The Atlantic tried—again—and failed—again.
First it was the Signal story, where the editorial elites thought they had stumbled into Watergate 2.0 because someone accidentally added their editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, to a group chat involving top Trump officials discussing anti-Houthi operations. It was a government-approved, encrypted channel—nothing illegal, nothing classified, and absolutely nothing scandalous. But that didn’t stop Goldberg from pretending he’d witnessed some kind of national security meltdown. Spoiler: he didn’t. And more importantly, no one cared.
The reason is simple: the people have been through this movie before. The media cries “scandal,” throws around loaded words like “classified” and “secret meetings,” and hopes the public will panic. But the people know better now. They know the playbook. The DC bubble isn’t the country. It’s a crumbling echo chamber where elite journalists trade in narratives, not facts—and their track record is so trashed that their stories barely dent Trump’s approval anymore.
The individual in question is a member of the brutal MS-13 gang— we have intelligence reports that he is involved in human trafficking.
Whether he is in El Salvador or a detention facility in the U.S., he should be locked up.
Remarkable @TheAtlantic and other MSM continue to… https://t.co/7fwg9QKqOe
— Tricia McLaughlin (@TriciaOhio) April 1, 2025
But then came the real punchline: The Atlantic’s next big swing—a teary-eyed deportation sob story—turned out to be another pile of fake-news propaganda dressed up in moral panic.
Very important fact that Yoni leaves out (and I can’t imagine why!)
An Immigration judge found that Garcia was an MS-13 member, a flight risk, and a threat to the community SIX YEARS AGO https://t.co/fB9uv60fL4
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) April 1, 2025
The piece centered on Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national described as a harmless, sympathetic father with a disabled child. What the story buried (and what any serious reporter would lead with) is that Abrego Garcia was identified as an active member of MS-13—a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. This wasn’t a case of mistaken identity. This wasn’t overzealous enforcement. This was exactly the kind of person the Trump administration promised to remove.
The kicker? The court already ruled six years ago that he was a danger to the community.
So let’s be clear: this man was not “ripped from his family” without cause. He was removed from the country because he is tied to one of the most violent criminal organizations operating in the Western Hemisphere. The fact that The Atlantic buried that fact beneath paragraphs of emotional manipulation is all the proof you need of their intent.
This is the same media cycle that gave us the “Venezuelan soccer player” who turned out to be a gang enforcer. The “gay barber” who—surprise—was also a Tren de Aragua member. These weren’t victims of tyranny. They were foreign criminals embedded in American communities. And when they got deported, the media wept not for public safety, but for optics.
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) April 1, 2025
Why? Because under Trump, the planes are flying. The deportations are happening. The hand-wringing elites can cry all they want on cable news, but the people know: this is what accountability looks like.
The American people aren’t fooled. They know these stories are engineered to paint mass deportation as cruelty when it’s actually common sense. And they know that no amount of emotional appeals or sob-story spin changes the fact that illegal still means illegal, and terrorist-affiliated gang members do not belong in the United States.
