I looked further into it, and realised that the images are public domain.

This means that they are basically free to use so even Alamy and Storms Media Group can just scalp it and make a profit off of it.

These aren't the only images that George News posted on their Telegram. They also posted these two with the hashtag "#TINEYE":

https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse45/49659515292/in/photostream/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse45/49659243711/in/photostream/

Telegram: https://t.me/georgenews/1041

These are also public domain images. They are also both present on Alamy here, which I found via google search. I will only focus on the angled shot, which is provided by two sources: One of these is by a different provider, "2020 Images"

Storm Media Group:

https://www.alamy.com/washington-united-states-of-america-13th-mar-2020-president-donald-j-trump-and-members-of-the-white-house-coronavirus-task-force-listen-as-dr-anthony-s-fauci-the-director-of-the-national-institute-of-allergy-and-infectious-diseases-delivers-remarks-during-a-press-conference-declaring-the-outbreak-of-the-coronavirus-disease-to-be-a-national-emergency-friday-march-13-2020-in-the-rose-garden-of-the-white-house-people-president-donald-trump-dr-anthony-s-fauci-credit-storms-media-groupalamy-live-news-image348674317.html

2020 Images:

https://www.alamy.com/president-donald-j-trump-listens-as-dr-anthony-s-fauci-the-director-of-the-national-institute-of-allergy-and-infectious-diseases-at-nih-addresses-his-remarks-at-a-news-conference-where-president-trump-announced-a-national-emergency-to-further-combat-the-coronavirus-outbreak-on-friday-march-13-2020-in-the-rose-garden-of-the-white-house-president-trump-holds-a-news-conference-on-the-coronavirus-image356160996.html

"Storm Media Group" only gives this for licensing info:

This image could have imperfections as it’s either historical or reportage.

"2020 Images", however, acknowledges that they are public domain, and gives this for licensing info:

More information: This image is a public domain image, which means either that copyright has expired in the image or the copyright holder has waived their copyright. Alamy charges you a fee for access to the high resolution copy of the image.

This image could have imperfections as it’s either historical or reportage.

Between GN scalping and Storm Media Group (and Alamy) scalping, I'm more convinced that Storm Media Group is the more likely to scalp.

I won't say boom as you did. I can't claim to have the correct answer because my knowledge is still incomplete as is yours, and therefore I can't be certain that GN is legit, but only confident.