Obama Photographer Suggests Trump Situation Room Photo Not Taken During Baghdadi Raid, Gets Busted by Facts

President Donald Trump announced the great news today that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed by U.S. Special Forces.

BREAKING: Al-Baghdadi killed himself and three children during U.S. raid, President Trump announces.

“The thug who tried so hard to intimidate others spent his last moments in utter fear.” pic.twitter.com/PW2VrI6oX1

— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) October 27, 2019

But some people just couldn’t say, “Great work” and celebrate the death of the world’s #1 terrorist.

Pete Souza is the former White House photographer for Barack Obama.

He has made it no secret that he dislikes President Donald Trump and has taken shots at him in the past.

But he sent out a fake news tweet that went everywhere quickly, suggesting that the picture showed Trump wasn’t in the White House when the action taken against Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took place.

The raid, as reported, took place at 3:30PM Washington time. The photo, as shown in the camera IPTC data, was taken at “17:05:24″. https://t.co/XV0MFfFiTt

— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) October 27, 2019

It has 15,000 retweets and over 38,000 likes as of this writing.

Media and Democrats immediately cried conspiracy, as Twitchy notes, spreading it further.

‘Journalists.’

Lol “he was golfing at the time of the raid.” https://t.co/xWa778HKbf

— Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) October 27, 2019

The record shows that the president was at his golf course at the time of the attack on el-Baghdadi. The situation room photo was staged after the attack. https://t.co/PHypjklRDD

— Ray Locker (@rlocker12) October 27, 2019

Boggles the mind. They are making up Situation Room photos. https://t.co/eesVhkWuyW

— Neil King (@NKingofDC) October 27, 2019

Democratic strategist:

Trump was golfing during the raid.

This photo was staged.

What else is he lying about? https://t.co/MfQenhgWiK

— Greg Pinelo (@gregpinelo) October 27, 2019

Even Andrew Zimmern retweeted the fake story to his over a million followers.

Of course, Souza was wrong, as he later had to admit, that Trump was back in the White House before the raid and before the picture was taken.

The latest reporting from the NYT: the helicopters left Iraq at 5PM (Washington time), and they reported it was about a 70-minute flight to Syria. So actual raid had to happen some time after 6:10PM. https://t.co/rErbPLJlpD

— Pete Souza (@PeteSouza) October 27, 2019

But as with most fake news, you can see it got much less attention than the original false story. And people are still spreading the lie.

And most of the blue checks still have the false story up and haven’t taken it down, much less apologized for spreading the insanity.

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