'Are you being serious here?' The NYT tackles the Donald Trump/dog Photoshop scandal and not a moment too soon

Sarah D | 4:23 PM on October 30, 2019

As Twitchy told you, Donald Trump tweeted out a Daily Wire Photoshop of himself awarding the medal of honor to the dog who helped kill Abu Bakr al-Baghadi. Dedicated firefighter Steve Herman didn’t waste any time trying to expose Trump’s deception:

I've requested details from the @WhiteHouse on this photo.
There was no such canine event on today's @POTUS schedule but there is a Medal of Honor ceremony set here for later today for an active duty Green Beret. https://t.co/NESINT9J4b

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) October 30, 2019

"It's photoshopped," acknowledges a @WhiteHouse official. The dog is not here at the @WhiteHouse — yet.

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) October 30, 2019

Photoshopped from the first Medal of Honor @realDonaldTrump awarded (to James McCloughan of the @USArmy for conspicuous gallantry during the Vietnam War). https://t.co/PHEUCZd6B0

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) October 30, 2019

Just to show you how important this is, Herman’s been retweeting others who are as outraged as he is:

https://t.co/PmSmnfEduE

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) October 30, 2019

https://t.co/0e6R215cLv

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) October 30, 2019

https://t.co/lvnDPZDyzT

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) October 30, 2019

All that outrage is totally righteous and great and all, but we need the Big Guns to really hammer Trump for this.

Enter the New York Times:

And @nytimes has a story out on this: https://t.co/EgMof9ktPO

— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) October 30, 2019

Because of course they have a story out on this.

Niraj Chokshi reports:

The image, which bears a watermark for a social media account for the conservative news site The Daily Wire, appeared to be an altered version of a 2017 Associated Press photograph. In the original, Mr. Trump is seen awarding a Medal of Honor to James C. McCloughan, a retired Army medic who is credited with saving the lives of 10 men during the war in Vietnam.