The Trump campaign is spending millions on Facebook ads for his 2020 reelection bid. But embarrassingly, according to a report from NBC News, the images of Trump supporters in those ads aren’t real Trump supporters — they’re images purchased from a stock photo service.Some of the images come from overseas. One of the stock models featured in Trump’s Facebook ads is identified as “Tracey in Florida” — but her video clips come from a French company that filed her stock video clips under “Young woman smiling and walking on the beach,” according to NBC News.
Another fake supporter, identified as “Thomas from Washington,” comes from stock video footage from a Turkish company that filed the clip under “bearded and tattooed hipster coffee shop owner posing,” NBC News reported.
View the complete July 7 article by Emily Singer on the National Memo website here.