Pudding Time!
During a televised interview with ABC correspondent Terry Moran on Tuesday, Trump was insistent that the tattoos on the knuckles of Kilmar Abrego Garcia did indeed include the letters “MS-13.”
“He had some tattoos that were interpreted that way,” Moran explained.
Abrego Garcia has four symbols tattooed across his knuckles, and the White House has been circulating an image onto which someone photoshopped — or just superimposed with a basic paint app, really — “MS13,” purporting that it’s what Abrego Garcia’s actual tattoos represent. Trump even posed with a printout of the photo in the Oval Office.
Trump told the interviewer Moran that he had never heard of him and that he was not being very nice when Moran pushed for the facts about Abrego Garcia, as well as the lack of facts used to deport the Maryland man to El Salvador, particularly the lack of proof that Abrego Garcia was a gang member.
When Trump told Moran, “On his knuckles he had MS-13,” Moran tried to tell him that the photos he had pointed to were edited, in fact, NOT REAL.
“Wait a minute. Terry, Terry, Terry. Don’t do that. It says ‘MS13.’”
Paraphrasing Moran, “Whatevs, Gramps.”
Paraphrasing Trump, “Fake News!”
TERRY MORAN: When he was photographed in El Sal — in– in El Salvador, they aren’t there. But let’s just go on —
The full transcript of the interview is interesting. Read it here.
