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“Was a mistake” – headwind for Trump from his own party
Updated on April 21, 2025 – 07:54 a.m.Reading time: 44 min.
The US President is criticized in his own party. Trump himself uses his Easter greetings for a settlement with his predecessor. All developments here.
US Vice President JD Vance has arrived in India, accompanied by his family. In the capital of Neu-Delhi there should be a meeting of the deputy of US President Donald Trump with the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The visit will offer both sides the opportunity to exchange ideas about progress in bilateral relationships, as the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. A lot of space is likely to get economic and trade issues, but it should also be about external and security policy developments.
After the security breakdown in a group chat of rank-high US government agents in connection with the air raids in Yemen, Defense Minister Pete Hegseth is apparently involved in another chat incident. Read more about this here.
Judge Samuel Alito from the Supreme Court of the United States criticizes the deportation of the deportation of several Venezuelan men in immigration custody. It is “premature and premature,” he writes in a statement. The court “literally enacted an unprecedented and legally questionable legal remedy in the middle of the night without giving the lower courts the opportunity to make a decision without listening to the counterparty,” it continues.
El Salvador wants to exchange Venezuelans deported from the USA for political prisoners. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele suggests the return of 252 Venezuelans, which were deported to El Salvador by the USA, to their home country. In return, he calls on the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on X to released the same number of El Salvador “political prisoners he holds”. It is unclear whether these will then come to a prison. Read more about the deal here.
The President apparently wants to delete further positions in the US administration. His next goal is to be the diplomatic presence in Africa. Read more about this here.
In the Republican party of US President Donald Trump, there is resistance to his migration policy and his approach to supposed criminals. The Senator John Kennedy from the state of Louisiana particularly criticized Trump’s proposal on Sunday that US citizens also have US citizens’ high-security prisons. Kennedy replied to the question of whether he believed that the law allows Trump to send criminal US citizens to foreign prisons: “No, Ma’am. Neither does it do that, nor should it be considered appropriate or morally. We have our own laws.” The Republican emphasized: “In my opinion, we should not send prisoners to foreign countries.”
High -ranking members of the Republicans have hardly dared to raise their voice against Trump. Kennedy also commented on the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The man from El Salvador had been deported and brought to a high -security prison of his former home. Trump initially claimed that Abrego Garcia was a member of a criminal gang. However, his government later admitted that he was erroneously deported to El Salvador. A judge sentenced the government to obtain the man’s release and bring him back to the USA. The Supreme Court confirmed the demand for release, but called for the judge to clarify the claim for return. The US government rejects the man’s return to the USA.
