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(NewsNation) — Former President Donald Trump reposted, past deleted, a fake image claiming to amusement a young Kamala Harris posing with Sean “Diddy” Combs. It’s the latest of a fistful of fake images that Trump has precocious shared.
The representation claiming to beryllium Diddy, flanked by Harris and different woman, is really a representation from 2001. And the antheral successful the mediate of the existent representation is speech amusement big Montel Williams, whom Harris dated astatine that time. The different pistillate is Ashley Williams, Montel Williams' daughter.
The representation showed up online soon aft Diddy was indicted connected a agelong database of charges, including racketeering, conspiracy, enactment trafficking by unit and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.
Trump posted the representation Friday connected his Truth Social tract and wrote: “Kamala, doing the Diddy?” the substance read. “Madam Vice President, person you ever been progressive with oregon engaged successful 1 of Puff Daddies freak offs?” Trump aboriginal deleted the post.
Both candidates person crossed paths with Diddy. In 2020 connected her X account, Harris thanked him for hosting a municipality hallway astir the interaction of COVID-19 connected Black communities.
"Thank you, @Diddy, for hosting this municipality hallway past night,” the station read. “There's a batch astatine involvement for our communities close now, and it's captious we bring to the forefront however coronavirus is perpetuating radical inequality and wellness disparities."
Trump and Diddy person interacted galore times implicit the years, including Trump attending Diddy’s 29th day enactment in 1998.
“Donald Trump is simply a person of mine, and helium works precise hard,” Diddy told the Washington Post successful 2015. In 2012, Diddy appeared with Trump connected an occurrence of “The Celebrity Apprentice.”
"I emotion Diddy. You cognize he's a bully person of mine, he's a bully guy," Trump said.
Trump’s caller past of sharing fake oregon AI-generated images connected Truth Social includes 2 posts successful August involving Taylor Swift. One showed women wearing “Swifties for Trump” t-shirts. The different was a fabricated representation of Swift that work “Taylor wants you to ballot for Donald Trump.”
Trump besides shared a fabricated representation of Harris addressing what appeared to beryllium a Soviet Union–era gathering, implicit with hammer and sickle symbols.
