BUSTED! @NowThisNews caught using Obama-era photo from 2016 to slam Trump in 2018

Greg P. | 8:07 PM on May 27, 2018

@NowThisNews, a social media news company that specializes in videos like the one below, is trying to use the 2014 Arizona Central article on Obama-era camps for minors taken into custody at the border that we’ve been telling you about to bash President Donald Trump. Here’s the headline and start of the video that makes no mention that it’s from 2014 until 14 seconds into the video:

https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1000881032189693952

But it gets worse than this spin. They’re also taking this picture from the 1:15 mark and passing it off as a current image:

Surprise! That image is from 2016:

I was reading about ICE’s largest family detention facility—Karnes, which is run by a private contractor—and I happened upon this photo on the contractor’s blog. As my friend put it, they’ve got a prison bus for babies down there. https://t.co/ZtT8xuIJLL pic.twitter.com/tdfWRSbCAs

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) May 27, 2018

The buses, FWIW, were used for field trips according to that link:

The article says the buses were for field trips.

“The transportation requirements to handle the increased school enrollment were presented to corporate officials at the end of the 3rd quarter 2015. On February 4, 2016, two new fleet vehicles were delivered to the KCRC…”

— DogMa ???? (@Moratel_Entles) May 27, 2018