Early this morning a video started gaining steam on-line purporting that Danny Trejo refused a paid PR go to to Ukraine as a result of President Volodymyr Zelensky‘s workplace needed a “kickback” from the sum paid to the Machete actor for the go to.
Deadline contacted Trejo’s representatives who confirmed that your complete story is fake. Trejo was by no means invited to Ukraine by Zelensky. He was by no means supplied a charge for such a visit. He ever requested for a kickback.
In different phrases – Trejo’s, in reality, through his rep: “It by no means occurred. Somebody is making issues up.”
The video cites “the actor’s supervisor Ryan Davis” because the supply of the story. Trejo has no such consultant and by no means has, per his precise illustration.
Political journalist Brian Krassenstein was amongst these questioning the veracity of the video this morning.
“This can be a FAKE video being shared by primarily Russian-affiliated accounts, pretending to be from MSNBC,” Krassenstein wrote. He stated that he confirmed the parts of the video attributed to MSNBC weren’t, in reality, from MSNBC. The video additionally weirdly makes use of the “MSNBC” chyron on video clips of Harvey Levin from the TMZ on TV present. Drawback is, TMZ on TV doesn’t air on MSNBC.
Among the many Russian-affiliated social media accounts trumpeting the video was that of Dmitry Polyanskiy, First Deputy Everlasting Consultant of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, who wrote: “Corruption in Ukraine? what corruption?” He adopted it with emojis of the “See no evil, hear no evil, communicate no evil” monkeys. He then cited a supply, the hyperlink for which takes one to an obscure Telegram web page in Russian with the video embedded.
