Dem Rep Not Exactly Jumping For Joy Over Biden’s Public Return

CNN host Jessica Dean asked Democratic California Rep. Ro Khanna on Tuesday whether former President Joe Biden delivering a public speech for the first time since leaving office would actually help his party.

Biden is slated for a Tuesday evening speech in Chicago that will cover the significance of Social Security, according to The Washington Post. Khanna, on “CNN News Central,” declined to answer whether Biden’s speech would be “helpful,” but expressed hope that the former president would advocate “for due process of the law” and pivoted to criticize President Donald Trump’s administration for deporting alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia.

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“I know that you have repeatedly recently said about the Democratic Party that the old guard isn’t cutting it,” Dean said. “Do you think it’s helpful for former President Biden to be speaking right now?”

“Well, he’s a former president. He certainly can speak. And hopefully he’ll speak out for due process of the law,” Khanna said. “What the Trump administration is doing is unconscionable by defying the Supreme Court, by not doing anything to bring Abrego back. I mean, they sent Abrego to El Salvador and this prison. It’s not that Abrego was abducted by El Salvador. They need to direct El Salvador to return him.”

The Trump administration mistakenly deported Garcia to his home nation of El Salvador. The Supreme Court ruled that America should “facilitate” his return, but the Trump administration is