Nets Ditch ‘Maryland Dad’, Crown Mahdawi as New Immigration Poster Boy
2nd May 2025
With damning new evidence piling up in the case of deported MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego García and the media trapped defending his gang tattoos, there is a clear need for a new exemplar to promote against the perceived excesses of Trump immigration policy. Tonight, a new consensus poster boy may have emerged in Mohsen Mahdawi.
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Coverage was glowing, casting Mahdawi as a victim of the Trump administration, and made sure to find the time to frame him as brave and defiant, resisting the evil tyrant Trump. In many ways, coverage mirrored that of Abrego García. That is, until the drip-drip-drip of damning evidence came to light- to wit: allegations confirming Abrego Garcia as a gangbanger going back to 2018, and a 2020 petition for court order alleging that Abrego Garcia bragged about being able to kill his wife with impunity.
Don’t look now, but the drip-drip-drip with Mahdawi has already begun….