CNN fact checker cuts Trump off as he launches into 'little biography' of jailed immigrant

President Donald Trump read "a little biography" of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a slip of paper during an Oval Office meeting Monday, offering it as proof that the Maryland man was a criminal who deserved to be held in an El Salvadoran prison.

Trump was speaking about Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who traveled to the Central American country this week to check on Abrego Garcia's condition. The president then asked press secretary Karoline Leavitt to retrieve a piece of paper from another room.

"If you would, Karoline, maybe go into the room and see if you can find that little slip. I wrote some things down," the president said.

As Trump was handed the paper, he continued, "So, you're talking about Abrego Garcia — Is that the one? Yeah — Is an illegal alien, MS-13 gang member, and foreign terrorist," Trump said. "This comes out of the State Department and very legitimate sources. I mean, I assume — I'm reading — I'm just giving you what they handed to me. But this was supposed to be certified stuff."

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Trump continued, claiming that two judges "affirmed" Garcia was a member of the violent MS-13 gang.

"When Garcia was originally arrested, he was wearing a sweatshirt with rolls of money pouring out and MS-13 gang symbols," Trump read. Trump also read from Abrego Garcia's wife's domestic violence protective order.

CNN cut into the press conference, with anchor Dana Bash introducing correspondent Priscilla Alvarez to "fact-check" the president.

"It's a lot more complicated than that," Bash said of Trump's list.

"I have reviewed the same things that I believe the president has reviewed based on how he described them," Alvarez said. "On the judges and MS-13 ties, what he's referring to, there is two rulings by immigration judges when [Abrego Garcia] was taken into custody by ICE and he had been asking for bond."

Alvarez said ICE told the judges that Abrego Garcia was tied with MS-13, but "the immigration judges in both of those rulings did not conclusively find that he was part of MS-13."

She continued, saying Trump "also mentioned the domestic violence petition by [Abrego Garcia's] wife in 2021. I have received a statement from his wife who says that that was a difficult time in their marriage, that no marriage is perfect and that they went to counseling after the fact."

Alvarez said that domestic violence complaints are "typically not provided to the public unless shared by the victim. This was something that was blasted out by the administration."

Watch the clip below via CNN.