{"id":1531258,"date":"2025-04-19T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1531258"},"modified":"2025-04-19T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T20:15:00","slug":"why-is-maryland-senator-defending-ms-13-gangbanger-while-state-falls-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/why-is-maryland-senator-defending-ms-13-gangbanger-while-state-falls-apart\/1531258\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Maryland Senator Defending MS-13 Gangbanger While State Falls Apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Why Is Maryland Senator Defending MS-13 Gangbanger While State Falls Apart<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><strong>GOP analyst Scott Jennings<\/strong> appeared on CNN late Friday,\u00a0weighing in on the mounting backlash slapping Democrats in the face this past week after\u00a0<strong>far-left Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen\u00a0flew to El Salvador on the taxpayers&#8217; dime\u2014where he met at a resort with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/human-trafficking-too-biden-admin-flagged-deported-el-salvadoran-suspect-alien\">violent<\/a> Salvadoran national<\/strong> recently deported from the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the \u201cdeath camps\u201d &amp; \u201ctorture\u201d, now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!\ud83c\udf79 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/r6VWc6Fjtn\">pic.twitter.com\/r6VWc6Fjtn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nayib Bukele (@nayibbukele) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nayibbukele\/status\/1913028548001923259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Listening to\u00a0Van Hollen explaining how you came to be sipping\u00a0margaritas with an MS-13 gangbanger who had lived illegally in the United States for 14 years before he was finally deported &#8211; you&#8217;re losing &#8211; you&#8217;re losing optically &#8211; you&#8217;re losing politically &#8211; and I assume the people of Maryland are wondering: Why doesn&#8217;t this guy [senator] work this hard for us as he does for this guy [Salvadoran national],<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0Jennings said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jennings has a great point<\/strong>: <em>Why is the far-left senator working overtime for a deported gangbanger while Maryland implodes financially under\u00a0Democratic leadership?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/maryland-dems-lose-all-sense-reality-focus-condoms-kids-reparations-crises-pile\">Maryland Dems Lose All Sense Of Reality: Focus On Condoms For Kids, Reparations As Crises Pile Up<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/far-left-maryland-lawmakers-pass-reparations-bill-while-financial-crisis-looms\">Far-Left Maryland Lawmakers Pass Reparations Bill While Financial Crisis Looms<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/maryland-democrats-clearly-denial-state-races-twin-crisises\">Maryland Democrats &#8220;Clearly In Denial&#8221; As State Faces Twin Crises<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/self-created-hole-education-reforms-push-maryland-toward-financial-cliff\">&#8220;Self-Created Hole&#8221;: Education Reforms Push Maryland Toward Financial Cliff<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/commodities\/maryland-democrats-spark-power-bill-crisis-backfiring-extremist-green-policies\">Maryland Democrats&#8217; &#8216;Extremist&#8217; Green Agenda Sparks Power Bill Crisis Crippling Households<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Maryland Democrats, sitting high in their Annapolis castle<\/strong>, appear completely detached from the state&#8217;s deteriorating financial condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, these far-left activists masquerading as politicians\u00a0focused on pushing a bill to install condom machines in elementary schools; more recently, they passed legislation to establish a reparations committee aimed at advancing\u00a0toxic Marxist ideology. These activist politicians have failed Marylanders as the crises pile up:<\/p>\n<p><em>A <\/em><strong><em>worsening power crisis<\/em><\/strong><em> driven by failed green policies, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>a <\/em><strong><em>massive budget deficit<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>looming credit downgrades<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>rising recession risks<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>violent crime<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>illegal alien mess<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>a <\/em><strong><em>broken state economy<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>the <\/em><strong><em>threat of a population exodus<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>and the <\/em><strong><em>looming tsunami of tax hikes<\/em><\/strong><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Hollen&#8217;s<\/strong> action has made one thing clear: illegal aliens &gt;\u00a0&#8220;Maryland First&#8221; or &#8220;America First&#8221; \u2014 and that&#8217;s precisely the problem with <strong>today&#8217;s rudderless\u00a0Democratic Party<\/strong>. They&#8217;ve failed to grasp how the Overton Window dramatically shifted last year toward putting the nation first and restoring national security.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Maryland Man&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2025-04-19_09-32-55.png?itok=vwdT0l6O\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jennings concluded: &#8220;<strong>The American people elected Trump to deport illegal aliens<\/strong>. They especially elected him to deport people who are affiliated with very violent, transnational gangs that we now characterize as terrorist organizations. The American people are behind the president. <strong>And Democrats like\u00a0Van Hollen look ridiculous<\/strong>, standing up him [MS-13 gangbanger] more than he stands up for the people of the United States of America.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Joined <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cnn<\/a> tonight after listening to a clip of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisVanHollen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ChrisVanHollen<\/a> explaining that he wasn\u2019t actually sipping margaritas in El Salvador with an MS-13 gangbanger who, until recently, was living illegally in the US for 14 years! What a joke. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FK0RWWsU9O\">pic.twitter.com\/FK0RWWsU9O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottJenningsKY\/status\/1913440123611471975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>.\u00a0 \u00a0.\u00a0 \u00a0.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sat, 04\/19\/2025 &#8211; 12:15<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/why-margarita-sipping-maryland-senator-defending-ms-13-gangbanger-while-state-falls-apart\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/why-margarita-sipping-maryland-senator-defending-ms-13-gangbanger-while-state-falls-apart<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Is Maryland Senator Defending MS-13 Gangbanger While State Falls Apart GOP analyst Scott Jennings appeared on CNN late Friday,\u00a0weighing in on the mounting backlash&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1531259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1531259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}