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A real photo shows Donald Trump Jr. holding a cut-off elephant tail.

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Sources like the Associated Press, and an interview with Trump following the photo's rediscovery claim this photo is real. The AP said this photo blew up in 2011 after animal rights activists found it. It is a picture of Donald Trump Jr. holding a bloodied elephant tail in Zimbabwe (https://apnews.com/article/07c11b7884174e68b75d6fdd52e9da91). Trump said with Forbes, "TMZ didn’t report that Africans traditionally cut off the tail and make bracelets from the tail hair (https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2012/04/09/tmz-is-wrong-about-donald-trump-jr-and-safari-hunting/). This indicates that the photo is real.

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