For several weeks, President Donald Trump and his administration have been grasping for evidence that a man his administration deported and imprisoned in error is a dangerous gang member, and the effort has now reached what may be an untoppable peak: the President repeatedly insisting in an in-person interview that an obvious text label that says MS13 in the Calibri typeface is an actual tattoo.
On Tuesday, Trump sat for an interview with ABC News correspondent Terry Moran. Moran asked Trump about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to El Salvador's CECOT prison without due process and in violation of a protective order, and who remains in El Salvador despite a Supreme Court ruling demanding he facilitate the man's return. Trump said (contradicting his administration's previous public statements) that he "could" pick up the phone and order Abrego Garcia's return, but that he refused because Abrego Garcia was a member of the MS-13 gang. His evidence: "on his knuckles, he had MS-13."
That would be the sort of evidence the government ordinarily would present at an immigration hearing, but so far it's refused. Trump has posted what he claims to be an image of these tattoos to his Tru …
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