Source of quote: Ben Palmer
Okay, so it clearly looks annotated to me. So it wasn’t that the people criticizing the photo were saying that the MS13 itself was written on his hand … it was more of the fact that he’s superimposing meaning onto his hand tattoos and claiming it means something else. Sorta like his hurricane path.
See, this is the thing. I don’t check into each of these stories because there’s a lot of garbage. Then I’m watching some news coverage and then some right-wing guy comes on and gives it some “spin” and I’m like, “wait … do they have a point?”. Urgh.
None of that compares to the fact that Trump has denied this person’s Constitutionally granted rights and installed himself as judge, jury, and executioner.
I couldn’t agree more.
I no longer give them any benefit of a doubt when it comes to “do they have a point”, that has long been gone with all of the lies. I know this for certain, someone who lies habitually will continue to lie. Its like crack to them, they just can’t stop. And the only point I see is to be in power, which they don’t deserve IMO. YMMV, good luck trying to work out what is true and what’s not
A key point to make here
So it wasn’t that the people criticizing the photo were saying that the MS13 itself was written on his hand
Trump himself refused to acknowledge that it was shopped, insisting that was literally written on his hand. His sycophants may being trying to run defence, but the President of the United States refused to acknowledge objective, provable reality.
Video interview of Trump denying reality.
And here’s the guy’s actual hand:
Trump claimed in an interview that the tattoo literally says MS 13 and is not superimposed. Here’s an excerpt from that interview:
Then I’m watching some news coverage and then some right-wing guy comes on and gives it some “spin” and I’m like, “wait … do they have a point?”. Urgh.
That’s what right wing media does. They spin facts in such a way that there’s a compelling narrative, but only if you’re willfully ignorant, know nothing about it and don’t bother to look into it. They specifically rely on ignorance of their viewers, and to a lesser extent, the lack of short term memory or being able to follow shifting narratives in reporting. It’s why you can see militant “anti-government” people like Jones who now actively cheers on the exact shit he decried a decade ago.
