Pam Bondi, Doug Burgum Visit Alcatraz To Promote Prison's Reopening
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This is Trump's "stupidest initiative yet," Nancy Pelosi said, scoffing at the visit.
Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum arrived Thursday morning at Alcatraz, the San Francisco tourist attraction that President Donald Trump has vowed to reopen as a prison in one of the most far-fetched, performative schemes of his second term.
Bondi and Burgum both posted photos of the visit on social media, with Burgum saying the visit was made to “start the work to renovate and reopen the site to house the most dangerous criminals and illegals” ― suggesting the site could be used to detain immigrants rounded up in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids.
Their visit set off Democrats, with Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s (Calif.) statement getting right to the point.
“[T]he planned announcement to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary is the Trump Administration’s stupidest initiative yet. It should concern us all that clearly the only intellectual resources the Administration has drawn upon for this foolish notion are decades-old fictional Hollywood movies,” she said.
There’s been some speculation that Trump’s implausible idea to reopen Alcatraz was the product of his well-known TV-watching habit. Just hours before Trump laid out the idea in May in a head-scratching Truth Social post, a PBS affiliate serving Mar-a-Lago aired Clint Eastwood’s 1979 movie “Escape From Alcatraz,” The Hollywood Reporter found.
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