The U.S. government has an official policy of never negotiating with terrorists. The logic is simple: to negotiate with terrorists only encourages their attacks. Furthermore, the U.S. government also has a policy of relentlessly pursuing terrorists wherever they may be and offering them no opportunity to find sanctuary or safe haven.
To this point, Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice appear to have suspended those rules — or at least decided they do not apply to Donald Trump and the other high-ranking members of his coup cabal.
