'Grandstander!!!' Trump rages at Democratic senator for visiting wrongfully deported dad

President Donald Trump on Friday angrily lashed out at Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) after he made a trip to El Salvador to confirm the well being of Kilmar Abrega Garcia, an immigrant whom the Trump Department of Justice acknowledged had been wrongfully deported to the country.

Writing on his Truth Social page, the president accused Van Hollen of engaging in an empty publicity stunt, despite the fact that he succeeded on Thursday night in meeting with Garcia and confirming that he was alive and unharmed.

"Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland looked like a fool yesterday standing in El Salvador begging for attention from the Fake News Media, or anyone," Trump fumed. "GRANDSTANDER!!!"

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Trump and his administration have in the interpretation of experts been defying an order from the United States Supreme Court to facilitate Garcia's return to the United States, although so far no court has yet moved to hold the administration in contempt for its defiance.

Trump this week floated the idea of sending American citizens to El Salvador and even told El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele that he should construct five additional megaprisons to house "home-grown" American criminals.