Bukele mocks Abrego Garcia's torture claims with prison highlight reel

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has issued a video highlight reel showing Kilmar Abrego Garcia apparently thriving during his imprisonment in an attempt to refute the migrant s asserts that he was tortured while in custody Abrego Garcia who was erroneously deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador and then returned after a court order is seen in the video gardening playing soccer fishing and enjoying other leisurely sessions while imprisoned in his home country The video appears at odds to Abrego Garcia's maintains in legal filings that he was severely beaten deprived of sleep and psychologically tortured while detained in the country s Terrorism Confinement Center or CECOT a notorious anti-terrorism prison According to court documents Abrego Garcia s physical condition deteriorated promptly upon arrival there and within two weeks he lost roughly pounds ABREGO GARCIA SAYS HE ENDURED BEATINGS TORTURE IN SALVADORAN PRISON AHEAD OF CRIMINAL TRIALBut Bukele pushed back against those indicates on Thursday claiming he indeed put on weight and distributed video evidence to refute suggests of torture The video shows Abrego Garcia in seemingly good spirits playing chess and soccer working out with fellow inmates doing gardening and relaxing while watching a widescreen television in his cell among other leisurely exercises If he d been tortured sleep-deprived and starved why does he look so well in every picture Bukele wrote on X Why would he gain weight Why are there no bruises or even dark circles under his eyes The man wasn t tortured nor did he lose weight In fact photos show he gained weight while in detention There s plenty of footage from different days including his meeting with Senator Van Hollen who himself proven the man seemed fine Bukele went on to rip the mainstream media for seemingly believing the suggests TRUMP'S REMARKS COULD COME BACK TO BITE HIM IN ABREGO GARCIA DEPORTATION BATTLE Apparently anything a criminal asserts is accepted as truth by the mainstream media and the crumbling Western judiciary Bukele wrote Under Bukele s state of exigency the authorities has detained more than of the Central American nation s population in its war on the country s gangs The president has turned what was once the majority of dangerous country in the world -- with a homicide rate of per people in -- into one of the safest in the Western Hemisphere with per inhabitants in The U S rate was per people in which are the greater part fresh records available Hundreds of people have died in the El Salvador prisons according to the Associated Press citing human rights groups which have also documented cases of torture and deteriorated conditions Abrego Garcia who was living in Maryland after coming to the U S illegally was deported to El Salvador in March He became a prominent face of the Democrats' resistance to the Trump administration s mass deportation plans The Trump administration accuses them of being an MS- gang member a human trafficker and a serial domestic abuser amid police reports by his wife that he used violence against her Abrego Garcia's lawyers claimed when he arrived at the prison he was at once frog-marched to his cell by prison guards who kicked him with boots and struck him with wooden batons along the way leaving visible bumps and bruises across his body He and other detainees in the cell slept on metal mattresses with minimal access to food and satiation They were also forced to kneel for approximately nine hours from p m to a m with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion per the filings They claim he was also psychologically tortured and received threats of violence during his time at CECOT where prison guards repeatedly stated him they would transfer him to other prison cells housing violent gang members whom they assured him would tear him apart Fox News Breanne Deppisch and The Associated Press contributed to this account