White House's AI-Edited Arrest Photo Comes Back to Bite Them in Court

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Trumps White House’s AI-Edited Arrest Photo Comes Back to Bite Them in Court

The photo is already being used as evidence against Donald Trump’s administration.

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A screenshot of the AI-altered image of Nekima Levy-Armstrong’s arrest that the White House posted on X, and a screenshot of the original photo


White House’s AI-Edited Arrest Photo Comes Back to Bite Them in Court
The photo is already being used as evidence against Donald Trump’s administration.

Edith Olmsted February 2, 2026/12:47 p.m. ET

The White House’s horrible, AI-doctored photograph of a Minnesota protester was used as evidence Monday that Donald Trump’s administration is acting in “nakedly obvious bad faith.”

In a four-page filing, attorney Jordan Kushner argued that the court should modify conditions for the release of his client, Nekima Levy-Armstrong, a civil rights attorney arrested at an anti-ICE protest that disrupted a church service in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Kushner claimed that events that occurred after Levy-Armstrong’s arrest had “informed the Court of the government’s bad faith,” and had already influenced the court in declining to place restrictions on her co-defendants, who were released on January 30.

Among the list of incidents, Kushner included the White House’s X post featuring “an altered photo of Ms. Levy-Armstrong being arrested to make it falsely appear that she was crying and making her face darker.”......................

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1. Using the words...

trump and nakedly in the same sentence makes a sane person want to vomit.

Donald Trump’s administration is acting in “nakedly obvious bad faith.”

However, I am thrilled that this gross manipulation of the facts is working against them.

FAFO!

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2. The bad-faith argument can be made in many cases

Hopefully this has an effect and will convince other litigants to use that argument.