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Obama-Appointed Judge Argues ‘Nazis Got Better Treatment’ Than Deported Tren De Aragua Gang Members

(L-R) In this handout photo provided by the Salvadoran government, inmates allegedly linked to criminal organizations knee on the ground at CECOT on March 16, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (Salvadoran Government via Getty Images) / (Center) Circuit Judge Patricia Millett. (Photo via: American Law Institute)

OAN Staff Blake Wolf
4:33 PM – Monday, March 24, 2025

A Barack Obama-appointed federal judge slammed President Donald Trump, claiming that the United States treated Nazis better during World War II than the Trump administration has treated Venezuelan gang members.

In 2013, Obama nominated Patricia Millett to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Judge Millett’s comments were in reference to the over 200 Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang members who were deported last week — which was carried out through the Alien Enemies Act.

“Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States. TdA operates in conjunction with Cártel de los Soles, a Nicolas Maduro regime-sponsored, narco-terrorism enterprise based in Venezuela, and commits brutal crimes, including murders, kidnappings, extortions, and human, drug, and weapons trafficking,” the White House stated.

The judge explained her thoughts on the matter.

“There were plane loads of people. There were no procedures in place to notify people,” Millett asserted, grilling a Justice Department lawyer over the deportation of illegal immigrants.

“Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemy Act than has happened here,” she continued. “There’s no regulations, and nothing was adopted by the agency officials that were administering this. People weren’t given notice. They weren’t told where they were going. They were given those people on those planes on that Saturday and had no opportunity to file habeas or any type of action to challenge their removal.”

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign responded soon after, stating, “Well, Your Honor, we certainly dispute the Nazi ideology,” pointing out that some of the individuals were able to file habeas petitions.

A habeas petition is a legal filing individuals can make to challenge the legality of their detention — where a court will determine if their detainment was justified under the law.

District Judge James Boasberg, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, also temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s ability to deport illegals from the country under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15th.

Boasberg also denied the federal government’s request to lift the temporary hold on deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, claiming that the deported individuals are up against a “likelihood of potential torture.”

“In Salvadoran prisons, deportees are reportedly ‘highly likely to face immediate and intentional life-threatening harm at the hands of state actors,’” he wrote. “As the government itself concedes, the awesome power granted by the Act may be brought to bear only on those who are, in fact, ‘alien enemies.’”

Meanwhile, the Trump administration has requested the appeals court to intervene and are expected to issue a decision in the coming days.

Millett continued, explaining to Ensign that she “feels like there was no time” for the individuals to challenge the detentions, and “were only able to [file] because the district court froze things.”

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Lindsey Graham: Halting Ukraine Aid Would Be ‘Worse Than Afghanistan’

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., listens during the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett (Photo by Susan Walsh-Pool/Getty Images)

OAN Staff Blake Wolf
2:05 PM – Sunday, March 9, 2025

GOP Senator Lindsey Graham warned on Sunday that ending Ukrainian aid would be “worse than Afghanistan.”

“The goal is to end the war honorably and justly. You know, Zelensky blew it in the White House. We’ve been working on this minerals deal for a very long time, but we are where we are. Yes, I am worried about cutting off intelligence and weapons to Ukraine as long as the fighting is going on. If we pull the plug on Ukraine it would be worse than Afghanistan,” Graham stated.

“I don’t think President Trump has any desire to do that, but until we have a ceasefire, I would give Ukraine what they need in terms of intelligence and weapons to defend themselves,” he continued.

Graham’s (R-S.C.) comments follow after President Donald Trump announced a freeze on Ukrainian aid and intelligence sharing in an attempt to pressure Kyiv into a peace deal.

Graham’s reference to Afghanistan was pointing towards the Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan in August of 2021, which ended up killing 13 servicemembers and injuring another 45, along with the deaths of 170 Afghan civilians.

“In terms of Russia, I’ll be introducing sanctions on their banking sector and their energy sector next week, urging them to get to the table,” Graham added. “If they don’t engage in ceasefire and peace talks with the administration, we should sanction the hell out of them.”

The call for economic sanctions follows after President Donald Trump warned Russia on Friday that he would place sanctions and tariffs on Russia until a peace deal is agreed upon.

“Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely ‘pounding’ Ukraine on the battlefield right now, I am strongly considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia until a Cease Fire and FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON PEACE IS REACHED. For Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now, before it is too late. Thank you!!!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

Peace negotiations have proven difficult following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the White House on February 28th, which ended in a shouting match between Zelensky and President Trump.

Trump accused Zelensky of “gambling with World War III” while adding his decisions are “very disrespectful to the country, this country that’s backed you far more than a lot of people say they should have."”

The meeting was reportedly supposed to end with a mineral deal secured, where the United States would receive Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, which would give the U.S. more incentive to protect Ukraine’s national interests.

“We’re trying to integrate our economies. We’re trying to make sure that Ukraine is a value to the American economy – a win-win situation,” Graham added.

After a public feud with President Trump, Zelensky revealed that he “regrets” the way the meeting went down.

“It is time to make things right. We would like future cooperation and communication to be constructive,” Zelensky stated, adding that he is ready to work under President Trump’s “strong leadership” to reach a peace agreement.

Additionally, Zelensky issued a more recent update on Friday, stating: “We continue working with partners who seek peace just as we do, focusing on the necessary steps. Next week, there will be a lot of work here in Europe, with the U.S., and in Saudi Arabia – we are preparing a meeting to accelerate peace and strengthen the foundations of security.”

“Today, intense work with President Trump’s team is ongoing at various levels – numerous calls. The topic is clear – peace as soon as possible, security as reliably as possible. Ukraine is fully committed to a constructive approach,” Zelensky added.

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 7, 2025

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Trump Lists Admin Accomplishments, Answers Over 1,000 Press Questions In First Month; 7 Times More Than Biden

(L) U.S. President Donald Trump applauds. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) / (R) U.S. President Donald Trump calls on reporters during a press conference. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
5:23 PM – Wednesday, February 26, 2025

According to a new analysis, President Donald Trump has answered an astounding 1,009 questions from reporters in the first month of his second administration—with the GOP president posting his administration’s accomplishments on Truth Social.

Former President Joe Biden’s first-month total of 141 press questions answered is blown away by the tabulation, which was gathered by George Condon of the National Journal—being released on Tuesday.

During the first 31 days of his first term in 2009, former Democrat President Barack Obama took only 161 questions.

Even in 2017, when Trump took questions between January 20th and February 20th, he is answering a lot more questions now than he ever did before.

In what are effectively near-daily news conferences, the president has mostly met with the media during Oval Office meetings and executive order signings. Press pool reporters frequently ask two to five questions each during their media appearances in the Oval Office.

“It’s definitely a case of presidential learning,” political scientist and author Martha Kumar told the National Journal.

“He’s using the Oval Office. People stop when they see the president in the Oval Office talking on their television. They want to know what he’s saying.”

Additionally, on Tuesday this week, Trump posted infographics of a list of his administration’s accomplishments so far.

He brought attention to what has been done in just the first month regarding the economy, the border, the energy sector, and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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Trump Doing More Than Biden Ever Did

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Bret Baier: This pardon was earlier than expected

Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier reacts to President Biden pardoning his son Hunter.

Joe Biden's Parting Shot! Pardons Son Hunter!

Biden Lied About Hunter’s Pardon; He’s Had Lots of Practice

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On his way out the door, President Joe Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter, which he said repeatedly he would not do. Joe Biden IMG whitehouse-gov

Six months after telling the nation he would not pardon his son, President Joe Biden did exactly that, and reaction from the firearms community is overwhelmingly negative, even though the president’s move was hardly surprising.

Hunter Biden was convicted in June of three federal firearms felonies when a jury took less than three hours to conclude he illegally purchased and possessed a firearm while using illegal drugs and lying about it on a federal Form 4473. There was no small irony in the fact that Joe Biden had supported the laws his son violated.

The elder Biden granted his son a full and unconditional pardon, reneging on the promise he made repeatedly. The hypocrisy of his actions came through in his statement of justification: “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong.”

The very same arguments might be made about the man who will replace Joe Biden in January, the former president who was, according to his faithful supporters, persecuted, prosecuted and victimized by “lawfare” by Democrats who stopped at nothing in their efforts to keep him out of office a second time. Donald Trump not only suffered political warfare, he also survived two assassination attempts by individuals who many believe were driven by the hateful rhetoric espoused by his opponents, including President Biden, who portrayed the incoming president as dangerous to democracy.

The president has also said nobody is above the law, but evidently that standard applies to those whose last name is not Biden. Call it an early Christmas present from father to son.

Hunter Biden was also facing big problems related to his guilty plea on tax charges.

To their credit, virtually every left-of-center news agency reporting on the pardon acknowledged the president had gone back on his vow to not pardon his son.

  • CNN: “By pardoning his son, Joe Biden has reneged on a public promise that he made repeatedly before and after dropping out of the 2024 presidential race.”
  • Los Angeles Times: “In June, Biden categorically ruled out a pardon or commutation for his son…”
  • New York Times: “Many of the president’s allies and critics had expected him to use the unique authority vested only in his office, even though the president’s spokeswoman had denied for months that Mr. Biden had any intention of doing so.”
  • NBC News: “Biden’s plans to pardon his son were first reported by NBC News. He had said publicly multiple times that he would not pardon him.”

Joe Biden is an accomplished prevaricator. A report from the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability this past February showed the president “lied to the American people when he claimed he “did not” interact with his family’s foreign business associates.” In that report, the committee said “evidence uncovered through bank records and witness testimony proves Joe Biden interacted with nearly all of his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business associates. President Biden spoke by phone, attended dinners and meetings, and had coffee with his son’s foreign business associates. These individuals include Russian and Kazakhstani oligarchs, a Burisma executive, and Chinese nationals who collectively funneled millions to his son.”

This report effectively demolished the president’s repeated claims he never spoke to Hunter about his son’s business dealings. The New York Post tells a far different story, however. When Joe Biden bowed out of the 2024 campaign this past summer, an impeachment inquiry came to an end, the newspaper recalled.

As the elder Biden prepares to leave office in about seven weeks, his legacy already in tatters, the Sunday pardon amounts to the icing on a stale cake.

Joe Biden has received four “Pinocchios” from the Washington Post fact checker several times, for lying about Republican tax plans to his laughable canard that the Second Amendment prevented people from owning cannons. Politifact has a rather lengthy list of his fibs, not the least of which has been his repeated claim that the gun industry is the only industry in the country with immunity from lawsuits. It’s not true and never was, and Joe Biden knows it.

So now, Hunter Biden skates on a federal gun conviction for which other people might do time or at least have a felony conviction on their records which prohibits them from voting or ever again owning a firearm.

Perhaps the biggest falsehood of them all came in his pardon message: “For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth.”

For such a remark to be credible, it helps if you know how.

About Dave Workman

Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, author of multiple books on the Right to Keep & Bear Arms, and formerly an NRA-certified firearms instructor.

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