Pete Souza, the White House photographer for the Obama admin, tried really hard to prove that the situation room photo of Trump is staged.
https://twitter.com/PeteSouza/status/1188471757579194371 https://twitter.com/PeteSouza/status/1188473901996748800 https://twitter.com/PeteSouza/status/1188498279866208257Sure he didn’t say it, but that’s how people took it.
They’re all claiming that Trump was golfing during the raid, and that the photograph was staged later.
@PeteSouza initiated the claim that the president was golfing during the raid and that the photo of him viewing it was a staged photo op.
It prompted plenty of blue checks to go on their usual witch hunt: pic.twitter.com/tZ2lBlDtl9
— Brett MacDonald (@TweetBrettMac) October 27, 2019
But, according to the NYT later, the raid began at 5:00, not earlier:
https://twitter.com/PeteSouza/status/1188523408956542977SO there goes that conspiracy theory, but they’re still tweeting it:
Deleted this tweet because the NYT is now reporting that the raid began about 45 minutes after Trump returned to the White House from golfing pic.twitter.com/il0HvMr7s3
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 27, 2019
And having to retract their tweets:
Riiiight…
Then there’s this idiot who keeps being caught on this kind of stuff:
https://twitter.com/eugenegu/status/1188548898970714112And more:
This asshole wants to be Obama so bad that he staged a situation room photo almost three hours after the raid. Half these guys don’t know whether to look at the camera or pretend they’re monitoring. pic.twitter.com/aCM9tE76xH
— Mike with a Y but it’s not where you think (@themikenorton) October 27, 2019
BUt have no worry, they will find other nutty conspiracy theories to cling to if the last one falls apart:
One of these photos is staged. @PeteSouza’s photo was taken from the corner of the room since he was trying to stay out of the way.
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) October 27, 2019
Everyone in the @realDonaldTrump photo is looking straight at the camera, the photographer would‘ve blocked the screen Obama et al were looking at pic.twitter.com/nFQfmQl4Pz
Uh… OK? Sure buddy. Good luck on that one….