Sen. Chris Van Hollen, with his trip to El Salvador to meet with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the immigrant deported on allegations of being a member of the M-13 gang, is “being a total hypocrite,” former Rep. Pete King said on Newsmax Sunday. 

“I have no sympathy for [Abrego] Garcia,” the New York Republican told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend,” adding that he believes Van Hollen, D-Md., was being hypocritical “because he showed no concern or sympathy at all when one of his other constituents was murdered by an illegal Salvadoran immigrant into this country.”

Van Hollen told ABC News Sunday that his trip was not about defending Abrego Garcia, but about “defending the rights of this man to due process.”

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