Venezuelan men sent last year to a notorious Salvadorian terrorism prison by the Trump administration are suing the US aviation companies that transported them there.
A lawsuit filed this week in federal court in Washington DC accuses the companies CSI Aviation and GlobalX of violating the Venezuelans’ civil rights, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence and other violations, for their role in flying the three planes that took the men to El Salvador.
CSI and GlobalX “went to great lengths” to undertake the “rendition flights” to El Salvador, “in concert with the US government, in flagrant violation of US and international law”, the lawsuit reads.
Last year, in March, the Trump administration expelled more than 230 Venezuelan men held in US immigration custody to El Salvador, where they were detained for four months in a maximum security terrorism prison and tortured.
In the unfortunately unlikely event of a conviction, they’ll probably be pardoned by Trump. Even if they aren’t, it’ll just be a small cost of doing business.
Nope. Like with E Jean Carroll, Trump can’t pardon his way out of this.
And, once they’re done suing that company, they get to sue the us gov. Taxpayers aren’t done taking the hit for electing stupid. Whee!
I don’t see how trump could pardon a company in a civil suit. He’d have to get a sympathetic judge or pressure the judge presiding.
Understanding how the government works doesn’t fit the narrative though.