Earlier this year, the Media Research Center was in full Trump Regime Media mode in sticking to the Trump-approved script that undocumented immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a gangbanger and human trafficker (without providing actual evidence, of course) and ignoring that he wasn’t supposed to be deported in the first place. That blithe disregard for the facts continued.
In a May 1 post, Curtis Houck gushed that Trump official Stephen Miller delivered “barn-burning remarks” at a White House press briefing, including baselessly smearing Abrego Garcia as “this MS-13 terrorist.”
Justine Brooke Murray spent a May 4 post being mad that a Democratic congresswoman wouldn’t take the bait from a right-wing media outlet:
Squad member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) couldn’t answer why all her Democrat colleagues are taking publicity trips to hang out with an alleged MS-13 alien deported back to El Salvador. Instead, she cursed out the reporter who politely questioned her.
“Do you think more of your Democratic colleagues should travel to El Salvador to advocate on behalf of Kilmar Abrego Garcia?” asked Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Myles Morell, as Omar was walking near the Capitol building.
“I think you should f*ck off,” she replied.
“I’m sorry, what, Congresswoman?” pressed the baffled reporter.
“F*ck off,” she repeated.
“Who?”
“You.”
“Why me?” asked Morell, to no response.
The nasty woman and her juvenile entourage of DEI types smugly marched away.
Murray didn’t mention the that Daily Caller’s right-wing bias was behind the question, or that the reporter’s alleged politeness is irrelevant. She also offered no evidence to back up her claim that Omar’s employees are “DEI types,” aside from apparently not being white males.
The same day, Jorge Bonilla cheered that Trump was obsessed with Abrego Garcia during an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker:
After an exchange on small business, the interview shifts to immigration, and to continued advocacy for MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego García. The most interesting part of the exchange is not Welker’s continued advocacy, but what DIDN’t make it to air on Meet the Press, to wit: Trump’s mention of piling domestic violence evidence against Abrego Garcia.
[…]After staking their credibility on Abrego Garcia and being humiliated for it, the media appear to have decided to collectively memory-hole the story in service of other, friendlier narrative victims to be exploited in support of the preservation of open borders.
Like Murray, Bonilla failed to mention that Abrego Garcia was not supposed to be deported in the first place.
Bonilla went off on Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who visited Abrego Garcia in prison in El Salvador, in a May 18 post: “For Van Hollen (and Brennan, at least on process grounds), the week’s developments provide a welcome break from having to advocate for migrant gangbangers such as ‘Maryland Dad’ Kilmar Abrego Garcia, still detained in El Salvador.” Bonilla offered no proof of Abrego Garcia being a “gangbanger.”
Brad Wilmouth spent a May 29 post grumbling that the treatment of Abrego Garcia was likened to that of people kidnapped by terrorists:
MSNBC personalities are still fixated on defending alleged MS-13 member and wife beater Kilmar Abrego Garcia with host Michael Steele on Tuesday comparing him to American citizens kidnapped by terrorists and MSNBC contributor Maria Hinojosa recently predicting that he will be seen as a “national hero.”
On The Weeknight show on MSNBC, co-host Michael Steele compared Abrego Garcia to journalists arrested by Vladimir Putin in Russia or American citizens kidnapped in the Middle East.
Speaking with Congressman Glenn Ivey about the Maryland Democrat’s recent trip to El Salvador in which he was not allowed by prison officials to see Abrego Garcia, Steele seemed to hint that the Donald Trump administration had treated the deportee similarly to how terrorists treat kidnapped Americans.
[…]It was not mentioned that Abrego Garcia has previously been accused by his wife of violently abusing her before she began pushing for his return to the U.S.
Wilmouth did not mention that Abrego Garcia was not supposed to be deported in the first place. Why is the MRC so desperate to avoid bringing up that inconvenient fact?