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  • 2017-01-19 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Donald Trump Use a Receptionist's Desk and Notepad to Stage a Speechwriting Picture? (en)
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  • On 19 January 2017 the Palmer Report (formerly Daily News Bin) claimed President-elect Donald Trump had visited an auction house in order to specifically stage a fake photograph at a random receptionist's desk, depicting himself penning his inaugural address: Referenced by the item was an 18 January 2017 image tweeted by Trump: Asserting that the image depicted a gaudy golden wall with a distinctive design pattern evidencing the strange ruse, the Palmer Report article claimed: The question of why was certainly compelling, as was the question of why the President-elect would undertake such a seemingly intricate ruse. The Palmer Report piece linked to a Palm Beach Show Group Instagram photograph. That Instagram posting did not specify when or where the picture was taken, but it included #winterwhitehouse, #inauguraladdress, #receptionistdesk, and #maralago among several hashtags. We contacted the Palm Beach Show Group and spoke with the individual in charge of their Instagram account to obtain more information. She explained that the photograph likely traced by internet sleuths that supposedly identified an auction house as the location of the Trump picture was one posted in December 2015: That image's impossible-to-miss caption suggested it was taken at Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club and not inside any auction house: According to the Palm Beach Show Group's employee, that company's CEO is a member of the Mar-a-Lago club, and he snapped the photograph during a December 2015 visit there in order to showcase tickets and other materials regularly provided by him to the club's guests. The woman depicted in the picture is not an auction house employee and was working at Mar-a-Lago when the photo was taken. (en)
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