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President Trump tweeted early Thursday that the dog injured in last weekend's raid that caused the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will visit the White House next week. Officials had said the heroic dog's name would be kept confidential, but Trump identified it as "Conan."
The big picture: Trump made the announcement hours after tweeting a "recreated" photo of himself putting a medal on the canine. The altered photo bearing the watermark for the Twitter account of the conservative site The Daily Wire appears to be an edited version of a 2017 AP photo of Trump presenting the Medal of Honor to retired Army medic James C. McCloughan.
Go deeper: Trump tweets "declassified" image of dog injured in raid on Baghdadi