Group Demands Ethics Probe into Dem pol who flew to El Salvador to aid suspected MS-13 Member
A conservative watchdog is demanding an ethics probe into
Sen. Chris Van Hollen for allegedly “assisting a foreign terrorist organization” by going to El Salvador to try to help free
an accused MS-13 gangbanger.
The American Accountability Foundation fired off a letter to Senate leaders Thursday underscoring the Trump administration’s
accusations about Kilmar Abrego Garcia having ties to the barbaric transnational gang and demanding that the Senate refuse to pay for the trip by Van Hollen (D-Md.).
“Mr. Abrego-Garcia is essentially an enemy combatant in the ongoing invasion of the United States by transnational gangs,” AAF President Thomas Jones wrote to the heads of the Senate Ethics Committee and Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) in a letter obtained by The Post.
“Despite the overwhelming evidence, Senator Van Hollen decided that he would use Senate funds to fly to El Salvador and advocate for an enemy of the United States,” the letter said.
The Trump administration also claimed in court documents that the 29-year-old is “confirmed to be a ranking member of the MS-13 gang by a proven and reliable source.” On Wednesday, the Justice Department released a police report also suggesting Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13.
The
Trump administration alleges that Abrego Garcia was discovered having “rolls of cash and drugs” when he was detained and that he had been “arrested with two other members of MS-13.”
White House press secretary Karolin Leavitt ripped Van Hollen’s actions as “appalling” during a press event Wednesday and introduced Patty Morin, whose daughter Rachel was savagely raped and murdered by an illegal migrant in 2023. Rachel Morin was a Maryland constituent.
“To have a senator from Maryland who didn’t even acknowledge or barely acknowledged my daughter and the brutal death that she endured, leaving her five children without a mother, to use my tax money to fly to El Salvador to bring back a person … I just don’t understand this,” Patty Morin lamented during her somber remarks.
The American Accountability Foundation fired off a letter to Senate leaders Thursday underscoring the Trump administration’s accusations about Kilmar Abrego Garcia having ties to the barbaric…
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