‘Cray-Cray’: Massive Pushback Against Trump’s Fake Claims About Democrats’ Crowds
Republican nominee makes bizarre allegation about the crowd at Detroit rally
Donald Trump’s seeing a massive negative response to his unhinged and demonstrably untrue claims that his opponents “faked” the huge crowd that turned out to see them last week in Michigan.
The former president — and the current Republican nominee for president — made a bizarre assertion on social media over the weekend that the campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov Tim Walz, somehow used artificial intelligence technology to fake photos of the 15,000 supporters who turned out at an aircraft hangar outside Detroit, Mich, to rally for the new Democratic presidential ticket.
Harris and Walz barnstormed key battleground states across the country last week after Harris announced her new vice presidential pick.
Although that included some 15,000 outside Detroit, that’s a reality Trump is trying to deny.
Trump posted on his own vanity social media site Sunday.
“Look, we caught her with a fake ‘crowd.’ There was nobody there!” he wrote alongside a photo of the crowded hangar.
The Harris campaign’s official social media quickly rebutted the falsehood, however.
“1) This is an actual photo of a 15,000-person crowd for Harris-Walz in Michigan 2) Trump has still not campaigned in a swing state in over a week... Low energy” the Harris/Walz posted, clearly tweaking Trump’s near-absence from the campaign trail.
They weren’t the only ones calling out Trump’s apparent break from reality.
“Donald John Trump is a confused human being. He’s having a hard time figuring out what day it is, he’s so cray-cray right now about her crowds,” said Mitch Landrieu, chairman of the Harris/Walz campaign.
Barb McQuade, an author and prominent former US attorney from Michigan during the Obama administration, asked her nearly 700,000 followers on social media to send her photos of the Detroit rally to “debunk Trump’s false claims that photos of the crowd were fake and that no one was there.”
And Democratic political analyst and strategist Simon Rosenberg called Trump’s stunt disqualifying.
“Donald Trump is deeply unwell and cannot be trusted with his Truth account let alone the Presidency. We are long past the time that this should have become a central issue in our domestic discourse,” he posted.
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