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Federal judges have described Trump’s actions as “illegal” or “shocking,” with one judge calling the administration’s insistence that it has no obligation to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S. a “fallacy.”

“It’s a complete fallacy and a red herring to suggest that, since the state of the emergency is over, the funding should end, too.”

Trump added that Ukraine needed fresh elections "at some point", repeating a Putin fallacy that Zelensky was no longer a legitimate leader, even though Ukraine is under martial law precisely because of Russia's war.

A sunk cost fallacy then occurs if you lean into the sunk cost by putting more resources toward it, even though that doesn't recoup what's already lost.

“There’s a thing called ‘arrival fallacy,’ which is that the horizon is just always receding.