President Donald Trump published a declaration from the Oval Office on Friday with what seemed to be a digitally modified image that said that Trump was the hand of a Father of Maryland who was expelled to a brutal prison in El Salvador following unproven claims of officials that he is a member of the Gang MS-13.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is the subject of a series of judicial orders to the main courtyard of the country demanding that the Trump administration “facilitates” its return to the United States, where it has lived for 14 years. The administration, however, insisted without evidence that he is a member of a gang, even if the officials initially admitted that his deportation was an administrative error.
Now, the president has displayed what he claims to be such evidence – a close photography in black and white with a hand that Trump identified as that of Abrego Garcia with tattooed joints, including “MS-13“Written above four symbols – that many internet detectives say already have been photoshopped.
The independent contacted the White House and an Abrego Garcia lawyer to comment.
“It is the hand of man who, according to the Democrats, should be brought back to the United States because he is” a fine and innocent person “. They said he was not a member of MS-13, even if he had the MS-13 tattooed on his joints and that two very respected courts noted that he was a member of MS-13, beat his wife, etc. “Has the president on Truth Social Friday evening.
The courts did not conclude that Gurcia Garcia was a member of the gang.
As for “beat his wife”, Trump apparently referred to a short term indicated towards a protective prescription deposited by his wife, Jennifer Vasquez Surain 2021; She dissolved the order a month later.
Donald Trump posed with what seems to be a digitally modified image and said that Kilmar Abrego Garcia “made MS-13 tattooed on his joints” in what seems to be a modified digital image (Donald Trump / Truth Social)
“I was elected to get out of bad people from the United States, among others. I must be allowed to do my job, “said Trump.
Government lawyers have never referred to the tattoos in court documents to support their allegations that Grego Garcia is a member of a gang. Their allegation is based on the word of a confidential police informer who, in 2019, said that the father of Maryland was a member of MS-13 “Westerns” click, which operates from New York, where Abrego Garcia has never lived.
Several social media users expressed his doubt about the authenticity of the image of a hand that Trump held in the post.
Linda Higgins, former senator from the state of Minnesota, wrote on x: “hey old man, @RealdonaldtrumpAsk someone to teach you about Photoshop. This is an excellent example of modifying a photo, in this case, so that your illegal actions are beautiful. But instead, you look stupid.
“” MS-13 “seems to have been typed in the photo”, a user do.
Another commented: “Ummmm. Sorry my cynicism but you can see who seems to be Photoshoppé, right?”
Images of Abrego Garcia published on the Tiktok account of his wife also capture the ink to the joint but did not say “MS-13”.
Some social media detectives, however, say that Abrego Garcia's wife has tried to “censor“His tattoos, pointing to his post on April 6. The emojis of the red heart covers her hand, which is draped around her in the photo.
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran expelled from the United States in El Salvador, eliminates tears at a press conference on Friday held by the Senator of Maryland Chris Van Hollen (Reuters)
The president published his declaration with the photo a few hours after Maryland senator Chris Van HollenWho went to Salvador in the hope of helping in the release of Abrego Garcia, gave a press conference explaining his meeting with the detained man and the strange events that followed.
Nayib BukeleThe president of the country, published photos of the pair meeting at the Hotel du Senator who presented Monte glasses He claimed was “Margaritas”.
“Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously distant from the” death camps “(and)” torture “, now sipping the Margaritas with Senator Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador!” Bukele mocked in an article on social networks THURSDAY. “Now that he has been confirmed in good health, he obtained the honor of staying in the custody of El Salvador.”
The dressed glasses were placed on the table by Bukele aid, said Van Hollen at a press conference on Friday.
“When I sat for the first time, we just have glasses of water on the table, maybe coffee,” said Van Hollen. “While we were talking, (one) civil servant came and put two other glasses on the table … It is a lesson, the lengths that President Bukele would do to deceive people of what is going on.”
He added that Bukele employees were initially trying to stage the meeting near the hotel swimming pool.
“They want to create this appearance that life was simply charming for Kilmar, which is of course a big big lie,” said the senator.
After Bukele published the photos, a handful of right -wing internet personalities and republican legislators have become laser focus on Abrego Garcia hand tattoos.
“It's an interesting tattoo for a single” Maryland Man “to have on his hand,” said conservative commentator Benny Johnson do In an article which included a zoomed photo of the hand of Abrego Garcia. This image does not present “MS-13” written either.
On Thursday, a court of appeal unanimously rejected the request of the administration to block an order of the court to enforce a decision of the Supreme Court forcing the government to “facilitate” the release of Abrego Garcia.
“The government affirms the right to hide residents of this country in foreign prisons without semblance of regular procedure This is the foundation of our constitutional order, ”wrote one of the appeal judges.
