Posted on 03/28/2023 1:09:01 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Former President Donald Trump has taken serious heat since late last week, when he shared an article on his Truth Social account that included an image of him holding a baseball bat next to a picture of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Yet contrary to corporate media narratives, Trump did not create the image and says he did not see a preview of the photo before he posted a link to the article.
New York Post and New York Daily News torch Trump for threats against Bragg in rare moment of agreement https://t.co/3Ig3AEyXdn
— Insider News (@InsiderNews) March 25, 2023
The bizarre post led to several media outlets claiming Trump was inciting violence against Bragg, who Trump previously announced intended to indict him on a case many legal scholars, including Trump critics, say has a flimsy legal basis involving alleged hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
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He should’ve had a picture taken of him holding a fake bloodied head of himself 😖🤡😖
Only PINO Drooling Spoon is allowed to threaten physical violence to public officials - figuratively and literally.
I’m embarrassed to say l actually fell for it.
Wonder if the KGBI had anything to do with it?
People need to lighten up. Anyways, Trump should had a rope in his hand and an old oak tree in the background. (Only half serious, I don’t give a damn about any identity group and what they think of me)
A lot of Never Trumpers here did.
Yeah but I am certainly not a Never Trumper.
In addition, when posting on Truth Social, the platform does not display a preview of a link from a news website before a user’s post gets published. All Truth Social users experience this lack of link previews, not just Trump. So when Trump posted this particular article, he was not sharing a photo he had uploaded as a meme, and he would not have seen that the Bragg-baseball bat collage would be the photo featured on the link before he made the decision to publish the post.
“We posted the story, but they had a picture up, and they then put a picture up, or the picture was put up, and nobody noticed or saw, or nobody thought it was bad. These were two separate pictures,” Trump emphasized to Hannity.
In fact, since the Hannity interview, National File said on Twitter that it takes responsibility for the creation of the image — which the publication still has up.
“It’s our image,” National File said in a tweet with a clip of Trump explaining this on Hannity’s show.
“The issue is the NY Post and everyone else made it out to be your image, when it was ours,” National File added.
All the damage the left has done to this nation, and they're still angry about a few.mean tweets!
It's our image, President. @stockes76 made it.
The issue is the NY Post and everyone else made it out to be your image, when it was ours.
We're happy to take the heat. pic.twitter.com/jud9q172j3— National File (@NationalFile) March 28, 2023
Exposing another meida hoax.
It’s going to last until the election and get much worse their fear is growing.
Technical incompentence, general impulsivity and sloppiness, even when he knows he’s under intense scrutiny. That’s certainly a quality you want in a presidential candidate.
False flag, or just false.
“I’m embarrassed to say l actually fell for it.”
Many here did make knee-jerk assumptions immediately. The “Bongino Rule” is a good one, i.e., wait two days before forming an opinion (especially re Trump).
The DeSimps over at Townhall media were all over this and predicted the end of Trump.
All this being said, however, Trump did post the article with the image in it — and even though he took it down later he has taken serious criticism for it. So while it might not be Trump’s fault that this happened the way it did, it is yet another sign of just how careful Trump has to be as he proceeds toward the White House again in a 2024 comeback campaign
Must be nice never having to be responsible for what you do.
The issue isn't ownership of the image.
The issue is Trump posted it.
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