So much
#winning #whining
Crowd size.. crowd size.. why is he worried about crowd size if he is telling his supporters they won't have to vote?
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Trump Rolls Out Bonkers Harris Plane Conspiracy—but Photographer Disproves It
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Trump+Rolls+Out+Bonkers+Harris+Plane+Conspiracy%E2%80%94but+Photographer+Disproves+ItFormer President Donald Trump continued his obsession with crowd size on Sunday, claiming photos that showed a large crowd outside Vice President Kamala Harris’ Detroit rally last week were AI-generated. But one photographer who was in attendance confirmed to the Daily Beast that the images his camera captured were very real.
“Has anyone noticed that Kamala CHEATED at the airport?” Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday. “There was nobody at the plane, and she ‘A.I.’d’ it, and showed a massive ‘crowd’ of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST! She was turned in by a maintenance worker at the airport when he noticed the fake crowd picture, but there was nobody there, later confirmed by the reflection of the mirror like finish on the Vice Presidential Plane. She’s a CHEATER. She had NOBODY waiting, and the ‘crowd’ looked like 10,000 people! Same thing is happening with her fake ‘crowds’ at her speeches.”
Trump then shared another photo of the Aug. 7 crowd from a distance and again claimed it was a “fake ‘crowd.’”
The former president’s sudden posts amplified a burgeoning right-wing conspiracy, which seemingly started on Saturday after far-right filmmaker and election denier Dinesh D’Souza posted a photo from the rally on his X account with areas of the plane’s body circled.
“Check the reflection in the plane,” he wrote. “Does this look like a real picture to you?”
Trump ran with this narrative despite numerous photos and videos from the rally that showed thousands of people awaiting the arrival of Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. The press pool captured nearly every angle of the event, from scenes of Harris and Walz on the steps of Air Force Two to the two addressing the raucous crowd from the stage.
Getty Images photographer Andrew Harnik covered the rally on Wednesday and tells the Daily Beast the crowd was “significantly large enough” that it spilled into the tarmac. The campaign also set up large LED screens so that attendees could see and hear the speeches.
“It was a large crowd, and the pictures that I took that are on the Getty website speak to that,” Harnik says.
Harnik explains that he used a zoom lens, a camera attachment commonly used by photographers that allows them to change the framing of a scene without moving from their spot. A high-end zoom lens allows a photographer to capture a subject from afar, though it can give photos a “flat” look and make the subject appear much closer than they are—in this case, a plane to a crowd.
“The plane is actually a pretty far distance from the crowd,” Harnik adds.
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