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The Independent UK
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Trump jokes some of his staff wanted to send pardoned turkeys to El Salvador ‘torture’ prison

President Donald Trump joked that some of his “more enthusiastic staff” wanted to send the two Thanksgiving turkeys to an El Salvador megaprison instead of pardoning them.

In a inappropriate speech to a crowd that included Vice President JD Vance’s children, Trump also insulted Democrats Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, riffed about a woman being set on fire in Chicago and called Illinois Governor JB Pritzker a “fat slob”.

Two new reports have confirmed that immigrants shipped down to El Salvador’s giant ‘Terrorism Confinement Center’ by the Trump administration were tortured.

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