Thread by @tbrownOKC, Did @DonaldJTrumpJr post misleading photos to suggest there was a larger turnout [...]

Did @DonaldJTrumpJr post misleading photos to suggest there was a larger turnout at the #TulsaTrumpRally than there really was?

a brief investigation
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I was searching for local reax to the #tulsatrumprally so I checked up r/Tulsa to see how they were responding.

That's when I came across this post, which reads: "People have jackets and there are no LEAVES on the trees...NOT Oklahoma in JUNE."

https://www.reddit.com/r/tulsa/comments/hcx36e/go_checkout_trump_jrs_fake_crowd_photos_on/
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That sparked my curiosity so I went to @DonaldJTrumpJr's Facebook page.

I know @EricTrump was at the rally, but I didn't see Don Jr. Anyways, he posted this at 6:49, minutes before his father took the state at the BOK Center https://www.facebook.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/posts/3425268737497863?__xts__[0]=68.ARD0IdlafAAvO5hjGNCQAndWrw_QUXLQMzmWKC-rd9YhqAw06WU_-FaKoh52csjhRS2GaLXXf8_t7OJsqTnKOjfCd_HnGtRWD1IvXZ3kzkgL4NMzzyu1P5d-sckzjWQAEYLq3qg2UwK58Lzzb-wpyAuB9KnY9zHCfDZJA7_9YU1e6h_dYBaYvVk48Eo4DQ8AHkQWD9MqlzKfEm0i9KtCh230TkmNprOuU7CbkAcNRFcAiTSHl3-8K8AQlhfsHQOBDa9R24gz2XiSakp7K5T8h8XJqOmQgkmrh34wcoGQDDYPc8BaRGm10Nis_Lwg9gJW0IyRia6yBi0r4d_D5OswjPzguA&__tn__=-R
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Like users in the Reddit post pointed out, something seems amiss.

Lot of people wearing long sleeves, hoodies despite a pretty hot day yesterday in Tulsa ... And I'm not intimately familiar with Tulsa, but that backdrop of the BOK center doesn't seem right in many pics
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One of the six photos he posted along with the caption, "The Silent Majority is about to GET LOUD

" clearly shows the BOK Center and Tulsa's flag, so sure that checks out, but ...
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One of the six photos he posted along with the caption, "The Silent Majority is about to GET LOUD " clearly shows the BOK Center and Tulsa's flag, so sure that checks out, but ...5/

This one, that @DonaldJTrumpJr posted, is not Tulsa. A little checking shows it's the same photo, differently cropped, from a 2018 rally in South Carolina as this original pic/article from @ABCNews4 (which Don Jr. did not credit) shows
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https://abcnews4.com/news/local/parking-lots-full-north-charleston-coliseum-president-trump-rally-rolling-road-closures-coming

Next up is this photo that @DonaldJTrumpJr posted. Again not Tulsa. As commenters in his own Facebook comments note, it's from another 2018 rally, this time in Great Falls, MT.

This one was taken, without credit again from @mtpublicradio
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https://www.mtpr.org/post/president-trump-rallies-supporters-great-falls

How about this one?

What @DonaldJTrumpJr posted yesterday (left); what the @postandcourier reported Feb. 28 in North Charleston (right)
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Now, as some Redditors argued, @DonaldJTrumpJr didn't explicitly say in that post that all the photos were from Tulsa yesterday.

You can make your own conclusions if you think these were misleading, but ...
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Then there is this Facebook post that @DonaldJTrumpJr put up earlier Saturday comparing an out-of-context @JoeBiden event with a picture of a HUGE crowd under the words "Line for Today's Trump Rally"
https://www.facebook.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/photos/a.300688906622544/3424635850894485/?type=3&theater
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I think anyone in Oklahoma could point out that is not Tulsa (Where is the BOK Center? What are those trees? Right along the highway?) ... and as someone monitoring all the coverage Saturday, there were no crowds like that at all Saturday in Tulsa
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Reverse image search didn't work, but it appears it's from a Rolling Thunder rally in D.C. (photos on the right were some I found that looked similar), not sure what year or if Trump was even involved.

But what @DonaldJTrumpJr shared definitely not Tulsa. And not Saturday.
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