Because he can tell us what the first hand experience was really like. The horrors he had seen and the abuse of human rights. It may make trump look bad. Can't have that.

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

this narcessistic old man ego is bigger than his brain.

anyone else in his position would backtrack, pay this man a first class ticket home and even pay him a 6-figure settlement.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 hours ago

Anyone else in this position would do no such thing.

Trump is in this position because he wants to do this AT LARGE SCALE.

He doesn't care about being cruel to a couple of people, it's about getting the precedent and go-ahead to deport millions of people. What happens to this one guy is much less important than the precedent of at the very least being able to deport without due process. Ideally he and his friends would like to be able to deport without courts being able to order them to bring people back after the fact so they can just purge a bunch of people from the country.

[–] Eril@feddit.org 6 points 9 hours ago

But, you know, Trump is always right! What does backtrack even mean? /s obviously 😵