Former President Donald Trump recently promoted a conspiracy about Kamala Harris’s crowd size making the rounds in far-right circles that is easily disproven by video evidence via Mediaite.
An issue is an image that emerged from a Harris-Walz rally held at the Detroit Metro airport. An image of Air Force Two has been shared by conspiracists, insisting that inconsistencies in a news photo reveal some sort of digital malfeasance — like AI or Photoshop — that shows that it is not real. Take, for example, this social media post from disgraced filmmaker and infamous conspiracist, Dinesh D’Souza:
Check the reflection in the plane. Does this look like a real picture to you? pic.twitter.com/FQ873CEDCU
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) August 10, 2024
On Sunday morning, Trump took to social media and appeared to highlight that very allegation, claiming that Vice President“A.I.’d” it, meaning the massive rally in attendance at the Detroit Metro Airport. Trump wrote:
