President Donald Trump posted a statement from the Oval Office Friday showing a digitally altered image of the hand of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father who was illegally deported to a brutal El Salvador prison after Trump officials said he is a member of the MS-13 gang.
Garcia is in the center of a battle between the courts and the Trump administration which was ordered to “facilitate” his return to the United States, where he has been living for the last 14 years. The administration, however, has consistently lied and provided no evidence whetsoever that he is a gang member, and officials initially admitted his deportation was an error.
Suddenly, as he is cornered by the courts and by the lack of evidence, Donald Dumb made a show claiming that he has such evidence: a black-and-white close up photograph of a hand that Trump says is Abrego Garcia’s with tattooed knuckles, including “MS-13” written out above four symbols. Even amateurs say that the photo was photoshopped.
“This is the hand of the man that the Democrats feel should be brought back to the United States, because he is such ‘a fine and innocent person.’ They said he is not a member of MS-13, even though he’s got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles and two Highly Respected Courts found that he was a member of MS-13, beat up his wife, etc.,” the president posted on Truth Social on Friday evening.
Contrary to Donald Dumb's assertions, the courts have not found that Abrego Garcia was a member of the gang.
Donald Dumb, just like the moron that he is, posing with a digitally altered image claiming Kilmar Abrego Garcia has 'got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles.
Government attorneys have never referenced the tattoos in court filings to support their claims that Abrego Garcia is a gang member. Their allegation rests on the word of a confidential police informant who in 2019 claimed the Maryland father was a member of MS-13’s “Westerns” clique, which operates out of New York, where Abrego Garcia has never lived.
Several social media users expressed doubt over the authenticity of the image of a hand Trump held in the post. Linda Higgins, a former Minnesota state senator, wrote on X: “Hey Old Man, @realDonaldTrump, have someone teach you about Photoshop. This is an excellent example of altering a photo, in this case to make your illegal actions look good. But instead you look foolish.”
“‘MS-13’ looks like it was typed on the photo,” one user remarked.
Images of Abrego Garcia posted on his wife’s TikTok account also capture the knuckle ink but don’t have “MS-13” spelled out.
The president issued his statement with the photo just hours after Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, who traveled to El Salvador in the hopes of aiding in Abrego Garcia’s release, gave a press conference explaining his meeting with the detained man and the strange events that followed.
Nayib Bukele, the country’s president of Palestinian origin, posted photos of the pair’s meeting at the senator’s hotel that featured salt-rimmed glasses that he claimed were “margaritas.” Van Hollen has acccused Bukele of subservience to Donald Dumb by declaring that Bukele’s aides initially tried to stage the meeting near the hotel’s pool to make it look that Garcia was having a great time in El Salvador.
“They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar, which of course is a big, fat lie,” the senator said.
On Thursday, an appeals court unanimously rejected the administration’s request to block a court order to enforce a Supreme Court ruling requiring the government to “facilitate” the release of Abrego Garcia.
“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order,” one of the appellate judges wrote.
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