Is Hillary Clinton ‘Copying’ Donald Trump? Photos Don’t Lie

Trump just tweeted out the claim. We decided to check.·Fortune

Donald Trump’s propensity to brag, exaggerate and some say, flat out lie has been well documented. Just last week, the GOP presidential nominee falsely claimed that Hillary Clinton started the so-called “birther” lie that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. (and therefore isn’t a legitimate president). And then Trump brashly claimed credit for having ended the birther conspiracy — though he did nothing of the sort.

In fact, Trump’s whoppers are such a regular occurrence — PolitFact rated only 15% of Trump’s statements as true or mostly true–that it’s not surprising that this latest statement may have escaped the notice of the press.

But Fortune wondered: was Hillary Clinton copying Trump’s airplane rallies? Sometimes photos really do tell the story. Here’s what we found.

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