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Rep. Paul Gosar Tweets Fake Image of Obama With Iranian Leader

Rep. Paul Gosar Tweets Fake Image of Obama With Iranian Leader

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Rep. Paul Gosar Tweets Fake Image of Obama With Iranian Leader

by Isaac Saul
January 7, 2020 at 2:46 pm
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Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) is under fire after tweeting out a doctored image of President Barack Obama with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani.

Gosar, a Republican with a penchant for creating controversy, shared the image on Monday with the caption, “The world is a better place without these two in power.” He was immediately criticized given that the image was doctored and Rouhani is still in power, serving as Iran’s president.

The world is a better place without these guys in power. pic.twitter.com/gDoXQu9vO5

— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) January 6, 2020

First, it was reporters from news outlets across the country who fact-checked Gosar in real-time.

https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1214281536817782785

1. This photo is fake (photoshopped)

2. The man on the left is Hassan Rouhani, who is still President of Iran

3. It's embarrassing that you are a United States Congressman https://t.co/ikREslNV3K

— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 6, 2020

How sad is it that a member of Congress tweets a photoshopped image? Obama and Iran's Rouhani spoke by phone but never met in person. https://t.co/HTifrQ95tE

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 6, 2020

Then some politicians got in on the criticism, too. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mn.) shared the tweet, calling it “shameless” and insisting Gosar “do better.”

The GOP’s commitment to the distribution and trafficking of misinformation is alarming.

This is a sitting member of Congress sharing a photoshopped image of President Obama.

Congressman, this is disgraceful and shameless act, do better! https://t.co/v6wzJhF2jq

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 6, 2020

Gosar responded to Omar, saying it didn’t “mean squat” to be “scolded from someone recently voted the No. 1 anti-Semite.” He called the photo “an artistic expression of Obama’s support for a terrorist regime.” Gosar also took issue with the reporters who called out the fake picture, claiming he knew it was photoshopped.

1. To the dim witted reporters like @dmedin11: no one said this wasn’t photoshopped. No one said the president of Iran was dead. No one said Obama met with Rouhani in person.
The tweet says: “the world is a better place without either of them in power”. https://t.co/zwLPPXniQh

— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) January 6, 2020

While it’s unclear whether Gosar knew the photo was fake or not, The Washington Post reported that it was “the third time in two months that the lawmaker has tweeted conspiratorial messages or misinformation.” He also posted an acrostic that spelled out Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself on his account, and even shared a now-deleted tweet claiming that George Soros’s son was the whistleblower that set off the impeachment inquiry.

Gosar continued to defend his tweet, which is still live on his account, throughout the day.

“The point remains to all but the dimmest,” Gosar said on Twitter. “Obama coddled, appeased, nurtured and protected the worlds No. 1 sponsor of terror.”

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Isaac Saul

Isaac Saul

Isaac Saul is a senior politics reporter, editor and founding member at A Plus, the positive news oulet founded by Ashton Kutcher. He also writes the independent, non-partisan, ad-free politics newsletter Tangle. His reporting focuses on Congress, elections, immigration and climate change. His writing has appeared in CNN, The New York Daily News, The Forward, Yahoo!, The Huffington Post, Quartz, and been cited by The Washington Post, The New York Times and Fox News, among others. Before A Plus, he was an Associate Editor at The Huffington Post and the sports editor at The Pitt News.

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