Former Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg targeted the Trump administration at Iowa City Hall and discussed the Democratic Party’s path forward, speculation about a potential 2028 bid for a democratic president.

Buttigieg, who spoke at an event held by the Progressive Group Voting Action Fund at Cedar Rapids, said progressives, conservatives and liberals should be able to unite around understanding the understanding of freedom “meaning freedom.”

"The moment the U.S. president thinks he can send you to another country, or close the broadcast license for a TV station, if he doesn't like what it says, it's not freedom."

During the Q&A session with attendees, Buttigieg raised questions about topics including the Trump administration, threatening to suspend habeas sabotage, believing that the taciturn lawmakers believed they were “more worried about the U.S. president than the American people.”

"I strongly believe that members of Congress and the presidential party know that this is wrong," said Badgee, while urging listeners to attract the attention of lawmakers in a peaceful way, as many Republicans shy away from holding the city hall.

In answering questions about due process, Buttigieg criticized the Trump administration for failing to promote the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported to the El Salvador prison in March.

"A person, at least not a politician, can decide you are a criminal," Buttigieg said.

President Donald Trump said he could “can” arrange Abreg Garcia’s phone call with his administration in court that it could not get him back.

When asked about Democrats who were postponing to the president and his allies, Batesge also offered Democrats some "unresolved" ways to deal with criticism of Trump's policies.

"There is a theory that if we just hung up and don't do too much, the person in charge today will mess it up and then they'll get blamed and then we'll win," Buttigieg said. "I don't agree. First of all, while I agree they'll mess up, I don't agree that we should let them. And I don't agree that they'll blame for it. They may not be good at governing, but they're really good at blaming."

Iowa is of great significance to Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, Indiana. Buttigieg won the most representatives in the Iowa qualifiers in the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination contest, part of the rapid rise before he eventually quit the competition and ended up recognizing Joe Biden. In 2021, he became the first publicly gay man in then-President Biden administration.

Buttigieg passed the campaign next year for the governor or U.S. Senate in Michigan, and now he lives with his family.

A source familiar with Buttigieg's thoughts previously told NBC News that the news stated that the Senate or governor bid has made Buttigieg calm as the best positioning of himself for the 2028 presidential campaign.

Buttigieg said in an alternative interview earlier Tuesday that when asked about potential presidential bids, “the process of decision making in any form has a long way to go.” He also noted that in past decisions he proposed “evaluation offices and what they ask for” and “evaluate what I bring” before running the campaign.