White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller went nuclear on left-wing attorney Andrew Weissman Monday for suggesting that President Donald Trump deporting gang members may be “very unconstitutional.”
Weissman told MSNBC’s Michael Steele Sunday that Trump unjustifiably invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua without facing an immigration or federal court judge. Miller, who referred to Weissman as a “moron” and a “degenerate,” said the MSNBC legal analyst is “shilling for people who rape and murder Americans.”
“Andrew Weissman is an absolute moron. He is a moron, and he is a fool, and he is a degenerate,” Miller said. “Andrew Weissman has devoted his career to putting innocent Americans in jail, taking away their civil liberties. He was involved in the Mueller coup against a democratically elected president, Donald J. Trump. Weissman should never be on TV anywhere. He should hang his head in eternal shame for what he’s done to this country. And now he’s up there shilling for people who rape and murder Americans. That’s who Andrew Weissman is.”
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The legal analyst said during the MSNBC segment that Trump cannot justify the deportations because Venezuela is not invading the U.S., though the Trump administration has argued that Tren de Aragua’s presence in the U.S. is essentially an invasion.
“There is no invasion that is going on, and you also have to show that the people you’re removing are actually part of that gang even if there were an invasion or a war,” Weissman said. “And this statute may in fact be very unconstitutional.”
Miller said the deportations are protecting American citizens and young women, citing the rape and murder of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was strangled to death at the hands of two Venezuelan nationals in Houston, Texas. Other high-profile murders involving illegal immigrants included the deaths of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley and 37-year-old Rachel Morin.
“Tren de Aragua terrorists took that 12-year-old angel, and they tortured her to death. They sexually assaulted her. They stripped her, and they dumped her body in a river. That’s who President Trump has deported from this country,” Miller said. “Behind every single one of those terrorists was another future rape victim, another future sex trafficking victim, another future murder victim. Most importantly, every single one of those people were here illegally. They have no right to be in this country for one second longer. They are illegal aliens. They are foreign terrorists. They’re alien enemies.”
U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg blocked the deportations in a Saturday ruling, though he was informed that the flights were already en route to El Salvador and Honduras. The Trump administration denied that they defied the order, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying Monday that the planes were already outside of U.S. territory when the judge made the ruling.
El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced that his nation received 238 members of Tren de Aragua and 23 MS-13 members, two of whom were ringleaders, from the U.S. The El Salvadoran president agreed to hold the deportees in custody at the Centre for the Confinement of Terrorism for a one- year period following a meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in February.
Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 designating Mexican cartels, Tren de Aragua and other violent gangs as foreign terrorist organizations.
Weissman served as one of the lead investigators on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the now-debunked allegations that Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with the Russian government to influence that year’s election. He had previously donated to Democrats and attended former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s election night watch party in November 2016.
The attorney, who was chief of the Justice Department’s criminal fraud section, also attended a meeting before the 2016 election with Bruce Ohr, the Justice Department official who served as a link between the FBI and Christopher Steele, the former British spy who wrote the debunked anti-Trump dossier.
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