'Is the president not telling the truth?', judge asks about Trump's Abrego Garcia comments [View all]

'Is the president not telling the truth?', judge asks about Trump's Abrego Garcia comments
By Luc Cohen and Blake Brittain
May 7, 20257:23 PM EDTUpdated 14 hours ago


WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge pressed a government lawyer on Wednesday on whether Republican President Donald Trump was telling the truth when he said he could secure the return of wrongly deported migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia with a phone call to El Salvador's president.

Washington D.C.-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg asked the question of Justice Department lawyer Abhishek Kambli at a hearing in a different case, in which the government is arguing it cannot obtain custody of some 137 Venezuelan migrants being held in a Salvadoran mega-prison after being deported under an 18th-century wartime law.



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Kambli said some public statements had lacked nuance.

“Is that another way of saying that a number of these statements just aren’t true?” Boasberg said.
Neither the White House nor the Department of Homeland Security immediately responded to requests for comment.

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