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Eugene

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Wed May 14, 2025, 11:57 AM Wednesday

Deported inmates taunt and mock Matt Gaetz and GOP delegation visiting El Salvador mega prison for OAN show

Source: The Independent

Deported inmates taunt and mock Matt Gaetz and GOP delegation visiting El Salvador mega prison for OAN show

‘Americans are paying for the Tren de Aragua incarceration. It’s a bargain at $6 million,’ Matt Gaetz declared during his OAN report

Justin Baragona
in New York
Tuesday 13 May 2025 17:08 BST

Disgraced congressman turned MAGA cable host Matt Gaetz led a delegation of Republican lawmakers - and one Democratic congressman - on a visit to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison, where prisoners deported from America heckled and taunted the group as they toured the facility.

Claiming that he is the “first American journalist inside” the ward that holds inmates who are accused of being in the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, Gaetz aired a segment on his One America News show Monday night of his visit to the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT.

Throughout Gaetz’s report, which included the Trump loyalist walking through the halls of the maximum-security facility with several members of Congress, much of the footage focused on the difference in behavior between accused MS-13 members and those incarcerated in the TdA ward.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/matt-gaetz-oan-el-salvador-b2750084.html

Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/deported-inmates-taunt-mock-matt-150602507.html

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