Shortly after 500-odd migrants swarmed the U.S. border Sunday, one photograph began making the rounds in the mainstream media.
The Daily Wire’s Joseph Curl has more:
The photo shows a woman pulling her children, reportedly fleeing tear gas fired by U.S. authorities.
Incredibly moving and potent photos of a mother fleeing tear gas with her children at the southwest U.S. border by @Reuters photog Kim Kyung-Hoon @topixkim https://t.co/Rhm0RhYJMJ
— Jason Szep (@jasonszep) November 26, 2018
Social media immediately filled with outcry. “Trump is tear gassing babies at the border. Read that again. Trump is lobbing tear gas canisters at mothers & children at the border. Lordy there are photos of children running from the noxious gas. This is Trump’s America & America’s shame. Real news, real Trump. Who wants this?” one person wrote on Twitter.
But one observant Twitterer found some unusual things in the very same picture posted above. In the background, it appears as if many people are not fleeing anything, and a photographer with a camera on a tripod appears to be taking pictures of a child running as another photographer shoots people “posing as if fleeing.”
#FakeNews Media all share same photo of “women & kids gassed”.
Perpetrators of invasion instantly become victims in new #FakeNews narrative.
Congratulations, you’ve been #Hoaxed! ????✊????✊????✊ pic.twitter.com/ISkExrlc2T
— ????????#WalkAway Mexican J.Lo. (@jetrotter) November 26, 2018
“Look at the high resolution picture of the guys in the back holding each other for the photographer to make it look like they are running,” wrote another.
Look at the high resolution picture of the guys in the back holding each other for the photographer to make it look like they are running. They know how naive & foolish the liberal/Progressive/normal viewer brainwash gang is. https://t.co/cgOkTkdoZF
— An0maly (@LegendaryEnergy) November 26, 2018
As doubt grew on the veracity of the photo, a video by The Daily Caller’s Benny Johnson, juxtaposing CNN’s Jim Acosta lecturing the president about the migrant caravan with the disarray at the border went viral.
Jim Acosta lectured President Trump about the migrant caravan saying:
– Not an invasion
– Hundreds of miles away
– Would not jump border wallI overlaid actual footage from today of the migrant caravan storming the border to invade the US over Jim’s question.
I hope you enjoy: pic.twitter.com/p3vQogWnIJ
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) November 26, 2018
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