Twitter was flooded Wednesday with AI-generated deepfake photos of former President Donald Trump resisting arrest and trying to run from police ahead of his New York indictment earlier this week.
The fabricated images — which had been viewed more than 4 million times — appear to show Trump yelling and fighting off at least five NYPD officers.
In others, he’s depicted breaking free from cops and bolting as Melania Trump and Donald Trump Jr. shout in protest of his arrest.
Many of the disturbingly realistic-looking images were shared widely by Twitter users, who falsely claimed they were legitimate.
The fakes came as a Manhattan grand jury was weighing whether to indict Trump in connection to hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016.
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