MONDAY: Campos-Duffy plays the card again!

MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 2025

Margaritas and human misconduct: On Sunday's morning's Fox & Friends Weekend, Rachel Campos-Duffy got to talking—once again—about Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his alleged margaritas.

On this occasion, as we'll show you below, it got even worse than that.  Before we show you what she said, let's get clear on the state of play as Sunday morning started. 

The background went like this:

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has indeed been in the United States as an "illegal immigrant." He has been living in the United States, without authorization, ever since he was 16 years old.

He has been charged with serious crimes by the Trump DOJ. Here you see the AP's report on the state of play as yesterday morning's Fox & Friends Weekend program came on the air:

US seeks to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he refused plea offer in his smuggling case

Immigration officials said they intend to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he declined an offer to be sent to Costa Rica in exchange for remaining in jail and pleading guilty to human smuggling charges, his defense attorneys told a court Saturday.

The Costa Rica offer came late Thursday and included a requirement that he remain in jail for the time being and then serve whatever sentence he would receive for pleading guilty, according to a brief filed in Tennessee, where the criminal case was brought. After Abrego Garcia left jail on Friday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement notified his attorneys that he would be deported to Uganda and should report to immigration authorities on Monday.

Later on Friday, “the government informed Mr. Abrego that he has until first thing Monday morning—precisely when he must report to ICE’s Baltimore Field Office—to accept a plea in exchange for deportation to Costa Rica, or else that offer will be off the table forever,” his defense attorneys wrote.

He has been charged with a serious crime. Instead of simply putting him on trial in a court of law, then sending him to prison if he's convicted, the Trump administration came up with a better idea:

They wanted him to plead guilty and serve an apparently unspecified prison sentence. After he had served that sentence, he would be deported to Costa Rica, a highly civilized place to land.

Either that, or he would be sent to Uganda, a very different place. This offer came from the same administration which had mistakenly remanded him to one of the world's most notorious prisons in March of this year, then seemed determined to leave him there.

For whatever reason, the administration doesn't seem to want to put him on trial. They were threatening a very challenging deportation if he wasn't willing to plead guilty to serious crimes.

How about it? Has Abrego Garcia committed the crimes with which he's been charged? 

We can't necessarily tell you that! As a general matter, this nation maintains courts of law—featuring judges, lawyers and juries!—to settle questions like that.

The DOJ wanted him to enter a guilty plea—a plea he didn't want to make. That was the state of play as Campos-Duffy and a pair of simpering colleagues turned up on the air. 

Campos-Duffy said that Abrego Garcia is "clearly guilty." Except for the word "clearly," she could of course be right! 

On the other hand, it will be hard to maintain an American nation when our most-watched "cable news" channel insists on paying people of Campos-Duffy's caliber to peddle such foofaw as this:

CAMPOS-DUFFY (8/24/25): He could have pled guilty to human smuggling, which he did! He was in a vehicle with a bunch of illegal aliens. There was no luggage—it was obvious what was happening. 

He said he's not in a gang, but he has gang tattoos. He said he's not in a gang, but "I couldn't be sent to a certain prison because, you know, the gangs were going to, you know, retaliate against me because I'm not in a gang."

It doesn't make any sense. None of it makes sense. I mean, as he was picking up the margarita glass, there were tattoo signs on his fingers!

So this guy is clearly guilty, and he is definitely an illegal alien. And they offered him to go to Costa Rica, a place not far from his own home country of El Salvador, And he said, "No, I'm not going to plead guilty. I'm not going to Costa Rica." So his option is Uganda!

The pseudo-discussion continued from there. To watch the whole thing, just click here, then continue to click.

Is Abrego Garcia guilty as charged? He certainly may be! Also, it's true that he was in this country without authorization. On that basis, he was therefore subject to deportation every step of the way.

Does he have a right to a trial on the charges before him? Not necessarily, no. To which we'll append a second question:

Does the Fox News Channel have the right to put people like Campos-Duffy on the air?

As we've noted in the past, Campos Duffy is remarkably genial—among her own. She's also a bit of a religionist, and an apparent true believer of the tribal kind.

She has been misstating basic facts about this case ever since the case became a high-profile news event. She's allowed to do that 1) because it serves the corporate messaging interest, and 2) because our tribunes here in Blue America simply don't care enough to report or discuss such endless public misconduct.

As we noted on Saturday, Campos Duffy played the margarita card on that day's show, then she played it again on Sunday. Her willingness to continue doing such things is an insult to what little is left of the American interest.

Right from the start, she has been saying that Abrego Garcia's story about danger from gangs in El Salvador "doesn't make sense." As anyone who has bothered to read the background material knows, his actual story about the gangs did in fact make perfect sense, whether it was true or not.

(The immigration judge who ruled that he couldn't be deported to El Salvador understood the basics of the story and seemed to believe it was true.)

At this point, the yak about the tattoos is embarrassing. The playing of the margarita card is an insult to the American interest.

Campos-Duffy can, and does, keep this up for four hours straight. A modern nation can't function this way—not with this conduct from Red America, and not with the utter lack of interest shown by our own Blue elites.

Abrego Garcis may be guilty as charged (or not). Campos Duffy plainly is, along with her simpering friends!