First, Brietbart publishing something, low cred. Next, what did they publish? And how did they headline and caption it? This image: https://media.breitbart.com/media/2025/04/Trump-Shows-Photo-of-Gang-Tatoos-640x480.jpeg
This headline: Trump Posts Photo of Illegal Alien’s Knuckle Tattoos Amid MS-13 Charges
Okay. It is a photo purportedly showing knuckle tattoos. Photos can be altered, or generated by AI, and it is someone's fist. Beyond that, "Trust Me," and I don't.
In the text of the published item:
President Donald Trump shared a photo of the tattoos on the knuckles of illegal alien Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an accused MS-13 gang member, wife beater, and human trafficker amid Democrats’ complaining about the man’s deportation to his native El Salvador. “I was elected to take bad people out of the United States,” Trump said. “I must be allowed to do my job.”
“This is the hand of the man that the Democrats feel should be brought back to the United States, because he is such ‘a fine and innocent person,'” President Trump quipped in the caption of his post, sharing a photo of himself holding an image of Abrego Garcia’s hand.
First he should be brought back because he was illegally deported to El Salvador, denied due process, and whethere he's fine or not is irrelevantt, and Trump knows that but cannot be truthful with the truth and without bullshitting on that detali, poisining his cred overall. He cannot control himself, and lies.
And if Trump can get away with wrongly deporting Garcia to El Salvador, he can do it with me, and if then discovered as such, however likely or unlikely that is depending on how I'm scooped up and sent, he can say, "Yeah, error. So what?" and I'd need a lawyer, while in absentia, to file habeas - not violation of the APA, but habeas, because SCOTUS says so, even while wrongful deportation with intentional denial of due process and under phony "emergency war" cooked up "necessity" to act without due process is pure 1984 in actual action.
Upshot. I'm gone into hell, "So what?"
I do not like that scenario, and you should not either, because you/me are interchangeable in that scenario.
Later the Breitbart item states:
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) has especially faced backlash after photos surfaced of him meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.
Angel Moms Patty Morin and Tammy Nobles blasted the Maryland senator this week for meeting with Abrego Garcia after ignoring the murders of their daughters — Rachel Morin and Kayla Hamilton, both at the hands of illegal aliens — in Van Hollen’s state.
Angel Moms are a separate story. Garcia faces no claim he was the perp there.
If Trump was to show a fist photo, as asserted evidence, after the meeting, they could have conditioned the meeting on photo evidence being taken of van Hollen and Garcia's fist being in the same photo, forcing van Hollen to address the so called evidence, if real, but they choose not to. Van Hollen tells the story differently.
I believe him. I do not believe Trump. You work that out for yourself.
And, even if Garcia is MS-13, the main fact we should show fear over is how he was snatched and shipped before any hearing of any kind, and than the pure crap that Trump "cannot" get El Salvador to return him. If you believe that, believe in the Easter Bunny. Actually, the Easter Bunny is more credible. Trump and cohorts are simply bullshitting about, "Gee mistake, but we've no power."
Holy Crap that does not pass any cred test and the SOB fully and totally knows it has no cred, and deliberately propagates the lie as a show of having the power to do so and get away with it, at least short-term and without consequences.
He is confrontational about it because he is who he is and that's a Roy Cohn wannabe. As in, if Roy could see me now.
You/me should not want to be deported as Garcia was, so we should pay attention. It is a major breach of what Presidential discretion means. It is super ugly, as is almost all Trump does. He is the lowest, shabbiest President the nation has suffered. Ever. That said, it is not a cause to trash Tesla cars or marketing outlets. The rule of law means you should be lawful if wanting cred when accusing others of not being lawful. That's clear. That's why this Trump cabal is pushing the Tesla-trashing story. To lower others to their level of lawless nastiness.
Roy Cohn's ghost lives.
__________UPDATE_________
Some may assert I overstate a concern about intentional citizen capture/deportation worries. In answer -
websearch = "homegrowns are next"
The upshot, Trump admits his cabal is thinking about citizenship capture/deport of some form or manner. He says violent actors, but look at his pattern of revenge against critics and law firms and learning institutions, he's a clear and present danger to the Constitution, the rule of law, and to those who'd criticize him.
In short - the danger is real. He tests the envelope. It is his MO. He builds on what he gets away with once, expanding the reach against others. It is expansionist fascism, and you encountered that term here, first. Take one look, have one listen to Stephen Miller, it's not just Trump.
He wants to annex Canada, take Greenland, and doesn't give a shit about a living wage for MAGA voters who bought into his bluster. He inflamed passions without any real plan or care to help those whose passions he worked over. To him, its a game and he's on a roll.
Worry. Resist.