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Trump Campaign Ad Uses Ukraine Photo In Depicting U.S. Street 'Chaos'

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Trump Campaign Ad Uses Ukraine Photo In Depicting U.S. Street 'Chaos'

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This photo from the clashes between protesters and police in Kyiv in 2014 was used
by the Trump campaign to highlight Trumps stance on crime in America. What it
actually highlights is the dishonesty of Trumps campaign ads.

7/22/20
A campaign ad for U.S. President Donald Trump that aims to promote him as a guarantor of public safety features a photo of pro-democracy protesters in Ukraine battling with police during the 2014 Maidan events. The ad, which appeared on the president’s official Facebook page, consists of two images: one showing Trump standing alongside law enforcement officials on the left side and citizens in helmets fighting with police on the other side. The caption below the photos reads “Public Safety vs Chaos & Violence.” However, the violence depicted in the Trump ad shows pro-democracy protesters fighting police in Ukraine in 2014 and not the recent U.S. protests. The ad has since gone viral among Trump critics. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to media inquiries about the ad. The United States backed the Ukrainian protesters, who took to the streets after then-President Viktor Yanukovych agreed to closer ties with Russia, angering those citizens who wanted Ukraine to eventually join the European Union. The protesters, some of whom stood for weeks in the freezing cold and faced police brutality, were admired around the world.
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It's ironic that Trump is using a picture from Ukraine, the country he attempted to shakedown and blackmail in 2019.
 
Makes me wonder if Manafort is back on the Trump campaign.
 
There are a series of things that intersect in this story:

Parscale had a picture of Christ the Redeemer in Rio, in a campaign ad, Stepian was not to be out done.

Trump's New Ad Is Amazing - The Bulwark
 
Full on propaganda machine
 
This is Parscale’s replacement, right?
 
There is already one thread on this, this was my reply to that post:

Anyone can post almost anything on Facebook and usually do. Great source of disinformation.
Read carefully, even if the ad is real, it clearly states it was from "Evangelicals for Trump", hardly the Trump campaign. As I said, anyone can put anything on Facebook. And don't bother saying is has Trumps supposed sponsor approval at the head, even you could copy that and post with it on Facebook.

If you want to get into fake photos used in other peoples campaigns, well I saved up a bunch of those from the past and it is hardly new or limited to just one side. Please, take anything on Facebook with a huge grain of salt.
 
Rogue Valley said:
Trump Campaign Ad Uses Ukraine Photo In Depicting U.S. Street 'Chaos'

Edf7-CyWsAIXZaN

This photo from the clashes between protesters and police in Kyiv in 2014 was used
by the Trump campaign to highlight Trumps stance on crime in America. What it
actually highlights is the dishonesty of Trumps campaign ads.



It's ironic that Trump is using a picture from Ukraine, the country he attempted to shakedown and blackmail in 2019.
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1. I haven't seen where it's stated that this picture is taking place in the US. Which I still honestly don't actually care, because this is just as likely to be an instance of someone not checking where the image came from. It's not like this kind of thing is new with any kind of advertisement.

2. Thank you for revealing just how intellectually dishonest you can still be.
It's ironic that Trump is using a picture from Ukraine, the country he attempted to shakedown and blackmail in 2019.
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Sabre said:
There is already one thread on this, this was my reply to that post:

Anyone can post almost anything on Facebook and usually do. Great source of disinformation.
Read carefully, even if the ad is real, it clearly states it was from "Evangelicals for Trump", hardly the Trump campaign. As I said, anyone can put anything on Facebook. And don't bother saying is has Trumps supposed sponsor approval at the head, even you could copy that and post with it on Facebook.

If you want to get into fake photos used in other peoples campaigns, well I saved up a bunch of those from the past and it is hardly new or limited to just one side. Please, take anything on Facebook with a huge grain of salt.
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If you squint, down at the bottom it says who paid for the ad!
 
Rogue Valley said:
Trump Campaign Ad Uses Ukraine Photo In Depicting U.S. Street 'Chaos'

Edf7-CyWsAIXZaN

This photo from the clashes between protesters and police in Kyiv in 2014 was used
by the Trump campaign to highlight Trumps stance on crime in America. What it
actually highlights is the dishonesty of Trumps campaign ads.



It's ironic that Trump is using a picture from Ukraine, the country he attempted to shakedown and blackmail in 2019.
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I can't get any of the hypertext words to link to anything.

Do you have a link to the actual ad?
 
Rexedgar said:
If you squint, down at the bottom it says who paid for the ad!
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Like I said, anyone can put just about anything on Facebook, it's loaded with edited photos. If anyone actually looked at the picture they would have figured is was amiss just by the uniform of the police officer. That and the fact that it was from Facebook makes it easy to dismiss. Would you like some faked photos from the other side, I have kept a few just for the humor. Bottom line, don't buy anything on Facebook, it's not a news source.
 
Sabre said:
Like I said, anyone can put just about anything on Facebook, it's loaded with edited photos. If anyone actually looked at the picture they would have figured is was amiss just by the uniform of the police officer. That and the fact that it was from Facebook makes it easy to dismiss. Would you like some faked photos from the other side, I have kept a few just for the humor. Bottom line, don't buy anything on Facebook, it's not a news source.
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Trump Tweeted it. Post #6.
 
Grand Mal said:
Trump Tweeted it. Post #6.
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As I also pointed out earlier, you could also add the "Trump" header to a post in picture you post on Facebook, just about anyone can copy and paste it. Do you have a direct copy from Twitter of the picture itself or are you going from picture that the unbiased Jesse Lehrich, spokesman for Hillary Clinton, posted in his Tweet?
 
Sabre said:
As I also pointed out earlier, you could also add the "Trump" header to a post in picture you post on Facebook, just about anyone can copy and paste it. Do you have a direct copy from Twitter of the picture itself or are you going from picture that the unbiased Jesse Lehrich, spokesman for Hillary Clinton, posted in his Tweet?
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It doesn't matter anyway. You can just claim anything posted here is bogus if it shows Trump in a negative light.
Why do you doubt that Trump Tweeted that pic? Do you think he fact-checked his own campaign ad? Trump was asked by Time magazine to stop displaying fake Time covers that lionize him so it's not like he's too honest to use fake pictures for his own purposes. He's said several times that his father was born in Germany (he was born in the Bronx) so it's not that he's too honest to tell blatant, easily-refuted lies. So why do you insist he wouldn't use a faked picture for campaign purposes?
 
Rexedgar said:
It is linked in post #6

Trump campaign ad criticized as misleading over photo of protesters taken in Ukraine | TheHill
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Thank you!

The voice over on the article you provided says that the ad was posted on Facebook by a group that supports The President, not the Campaign to re-elect the President.

The OP, the title of this thread and the title of the link provided, seem to indicate that the ad was created and published by the Trump Campaign.

The article quite artfully avoids a specific attribution to the Trump Campaign, but disingenuously leads the readers to believe that the president or his campaign was complicit in this.

Very slippery and an excellent example of the journalistic propaganda we suffer every day.
 
code1211 said:
Thank you!

The voice over on the article you provided says that the ad was posted on Facebook by a group that supports The President, not the Campaign to re-elect the President.

The OP, the title of this thread and the title of the link provided, seem to indicate that the ad was created and published by the Trump Campaign.

The article quite artfully avoids a specific attribution to the Trump Campaign, but disingenuously leads the readers to believe that the president or his campaign was complicit in this.

Very slippery and an excellent example of the journalistic propaganda we suffer every day.
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Expecting the Trump campaign to control content on their own FB page is a bit of a reach. It’s been three or four days now; have you seen a retraction?

What’s your take on this one?

Botched Trump Campaign Ad Vows To 'Protect' Statue -- In Brazil | HuffPost
 
Grand Mal said:
It doesn't matter anyway. You can just claim anything posted here is bogus if it shows Trump in a negative light.
Why do you doubt that Trump Tweeted that pic? Do you think he fact-checked his own campaign ad? Trump was asked by Time magazine to stop displaying fake Time covers that lionize him so it's not like he's too honest to use fake pictures for his own purposes. He's said several times that his father was born in Germany (he was born in the Bronx) so it's not that he's too honest to tell blatant, easily-refuted lies. So why do you insist he wouldn't use a faked picture for campaign purposes?
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this^
 
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