{"id":680904,"date":"2021-08-24T18:35:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=680904"},"modified":"2021-08-24T18:35:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T22:35:21","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-donald-trumps-aug-21-rally-in-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-donald-trumps-aug-21-rally-in-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show Donald Trump\u2019s Aug. 21 Rally In Alabama?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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-does-this-image-show-donald-trumps-aug-21-rally-in-alabama%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=680904&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1218864302-scaled-e1629735761374.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marilyn.rush\/posts\/4609943505691717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows empty seats at former President Donald Trump\u2019s Aug. 21 \u201cSave America\u201d rally.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image is a composite of two separate photos, neither of which was taken at the recent rally in Cullman. Thousands of people attended the Aug. 21 rally.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Trump on Aug. 21 held a \u201cSave America\u201d rally in Cullman, Alabama, in which he, among other things, criticized President Joe Biden\u2019s handling of the U.S. troop withdrawal from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/08\/24\/afghanistan-kabul-taliban-live-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghanistan<\/a> and repeated false claims about the 2020 election, <a href=\"https:\/\/wbhm.org\/feature\/2021\/donald-trumps-save-america-rally-packs-farm-near-cullman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WBHM News<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marilyn.rush\/posts\/4609943505691717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aug. 22 Facebook post<\/a> claims to show an image of numerous empty seats at that Aug. 21 rally in Alabama, alleging \u201cnobody\u201d attended the rally and urging users to \u201clook at all those empty seats.\u201d The picture includes Trump embracing conservative social media personalities Diamond and Silk.<\/p>\n<p>However, the image is actually a composite of two separate photos taken nearly a year apart from one another. Neither of the pictures within the composite image was taken at Trump\u2019s rally in Cullman on Aug. 21. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2019\/08\/09\/fact-check-did-steve-harvey-author-this-pro-trump-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Steve Harvey Author This Pro-Trump Statement?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A reverse image search traced the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/supporters-wait-for-the-start-of-a-campaign-rally-for-u-s-news-photo\/1251039125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">background picture<\/a> of seats in what appears to be an arena back to Getty Images. It was taken by photographer Win McNamee before the start of Trump\u2019s June 20, 2020 campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/supporters-wait-for-the-start-of-a-campaign-rally-for-u-s-news-photo\/1251039125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its caption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupporters wait for the start of a campaign rally for U.S. President Donald Trump at the BOK Center, June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, Oklahoma,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/supporters-wait-for-the-start-of-a-campaign-rally-for-u-s-news-photo\/1251039125\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reads<\/a> the Getty Images caption. \u201cTrump is holding his first political rally since the start of the coronavirus pandemic at the BOK Center on Saturday while infection rates in the state of Oklahoma continue to rise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diamond and Silk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DiamondandSilk\/posts\/president-donald-j-trump-we-want-to-say-thank-you-for-being-the-best-president-e\/1419224264893349\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> the picture of them and Trump on Facebook in July 2019. A similar image of Trump embracing the pair can be found in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/after-trumps-social-media-summit-its-business-as-usual-for-his-online-provocateurs\/2019\/08\/09\/d424dd48-b86a-11e9-bad6-609f75bfd97f_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 Washington Post article<\/a>, where the caption states it was taken at a July 11 \u201csummit\u201d that year. Trump hosted a \u201csocial media summit\u201d at the White House on July 11, 2019, that Diamond and Silk attended, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/after-trumps-social-media-summit-its-business-as-usual-for-his-online-provocateurs\/2019\/08\/09\/d424dd48-b86a-11e9-bad6-609f75bfd97f_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While Diamond and Silk <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RSBNetwork\/status\/1429126263776632842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">did share<\/a> a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/407279909421128\/videos\/2376864815777123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">livestream<\/a> of the Cullman rally on Facebook and Twitter and retweeted a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newsmax\/status\/1429081945602990087\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsmax tweet<\/a> about it, Check Your Fact didn\u2019t find any indication in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=diamond+and+silk+alabama&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=nws&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjJge7y48fyAhVjFVkFHag9Bg8Q_AUoAXoECAEQAw&amp;biw=1440&amp;bih=821\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2021\/08\/trump-rally-in-alabama-mo-brooks-mingles-as-thousands-flock-to-cullman.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">local<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvtm13.com\/article\/trump-rally-held-in-cullman-county\/37365100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs42.com\/news\/local\/live-former-president-donald-trump-to-speak-at-alabama-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reporting<\/a> that they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rev.com\/blog\/transcripts\/donald-trump-cullman-alabama-rally-speech-transcript\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spoke<\/a> or appeared onstage at the event. Footage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?514187-1\/president-trump-holds-rally-cullman-alabama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available on C-SPAN<\/a> also doesn\u2019t show Diamond or Silk on the stage.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people attended the Aug. 21 rally in Cullman, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-holds-potential-superspreader-rally-in-cullman-alabama-2021-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows empty seats at former President Donald Trump\u2019s Aug. 21 \u201cSave America\u201d rally.Verdict: False The image is a composite of two separate photos, neither &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680904","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\/680904","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680904\/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=680904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}