El Salvador Gulag Boss Casts Doubt on Trump's Tattoo Claims
Source: The Daily Beast
El Salvador Gulag Boss Casts Doubt on Trump’s Tattoo Claims
El Salvador’s security minister said Kilmar Abrego Garcia was transferred to a low-security prison after the U.S. failed to provide “proof” he is a member of MS-13.
Erkki Forster
Breaking News Intern
Published Apr. 30 2025 6:23PM EDT
El Salvador’s security and justice minister has cast doubt on President Donald Trump‘s claim that a wrongly deported Maryland dad’s tattoos prove he’s a member of MS-13.
Gustavo Villatoro admitted that the Trump administration has not handed over any evidence linking Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the notorious gang.
“If we want to accuse him, we have to receive the whole proof that he is a member of MS,” Villatoro told The Telegraph. When asked if that meant El Salvador was uncertain about Abrego Garcia’s gang ties, he responded, “Yes, we are waiting for the evidence.”
His comments come after Trump insisted in an ABC News interview Tuesday that Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13 because of his tattoos. The president repeatedly claimed that the Maryland father, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador’s mega-prison CECOT in March, had “MS-13” tattooed across his knuckles.
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