Former 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.

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The sad thing for him is that he is Streisand Effecting her crowd size. I had multiple posts on my Facebook feed of the picture where they circled the body of the plane and the engine claiming there’s no people in the reflection, so the crowd size is fake. I stumbled onto a Snopes post of a link to a video of the actual event as proof that the photo is authentic. I watched the video, and the camera showed not only the crowd that was displayed in the picture, but it began to pull back away from the plane. The crowd just kept on going and going and going and going and going! I couldn’t believe the number of people!

So where I would have never seen a pic of a group of people waiting by her plane, now I’ve seen a group that was multiple times as large as what was in the picture, and I’m beginning to realize what a movement she has going. Thank DJT!

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The crowd just kept on going and going and going and going and going! I couldn’t believe the number of people!

Any chance the Dems will learn from Obama and Harris that younger and energetic candidates that stand firm will energize voters and increase turnout?

Yes, I am assuming Harris will pull in the numbers in November because she is currently doing things overwhelmingly right on the campaign trail. Not perfect, but overall really, really well.

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Any chance the Dems will learn from Obama and Harris that younger and energetic candidates that stand firm will energize voters and increase turnout?

Best I can do is a bunch of DC consultants whose clients are all 120 years old who will say naw this is a one-off.

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Any chance the Dems will learn from Obama and Harris that younger and energetic candidates that stand firm will energize voters and increase turnout?

Seeing as they’re rolling out Bill and fucking Hillary Clinton as speakers at the DNC to follow the already unavoidable speech by historically unpopular Biden my guess would be no.

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Biden is the current president. Bill and Hillary Clinton are both still immensely popular. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with showing them throw their support to Harris.

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I’m hoping that they take a swing at all 50 states plus DC. Dean may be known primarily for his scream, but his 50 State Strategy was a good idea.

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Like the very real photos he took with his black supporters?

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Holy shit, it’s just constant projection with the GOP. Even on the stupidest shit, projection.

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Every accusation is a confession

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If you wanted to fake an image, you definitely wouldn’t be using AI, especially for something as in easy as crowds.

But, of course, you wouldn’t be doing photomanipulation for anything many people were actually there to witness with their eyeballs.

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Remember when Adolf was in his bunker moving mythical military units on a map?

Same thing.

The man distanced himself from reality and has now fallen off a cliff. It does no good trying to convince anyone, just watch the lemmings that follow him.

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reminds me of some sharpie incident

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I still don’t know which is more unbelievable to me - that it happened in the first place or that he’s still a toss-up for the presidency despite having pulled that stunt.

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What was that again?

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He tried to claim he’d been right about the path of a hurricane… by doctoring a weather prediction map from the National Weather Service with a sharpie.

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Nothing but projection. Trump and his cronies do that -> Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images. I’m pretty sure that there are way more examples, I just don’t feel like spending any time on this moron and his lies. Honestly, why is it still necessary to debunk anything Trump says? It’s a rare exception when he says something that isn’t made up.

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