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Former President Donald Trump shared AI-generated images of women wearing “Swifties for Trump” t-shirts to his Truth Social account on Sunday, including a satirical post that claimed Taylor Swift fans were turning to Trump after security concerns forced the cancellation of her Vienna concerts earlier this month. 

Trump captioned the post “I accept!” and shared screenshots of four X posts that show women wearing “Swifties for Trump” t-shirts, as well as a fabricated image of Taylor Swift that reads, “Taylor wants you to vote for Donald Trump.” 

Swift has not endorsed a presidential candidate in this election but endorsed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2020 race. Swift has previously been critical of Trump, including for his comments during the Black Lives Matter protests that followed the murder of George Floyd in 2020. 

One of the X posts Trump included, which showed several women wearing “Swifties for Trump” t-shirts in various colors, had a satire label on it. The creator of that post said it was clearly labeled as satire and that they believed the Republican candidate got “the joke.”

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Former President Donald Trump shared several AI-generated photos of women wearing “Swifties for Trump” t-shirts, and a fake Taylor Swift endorsement image, along with pictures of a real Trump supporter.

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Trump’s post also contained two real photos of a Trump supporter named Jenna Piwowarczyk wearing a “Swifties for Trump” t-shirt. The photos were taken at a Trump rally in Racine, Wisconsin, on June 18, and posted to X by Wisconsin Right Now. The images were shared online in the days before Trump reposted the image. 

In a video posted on Saturday, Piwowarczyk said she was glad the image of her wearing the t-shirt was going “viral.” “It’s no secret that millions of young female voters consider themselves Swifties and we don’t want them to have to choose between loving Taylor Swift and supporting their conservative ideologies at the ballot box in November,” Piwowarczyk said. 

Last week, Trump falsely claimed Vice President Kamala Harris‘ campaign lied about the size of the crowd attending her Aug. 7 rally in Detroit, Michigan. In a post on Truth Social, Trump falsely said a photo of the crowd was created using artificial intelligence and that the crowd in fact “didn’t exist.” In fact, images and videos from the event showed the crowd was real, and the photo Trump questioned was a real image. 



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A 15-year-old boy was charged Thursday with murder in the shooting deaths of his parents and three of his siblings at a home in Fall City, Washington, according to court documents obtained by CBS News.

The teen, whose name is being withheld because he is a juvenile, was charged with five counts of aggravated murder in the slayings of his parents, Mark and Sarah Humiston, two brothers, ages 9 and 13, and his 7-year-old sister, per King County court records.  

He was also charged with one count of attempted murder for shooting and wounding his 11-year-old sister, the documents read.

That girl was in “satisfactory condition” at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, hospital spokesperson Susan Gregg told the Associated Press Tuesday.

Autopsies performed by the King County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that all five victims died of gunshot wounds. The handgun used in the shooting was believed to belong to the victim’s father, the court records state.

According to the charging documents, just before 5 a.m. Monday, the suspect called 911 with a false story in which he claimed that his 13-year-old brother “just shot my whole family and committed suicide too” at the family’s home in Fall City, which is a community located near Seattle.

However, at about the same time as that call, 911 dispatchers received a second call from a neighbor who lives about a quarter-mile away. That neighbor said the suspect’s 11-year-old sister had ran to his house and was bleeding from what appeared to be a gunshot wound, the documents said.

The girl said her entire family had been fatally shot and identified her 15-year-old brother as the shooter. The girl told dispatchers she was also shot by her brother and “then described holding her breath and playing dead,” the documents read. The girl later told detectives that she had escaped through a bedroom window.

Deputies responded to the Humiston home, where they found the suspect in the driveway and took him into custody, court records show. The five victims were found dead inside the home.

In a hospital interview with detectives later that day, the suspect’s surviving sister said that she identified the firearm used in the shooting as “her father’s silver Glock handgun,” court documents state.

She said that her father kept the pistol in a small lockbox that “he would sometimes put by the front door so he could bring it to work,” the documents read. She told detectives that the suspect was “the only one who knew the combination to the Glock lockbox.”

Investigators determined that the suspect “systematically murdered” his parents and siblings and “then staged the scene prior to the arrival of first responders to make it appear” that the murders had been committed by his 11-year-old brother, documents read. 

The court documents did not speculate on a motive.  

The suspect is scheduled to be arraigned Friday afternoon. The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said in a news release Thursday that the suspect is in custody at the Clark Child and Family Justice Center, which is a juvenile facility.

The teen is currently being charged as a juvenile, and prosecutors said a judge will determine whether his case “will be moved to adult court.”

In a statement Tuesday, public defenders representing the suspect said that “our client is a 15-year-old boy who enjoys mountain biking and fishing and has no criminal history.” 



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