New Delhi, April 19 -- US President Donald Trump launched a fierce attack on Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen on Friday (April 18), after the lawmaker was photographed meeting with alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.

"Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland looked like a fool yesterday standing in El Salvador begging for attention from the Fake News Media, or anyone. GRANDSTANDER!!!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump read from prepared notes to outline what he described as a disturbing history of violence involving Abrego Garcia.

"That prisoner's record is unbelievably bad," Trump said. "They call him 'the Maryland man.' He's a 'Maryland father'. No, this is a violent person. T...