THURSDAY: "Let me repeat myself," she said!

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2025

There Judge Jeanine went again: Judge Jeanine—that's Judge Jeanine Pirro to you—simply refuses to quit. 

On Monday's edition of The Five, she waved her arms and tugged on her fingers as she offered an angry, bogus account of the Abrego Garcia case. 

Why wasn't Abrego Garcia returned to his native El Salvador back in 2019? As we noted yesterday, this is what she (inaccurately) said during Monday's program:

JUDGE JEANINE (4/21/25): Why was the hold put on the 2019 order of deportation that was affirmed by the immigration appellate court? Because he was afraid his life is jeopardized by a rival gang in El Salvador. 

Now, listen to what I just said—"because of a rival gang." What better proof that you are a member of MS-13 than you're afraid to go back to your own country because of a rival gang will kill you?

Okay? That is proof positive! That's his admission! Everybody's like just ignoring it!

So that's why there was a hold. This whole thing is a game. The reason the Dems are in a hole is because they don’t know what they were doing. They don’t know the law. They don’t know the facts. They are just swinging around aimlessly.

As usual, the judge was disgusted. According to the Fox News Channel star, Abrego Garcia couldn't be returned to his native El Salvador "because he was afraid his life [was] jeopardized by a rival gang" in that country.

The judge took that as perfect proof that Abrego Carcia actually was a member of MS-13. We quote her world-class logic:

What better proof that you're a member of MS-13 than you're afraid to go back to your own country because of a rival gang will kill you?

That would make perfect sense if Abrego Garcia had ever said that he feared an attack by "a rival gang." Unfortunately, the court record concerning this case offers no sign that any such thing by anyone involved in this case.. 

As you can see by clicking this link, the official court record is vastly different. In his written opinion, Judge David Jones gave a detailed account of the testimony he had received from Abrego Garcia and his family members in El Salvador. 

True to form, Judge Jeanine was offering an invented account of what Abrego Garcia and his family members had actually said. Along the way, Judge Jones—the actual judge in this case—said he found Abrego Garcia's statements to be credible and internally consistent.

(To read Judge Jones' written opinion, you can just click that link. It doesn't comport, in any way, with the portrait the "cable news" judge had drawn.)

True to form, the "cable news" judge had offered an invented account of what had been claimed in the case—but then again, so what? Two days later, on yesterday's edition of The Five, having had two days to think it through, there she went again!

JUDGE JEANINE (4/23/25): ...Abrego Garcia, in El Salvador, was found to be a proper target of deportation. The only issue was the withholding order. 

The withholding order—again, I will repeat myself—it's only because, as a member of MS-13, he had enemies in El Salvador who wanted to kill him and therefore there was a hold order to not send him there because, as a gang member, he would be killed by the other gang members. That's the only issue with Abrego Garcia!

Gesticulating convincingly, the TV judge went there again. "Again, I will repeat myself," she grandiosely said.

For the record, it's true! Judge Jones did grant a "withholding order"—an order saying that Abrego Garcia could not be sent back to El Salvador. That's the order which was ignored last month, allegedly due to "administrative error."

Judge Jones did say that Abrego Garcia had a legitimate fear of serious harm from the Barrio 18 gang if he was returned to El Salvador. But nothing—zero, nada, zilch—was ever said about Abrego Garcia being afraid of Barrio 18 because he himself was a member of MS-13. 

Nothinmg was said about him being a member of any gang. As anyone can see by reading the written opinion, that simply wasn't the nature of the threat or the fear.

That isn't the story Judge Jones was told. It bears no resemblance to the state of affairs he described in his detailed court order—but then again, so what?

"Again, I will repeat myself," the oracular TV judge proclaimed on yesterday's "cable news" program. Once again, her presentation was utterly bogus on this, the most watched show in the whole realm of "cable news."

This is the soul of this phony "news" show. As Michael Moore once prophetically said, "We live in fictitious times."