Donald Trump's White House keeps pumping out information seeking to discredit a wrongly deported man, and that's exactly the conversation they want to be having, a GOP strategist said Saturday.
Speaking on MSNBC's PoliticsNation this weekend, Republican strategist Susan del Percio, who has a history of working with Republican candidates and in Rudy Giuliani's administration, was asked about the case involving a Maryland man, Kilmar Ábrego García, who was purportedly sent to El Salvador in error.
Specifically, she was asked about the GOP's messaging on the subject.
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"What it tells me, Rev, is that the White House knows as long as they keep it about the individual right now and they can just talk about this one person, alleged gang member or not... as long as the focus is on the individual. The Trump people are very happy because they can keep their base with that," she said. "What the problem for the Trump people is, is the legal side of it."
She added that "the issue of justice, of due process, if the conversation goes there, which it started to go this week, and we saw Republicans getting some pushback, like Senator Grassley, for example."
She continued, "That's where the Trump people have their problem because the law is not on their side. So how do they try and get their people behind him? They use a lot of different attacks. And I'll say modify what the truth is."
"That's a nice way of putting it," the host, Al Sharpton, added.
