Activists Prank CPAC Attendees Into Waving Russian Flags At Trump
Source: Talking Points Memo
By ALICE OLLSTEIN Published FEBRUARY 24, 2017, 4:14 PM EDT
NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND—When President Donald Trump took the stage Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, he was greeted with cheers, chants of "USA," and dozens of Russian flags.
Two young, progressive activists from DC, Jason Charter and Ryan Clayton with the group Americans Take Action, purchased tickets to the conference, and handed out nearly 1,000 flags to attendees as a prank. After they were thrown out of the conference, they told TPM they wanted to "shed light on an important issue"—namely, the drip of revelations of backchannel communications between the Russian government and the Trump campaign—and allow people to "get a laugh out of their day."
Charter, 22, told TPM by phone that he and Clayton organized the prank in order to "honor Trump's relationship with Putin." He said almost no one at CPAC seemed to realize the flag he handed them bore the horizontal red, white, and blue stripes of the Russian Federation underneath Trump's name.
"I asked people if they wanted a Trump flag and they took it," Charter said. "Many Trump supporters were proudly waving their Russian Trump flag."
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BTW, this is not Ryan's and Jason's first battle against "amerikkkan" fascism either:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/james-okeefe-event-beating_us_588f8339e4b02772c4e8265f
Well played, guys. Well played.
harkens back to the days....stood up and made points as to what the CPAC attendees really are...stupid. Bravo fellows, bravo.. 
