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Margaritagate
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English
Etymology
From en margarita -gate. en Chris Van Hollen American politician.
Proper noun
A 2025 controversy where the Salvadoran government provided Kilmar Abrego Garcia and Chris Van Hollen with margaritas and claimed that they consumed them.
en Meg Kinnard US senator’s El Salvador trip to see deportee Abrego Garcia dubbed ‘margaritagate’, a presidential deception he said Stuff (website) Stuff https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360659590/us-senators-el-salvador-trip-see-deportee-abrego-garcia-dubbed-margaritagate-presidential-deception 2025-04-18 Van Hollen referred to the stagecraft with a term that had ricocheted around social media for much of the day: “Margaritagate.”