Trump's Troubles

Trump Called Out By Veterans For "110% Improper" Photo Op (msn.com)

U.S. Air Force pilot Jahara Matisek, a military professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, responded to the video with a question: “Why is there an Air Force 2-star general (probably ANG) in the frame at what appears to be a political event?”

Air National Guard Lt. Colonel and former U.S. Representative Adam Kinzinger (D-IL) replied to Matisek’s observation: “Good question. Trump isn’t president so this is by definition a campaign event, and nobody in uniform can participate.”

Matisek, who says it “looks like Major General Thomas Suelzer,” added that his presence in uniform is “110% improper. If President Biden was there instead, it would then be legal. But I'm pretty sure my two decades of annual training about allowed political activities says that you cannot be present in uniform for a campaign speech by a non-elected official.”

 

Are there any laws about deep fakes and politics?

Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images

Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images
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By Marianna SpringBBC Panorama and Americast
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This image, created by a radio host and his team using AI, is one of dozens of fakes portraying black Trump supporters
Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Americans to vote Republican.
BBC Panorama discovered dozens of deepfakes portraying black people as supporting the former president.
Mr Trump has openly courted black voters, who were key to Joe Biden's election win in 2020.
But there's no evidence directly linking these images to Mr Trump's campaign.
The co-founder of Black Voters Matter, a group which encourages black people to vote, said the manipulated images were pushing a "strategic narrative" designed to show Mr Trump as popular in the black community.
A creator of one of the images told the BBC: "I'm not claiming it's accurate." The fake images of black Trump supporters, generated by artificial intelligence (AI), are one of the emerging disinformation trends ahead of the US presidential election in November.
Unlike in 2016, when there was evidence of foreign influence campaigns, the AI-generated images found by the BBC appear to have been made and shared by US voters themselves.
One of them was Mark Kaye and his team at a conservative radio show in Florida.
They created an image of Mr Trump smiling with his arms around a group of black women at a party and shared it on Facebook, where Mr Kaye has more than one million followers.

 

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onald Trump was warned by a former federal prosecutor on Sunday that, if he fails to post a bond or pay the full amount owed to E. Jean Carroll, the columnist's attorneys can "get to work" on collecting the judgment for defamation after this week.
Trump lost two defamation trials against Carroll, with a jury finding him liable in the first for sexually assaulting her. He was ordered to pay $5 million in the first trial, and more than $83 million in the second one.


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As suspected, Weisselberg to plead guilty to perjury charges, effectively neutering his ability to testify for any prosecution going forward as this further destroys his credibility as a witness

Ex-Trump Organization CFO to plead guilty to perjury charges: Sources (msn.com)

Allen Weisselberg, the ex-chief financial officer of former President Donald Trump's family real estate company, will plead guilty Monday to perjury charges that resulted from his testimony during Trump's civil fraud trial, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

The terms of the plea remain sealed until Weisselberg appears in court Monday.