MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace ranted on a Tuesday podcast about how devastated she was by President Donald Trump deporting alleged illegal immigrant gang members to a prison in El Salvador.
The Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act to send two planes reportedly holding members of Tren de Aragua (TdA) to El Salvador in March. On “The Bulwark,” host Tim Miller asked what “scares” Wallace “the most” about Trump, with the MSNBC anchor promptly answering “everything” before honing in on the emotional toll it took on her when she consumed media about the deportations.
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“I remember the first day I read about the deportations to El Salvador of the alleged Tren de Aragua members — for whom no evidence was ever presented that they had anything to do with Tren de Aragua,” Wallace said. “And I remember saying … ‘I wish I didn’t feel so gutted. And I wish I could stop thinking about these guys being scared in El Salvador’ … I saw the paid ads that Homeland Security was doing in front of the deportees who were now prisoners at CECOT [Terrorism Confinement Center] and I was gutted.”
“And I think I’m sometimes scared by how much anguish I feel over how they’re treating human beings,” she added. “But I think that if you abandon the anguish, then you carry out horrible things against human beings … I’m scared about how much it bothers me — that so many people are suffering.”
Wallace also claimed on a June 13 episode of “Pod Save America” that Democratic California Sen. Alex Padilla’s forcible removal from a June 12 press conference held by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem was “one of the bleakest days” of her entire anchoring career. She called it “a chilling moment” and argued the incident was indicative of Trump’s authoritarianism.
Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office designating cartels and criminal gangs, such as TdA, as foreign terrorist organizations. El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele verified that his nation received 238 members of TdA and 23 MS-13 members the same day the Trump administration sent them.
The Trump administration in April published a list of names of some of the foreign national criminals and alleged gangbangers it had deported to El Salvador, asserting it included men convicted of rape and other heinous criminal activities.
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