President Donald Trump is an expert troll. This week, he upped his game by dropping information about a deported Maryland man, but only after one Democratic senator made a big show of going to El Salvador to render comfort, aid, and support in getting the illegal alien back to the US. You see, the heartland believes most of the time that immigrants need to come here legally. Also on the wagging tongues ahead of the Easter ham and potatoes was a surprise appearance of karma – which Letitia James now knows exists in real time. Oh, and Trump is being sued again.
Kilmar Was Here
The continued wailing over Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was accidentally deported, spurred a white knight senator from Maryland to hop on a plane in an attempt to save the man. As Sen. Chris Van Hollen was leading the charge to defend and take photos with Kilmar, new information was released to the press: The guy has been accused of being an MS-13 gang member, a wife abuser, and a member of an activist group founded by communists.
President Trump’s top aide, Stephen Miller, went apoplectic:
“That is who the Democrat Party is going to provide aid, solace, and comfort to? Not to Senator Van Hollen’s constituents, like the Morin family. Rachel Morin was viciously beaten, brutally raped, and murdered, and her mother never even got a phone call from Senator Van Hollen. [Or] Kayla Hamilton, a young girl who was attacked in a public restaurant, raped in the bathroom, and beaten to death and murdered by an illegal alien that Joe Biden set free into the country.”
At least the trip wasn’t a total bust. Though El Salvador basically advised Van Hollen to pound sand, he did get the chance to sit down with Kilmar for cocktails. Truck driver Charlie Greene piped up: “All we want from you liberals is the same due process that Martha’s Vineyard has.” Touche.
But this story just gets better: Van Hollen – despite photos and folks on the veranda who witnessed the meeting – claims he didn’t drink a thing. That sounds like an excuse every high schooler has used: Everyone else was drinking but me!
Oh, he lays it on thick, too. Van Hollen continued: “One of the government people came over” and set down two cocktails.
“If you look at the one they put in front of Kilmar, it actually had a little less liquid than the one in front of me — to try to make it look, I assume, like he drank out of it,” Van Hollen added. “Let me just be very clear, neither of us touched the drinks that were in front of us. And, if you want to play a little Sherlock Holmes, I’ll tell you how you can know that. If you look at the video or the picture I sent out from the beginning of our meeting, you’ll see there are no glasses on the table. So, you’ll see in later videos they are on the table.”
Shari Cunningham Hughes from Frisco, TX, was confused: “The margarita drinking is a red herring here. It’s the least of what is wrong with this whole situation. Basically, a public stunt for a congressman who has never reached out to the families of his American citizen constituents when their loved ones were brutally taken away from them.”
In Arlington Heights, IL, Ross Siragusa asked the burning question: “Who puts maraschino cherries on a margarita?”
Somehow, impossibly so, Democratic lawmakers have doubled down on support. Oregon Congresswoman Maxine Dexter is heading to El Salvador to demand the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
The Dish on Tish
The Daily Caller News Foundation is on the scent of something very wrong in Attorney General Letitia James’ home ownership paper trail. After the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) tossed James to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for a look-see into mortgage fraud, the outlet decided to do a little helpful legwork and visited two southern Virginia properties at the center of said claims. Yeah, she doesn’t live there. According to the investigative organization, White Collar Fraud: “In August 2023, James signed a Specific Power of Attorney declaring her intent to make 604 Sterling Street in Norfolk, Virginia her ‘principal residence’—a legally binding statement that may have automatically vacated her position as NY Attorney General under Public Officers Law § 30.”
Other alleged crimes include Phantom and Hidden mortgages. In her 2023 disclosure, James reported two different mortgages – one from Freedom Mortgage ($150,000-$250,000) and one from National Mortgage ($100,000-$150,000) – but a 2025 title search found nada, suggesting they may be fictional.
James is also getting smacked with something called "severe overleveraging" and is on the hot seat for delayed reporting, missing mortgages, and unexplained classification changes. Who has time for all this sneaky stuff? But she is skilled at her craft: Her less-than-squeaky homeownership purchases go back to 1983, where records reveal that Letitia James and her father, Robert James, claimed “husband and wife” status and co-signed a mortgage.
Texan Kurt Krakowian reminded Tish of her own words: “No one's above the law,” but then added an “Lol.”
Suing Trump
On day one of his second term, Donald Trump signed an executive order to ensure that the 37 death row inmates whom the Biden administration granted clemency to would spend their lives in a cage. The president ordered that the 37 inmates be “imprisoned in conditions consistent with the monstrosity of their crimes and the threats they pose.” Most folks find that a fair trade for horrendous and evil crimes committed.
Those inmates have filed a lawsuit with number 47, calling their future conditions unconstitutional. From the Back Forty folks have a saying that sums up the sentiments across the Heartland: You can’t please some people. They’d complain if they were hanged with a new rope.
Various suggestions have been offered, including from Flake Farley in Acworth, GA: “I have a great idea. Overturn the pardon and see how they like that, and pardon me while I go plug in ‘Old Sparky.’"
Next on deck, Ed Wieging of Ohio proffered: “We need to bring back hard labor to earn those three hots and a cot. Shouldn’t cost taxpayers anything to lock them up.”
If it goes south, and they all end up doing hard time at Supermax, you can bet that Sen. Van Hollen will visit and have a cocktail or two to discuss how mean Donald Trump can be. Maybe those pillars of society will end up at Chesapeake Detention Facility (CDF) in Baltimore, where the good senator can make the trip as often as the media will follow him around.
~
Editor's Note: From the Back Forty is Liberty Nation's longest-running and most popular weekly column.
.jpg&w=1920&q=75)
