{"id":1438857,"date":"2022-04-14T18:15:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438857"},"modified":"2022-04-14T18:15:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:15:39","slug":"fact-check-viral-image-of-eric-trump-and-donald-trump-jr-smiling-is-altered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-viral-image-of-eric-trump-and-donald-trump-jr-smiling-is-altered\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Viral Image Of Eric Trump And Donald Trump Jr. Smiling Is Altered"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-viral-image-of-eric-trump-and-donald-trump-jr-smiling-is-altered%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1438857&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/k8YR9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/archive.ph\/k8YR9&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1650040126874000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2WCQ5rkkm7cFupuxOcB8Sj\">shared on Twitter<\/a> purportedly shows Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. smiling.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cocaine? What cocaine? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dlPPussul4\">pic.twitter.com\/dlPPussul4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mister Race Bannon (@MrRaceBannon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrRaceBannon\/status\/1514270509839626246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The photo has been digitally altered. The original shows the two men with natural, unexaggerated facial expressions.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/k8YR9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">image<\/a> appears to show Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. posing for a photo together with abnormally large eyes and wide grins. \u201cCocaine? What cocaine?\u201d the post\u2019s caption claims, alluding to the brothers\u2019 unnatural facial expressions.<\/p>\n<p>The image is digitally edited. A reverse image search revealed the original picture was taken by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/donald-trump-jr-eric-trump-and-ivanka-trump-attend-the-9th-news-photo\/489506564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Getty Images<\/a> photographer Grant Lamos in 2015. The unaltered picture shows Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. posing for a picture together during an event in New York. Their facial expressions notably appear normal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump attend the 9th Annual Eric Trump Foundation Golf Invitational Auction &#038; Dinner at Trump National Golf Club Westchester on September 21, 2015 in Briarcliff Manor, New York,\u201d the image\u2019s caption reads.<\/p>\n<p>The unaltered picture has been included in numerous articles throughout the years, including those published by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/donald-trump-raised-sons-who-became-his-emissaries-but-not-the-way-you-might-think\/ORV4XBBAPIHMFFMBI2LVVXUGOY\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Zealand Herald<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/danalexander\/2017\/06\/09\/new-york-attorney-general-looking-into-eric-trump-foundation\/?sh=385606fc1075\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forbes<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/eric-trump-life-bio-photos-profile-2019-7#in-2007-when-he-was-23-he-started-his-own-charity-called-the-eric-trump-foundation-over-the-course-of-a-decade-the-nonprofit-raised-about-163-million-for-child-cancer-research-at-st-jude-childrens-hospital-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Insider<\/a>. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/09\/30\/fact-check-trump-merry-christmas-sign-jesus-is-still-king\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Trump Point To A Sign That Says, \u2018No Matter Who Is President Jesus Is Still King\u2019?)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Eric Trump has been the target of a photoshopped image. In October 2021, Check Your Fact debunked a viral image that appeared to show him holding a shovel upside-down while posing with his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image\u00a0shared on Twitter purportedly shows Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. smiling. Cocaine? What cocaine? pic.twitter.com\/dlPPussul4 \u2014 Mister Race Bannon (@MrRaceBannon) April 13, 2022Verdict: False The photo has been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}