott from The White House. Thanks, Rachel.
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
4/16/25
6:35 PM
TOM LLAMAS: There are several breaking developments tonight on the president's mass deportation plans and the way they're being carried out. From courtrooms to the streets, including this one near Boston, we’re dramatic tactics from ICE agents making arrests. Part of the administration's intensifying approach to immigration. And it comes as President Trump's standoff with the courts took a high stakes turn today. The administration coming out swinging after a federal judge said it likely acted in contempt by sending deportation flights to El Salvador despite an order to keep them grounded. The judge threatening to begin criminal contempt proceedings if the administration doesn't give the men a chance to challenge their deportation. Among them: an undocumented man who has been living in Maryland. And tonight, we have the documents the administration says prove he's a gang member. Gabe Gutierrez with those documents at The White House starting us off tonight.
GUTIERREZ: Tonight, with immigration arrests like these playing out across the country, a federal judge now says the Trump administration is crossing a line with its mass deportations. After those controversial removal flights to El Salvador last month, Judge James Boasberg slamming the government for failing to comply with his court order to temporarily halt the planes. Writing, “probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt.”
BARBARA McQUADE: The idea that one branch of government would ignore the orders of another is something we haven't seen in our nation's history.
GUTIERREZ: The judge writing: “the Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders”, adding that disobedience “would make a solemn mockery of the Constitution itself.” The White House says it will appeal. A separate legal case involves one of those deportees: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man the Justice Department initially acknowledged was mistakenly sent to El Salvador. The Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration should “facilitate” Abrego García’s return to the U.S. But today, after days of requests, the administration released a document from 2019 detailing how an informant identified Abrego García as a member of the violent gang MS-13, even giving his rank and nickname.
KAROLINE LEAVITT: When Kilmar Abrego Garcia was originally arrested, he was wearing a sweatshirt with rolls of money covering the ears, mouth and eyes of presidents various currency denominations. This is a known MS-13 gang symbol.
GUTIERREZ: Abrego García’s family denies he's a gang member, and he's never been criminally convicted. Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland went to El Salvador today to push for Abrego García’s release, but was denied a meeting with him.
CHRIS VAN HOLLEN This is about due process, this is about not letting people be just whisked off the street. Which the Trump administration admits was done in error.
GUTIERREZ: Late today, The White House highlighting the story of Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachel was killed by an undocumented immigrant.
PATTY MORIN: These are the kind of criminals President Trump wants to remove from our country.
GUTIERREZ: The Trump administration is promising deportations will ramp up. Outside Boston, the woman in this car says ICE officers used a hammer to break a window in order to drag out her husband, an undocumented immigrant who has no criminal record. This surveillance video shows plainclothes officers tackling a Venezuelan man as he arrives in a New Hampshire courthouse, knocking over another man in the process. Outrage over immigration now spilling into contentious town halls, including one held by Chuck Grassley, the most powerful senator on the Judiciary Committee.
CONSTITUENT: Are you going to bring that guy back from El Salvador? Why not?
CHUCK GRASSLEY: Well, because that's not -- that's not a power of Congress.
CONSTITUENT: The Supreme Court says to bring him back.
GUTIERREZ: While in Georgia, police tasered two protesters at an event held by Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: Bye. Just like that illegal alien, bye.
LLAMAS: All right. Gabe joins us live. Let's go back to that man deported to El Salvador. I know you have new reporting tonight on his past?
GUTIERREZ: Yes, Tom. In 2021, a protection order was issued against him in a domestic violence case. The case was closed when his wife did not show up for court. As for the gang allegations, his attorneys have repeatedly questioned the credibility of that confidential informant. Tom.
LLAMAS: All right, Gabe. We thank you for that.
