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BumRushDaShow

(161,505 posts)
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 03:14 AM Friday

Kilmar Abrego Garcia cannot get Trump lawyers texts and emails despite Fox News appearance that caught judge's attention

Source: Law & Crime

Oct 9th, 2025, 4:42 pm


The Trump administration is not keen on releasing potentially incriminating information about itself in the ongoing Kilmar Abrego Garcia saga, a new filing in the Maryland man's criminal case shows.

In a seven-page status report filed Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice bristled at discovery requests from the defense. Those requests are directly related to claims the government leveled human smuggling charges against Abrego Garcia as part of a reprisal campaign after his attorneys successfully litigated to have him freed from incarceration in El Salvador and returned stateside.

While addressing some of those arguments in the status report, the DOJ also says it has a "disagreement" with Abrego Garcia's attorneys over several pieces of sought-after information.

Those disagreements concern two categories of "[e]mail, text, and other correspondence" involving President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and current Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche.

Read more: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/does-not-exist-kilmar-abrego-garcia-cannot-get-trump-lawyers-texts-and-emails-despite-fox-news-appearance-that-caught-judges-attention-doj-says/



Full headline: 'Does not exist': Kilmar Abrego Garcia cannot get Trump lawyer's texts and emails despite Fox News appearance that caught judge's attention, DOJ says

Link to FILING (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26184129-usa-v-kag-doj-status-report/

Link to FILING (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26184129/usa-v-kag-doj-status-report.pdf
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia cannot get Trump lawyers texts and emails despite Fox News appearance that caught judge's attention (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Friday OP
The Trump Crime Syndicate does not have to release info which shows their guilt. Irish_Dem Friday #1

Irish_Dem

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1. The Trump Crime Syndicate does not have to release info which shows their guilt.
Fri Oct 10, 2025, 05:10 AM
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They are totally immune from any consequences.

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