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   From: bksherman@sunpower.com   
      
   Democrats on the House Oversight Committee sent out a pair of   
   tweets Wednesday and earlier this month with photos of migrants   
   sleeping on a detention center floor to publicize an immigration   
   hearing in Capitol Hill.   
      
   Just one problem — the pics were snapped in 2014, during the   
   Obama Administration.   
      
   The Dems deleted the two messages, and claimed it was an “error.”   
      
   Democrats on the panel sent one of the tweets soon after 1:30   
   p.m. on Wednesday, Fox News reported, citing a screenshot of the   
   tweet captured by the Trump 2020 campaign.   
      
   “Last week, members of our committee visited a detention center   
   at the souther border and discovered grotesque treatment of   
   children,” they wrote in the message. “This week, we are   
   examining the inhumane treatment of the children in these   
   detention centers.”   
      
   The tweet included a photo taken by an Associated Press   
   photographer of detained migrants sleeping on the floor of a   
   detention center in Arizona.   
      
   The Trump campaign, tweeting from the handle @TrumpWarRoom,   
   highlighted the gaffe in their own tweet.   
      
   “House Democrats are promoting their ‘civil rights’ hearing on   
   ‘kids in cages’ and ‘inhumane treatment’ with a photo from 2014,   
   when Joe Biden was Vice President,” the tweet read. “So   
   dishonest!”   
      
   Republicans on the panel also slammed their Democratic   
   counterparts, writing in a tweet: “You all know that’s a picture   
   from 2014, right? Remind us who was President.”   
      
   The GOP committee members then dredged up another promotional   
   tweet for Wednesday’s hearing that was sent by Dems on the panel   
   on July 2.   
      
   The tweet, which announced the hearing, included the same   
   Associated Press photograph from 2014.   
      
   “You deleted the last one. But this picture is also from 2014,”   
   the Oversight Committee Republicans tweeted.   
      
   That tweet was then scrubbed from the Democratic Oversight   
   Twitter feed.   
      
   The Associated Press published a fact-check article in 2018   
   after the same photo and other similar ones were circulated by   
   activists online, blaming Trump for the conditions.   
      
   “The photo was an error, and it has been removed. But there is   
   simply no comparison between the actions of the Obama   
   Administration and the Trump Administrations,” a Democratic aide   
   on the committee told the Washington Examiner in a statement.   
      
   “The Obama Administration did not separate children from their   
   families and create dehumanizing conditions,” the aide added.   
      
   Yeah they did!   
      
   https://nypost.com/2019/07/10/house-dems-use-obama-era-photos-to-   
   promote-kids-in-cages-hearing/   
       
      
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