How did Donald Trump end up posting Taylor Swift deepfakes?

AI images posted to Truth Social bore the watermark of a tiny Texas non-profit looking to bankroll X users

When Donald Trump shared a slew of AI-generated images this week that falsely depicted Taylor Swift and her fans endorsing his campaign for president, the former US president was amplifying the work of a murky non-profit with aspirations to bankroll rightwing media influencers and a history of spreading misinformation.

Several of the images Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, which showed digitally rendered young women in Swifties for Trump" T-shirts, were the products of the John Milton Freedom Foundation. Launched last year, the Texas-based non-profit organization frames itself as a press freedom group with the goal of empowering independent journalists" and fortifying the bedrock of democracy".