Bill O’Reilly Throws Cold Water On Trump’s Wild MS-13 Tattoo Theories
Bill O’Reilly said President Donald Trump is defending the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia all wrong as he dumped cold water onto theories about the deported migrant’s tattoos.
In a heated interview this week with ABC News’ Terry Moran, Trump defended the deportation of Garcia by continuing to insist he is a member of the MS-13 gang, at one point citing tattoos on his fingers. The image the president referred to had “MS-13” digitally imposed onto each finger to suggest the tattoos that were there are representative of the gang’s name. Trump pushed back when Moran said the “MS-13” part was photoshopped.
On his No Spin News, O’Reilly argued that the Justice Department could manage to get the Supreme Court to reverse a ruling ordering the administration to “facilitate” Garcia’s return by proving the administration’s accusations that he is a gang member.
Garcia is an illegal migrant who was living in Maryland for more than a decade. He has no prior gang-related convictions, but the administration has claimed intelligence has pointed to Garcia being involved in human smuggling. Tennessee authorities released a 2022 traffic stop video of Garcia with nine undocumented migrants traveling with no luggage. Police in body cam footage at the scene discussed their suspicions that Garcia was “hauling these people for money.”
“If the Justice Department can prove [he’s MS-13], that might turn the Supreme Court to another ruling because, you’ll remember, that President Trump signed an executive order designating MS-13, the Venezuelan gang, and the drug cartels in Mexico as terrorist organizations. Therefore the president has total control over what to do with any of them. He can kill them. He can order them killed,” O’Reilly argued.
Trump, he added, should be explaining Garcia’s deportation more in these terms, telling the public that the administration is working to prove Garcia’s alleged guilt.
The former Fox News host previously accused the administration of making a “mistake” with the Garcia case, arguing they should bring him back, prove his criminal activity, and then ship him off. The administration previously admitted Garcia was sent to the El Salvador megaprison in error.
O’Reilly argued the theories that the tattoos would be the major evidence Garcia is a gang member likely hold no weight.
“President Trump believes he’s got some tattoos on his fingers that say he is. The Justice Department is not using that tattoo thing in its petition against Garcia. That tells me they don’t have it. The president wants to believe, again, that Garcia’s got tattoos saying he’s MS-13, but if the Justice Department had that, it would have already been out,” he said.
O’Reilly knocked Democrats for turning Garcia into a “semi-hero” and added that even if the tattoos are not used against him, he could still be involved in gang activity, citing the Tennessee traffic stop.
“The odds are the tattoo thing is not going to be used in evidence against Garcia,” he said. “That doesn’t mean he’s not MS-13.”
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