{"id":192604,"date":"2025-09-30T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/192604\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:56:09","slug":"bbc-verify-live-video-of-uk-mp-doused-with-water-at-rally-is-ai-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/192604\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Video of UK MP ‘doused with water’ at rally is AI fake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan church attack suspect\u2019s pro-Trump shirt is not fakepublished at 12:39 BST<\/p>\n

12:39 BST<\/p>\n

Shayan Sardarizadeh and Joshua Cheetham
BBC Verify<\/p>\n

\"BBC<\/p>\n

Some online users have claimed a viral photo of the suspect in the Michigan church attack wearing a pro-Trump shirt is edited or fake, but BBC Verify has found no evidence to suggest the photo is manipulated.<\/p>\n

Last night, Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell posted a photo of the suspect, Thomas Jacob Sanford, posing with his wife and son. In the photo, Sanford\u2019s camouflage shirt is emblazoned with a Trump cartoon and the words \u201cre-elect Trump 2020\u201d and \u201cmake liberals cry again\u201d.<\/p>\n

In a post on X directly addressing JD Vance, Swalwell said he was sure the Republican vice-president \u201cagrees with me that it doesn\u2019t matter that the Michigan terrorist was a MAGA supporter\u201d. Vance has recently been vocal in blaming people on the left for the fatal shootings of Charlie Kirk and migrants at a Dallas immigration facility.<\/p>\n

The authorities have yet to establish a motive for the attack on the Mormon church in Grand Blanc, which led to four deaths and eight injuries.<\/p>\n

Following Swalwell\u2019s post, some users shared a cropped version of the same photo in which Sanford\u2019s shirt does not carry a pro-Trump design. They claimed that the photo posted by Swalwell was deceptively edited to frame the president\u2019s supporters.<\/p>\n

BBC Verify traced the original family photo to a Facebook page apparently run by Sanford and his wife, which documents the journey of their son who was born with a rare genetic disorder. <\/p>\n

The photo, posted in September 2019 to celebrate the son\u2019s fourth birthday, does not appear to have any previous edits.<\/p>\n

We have also seen the Trump 2020 campaign design and the same words on shirts that can be purchased online. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan church attack suspect\u2019s pro-Trump shirt is not fakepublished at 12:39 BST 12:39 BST Shayan Sardarizadeh and Joshua…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-192604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}