Does a photo show Barack Obama with his hand inside his young daughter's pants? No, that's not true: The photograph of Obama with his arm around his daughter taken by a journalist in 2007 was digitally altered. The original shows Obama's hand above his daughter's waist.
The claim appeared as a meme in a post (archived here) shared on Facebook on August 6, 2020. The text with the photo read:
And people upset that Trump wanted to grab himself some pu**y
This is what the post looked like on Facebook at the time of writing:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken on Wed Aug 12 04:45:06 2020 UTC)
The photo caption said it was taken when a younger Malia was "hanging out in New Hampshire on May 28, 2007 (right) with her then senator dad."
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