'He's got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles': Trump appears to hold up altered image of Abrego Garcia's hand [View all]

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The spelled-out ‘MS-13’ doesn’t appear on his hand in recent photos of Abrego Garcia posted on his wife’s TikTok account

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-kilmar-abrego-garcia-hand-b2735920.html


Donald Trump posed with what appears to be a digitally altered image and claimed Kilmar Abrego Garcia has 'got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles' in what appears to be a digitally altered image. Donald Trump / Truth Social

President Donald Trump posted a statement from the Oval Office Friday with what appeared to be a digitally altered image that Trump said was the hand of a Maryland father who was deported to a brutal El Salvador prison following officials’ unproven claims he is a member of the MS-13 gang.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the subject of a string of court orders up to the nation’s top court demanding that the Trump administration “facilitate” his return to the United States, where he has been living for the last 14 years. The administration, however, has insisted without evidence that he is a gang member, even though officials initially admitted his deportation was an administrative error.

Now, the president has displayed what he claims to be such evidence — a black-and-white close up photograph of a hand that Trump identified as Abrego Garcia’s with tattooed knuckles, including “MS-13” written out above four symbols — that many internet sleuths are already saying was Photoshopped. The Independent has reached out to the White House and a lawyer for Abrego Garcia for comment.

“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.

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