Donald Trump’s lesbian niece, Mary Trump, has issued a warning to all Americans in light of her uncle’s abhorrent treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an immigrant whom the Trump administration wrongly kidnapped without any due process and sent to an El Salvador prison known for its human rights violations. 

The administration has repeatedly claimed, without any evidence, that Abrego Garcia is a terrorist gang member and refuses to bring him back despite court orders demanding he do so. This includes a 9-0 decision by the conservative Supreme Court mandating that the administration facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return.

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“Trump is finally doing what he’s been gearing up to do,” Mary Trump wrote, “and in fact, what he’s been telling us he’s going to do since the first Trump administration: he’s openly defying the courts and essentially rendering the rule of law inoperative.”

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“The Trump regime has made it clear it will not be following court orders and will, in fact, direct [Department of Justice] attorneys to obfuscate, delay, and deliberately misinterpret judge’s instructions,” she continued, slamming the “egregious upending of the Consitutional order” her uncle has brought.

“The judiciary is a [co-equal] branch of government designed to act as a check on the executive branch, among other things. But since the Trump regime has come into power, that order has been consistently and brazenly challenged.”

She expressed disgust at Trump and his advisor, Stephen Miller, for recently claiming that the Supreme Court had ruled 9-0 in favor of the administration and slammed Trump’s continued spin of what the White House originally admitted was an administrative error that led to Abrego Garcia’s deportation.

“The spin regarding Abrego Garcia’s status that’s now coming out of the Trump White House and DOJ has escalated rapidly and gotten increasingly dark. All of it is in service of justifying their unjustifiable illegal deportations.”

She expounded on the White House’s allegations that Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang, which has not been proven true. She also addressed press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s accusations that he is a domestic abuser, sharing a statement from his wife about a civil protective order she filed in 2021 after a fight – one on which she did not follow through. In the statement, she called him a “loving partner and father” and said their disagreement “is not a justification” for what the government has done to him.

“Yes, none of what Leavitt says about Mr. Abrego Garcia is true, but it feels that we’ve arrived at a place where that is almost beside the point,” Mary Trump said.

She quoted former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance, who said it doesn’t actually matter whether Abrego Garcia is a “criminal or saint” (though he has no criminal record) because the point is that he was denied his due process rights, to which everyone is entitled in this country whether they have comitted a crime or not.

“That’s why it’s utterly reprehensible that Pam Bondi would demean the office she holds to try to convince Americans that this is a bad guy,” Vance said. “He might be. Although the evidence linking him to gangs is passably weak and seems suspect, it could be the truth. Even if it is, it doesn’t excuse what the government is doing. It doesn’t make it right for the woman who heads the Justice Department to refuse to follow a federal judge’s orders. It makes it worse.”

Mary Trump reiterated, “None of the things that this White House is making up about Abrego Garcia constitutes a reason to deny him those rights.” She warned all Americans that if this can happen to him, it can happen to any of us.

“If they can turn a Maryland resident, husband, and father who lives here legally and has no criminal record and no credible connections to a gang into a terrorist and then deny him his habeas rights, they can do this to anybody. Including you. And including me.”

“Because if one person in this country is denied due process, due process does not exist in any meaningful way.”

Some experts do worry that the president may eventually kidnap American citizens who oppose his agenda. In fact, Republican politicians and administration officials have said that protestors who support Palestinians or Abrego Garcia are providing “material support to terrorism” and could be punished for doing so.

The entire ordeal has created a constitutional crisis in which the president ignores and defies the judicial branch of government, congressional Republicans do nothing to check his power, and the judiciary finds itself unable to enforce its rulings since the Department of Justice has been staffed with loyalists to the president.

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