Following Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, a video has gone viral, showing Trump allegedly promising to release his friend and former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, from jail.
In the video, Trump can be heard saying, “Hello my Pakistani American friends, I promise if I win, I will try my best to get Imran Khan out of jail as soon as possible. He is my friend. I love him. I will support him to take over the government again and rock, and we will work together to make our ties stronger.”
Similar claims can be seen here, here and here. (Archived link)
FACT CHECK
NewsMobile fact-checked the claim, and found it to be misleading.
The NM team conducted a keyword search to find any credible reports of Donald Trump making such a statement following his 2024 presidential election victory, but found none. We also noticed that the audio and video were not synchronised, and after 14 seconds, the video began looping.
Also, running the viral video keyframes through Reverse Image Search, we detected the original footage from an NBC interview, dated May 12, 2017. The video features Trump discussing his decision to dismiss former FBI Director James Comey — unrelated to Imran Khan. This NBC interview aired more than a year before Imran Khan became Pakistan’s prime minister. The specific clip seen in the viral video appears at the 12:30 mark of the NBC footage.
Here are the key comparisons between the original and viral videos:
Additionally, we found that the viral video has been altered with different audio tracks using an app called Try Parrot AI.com. On YouTube, in a video dated March 17, 2024, Trump appears to promote a tea brand, called “The Tea Guru”, using the same visuals from the original footage.
Moreover, an entire YouTube channel — AI Trump-Truth — has dedicated to using various segments from the 2017 NBC interview with Trump, overlaying different AI-generated voices in each of its 45 videos uploaded on the channel.
Thus, it is evident that the viral video has been manipulated using audio cloning to create a false narrative.
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