Trump irritates with a statement about Justice Minister Pam Bondi

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Trump irritates with words about Justice Minister Bondi

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Before a cabinet meeting on Monday (local time) in the White House, US President Donald Trump triggered irritation with a sexist statement about his Justice Minister Pam Bondi. In the publicly transferred part of the session, Trump first expressed derogatory about the opposition politician Chuck Schumer, who leads the minority of the Democrats in the Senate. “I saw this poor, stupid Chuck Schumer. The guy looks like it has aged a hundred years,” said Trump, triggering laughter in his round of minister.

“But now I don’t want to talk about appearances,” continued Trump. “External appearances don’t count, right? In politics it really doesn’t matter what you look like,” said Trump, before he came up with the Minister of Justice present. “Take a look at Pam, I would never say that she is nice, that would be the end of my career,” joked Trump, who was already convicted of sexual abuse and accused of many other women to have molested and forced them. These recordings spread on social media show the latest scene at the cabinet table:

In social media, Trump’s words about Bondi triggered criticism. “Why is” the first word that Trump comes to mind when he talks about a blonde woman? “, The” Irish Star “quoted a user of the platform X. Another wrote in the direction of Trump:” So you are just a rescue “.

In the case of migrants Kilmar Ábrego García, which was erroneously deported to El Salvador in March and later imprisoned in the USA, has now temporarily stopped its planned deportation to Uganda. Ábrego García’s lawyers submitted a lawsuit against a deportation to the African country on Monday after the 30-year-old was once again arrested by the immigration police (ICE) in Baltimore in the US state of Maryland.

Ábrego García was brought back to the United States in June and was only released on judicial instruction last week. On Monday, Minister of Homeland Protection Kristi NoEM announced again in the online service X Ábrego Garcías. The Ministry of Homeland Protection said that it was “now being prepared for his deportation to Uganda”. Uganda’s government had announced last week to accept rejected asylum seekers from the USA as part of a migration agreement.

The federal judge Paula Xinis temporarily blocked Ábrego Garcías from the USA on Monday. Ábrego García was one of more than 250 people who were deported to El Salvador by the US authorities in March and imprisoned there. He is married to a US citizen and lived in Maryland in the east of the United States until his deportation. His case highlighted a hard action by the Trump government against immigrants and caused a sensation worldwide.