These Images Were Not Taken at the Pennsylvania Trump Rally

Misbar's investigation found the circulating photos misleading. 

The photos are old and were not taken at the former president's rally in Pennsylvania on September 3, 2022.

Old Photos Misattributed to Trump’s Pennsylvania Rally

According to Tineye, the first photo depicting a man wearing a Nazi symbol on his armband was first shared online in March 2017.

After a thorough research, we were able to identify that the man in the photo is Joey Salads, an American YouTuber. 

Salads posted a "Social Experiment" video on his YouTube channel on March 2017 explaining that he is going to a Trump wearing a Nazi sign to see how people react. 

The circulating photo was cropped from the YouTube video.

The second image making the rounds depicts demonstrators supporting Donald Trump at a rally in Berkeley, California in April 2017.

The photo was taken by Stephen Lam, a photojournalist for Reuters, on April 15, 2017, according to the Alamy Photo Stock website.

The third image, which shows Trump's campaign poster next to a Nazi flag, has been online since 2016. 

This photo was taken by Edward Conner for the Associated Press on September 24, 2016, at the Bloomsburg Fair in Pennsylvania. It shows a Nazi flag for sale on a vendor's trailer.

However, after multiple complaints for selling Nazi flags, the merchant was excluded from the fair.

The fourth image depicting a man wearing a Swastika shirt and a cap with the slogan "Make America Great Again" has been circulating on Twitter since 2017, as the screenshot below shows.

Also, a photo of a woman in a Swastika shirt giving a Nazi salute is old, repositioned, and edited to include an illustration of Jesus.

Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania Rally

According to The New York Times, former U.S. President Donald Trump made his first public appearance since the F.B.I. investigation on September 3 in Pennsylvania, one of the key states in the midterm elections.

Following the search of Trump's home for classified documents, news outlets reported that the former president lashed out at President Biden and federal agents, calling his rival "an enemy of the state" and the F.B.I. and the Department of Justice "vicious monsters." Trump said at the rally that the search was a "travesty of justice" and that it would result in "a backlash like nobody has ever seen."

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