No but if you’re going to use “guilty by association” because of a picture of two people side by side, then someone could also use guilt by association to say that all conservatives are white supremacists because some white supremacists are conservatives. That’s actually stronger evidence that a random picture.
It was not “just a picture” there was also an account of him handing out her pens which you refuse to believe. You know him. Call him up and ask him, then.
It is not the picture . It is the article that makes the claim