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I'm disappointed that the senator wasn't willing to cause an international incident over this. Like handcuffing himself to Kilmar and leading him back to his plane, daring the el salvador cops to do something about it.
That's a hell of a gamble with Trump as the president lol
I agree and I admit that it's easy for me to say from my actual armchair, but I think he could have gotten away with it. Being a US Senator is a hell of a shield.
I don't think so. The worst they'd do is arrest him, and cut the handcuffs then deport him back to the US. Theyre not gonna risk actually harming a US senator over something like that. So what does he have to lose really.
He would certainly be censured by his fellow senators and probably lose his seat. Those were the material consequences he was avoiding
Whats the point of having a senate seat if ur not gonna do something with it anyway
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I couldn’t think of how he’d do it, I thought it would be hard.
But no, that would have been pretty easy actually.