'Strange breed of liar': JD Vance slammed as he demonizes innocent man sent to El Salvador

The Trump administration has already admitted that it deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a legally protected immigrant in Maryland, to an infamous megaprison in El Salvador by mistake — but Vice President J.D. Vance is doubling down on insisting otherwise.

According to The Atlantic, "The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return from the megaprison where he’s now locked up.

The case appears to be the first time the Trump administration has admitted to errors when it sent three planeloads of Salvadoran and Venezuelan deportees to El Salvador’s grim "Terrorism Confinement Center" on March 15.

This comes amid several allegations, which the Trump administration denies, that some people were targeted for arrest and deportation solely because they had tattoos, with one baker in Dallas purportedly being targeted over an autism awareness tattoo.

Even though administration lawyers have acknowledged the error, however, Vance is publicly insisting on social media that Garcia was in fact a member of the infamous Central American MS-13 gang — citing as evidence court records that do not in fact say this.

"Any comment on this, @marcorubio? How about you, @JDVance? @elonmusk? You just admitted to accidentally sending an innocent father from Maryland to a torture dungeon in El Salvador. And you refuse to do anything about it," stated podcaster Jon Favreau on X. To which Vance responded, "My comment is that according to the court document you apparently didn’t read he was a convicted MS-13 gang member with no legal right to be here. My further comment is that it’s gross to get fired up about gang members getting deported while ignoring citizens they victimize."

Vance also attacked Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney, who was covering the story, as "unable or unwilling to look at the facts," adding that "in 2019, an Immigration Judge (under the Biden administration) determined that the deported man was, in fact, a member of the MS-13 gang."

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"Vance is badly wrong here," wrote attorney Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council. "In 2019, a police informant alleged the guy was in MS-13. He spent a year in ICE detention as a result, then won his case. He’s been out for the last five years, married to a U.S. citizen, has two kids, and STILL has no criminal record at all."

"JD Vance needs to work on his reading comprehension because the court document says HE WAS NEVER CONVICTED OF BEING A GANG MEMBER and the Trump administration itself admits he was only deported due to an ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR," wrote political analyst Judd Legum. "This is cruelty and incompetence resulting in moral catastrophe."

"Vance is such a strange breed of liar because it's precisely his appeal to facts and his desire to appear in command of them that trips him up and allows him to be caught," wrote former New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff.