President Donald Trump has expressed confidence that the federal government will win its case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran immigrant who has returned to the United States for criminal prosecution after being mistakenly deported and sent to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.

“It should be a very easy case,” Trump told NBC News on Saturday.

The president also said it wasn’t his decision to bring back Abrego Garcia, who lived in Maryland with his American citizen wife and children prior to his arrest in March.

But, said Trump, the “Department of Justice decided to do it that way, and that’s fine.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Friday that Abrego Garcia had “landed” back in the U.S., months after he was sent to the notorious CECOT facility in what the T

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