Earlier today, a video surfaced online claiming that Danny Trejo turned down a paid public relations visit to Ukraine because President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office demanded a “refund” of the amount paid to Ukraine. machete Actors for the visit.
Deadline contacted Trejo’s representatives, who confirmed that the entire story was false. Trejo was never invited to Ukraine by Zelensky. He never received any compensation for such a trip. Zelensky’s office never asked for a bribe.
In other words – Trejo said through his representative: “It never happened. Someone is figuring things out.”
The video credits “the actor’s manager, Ryan Davis,” as the source of the story. Trejo does not have such a representative and according to his actual representation, has never had such a representative.
Political journalist Brian Krassenstein was among those who questioned the veracity of the video this morning.
“This is a FAKE video shared by mostly Russia-linked accounts pretending to be from MSNBC,” Krassenstein said wrote. He said he had confirmed that the portions of the video attributed to MSNBC did not in fact belong to MSNBC. The video also oddly uses the “MSNBC” chyron in Harvey Levin’s video clips of the TMZ on TV Show. The problem is, TMZ on TV will not air on MSNBC.
The video was heard on Russian-linked social media accounts The by Dmitri Polyanskiy, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, who wrote: “Corruption in Ukraine? What corruption?” He followed with monkey emojis “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.” He then cited a source whose link leads to an obscure Telegram page in Russian with the video in it.
Source: Deadline
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