Summary

Trump reportedly held up a digitally altered image of the hand of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was deported by the Trump administration, in an attempt to prove Garcia is a gang member.

Trump can be seen holding a printed-out photo… demonstrating that “MS-13” is tattooed across his knuckles.

“This is the hand of the man that the Democrats feel should be brought back,” Trump posted. However, many have pointed out that the image appears photoshopped.

“MS-13 looks like it was typed on the photo.” “Needing to have a photo doctored… is definitely something a psychopath would do.”

  • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Who do I trust?

    A lying asswipe who wouldn’t know the truth if it slapped him in his orange face?

    A man I don’t know that has been sent to a foreign nation’s prison for no reason?

    Easy choice.

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      3 months ago

      the individual is not the issue. it’s the process. i’m not going to go to bat for some rando who might very well be involved in nefarious shit, but i will damn sure defend the idea that every person is allowed a chance to defend themself. this is the issue. people need to stop treating this dude like a saint. it could very well backfire.

      in fact, leftists and liberals in general need to stop automatically assuming the opposite of everything a conservative claims is true. that’s a fucking trap and it’s illogical.

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        3 months ago

        Why would she be covering a coded tattoo? Non-gang members would have no idea what it meant anyway. Can YOU explain why the cross represents a 1 and the skull represents a 3?

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          3 months ago

          It doesn’t, and actual MS-13 gang members don’t bother encoding their tattoos. They straight up say “MS-13”. The gang is many things, ambiguous and shy are not two of them.

          They’re kind of like white supremacists in that regard, they don’t try to hide who they are:

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            3 months ago

            Some do, but not all of them. Just look up MS13 gang tattoos and look at the pics, or do a little research and you’ll learn that they do have coded tattoos that represent different things such as their rank in the gang.

            The tattoos you’re showing aren’t white supremacist tattoos btw.

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          3 months ago

          How is it propaganda when the link you directly to the twitter feed of the wife? It’s more like you don’t want anyone to see it because it doesn’t fit your narrative.