MAGA fake news: Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest - using photos of South America

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/oregon-republicans-protest-photo-south-america

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

Robert Mackey
Mon 6 Oct 2025 21.32 EDT

Before a federal judge blocked Donald Trump from putting members of California’s national guard on the streets of Portland, Oregon, late on Sunday, the state’s Republican party welcomed the planned deployment in celebratory posts on social media.

“President Trump on Sunday deployed 300 California National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon after a judge ruled that the Oregon National Guard could not be deployed to keep federal facilities and personnel in Portland safe,” Oregon Republicans wrote on their official Facebook, Instagram and X accounts.

On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart.

The image of the police officers comes from a photo of “South American riot police” that was uploaded to the Getty Images archive in 2008. A clear visual clue that the photograph was not taken in Portland was that the first officer’s shield is marked “Policia”, the Spanish or Portuguese word for police.

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1. Of course they are.

It is a practice used on RW media all the time.

And the grifter keeps saying he has seen pictures of Portland burning - likely they are false images, as well.

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2. If you look closely at the first shield it says "policia"

Not only dishonest, but stupid

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3. DUPE

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220703265