Saturday Morning Covfefe: 5 Things with Olivia Troye

It’s the weekend, so I poured my cafecito and burned my tongue. Then I read the headlines, and really screamed. Somewhere between Trump flying home a triple murderer and Republicans outlawing clouds, Project 2025 decided to run for the U.S. Senate. Let’s get into it.

1. Trump’s “Deal” of the Century: A Triple Murderer Comes Home to Applause

Trump’s latest “hostage deal” with Venezuela included one particularly unmentionable name: Dahud Hanid Ortiz, a U.S.-Venezuelan dual citizen convicted of brutally murdering three people in Spain in 2016.

Despite his record, which is well known to the State Department, he was flown back to the U.S., flagged in internal emails as someone officials didn’t want to call a “hostage.” Still, they did. Secretary of State Marco Rubio called his release a win, praising Trump for bringing back “every wrongfully detained American.” Ortiz now walks free in Florida.

Yes, you read that correctly. Trump included a convicted killer in a high-profile prisoner swap, overriding the objections of DOJ and State Department veterans who knew his history. He’d already been rejected from a Biden-era deal and flagged by Spain for extradition. Now, under Trump, he’s posing in photos with hostages, laundering his past through a political win.

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JFC do these folks have a moral center? So far, they're okay with insurrectionists, pedophiles and now triple murderers.