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21.54 BSTTrump's nominee to lead DEA claims Kilmar Ábrego García’s tattoos are MS-13 related, but Salvadoran expert disagreesDuring his confirmation hearing in the Senate on Wednesday, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration, Terrance Cole, was asked to weigh in on the dispute over the meaning of the tattoos on the hand of Kilmar Ábrego García, the man who was deported to El Salvador from Maryland by mistake.Cole was asked by Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican, to say if, “based on your time as a DEA agent in the field, particularly in Mexico, these tattoos are consistent with MS-13 associations”.As he spoke Graham held up a printed out close-up image of the symbols tattooed on Ábrego García’s left hand: a marijuana leaf; a smiley face; a crucifix and a skull.“Yes, sir, that’s correct,” Cole answered.“Do you know of any other set of combinations, that would suggest some other organization this represents,” Graham asked.“With this particular one, no sir,” Cole answered, pointing at what appeared to a copy of the print out displayed by Graham.Senator Lindsey Graham asked Terrance Cole, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the DEA, about Kilmar Ábrego García’s tattoos at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday.An official White House account on the social media platform X posted video of this exchange in support of its campaign to tarnish the wrongly deported man by claiming that his tattoos are proof of his membership in the Salvadoran gang MS-13.However, it is important to note that the image of the tattoos displayed by Graham at the hearing was not the same one that Trump held up in a social media post from the White House earlier this month. The image held up by Trump in that post showed the tattoos but also had text annotation added to interpret the symbols as representing M,S,1 and 3.If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck pic.twitter.com/m0mA0MwlUp— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 19, 2025In his contentious interview with Terry Moran of ABC News broadcast Tuesday, Trump repeatedly insisted that those letters and numbers were not added to the photo as annotation, but were actually tattooed onto Ábrego García’s knuckles. “He had “M, S, as clear as you can be, not ‘interpreted’”, Trump told Moran.When Moran then tried to explain to Trump that there was no M, S, 1 or 3 on Ábrego García’s left hand in a photo taken during his recent meeting with Senator Chris Van Hollen in El Salvador, Trump refused to believe the correspondent. “But they’re there now,” Trump said. “He’s got MS-13 on his knuckles,” the president of the United States asserted with conviction, despite being wrong.Donald Trump insisted to ABC News that Kilmar Ábrego García “got MS-13 on his knuckles”.Cole’s claim appears to clash with what the Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martínez wrote two weeks ago, in response to the image of Trump holding up the annotated photo: “I covered MS-13 for over a decade: its history, crimes, symbolism, cruelty, pacts with Salvadoran governments. I wrote a book about it. Never, ever, did any of the hundreds of sources I spoke to say anything that would allow us to believe Trump’s strange interpretation of tattoos.”ShareUpdated at 22.31 BST

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