It’s not clear what’s more embarrassing for Donald Trump: That he has baselessly passed along a conspiracy theory about Kamala Harris being involved in sex trafficking or that he did so in the form of spreading a crude photoshop from someone called “akaPR0B0SS.”
On Thursday, former President Donald Trump posted a “ReTruth” from a user on his Truth Social app. The photo appeared to feature Harris with the recently indicted music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and a third woman. It includes the caption “Kamala doing the Diddy?”
Trump is back posting misogynist content again. This time he posted a fake photo on Truth Social supposedly showing Kamala Harris at a sex party with Diddy. https://t.co/SzU2kANTuF
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 20, 2024
“akaPR0B0SS” appears to have deleted the post, although it still appears on Trump’s Truth Social timeline. The image from the post looks like this:
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It’s fairly straightforward what happened here: The photo is a familiar one, from 2001, of Harris with talk show host Montel Williams, who she was dating at the time, along with Williams’ daughter. Combs’ face has merely been crudely Photoshopped over that of Williams.
A separate version of the same thing happened earlier this week, when one MAGA influencer merely published the original picture with Harris and Williams, without any Photoshop, and merely claimed that the man in the picture was Combs. But in that case, Trump did not push the meme personally.
There is no available evidence that Kamala Harris and Sean “Diddy” Combs have ever even met, or that Harris had anything resembling involvement in or knowledge of his alleged crimes. Harris thanked Combs, in a 2020 tweet, for hosting a town hall on “The State of Black America & Coronavirus.”
The New York Post erroneously described that event as “a fundraiser for her first presidential campaign,” but Harris had dropped out of the presidential race five months earlier, and the event was focused on spreading awareness of the pandemic among people in the Black community. While Harris participated in the town hall, it presumably took place virtually, since it was April 2020.
Thank you, @Diddy, for hosting this town hall last night. There’s a lot at stake for our communities right now and it’s critical we bring to the forefront how coronavirus is perpetuating racial inequality and health disparities.https://t.co/mPFYcIhsFD
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) April 10, 2020
Harris does not appear to have ever been photographed, in non-Photoshopped fashion, with Sean “Diddy” Combs, although Donald Trump has, and he has described Diddy as his “good friend.” The two even once appeared in the same Macys commercial, along with Taylor Swift.
But once again, just because someone once appeared in a photograph or commercial with Combs, at a time when he was best known as a music industry figure and celebrity, it does not mean they have knowledge or complicity in his alleged crimes.
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