Kristi Noem Refuses to Even Look at Photo of Abrego Garcia's Tattoos [View all]

Representative Eric Swalwell had the photoshopped image walked over to her.

https://newrepublic.com/post/195243/kristi-noem-photo-kilmar-abrego-garcia-tattoos

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The Trump administration just became so much more Orwellian. “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command,” George Orwell wrote in his cautionary tale against totalitarianism, 1984.

On Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem took that command a step further, refusing to even acknowledge a doctored photo depicting alleged gang tattoos on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s knuckles, which the White House has repeatedly used to justify his deportation.

In a heated back-and-forth with Representative Eric Swalwell during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Noem repeatedly swerved away from answering direct questions about the photo, which was displayed on a massive posterboard behind the California lawmaker.

After asking Noem several times as to whether the photo was “doctored or not doctored,” Noem eventually said that she did not “have any knowledge of that photo you’re pointing to.” But because she apparently refused to look at the image—which, in Swalwell’s photo, was held up by President Donald Trump—Swalwell decided to have one of his aides bring the image to her.

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