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Raw Story: CNN fact checker cuts Trump off as he launches into 'little biography' of jailed immigrant
Raw Story - CNN fact checker cuts Trump off as he launches into 'little biography' of jailed immigrant
Jennifer Bowers Bahney
April 18, 2025 2:48PM ET
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"When Garcia was originally arrested, he was wearing a sweatshirt with rolls of money pouring out and MS-13 gang symbols," Trump read. Trump also read from Abrego Garcia's wife's domestic violence protective order.
CNN cut into the press conference, with anchor Dana Bash introducing correspondent Priscilla Alvarez to "fact-check" the president.
"It's a lot more complicated than that," Bash said of Trump's list.
"I have reviewed the same things that I believe the president has reviewed based on how he described them," Alvarez said. "On the judges and MS-13 ties, what he's referring to, there is two rulings by immigration judges when [Abrego Garcia] was taken into custody by ICE and he had been asking for bond."
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Jennifer Bowers Bahney
April 18, 2025 2:48PM ET
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"When Garcia was originally arrested, he was wearing a sweatshirt with rolls of money pouring out and MS-13 gang symbols," Trump read. Trump also read from Abrego Garcia's wife's domestic violence protective order.
CNN cut into the press conference, with anchor Dana Bash introducing correspondent Priscilla Alvarez to "fact-check" the president.
"It's a lot more complicated than that," Bash said of Trump's list.
"I have reviewed the same things that I believe the president has reviewed based on how he described them," Alvarez said. "On the judges and MS-13 ties, what he's referring to, there is two rulings by immigration judges when [Abrego Garcia] was taken into custody by ICE and he had been asking for bond."
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