MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace Rants About How ‘Gutted’ She Felt After Trump Deported Alleged Gang Members

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 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 “