El Salvador President Nayib Bukele Calls the Idea of Returning the Maryland Man Deported in Error 'Preposterous'

TIME

President Donald Trump is hosting Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House on Monday as the small Central American nation becomes a critical lynchpin of the U.S. administration’s mass deportation operation.

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00:00Can President Bukele weigh in on this? Do you plan to return him?

00:03Well, I'm supposed to be suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States, right?

00:08How can I smuggle, how can I return him to the United States?

00:12Like, I smuggle him into the United States, or whether I do it, of course, I'm not going to do it.

00:17It's like, I mean, the question is preposterous.

00:20How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?

00:23I don't have the power to return him to the United States.

00:26So you can release him inside the Taliban?

00:28Yeah, but I'm not releasing, I mean, we're not very fond of releasing terrorists into our country.

00:32I mean, we just turned the murder capital of the world into the safest country in the Western Hemisphere,

00:35and you want us to go back into the releasing criminals so we can go back to being the murder capital of the world?

00:41No, that's not going to happen.

00:43Well, they'd love to have a criminal, you know, released into our country.

00:46I mean, there's a fascination.

00:48They would love it.

00:49Yeah.

00:50These are sick people.

00:51Well, Mr. President, you said that if the Supreme Court said someone needed to be returned, that you would abide by that.

00:56You said that on Air Force One just a few days ago.

00:58Why don't you just say, isn't it wonderful that we're keeping criminals out of our country?

01:02Why can't you just say that?

01:04Why do you go over and over?

01:06And that's why nobody watches you anymore.

01:08You know, you have no credibility.

01:10Please go ahead.

01:10All right.

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