Former President Donald Trump claimed on Truth Social that he will be arrested on Tuesday in connection with the yearslong investigation into a hush-money scheme involving adult film actress Stormy Daniels who had engaged in alleged sexual encounters with the 45th POTUS. However, Tuesday came and went and the arrest never took place.

IT’S TIME!!!” he wrote. “WE JUST CAN’T ALLOW THIS ANYMORE. THEY’RE KILLING OUR NATION AS WE SIT BACK & WATCH. WE MUST SAVE AMERICA!PROTEST, PROTEST, PROTEST!!!” The false proclamation from Trump led many on Twitter to spread fake AI photos of Trump getting arrested by the police. Some even showed the former first lady Melania Trump screaming in protest, and even Donald Trump Jr. protesting his father’s arrest.

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According to the reports, Trump could be indicted by a Manhattan grand jury as soon as this week and potentially charged with falsifying business records connected to hush money payments. Trump may soon become the first sitting or former president in American history to be charged with a crime.

The fabricated deep fakes have been viewed over four million times. They show Trump resisting officers resembling those from the New York Police Department, who attempt to restrain him. “Making pictures of Trump getting arrested while waiting for Trump’s arrest,” wrote Eliot Higgins, founder of investigative collective Bellingcat, while sharing a series of deep fake images.

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According to him, the images were created using Midjourney, the artificial intelligence text-to-image generator. Higgins said that he submitted the text prompt, “Donald Trump falling over while getting arrested. Fibonacci Spiral. News footage” to get the images.

One image shows Trump wearing a police belt. “The Trump arrest image was really just casually showing both how good and bad Midjourney was at rendering real scenes, like the first image has Trump with three legs and a police belt,” Higgins told the Associated Press. “I had assumed that people would realize Donald Trump has two legs, not three, but that appears not to have stopped some people passing them off as genuine, which highlights that lack of critical thinking skills in our educational system.”