In an appearance on MSNBC this week with the network’s Jen Psaki, conservative lawyer George Conway, who is known as an anti-Trump voice, argued that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump had gone off the rhetorical deep end.
Specifically, Conway was responding to claims from Trump on social media that images of crowds assembled in support of Vice President Kamala Harris as she runs for president were the work of artificial intelligence software, meaning faked.
“What we saw with this tweet yesterday is that last, final collapse of Donald Trump’s mental state,” Conway said, citing writer Jonathan Chait and calling Trump’s claims “loopier than saying that the moon landings were staged, because there were so — tens of thousands of people were there! And there were hundreds of people — that hundreds of people taking photographs and videos. To think that is crazy. To try to sell it to people is just as crazy. He’s done. His brain is fried.”
Trump was very insistent in his original claims.
“Has anyone noticed that Kamala CHEATED at the airport? There was nobody at the plane, and she “A.I.’d” it, and showed a massive “crowd” of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST!” he posted to Truth Social, the Trump social media platform, subsequently adding: “She’s a CHEATER. She had NOBODY waiting, and the “crowd” looked like 10,000 people! Same thing is happening with her fake “crowds” at her speeches.”
There is no real-world proof that images of crowds at campaign events for Harris are being faked by the vice president’s team.
Harris, though, has recently contrasted herself with Trump by being out on the campaign trail in electoral battleground states at all, with Trump sticking to a rally in Montana — which is not a swing state in presidential elections — and a series of interviews, plus a widely panned press conference at Mar-a-Lago where he complained to the media for a while.
