Despite a complete lack of evidence, Trump supporters have come to accept the idea that protesters who jeer their candidate are paid to do so.
THREE WEEKS AGO, when Donald Trump called off a rally in Chicago because hundreds of protesters managed to crash the party, a more introspective candidate might have asked himself what he had done to inspire such loathing.
Instead, Trump seized on a more comforting explanation: The young people who refused to let him speak must have been dispatched by his rival insurgent, Bernie Sanders.
Bernie Sanders is lying when he says his disruptors aren't told to go to my events. Be careful Bernie, or my supporters will go to yours!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 13, 2016
One of Trump’s oldest political confidants, the former Nixon aide Roger Stone, developed a far more elaborate conspiracy theory. Stone, who has advised Trump off and on for decades, and has devoted himself to spreading rumor and innuendo about Hillary Clinton for nearly as long, rushed to Twitter to share his big idea: that the protesters must have been covert operatives for the Clinton campaign, paid to both impersonate Sanders supporters and provoke violence from Trump’s fans.
. @realDonaldTrump rallies being infiltrated by agents provocateurs from the Left. Bogus demonstrators to spark violence. #notYUGE
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) March 12, 2016
Hillary operatives stage protest at @realDonaldTrump rallies using faux Sanders protesters to alienate Sanders ECONOMIC voters from Trump
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) March 12, 2016
Given that Stone began his own career by going undercover for the notorious Committee for the Re-Election of the President in 1972, it is perhaps not surprising that he thinks he sees dirty tricks wherever he looks. As Jeffrey Toobin explained in the New Yorker:
He was just nineteen when he played a bit part in the Watergate scandals. He adopted the pseudonym Jason Rainier and made contributions in the name of the Young Socialist Alliance to the campaign of Pete McCloskey, who was challenging Nixon for the Republican nomination in 1972. Stone then sent a receipt to the Manchester Union Leader, to “prove” that Nixon’s adversary was a left-wing stooge. Stone hired another Republican operative, who was given the pseudonym Sedan Chair II, to infiltrate the McGovern campaign.
The day after the canceled Trump rally, Stone found a way to present his Clinton theory to a much wider audience, giving an interview on the subject to Alex Jones, the conspiratorial radio host, that was viewed more than 300,000 times on Facebook.
Breaking: Anti-Trump Protest Funded and Directed by Hillary https://t.co/7rx7P4NHsa
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) March 12, 2016
Jones, a die-hard supporter of Trump who previously helped found the “9/11 Truth” movement, told his viewers that Stone had “sources inside” the covert operation who had confirmed to him that the disruption at the University of Illinois at Chicago was “a false flag.”
“These demonstrators are flying under a false banner: They are not Sanders supporters by and large,” Stone said. “This is an operation directed by supporters of Hillary Clinton, paid for by George Soros and MoveOn.”
Soros, a billionaire, is a favorite target of internet conspiracy theorists across the globe, particularly anti-Semites, since he uses his money to support activists from MoveOn.org and other civil society groups in the United States and abroad. Ken Zimmerman, director of U.S. programs for Soros’s Open Society Foundations, told The Intercept that the organization “does not fund people to take to the streets to protest against any individual, Donald Trump or otherwise.”
While Stop Trump-Chicago, a student group that used Facebook to organize the protest, acknowledged that MoveOn did offer to provide signs when it found out about the event, the demonstration “was started by students, organized by students, and led by students.”
Two days after the canceled rally, Trump fully embraced the meme anyway, telling Fox News that the demonstrators “were real professionals — and they weren’t protesters, they were disrupters. They were professional disrupters.”
Over the course of the following week, the idea that all of the dissent at Trump rallies was coming from “paid protesters” morphed into a common talking point for his supporters on social networks and cable news, even though Fox noted that the campaign produced no evidence to support the claim.
A week after the mass protest in Chicago, when a coalition of mainly Latino activists briefly blocked access to a Trump rally outside Phoenix by chaining themselves to vehicles parked across a highway, the candidate called ABC News to accuse those protesters of being “professional agitators.”
Protesters shutting down street to Trump event! #stoptrump #UnitedAgainstHate pic.twitter.com/Mq7WVWkjKA
— Puente Arizona (@PuenteAZ) March 19, 2016
Protester with neck locked to car on main road to #StopTrump in Arizona #UnitedAgainstHate pic.twitter.com/lHaR0v4O8r
— Mijente (@ConMijente) March 19, 2016
While Trump again offered absolutely no evidence for the claim, and was not asked for any, his supporters on the website 4chan set out to find some. To that end, they dug into the background of one of the three protesters arrested on the road outside Phoenix, Jacinta Gonzalez.
The Trump supporters discovered what looked to them like a smoking gun: Gonzalez had once received a fellowship from the Open Society Foundations. Apparently unaware that Gonzalez’s tangential connection to Soros — an 18-month stipend to support her work on behalf of day laborers and immigrant families in New Orleans — had ended in 2012, the 4chan group eagerly discussed how to use this information to help their man. “The Trump campaign is aware of Soros scheming,” one of the commenters wrote. “Tweeting this intel to his staff will give them even more ammo.”
It is not clear if any of their efforts to alert the Trump campaign succeeded, but a day later, Dan Scavino, the candidate’s social media director (and former caddie) triumphantly drew attention to a thinly sourced blog post on Gonzalez that incorrectly identified her as the “lead organizer” of the protest.
Organizer that shutdown highway- in an attempt to shutdown @realDonaldTrump's AZ rally...is a George Soros fellow. https://t.co/ezVf0UJfMc
— Dan Scavino (@DanScavino) March 21, 2016
Like the 4chan thread, the blog post Scavino shared also included a number of other factual errors, like identifying Gonzalez as a resident of New Orleans (she now lives in Phoenix), and speculating that she might not be a U.S. citizen (she has been since birth, having been born to an American mother in Mexico).
Two days later, Stone laid out his theory again in a post for the Daily Caller, in which he also claimed to have confirmed it by “infiltrating” a rally against Trump in New York on March 19, and catching the protesters off guard. “Several admitted answering a Craig’s list [sic] ad paying $16 an hour for protesters,” Stone insisted.
This “reporting,” from a political operative who has a long track record of spreading unsourced innuendo about candidates he works against — and claims to confer with Trump at least once a week — was quickly shared on social networks as absolute proof by one of Trump’s biggest fans, Ann Coulter, and his son, Eric Trump.
"Several [Trump protesters] admitted answering a Craig’s list ad paying $16.00 an hour for protesters." https://t.co/a9vRmrUXPJ
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) March 23, 2016
BREAKING: Anti-Trump Protesters Admit They Were Hired on Craigslist – Being PAID to Protest https://t.co/eJ2MRMXyMo via @rightwingnews
— Eric Trump (@EricTrump) March 23, 2016
Stone did not reply to requests for comment from The Intercept.
Later the same week, Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, came across what certainly looked like definitive evidence of Stone’s theory: an article headlined “Donald Trump Protester Speaks Out: ‘I Was Paid $3,500 to Protest Trump’s Rally.'”
Lewandowski shared what seemed to be a report from ABC News on Twitter — only to be informed soon by other people who took the time to read the full text, and the description of the website, that it was a hoax — it was not from ABC News at all, but a website with a URL that was similar to it.
Like Ann Coulter, who also shared the hoax report, Lewandowski later deleted his tweet, but not before it had already been shared hundreds of times.
The fake news report was written by a well-known internet prankster, Paul Horner, whose work in that genre has earned him millions of readers, tens of thousands of dollars, and a profile in the Washington Post.
Horner, who actually attended the protest outside Phoenix, took all the essential elements of Stone’s theory and wove them into a fictional news report, even creating this fake Craigslist ad as “evidence.”
Then last week, Scavino drew attention to another Craigslist ad, supposedly offering $15 an hour “to protest the Donald Trump rally in Janesville, Wisconsin.”
SAD. $15/ hour to protest @realDonaldTrump's Janesville, Wisconsin rally tomorrow-- via Craigslist. pic.twitter.com/U90csUMTcJ
— Dan Scavino (@DanScavino) March 29, 2016
That ad, which was later removed from Craigslist, looked like a prank too. As users on Reddit pointed out, the address listed as the meeting place “for pre-protest instructions and to get your time card,” was 3300 West Tripp Road in Janesville, which is the local wastewater treatment plant, more than 10 miles from the site of Trump’s rally.
Despite the likelihood it was another fake, several conservative websites, including Glenn Beck’s The Blaze and Alex Jones’s InfoWars reported on it as if it were genuine proof of Stone’s theory, based merely on the Trump aide’s tweet.
Stone himself then tweeted a link to one of the reports on the deleted Janesville ad, which also cited his own Daily Caller column as evidence that such things were happening.
International criminal George Soros & his boi @davidbrockdc are sooo busted #FauxProtests #Ringers @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/gyeLjyjAXq
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) April 2, 2016
Ironically, reporters have been able to identify only one instance of actors being paid to attend a campaign rally. That was Trump’s announcement of his own candidacy, for which, the Hollywood Reporter discovered, a casting agency in New York had put out a call for “background actors” willing to “wear T-shirts and carry signs and help cheer him in support of his announcement.”
That report, backed up by the full text of an email sent to actors, in turn inspired a Simpsons parody of the announcement, in which Homer was hired to be part of the rent-a-crowd.
Glenn Beck who had a spot on Meet the Press this morning with Chuck Todd to talk about his “Never Trump” and support of Ted Cruz has about as much integrity as a fly on dog poop. The MSM doesn’t ever ask him about his coziness with the likes of Alex Jones and all the other bedfellows that spew lies and distortions at the rate most of us breathe in oxygen. Despicable is the only word I can say.
Dirty tricks in American politics are as American as Cherry Pie. What else is new?
Everyone knows that if you want to make some real money as a protester you need to become a Republican politician.
More lies by the liberal media. It’s well known Soros and Black LIES Matter pay protesters.
If these protesters were so angry they would protest all over Chicago and Washington.
This article lies.
The “liberal media”, as you term it, sure isn’t being too kind to the most liberal candidate. What’s up with that?
If anyone is using rent-a-crowds, it’s Trump. The thugs that turn out for Trump and the press’s obsession with Trumps ARE the ‘Trump phenomenon’. It’s not his money he’s using…all but a few hundred thousand are ‘loan’ to be repaid by this corporate/1% donors.
Quit darts;You are injuring spectators.
Yes, yes, yes. Let us leave no Trump stone un-turned. Otherwise, well, otherwise, well, then otherwise. Right?
“Soros, a billionaire, is a favorite target of internet conspiracy theorists across the globe, particularly anti-Semites”
…and that’s a good place to stop reading and move on (pun intended). there are so many reasons to despise soros that the average informed person couldn’t fit “anti-semitism” into the pile even if they wanted to. only so many hours in the day.
let’s also not forget that every time clinton gets confronted about her sleazy ways she also defaults to “SANDERS SENT YOU THAT PRICK!!!” as a way to avoid actually answering a damn question now and then. that seems more bothersome than some rove/ailes wannabe going on the jones show (also known as “the yawning black hole of credibility”).
acknowledging that “meme” may be able to mean whatever the people who use it mean by their use of it, isn’t this really more of a compounded series of lies than a “meme”?
“meme”, like “terrorism”, has been overused to the point of uselessness. at this point it means “a thing some people saw online while internetting at work”.
I did some deep research on this topic, and found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hghCEarBib0
Here is an eye-witness account of a Donald Trump Rally in Arizona.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjyxZ7HO7aY
I can make a video in my basement about my experience at a Trump rally without ever having been at one too, now can’t I. I hope you realize this idiotic video is evidence of absolutely nothing other than that this guy did say these words in front of a webcam.
You aren’t honestly ignorant enough to think a video of some guy babbling about something is proof of anything? Tell me you aren’t.
“Like the 4chan thread, the blog post Scavino shared also included a number of other factual errors…”
Roberty Mackey journalism = reporting on what people on 4chan and twitter are saying and then Mackey interprets what he thinks those 4chan and twitter users think.
I will keep posting this every time you post crap Mr Mackey.
The only difference between those hacks on 4chan and yourself is the flavor of biased, ideological bullshit.
Paying people to show up and cheer or disrupt is an old tactic. Machiavellian politicians — not to be confused with real leaders — don’t shrink from what they believe they need to do to achieve their objectives.
seriously 4chan and /r/the_donald on reddit groups are utter losers who make paranoid schizophrenics look sane.
If the strength of Drumpf’s supporters are the pepe lovin idiots of those sites then i’d say Bernie has this election in the bag.
yes they are utter losers… so why is this website reporting about what those losers are saying
Bernie has the election in the bag? Ummm …. he has to beat Clinton H first and while President Hillary is an even more terrifying prospect than President Trump, if she can beat the treason indictment she seems to have the Democratic Party fixers and vote riggers on her side.
Fine report! Isn’t it special that the nutjob’s crew hired “rent-a-crowd” folks for his own announcement?
And this talk of professional protesters and provacateurs and “bogus protesters to spark violence. Hmmmm sounds eerily like something we’ve heard before. when have we heard about those “outside agitators?”
This article illustrates the classic non sequitur inherit in any political discussions:
1) If politicians are corrupt there will be publicly verifiable evidence of the corruption.
2) We do not have indisputable evidence of corruption.
3) Therefore, politicians are not corrupt.
all the shit hit the fan for Trump after that big rethuglican Stop Trump summit several weeks back… coincidence? i think not… as someone else noted: this ‘story’ has all hallmarks of Lee Atwater, Karl Rove’s teacher…
Setting up a Craigslist ad that says “Bernie Sanders wants to hire protestors to go to Trump rallies” looks like a Karl Rove strategy.
Recall that Karl Rove strategy presentation at the Sea Island World Forum? Reported in Huffington Post:
“A highlight of the gathering was a presentation by Rove about focus group findings on Trump. . . . Rove’s presentation was on the subject of how William McKinley won in 1896, according to an agenda subsequently obtained by HuffPost. . . .McKinley was running against William Jennings Bryan, a populist and a bigot who riled up the masses by assailing coastal elites and bankers. The race took place in the first Gilded Age. In today’s Gilded Age, the parallels are clear.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aei-world-forum-donald-trump_us_56ddbd38e4b0ffe6f8ea125d
If Karl Rove was going to hire protesters to cause disruptions at Trump rallies on behalf of the Republican neoconservatives, he’d wouldn’t do it in his own name. It all looks much more like Republican-on-Republican dirty tricks than anything else.
P.S. Karl Rove and Lee Atwater worked together in the 1970s, and Karl Rove attended George Mason University, which was prominently funded by the Koch Brothers. The Koch Brothers are backing Ted Cruz, who will be their loyal doggie, unlike the maverick Trump.
It is just as likely a Clinton strategy.
The amount of corruption in this campaign season is immeasurable.
Well those protesters sure didn’t help Sanders with the voting public,as he could have possibly won those virtual ties in MO and Ill wo them.(notice all talk about those incidents has vanished btw,just like the Trump controversy over his abortion punishment comments in the msm).
So who benefited?The hell bitch.Who would do these things?Only Machiavellian garbage like Soros and the hell bitch.
Jeez,pointing out bigots from the 19th century is like counting ants in an anthill.
I would go to Israel for a counting in the 21st.
And everywhere else in this world,to a degree.
The ghost of Lee Atwater lives on.
You guys are such little fucking weenies. Protesters crash private Trump events only to instigate arguments and chaos, and whine and whine when Trump supporters take offense and get pissed-off.
Let me do that at a BLM event, and let’s see how well I’m received – and if I’m not shot…
Probably so, I hear those Bureau of Land Management guys are tough and really hate whiny dweebs like you instigating chaos. They even had the FBI shoot one in Oregon. You’re on to something there, light bulb.
Troll. : )
pussy :-)
Bwa-ha-ha!
There is a grain of truth there.
Notice how the whole story,outside of here,has died?It made Trump look good,can’t have that,showing who da Nazis really are.
This Rep. Chris Collins guy isn’t as stupid as he has made himself out to be by telling a series of lies to the news caster. He knows that “It isn’t very well known now that these are paid protesters.” What he “knows” is that with his help and the help of long known liars such as the Stone clown, who was well documented in this article as a decades long liar, and the combination idiot and liar, Corey Lewandowski, and of course the infamous professional liar, Ann Coulter, it has become very well known that their lies have spread around the internet before the truth had a chance to put its boots on. An infamous all star lineup of liars aided this Chris Collins puke, allowing him to pretend that he is stupid enough to buy into the “conspiracy theory” put out by the Jones freak and others.
My main gripe, beyond the liars propagating this nonsense, is that damned Moveon wormed themselves into the protest by making sure that their website address was plastered to the bottom of the 700 signs, and onto the banner that they “donated” to the protest. If they wanted to truly donate their assistance they could and should have done so by financially supporting the purchase of a banner and signs which did not include their advertisement for their website/organization. Noted, though, that Moveon had, apparently, no input into the wording on the banners or on the signs.
IOW,Moveon did help with the protests.I won’t believe propagandists of any stripe,wo rumination or facts,such as Coulter,and Jones,but sometimes they are correct.Soros is corrupt also.Another stinking Zionist f*cking with US politics.
Those idiots who shut down the highway scare me by being so readily corrupted by powerful interests who have laid Mexico,C.A. and US low with their globalization,into stupid fascist acts.And those signs do cost money,despite being canvas.No way it was spontaneous.
What moveon did regarding the protest was written about in the article. There is no conspiracy. There is no “paid protesters.” So there is no, “IOW’s,” in regards to what was reported in the article and what I posted in my comment. Your screams about “No way it was spontaneous” is as evidence free as the shit that the ‘playing stupid’ Rep Chris Collins lied about in the video attached to this article.
Do you actually think this propagandist would give you ALL the facts?sheesh.
He has an agenda.
As the u.s. descends into political hell, hell will rise up and and find some SFB politician cult leader who doesnt mind killing doctors, defying the supreme court, killing gay persons, and forcing his cult views on the population. That would not be Trump, THAT WOULD BE CRAVEN CRUZ.
money isn’t speech, it’s power. Money attracts greed. Greed abuses people. When money rules, goodness is murdered.
It’s not so much that money attracts greed as that greed attracts money. The problem isn’t really that money (or the tangible resources it ought to represent) exists, but that these resources are apportioned under theories that attempt, arbitrarily, to put all of the bounty of nature that predates the first man into the hands of a few supposed owners. What we need to do is reconcile both the right to life and the right to the pursuit of happiness, recognizing the ability of people to make and earn things of value while denying no one a fair share of the common resources of the earth, or the rent that might be got from them.
I’ve seen 40 years of campaign finance reform, and it’s been 40 years of bullshit. You get stuff like this: http://www.salon.com/2016/04/02/donald_trump_has_exposed_the_absurdity_of_campaign_finance_rules_partner/ As long as there are rich people who can own TV stations they can feature people who have one idea and not another. But tell the rich people that the airwaves are the common property of man and that if they want to broadcast at high power and have the interference-free reception they can only get when 100,000 other people aren’t allowed to, they’ll have to convince them to rent out those rights. Or watch a cooperative TV station that serves those 100,000 people as owners drive them out of the market.
Crazy ted ineligible Cruz.They’ll announce that if he wrests by subterfuge the rep nom,when he faces the oligarchs choice,the hell bitch,after the dems screw Sanders.
I can’t get over the wacko support for Cruz in the hinterlands.Things must be really bad there if they’ll hitch their wagon to a Cuban Canadian antiChrist.
Engaging in effective disinformation campaigns on the internet is, of course, one of the tests of a campaign’s fitness to assume power. I’m not convinced, however, by the headline’s assertion that Trump’s campaign is the actual mastermind.
From the story, it appears that others are planting the ads on Craigslist, and manipulating the Trump campaign into pointing to them as evidence of paid provocateurs. This rebounds to discredit Trump. So should the Sanders or Clinton campaign get the credit? I don’t have evidence, but since Sanders has less experience running a presidential campaign than the Clintons, I’m leaning towards the latter.
This shouldn’t be the only test for selecting the best candidate, but it’s certainly an important one. Experience seems to be winning out.
Almost likewise. There has to be a certain amount of deviousity in one and their clan to come up with this sort of con. The obvious is too obvious. Were anyone to follow the money, looking for the next obvious would fall in the next trap. This one is quite the con.
Hillary may be spiteful, and with her wallstreet cronies, overly ambitious to the point of deceptive but limited to propaganda. I don’t see nixonian dirty tricks in her crowd.
But CRUZ, that thing is another species altogether. This could just as well be a more elaborate scheme to poison the dem party. Repubs are infamous for dirty tricks. It’s in their bad blood. The monsters backing rubio did pick up cruz.
Nixon was head and shoulders above this vapid.bubbleheaded serial lying excuse for womanhood.I put nothing,absolutely nothing past her,and her slimy demoncrat scum advisers.His head may have been below the waterline,but hers, rock bottom.(Or minus her height,but thinking of that,she would be on her knees.)
Cruz isn’t dumb,just a Machiavellian asshole,why would he help Trump,as this did?
Trump has to appear to be a centrist for the sake of winning the independent vote in the general election; Cruz is the mean by which Trump appears to be a moderate, non-establishment candidate. If Trump ends up facing his biggest challenge (Sanders) in the general election, two very important distinctions will have been effectively neutralized. The first distinction is that both candidates would not be beholden to campaign donors. the second distinction is that both are purportedly for single-payer healthcare. Cruz has a vested interest in seeing the Republican establishment take the white house.
Sanders can be seen as playing a similar role in the democratic race. If Hillary wins the primary, then she will be the beneficiary of a huge surge of extremely energetic, young voters. She couldn’t have achieved this on her own. By maintaining a left-centrist political posture, she is also well positioned to compete for the independent vote.
Only Cruz could send Sanders voters to the hell bitch,at least in numbers.
Trump gets support from Sanders people to a degree,at least the smarter ones.
I’m completely shocked that projection is playing a large part in this.
I think it is easy to forget or minimize the extent to which Richard Nixon specifically is the poisoned spiritual well from which all Republicans drink. Any random history like http://www.authentichistory.com/1946-1960/4-cwhomefront/1-mccarthyism/ lays it out: Nixon was there in 1946, on HUAC, after “red-baiting” an innocent Democrat to get his House position, before the Hollywood people were dragged out and blacklisted, way before McCarthy had ever been heard of. Before him, the Republicans were like Eisenhower – the good guys, relatively speaking, compared to the racist-tinged Democrats.
It’s sort of like what would have happened if Lyndon LaRouche had actually managed to take over the Democratic Party – there wouldn’t be a single major politician proposing a new forced-treatment bill for gays or doing a probe into the British royal influence in Hollywood who you couldn’t trace back via some short line of mentorship to those few people who had come in with him. Unfortunately, in the Republicans’ case, the worst really happened.
why the pass for George Soros?
Soros has been on CFR director Fareed Zakaria’s show several times talking about his role in the right wing coup in Ukraine.
if elements within the US government can fund protests abroad and destabilize country after country, it’s very possible that similar tactics are carried out by well-connected ruling class operatives like Clinton and Company
Jones’ connection to 9/11 Truth — more accurately, his frequently-repeated-but-unproven assertions–shouldn’t discourage people from asking legitimate questions about the events leading to, occurring on, and following 9/11
Nuggets of truth are found in many strange places.
I come to this website only because Glenn Greenwald is here. Unfortunately I ended up reading this. Bashing Trump is for the trite pile on-ers of the mainstream. How boring. In that Moveon provided the signs, you didn’t even make a good case, you just brushed that off. Criticism of Soros can only be antisemitism, yeah right. Your little innuendo towards 911 truthers is disingenuous too. I can find that narrative at CNN if I wanted it.
with a big boost from the misinformation/disinformation agent Alex Jones
http://www.infowars.com/breaking-anti-trump-protest-funded-and-directed-by-hillary/
The type of deception written about in this report is certainly important to remind the citizenry of how we may be manipulated. We must certainly learn all we can and then question all we learn.
However it is small potatoes compared to so many of the other lies that have been perpetrated upon us by those both in and trying to secure expanded power.
Here are two examples:
Dick Cheney leaking a story to the NY Times about the Iraq Mushroom Cloud potential, and then going on the Sunday Morning News announcing there was a story in the NY Times about the subect, so he could sell the lie of which he was the actual source.
But the best lie of modern times presented to the entire whole world was that President Kennedy was killed by bullets that did a u-turn.
What bullets would those be? Two bullets struck Kennedy, and neither one did a “u-turn.”
Look at the film
The facts that Oswald,after his Soviet sojourn,would be allowed to run loose on the streets of NO and Dallas wo FBI or CIA observation is preposterous,and the facts that Ruby and his boss Meyer Lanski were Jews,and at least Lanski, a Zionist,and the Magic Bullet man was Arlen Specter,also raises incredibly ignored takes on that day in Dallas,that changed US forever.
The key question which comes to mind is,
Why would Stone and Trump
(or any of the other predators mentioned in this article)
need to portray Hillary Clinton as a major threat to the
Trump campaign?
My answer is that it is beneficial to both Trump and Clinton.
They both represent the same corruption and
if Trump wins, Clinton wins and
if Clinton wins, Trump wins.
Both campaigns get to portray themselves as being victims
of devious corruption while they are both prime examples
of devious corruption.
ALL of their supporters are power hungry and willfully ignorant.
Trump has his Roger Stone and Clinton has her David Brock,
same difference.
I know its opening day,but that was from far out left field.
And,so far,from his columns,Mr.Mackey seems very propagandistic,but hey,the word on the streets of BS is that journalism isn’t objective.