The Keith Edwards Show - Republican Crowd Erupts on MAGA Senator in Townhall Meltdown

Episode Date: April 16, 2025

Keith Edwards discusses fiery town halls with Senator Grassley and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, where constituents express outrage—especially over the wrongful deportation case—demanding due process be upheld. He points out how Republicans appear caught off guard and unsure how to respond as Trump continues to sidestep legal norms.

It's town hall season again, and Republican voters are pissed off at the representatives over what's happening with the illegal detention of Garcia, Maryland man, who was illegally deported and is being kept in a prison for no reason after no due process. Trump has been told by the Supreme Court to bring him back, and they are defying that order. And wouldn't you know it? Republican voters are the ones who are pissed off. Marjorie Taylor Green held town hall yesterday and so did Chuck Grassley, who I just showed you a clip from here. I'm going to show you that clip in just a bit, but Margie Taylor Green had a town hall too and it did not go well.

Here are just some of the town hall attendees saying Free Kilmar and another one yelled F.U. Marge as police escorted her out. district. Thank you so much, everyone. What does that be illegal alien? It's an illegal alien. So you can see Democrats support. They support illegal aliens. Thank you. Thank you, guys. I appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Okay. Be safe going home. We ignore the noise. We, we. What a troll. I actually had Robert Garcia on yesterday, and I asked him about this, where they say, like, well, he shouldn't be here as an illegal alien. And he explained this about why that's just not true. Their talking point is, well, he entered here illegally. They entered here illegally. So they already are criminals. What is the Democratic answer to something to that, to that point? There are 11 million people in this country approximately that are, have some different level of status, that they're not U.S. citizens. They might be a temporary resident. If you're a temporary resident or a legal resident in the United States,

you are legally here in the United States. We have given you the paperwork, the permission to work here, to be on a student visa. Perhaps it's because you're on your way to becoming a citizen. Maybe you're a year, maybe you've been applying for citizenship waiting in line, like Republicans like to say, for 10 years, 20 years, and you're a year away. You may not be a citizen, but you are here legally. And that's the difference. And so what, what, what, what, Publicans are now saying that they somehow can deport anyone, even if they're not a U.S. citizen. I mean, that is crazy. I'll take myself.

I became a U.S. citizen at 23. I would hear between the ages of four to 23, I was here as whether it was undocumented or I became a temporary legal resident before I became a citizen. That means that anyone, like with my status that was going to college, was here legally, could be deported. That is crazy in the United States. We have to be more aggressive in pushing back. And then Marjorie Taylor Green was called out by AOC. When the stock market dipped because of Trump's tariffs,

his illegal unconstitutional tariffs he put in place, it looks like Marjorie Taylor Green actually benefited from the hurting of Americans because she bought the dip. And here's AOC calling that out. We saw Marjorie Taylor Green buy that dip. Question for her, how much did you make? How much did you make off of people's despair? How much did you make off that panic?

How much did you make off of that suffering? No more. We can't accept it. Absolutely. And that message is resonating because someone started shouting at that protest with a jail for insider trader sign. Live in a place where I am one of the members of Congress that usually has the high.

highest amount of death threats. As a matter of fact, as a I love that. I love that. And then someone else called Marjorie Taylor Green

a butch body bigot, which honestly is a sleigh. That are not just living at the border. Ladies and gentlemen, they're all inside the interior of the United States. All inside the interior of the United States.

You can head out. The protest is outside. Thank you very much. Protests is outside. Protests outside. Bye. Oh, I know that stung for her. It tickled me. I know that stung for her. And then Chuck Grassley in Iowa, that was in Georgia and now we're in Iowa, was facing. Now this is a much calmer crowd and so much older cloud. It feels a little like the old folks at the retirement home arguing with each other.

But what I love about this is that Iowa is a very conservative state. And here you have people who likely voted Republican. They voted for Chuck Grassley saying, like, what is going on with Trump to find the Supreme Court? And Chuck Grassley

doesn't really have an answer for it. Excuse me. On that same side... Hey! Excuse me. Senator Grassley, on that same subject, the Constitution, the framers of the Constitution, said that every person, not citizen, every person within the jurisdiction of the United States has due process. And we would like to know what you, as the people, the Congress, who are supposed to reign in this dictator,

what are you going to do about? These people have been sentenced to life imprisonment in a foreign country. with no due process. Right. Why wouldn't you do your job, Senator? Yeah. Get it! Don't obey the Supreme Court. Trump's not obey the Supreme Court.

He just ignores them. Yeah, screw it. I would welcome refugees and I would welcome people that need this item. You're going to bring that guy back from El Salvador? El Salvador. Yeah. Why not? Well, because that's not a power of Congress.

Supreme Court said to bring it back. Yes. But can they do? He's defined the Constitution. Trump don't care. If I'm finding an order to pay attention for $1,200, and I just say no, does that stand up? because he's got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said no yeah yeah screw it I'll be able to answer your question you ignored my letter Guatemala is a

or El Salvador it's an independent country the president of that we can't hear you the president of that country is not subject to our US Supreme Court the crap one of the breaking back country I'm pissed. So that is a lie because that is one of the talking points now. It's like, well, he's in another country. And there's nothing we can do about it. That's not true.

Because Donald Trump's administration in his first term did something very similar, and what they did surrounding it was totally different. It says here in the Nair Times, this isn't the first time Trump has mistakenly deported someone. President Trump says he is powerless to achieve a man, who was deported because of an administrative error, but he has done so before. In the case that they made the mistake in the first administration,

the government recognized its error to the federal court, setting off a months-long odyssey to track down an entreatment man who never should have been deported in the first place. So it's a bullshit talking point. I want you all to remember this, that it's a bullshit talking point. The president of the United States absolutely, and his administration absolutely,

could be doing everything they could to bring that man home. And I'm sure, I mean, they are paying for these people to be in prison there. They are paying. So they could just say, hey, we're not going to pay anymore if you don't bring them back.

There's a lot of things that they could do, and they're choosing not to. This is not an international issue. This is an administrative problem that they could easily solve. They've done it before. They could do it again. They were on a month.

They took multiple months to track down to one person who was accidentally deported to a country so that they could bring them back. They could do it for this too. So I don't want to hear any more of that shit. And at least now you know the actual facts.