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I don’t trust republicans or cnn at all
Me, neither. But what's your take on the CNN story then?
It's a static pic that could have been taken at any time, and just not used yet (possibly even for just this type of purpose). I'll believe it's real when I'm dead, because even if they had a video of him reading something from recent events out loud, there's always the possibility it's "AI" crap.
It does show yesterday's WaPo sports page. It's not proof but it was disappointing to confirm.
The fact that they clearly wanted to show the newspaper, like in a classic ransom photo, is pretty suspicious on its own.
AngryRedHerring posted the image that seems to have been used as a source for McConnell: https://lemmy.world/post/49374470/24742512
That vacation photo is probably the fake. The background looks photoshopped in and the lighting on them looks like indoor lighting.
I grabbed the latest photo from his official Senate website and it cuts off more of the paper. Why?
I looked to verify words and the length of the end of each paragraph against the pic. All checks out so far, but that just means they put enough work into it to get past a ten minute look from me.
CNN is owned by Warner Brothers Discovery, which is currently in the final stages of being bought by Paramount Skydance. Paramount had 60 Minutes pay a large bribe to Trump and got rid of Colbert to make sure their deal went through, so faking this is cheap and easy.
Unfortunately also The Guardian wrote about this.
those are the same thing lol