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NCS host Erin Burnett fact-checked a publish shared by President Donald Trump, noting that a picture exhibiting a army assault on Iran was an altered photograph that had been taken final yr. The president appeared to suggest the pictured assault had simply occurred after extensive airstrikes between the US and Iran.
“This is in retribution for yesterday’s bombing of ships by Iran. If it happens again, it will get much worse!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, sharing a picture of a bombing posted by X account Open Source Intel, a web site that claims it experiences from “verified footage, satellite imagery, official statements, field dispatches, and on-the-ground sources.”
“This is in retribution for yesterday’s bombing of ships by Iran. If it happens again, it will get much worse!” – President Donald J. Trump pic.twitter.com/TKKf8cIzCr
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 8, 2026
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The picture Trump shared truly depicts an Israeli attack on an oil depot in Tehran on June 15, 2025.
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Burnett uncovered the president’s publish on Wednesday night time’s airing of NCS’s OutFront. “Well, this is confusing, right? ’Cause he says that this image is in retribution for yesterday, but we can tell you that that image is actually an altered image from what appears to be an Israeli strike in June of last year,” Burnett mentioned. “So there’s a lot of confusion about what’s being posted and the accuracy.”
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Open Source Intel admitted the picture of the strike was inaccurately attributed to this week’s assault. “Our mistake…caught and corrected. We post hundreds of times a day in real time. We’ll occasionally get one wrong,” the account wrote. “Unfortunately it was widely shared before we had the chance to make the correction. What matters is what happens next: we own it, we fix it, we move on. It’s a big lesson for us in responsibility that we will certainly learn and grow from. That cannot be overstated,” the publish continued.
We posted a picture of a strike that circulated in Iranian accounts that was inaccurately attributed to tonight. Our mistake…caught and corrected.We publish a whole bunch of instances a day in actual time. We’ll sometimes get one unsuitable. Unfortunately it was broadly shared earlier than we had… pic.twitter.com/MdXagRAuGG
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) July 8, 2026
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Burnett was not the one one who referred to as the president out for sharing a picture of the airstrike. Many on-line ridiculed Trump over his publish.
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“The White House – supported by probably the greatest intelligence community on earth – literally putting out fake news,” Daniel McAdams, government director of the Ron Paul Institute, said on X.
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