Shocking footage shared online this week showing a U-Haul van repeatedly slamming into gates near the White House was accompanied by claims that the driver might have had Nazi sympathies.
Sai Varshith Kandula, 19, was charged with multiple crimes, including threatening to kill President Joe Biden, after ramming the vehicle into barriers. Kandula was said to have told agents during questioning that "Nazis have a great history."
Despite these and other claims, some suggested that a Swastika flag photographed outside the vehicle had been "Photoshopped."
The Claim
A tweet posted by user @leslibless, on May 23, 2023, viewed 16,000 times, said: "Notice how the FBI made sure to photoshop the "white supremacist's" Nazi flag the same way they meticulously made sure to photoshop Trumps "classified" docs on his office floor?"
The photo includes a picture of the flag outside the U-Haul.
The Facts
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Apart from claims that Kandula had far-right sympathies, according to conversations he had with agents following the incident, there are multiple photos of the flag and a video that shows it being held up.
An image from Reuters, used by multiple news outlets such as The Independent and NBC News, showed the flag outside of the vehicle, while a widely shared video shows an investigator inspecting the U-Haul before approaching the flag, rolling it up and placing it elsewhere.
There is no evidence that either the photo or...
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