By Molly Goddard
2:07am PDT, Apr 22, 2025
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Jamie Raskin is keeping score with foreign leaders who bow down to
Donald Trump.
During a Saturday, April 19, appearance on the "Pod Save America" podcast, the United States Representative made it clear Democrats will not "look kindly" on politicians in other countries who aid the current commander-in-chief in disobeying the
Supreme Court's orders.
Keep reading to see what Raskin said about holding people accountable for doing Trump's bidding…
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"Implicit in it should be the idea that if and when [the Democrats] come back to power — and we will — we are not going to look kindly upon people who … facilitated authoritarianism in our country," Jamie Raskin told host
Tommy Vietor.
Vietor revealed he'd spoken with a Latin American policy specialist who suggested
Democrats should "threaten to take action against any foreign government that participates in the extraordinary rendition of American citizens."
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The most explicit example of leaders from other countries caving to Donald Trump is El Salvador's President
Nayib Bukele claiming he cannot return wrongfully deported
Kilmar Abrego Garcia after the
Supreme Court ruled he should be back on American soil.
"The whole idea that Bukele doesn't have any power to return an American prisoner who was sent to him under an agreement where he's getting paid $6 million by America is ridiculous," Jamie Raskin said. "He's our legal agent in this dubious arrangement they created. Of course, he's got the power to return them."
The Republican leader has been using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to send illegal criminals out of the United States to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison in El Salvador.
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Jamie Raskin emphasized how the opposition party needs to steep themselves "in far more work of transnational Democrat solidarity" to try to "prevent the spread of lawlessness and the fascist chaos that's been unleashed against us."
As Donald Trump continues to ignore the barriers put in place to avoid total authoritarianism, the politician from Maryland said he thinks "we're living in something like a gangster state right now."
"We have to stop that, obviously, to prevent a slide into complete dictatorship," Raskin added. "Donald Trump is a convicted criminal. Could he be sent off to a foreign prison?"
"We've got to become the
leaders of a nationwide popular movement to arrest the descent into fascism in America," he continued. "These people really believe that democracy is defunct. They say we live in a constitutional America."
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During a Monday, April 14, meeting in the Oval Office, CNN's
Kaitlan Collins asked Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele about returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
"Why don't you just say, 'Isn't it wonderful that we're keeping criminals out of our
country?'" the former star of
The Apprentice spat back. "That's why nobody watches you anymore. You have no credibility."
"How can I return him to the United States? Like if I smuggle him into the United States?" Bukele replied to the question, according to
NBC News. "Of course I'm not going to do it. The question is preposterous."
