“Pod Save America” hosts Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer slammed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for downplaying and dismissing Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s mistaken deportation as a “distraction.”
The governor scoffed throughout a press convention Wednesday when a reporter requested him to touch upon the case of Abrego Garcia, who was deported to El Salvador as a consequence of what the Division of Justice admitted was an “administrative error.”
“, that is the distraction of the day,” Newsom stated. “The artwork of distraction. Don’t get distracted by distractions, we are saying, and right here we zig and zag. That is the talk they need,” he stated.
Favreau responded to Newsom’s remarks on Friday’s episode, stating, “My head’s gonna fucking pop off my physique.”
The Trump administration is “disappearing folks to a dungeon in El Salvador,” he stated on the outset of the episode, including, “They don’t get a trial, they don’t get any contact with a lawyer or their households, they might by no means go away alive. And Trump says he’s trying into sending Americans there subsequent.”
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Newsom first made his remarks at a press convention on Wednesday whereas asserting his lawsuit towards President Donald Trump over “chaotic and haphazard” tariffs.
Whereas the governor did name Abrego Garcia’s deportation “Orwellian,” noting that “when a decide adjudicates, it’s not a query,” he continued to characterize it as a GOP sideshow.
“It’s precisely the talk [Republicans] need as a result of they don’t need this debate on the tariffs,” he stated.
Pfeiffer argued that whereas “tariffs, inflation, financial chaos, market drops, tax cuts for billionaires, cuts to Medicaid” are “probably the most persuasive message in all of the polling,” Democrats nonetheless “look cowardly, calculating and fucking ridiculous” by backing down on Abrego Garcia’s case.
“If our response to the daddy and husband of a U.S. citizen being despatched illegally in defiance of a Supreme Court docket order to a overseas gulag is to vomit up some poll-tested speaking factors about tariffs, to show our again to it — like, that’s absurd,” Pfeiffer added.
“Who’re we and what will we stand for if we do this?” he requested.
He added there’s “a lot on the road” and argued that “the concept that Democrats lose each time we discuss immigration is such discovered helplessness.”
“We didn’t lose on immigration as a result of we talked about folks like Kilmar Albrego Garcia an excessive amount of, we misplaced as a result of we ceded the difficulty to Donald Trump,” Pfeiffer stated.
Favreau and Pfeiffer’s feedback about Newsom start on the 26-minute mark within the video under.