

It’s a separate legal issue.
The sad fact is he already had his asylum denied years ago and is eligible for detention and deportation to any nation except El Salvador. The fact that he can’t be held for pretrial detention for the bullshit human trafficking charges is immaterial to that.
The second he’s acquitted, I expect they’ll deport him to one of the other torture prisons they’re opening up.
There’s no happy ending for him without a US regime change.
They want to make an example of him. Their goal is for everyone to fear them.
They’re trying to be Machiavellian. In The Prince, he wrote that weak rulers are loved and strong rulers are feared.
What they forget is that he wrote that worst of all was to be hated.