Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump told rally attendees in Redding, California that he will get "tremendous" support from African-American voters. As proof, he pointed to someone at said, "look at my African-American over here, look at him."
Then there was this Donald Trump retweet:
This fellow Don Vito is a particular favorite of Trump's. Trump retweeted an earlier one from him that caused some trouble:
Anyhoo, according to Buzzflash, the family in that photo up top aren't among Trump's African-Americans:
As many people on Twitter were quick to point out, the photograph first appeared last year on an article from Cincinnati, Ohio station WCPO about the Midwest Black Family Reunion in August.
BuzzFeed News can reveal the parents in the photograph, pictured at left , are Eddie and Vanessa Perry — and they are not endorsing or publicly supporting any political candidate during the 2016 election.
On Saturday morning, however, a friend texted him a screenshot of Trump’s tweet. “When I saw it, I immediately knew it was political propaganda,” he said.
“Why use it without asking for someone’s permission?” he asked. “Why use our image without asking?”
Somebody needs to take Trump's twitter keys away from him.
