Let me break this down:
Openly defying court orders multiple times= dictatorship Threatening to jail political opponents despite them being pardoned= dictatorship Deporting American citizens who have legal citizenship= dictatorship Can’t put it any simpler.
Their story is that she was already deported before they got the order.
The order was given well before she was put on a flight. Someone somewhere along the way caused it either to be ignored or delayed relaying it long enough that she was put on the flight.
Not even that. They claimed they weren’t told officially.