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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Insane Story Behind Trump's Deleted Nazi Tweet
Earlier today, Donald Trump tweeted out a campaign poster featuring what appeared to be men in Nazi uniforms, superimposed over the American flag. The tweet was swiftly deleted, but not before the internet went to work tracking down the original image, sourced to the stock photography website iStock.
Mother Jones can now reveal that the image in question was taken at a World War II reenactment near Kent, England, some time within the last five years, according to its photographer, George Cairns. We reached Cairns by Skype at his home in St Albans, a town just north of London, where he was hanging out playing video games when his Twitter feed started to blow up in response to the Trump story.
George Cairns, photographer. Supplied.
Cairns is a British freelance stock photographer and photography instructor who says he frequents war reenactments as good locations to pick up realistic-looking stock imagesnot just of Nazis, but also of American GIs and other soldiers. Cairns said he didn't know much about Donald Trump beyond the controversy over a golf course the billionaire and GOP presidential contender bought in Scotland last year.
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So what does Cairns make of Trump using his image to endorse his candidacy?
READ MORE: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/insane-story-behind-trumps-nazi-tweet
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The Insane Story Behind Trump's Deleted Nazi Tweet (Original Post)
ghostsinthemachine
Jul 2015
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Rex
(65,616 posts)1. Why didn't Dump just use American military stock footage? Was this a hidden message from the Don?
Could he be any more clusterfucky?
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)2. Fat Germans
The real SS were a lot leaner. Still, It doesn't bode well for Chinga tu Pelo. rofl:
LuvNewcastle
(16,864 posts)3. What a joke.
The comedians are going to have fun with this one. Trump' s not a great businessman, but he's a comedy goldmine.