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.”

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    3 days ago

    Ok, so what happened here is that police added letters to the photo explaining what each symbol means. Some idiots on twitter thought those added letters are the claimed MS-13 tattoo. It’s not clear if Trump also thought that those letters were actually tattooed, probably yes.

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      And itd amazing to me how this is another of this shit is dumb, we dont need to make stuff up to complain about it being dumb

      Like the excuses for the symbols dont make sense. We can just call that out. We dont need to lie.

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      3 days ago

      Marijuana= M smiley = S Cross= 1 Skull = 3

      Thats what the printed texts above each knuckle represents. These dumb people claiming it has poor photoshop… Has something loose in their head

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        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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        I’d like some independent decoding of these symbols. He could be celebrating his Master of Science in Computer Science.

        (Also, the whole Trump argument is irrelevant because they already admitted he was “deported” in error)