Pro-Trump social media is going wild with a hoax about Democrats burning flags to celebrate the blue

[riversedge]

kids will be kids.

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Will Sommer
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Pro-Trump social media is going wild with a hoax about Democrats burning flags to celebrate the blue wave

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[Turbineguy]

1. Yeah!

Why should I sit down and enjoy a nice glass of wine, when I can burn a flag and perhaps set fire to my house?

[JonLP24]

2. Polls haven't even closed yet

Though close.

[renate]

3. someone in my family posted something about people in the migrant caravan burning American flags

I'm so disappointed in her. I knew she was a Republican, but not that kind of Republican.

Fox teaches them to avoid critical thinking completely. That network has done so much damage not just to the country but to their individual viewers' brains.

[riversedge]

4. I read about that. But I think it was only 2 doing it and ...I it was not the

caravan?? I will look for article. It was in central America

[riversedge]

5. Maybe it was this article ..............

Sorry if I confused you.


Does This Photograph Show a Migrant Caravan Member Urinating on the U.S. Flag?


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/caravan-urinate-flag-photo/
Claim

A photograph shows a member of the October 2018 Central American migrant caravan urinating on an U.S. flag.
Rating
Miscaptioned About this rating
Origin

A caravan of asylum seekers heading toward the United States border from Guatemala in the fall of 2018 was seized on as a campaign issue by many politicians heading into the 2018 U.S. midterm elections. As with most hot-button political issues, internet trolls quickly spread hoaxes and unfounded rumors maligning the caravan group.

On 2 November 2018, a social media user shared a photograph to the “Bill O’Reilly Fans” Facebook group that supposedly depicted a scene in which “migrants in the Guatemalan Caravan stand on, and then urinate on, U.S. flag before throwing it in the trash can”:

But the image depicted none of those claimed aspects: It was several years old (not recent), was taken in the United States (not along the caravan), and didn’t capture anyone urinating on a flag.

This photograph was snapped in April 2016 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee before a campaign appearance there by then-candidate Donald Trump, and it shows a protester standing (not urinating) on a U.S. flag.

A news account from Milwaukee television station WITI stated that the protester “stomped” on the flag but did not report that anyone urinated on the flag:.........................................

[riversedge]

6. Ah--here is the one about the FLAG..

I knew I had read it................

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/caravan-burning-flag/




Are Central American Caravan Members Burning the American Flag?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/caravan-burning-flag/



Claim

A series of photographs shows members of a migrant caravan on their way to the U.S. in October 2018 burning the U.S. flag.
Rating
Miscaptioned About this rating
Origin

In the fall of 2018, multiple attempts were made to paint the immigrant caravan traveling north from Honduras toward the United States as a violent mob with nefarious intentions. This group of migrants was falsely accused of attacking police officers, Congressman Matt Gaetz floated an unfounded conspiracy theory holding that the caravan was being funded by alt-right boogeyman George Soros, and President Trump stated (without evidence) that “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners” were traveling among the group.

On 23 October 2018, we came across yet another unfounded accusation of this nature. This time, a set of photographs of people burning the American flag was posted to social media along with the claim that the images featured pictured members of the caravan in the act of setting Old Glory ablaze:

[renate]

9. thank you so much!

I'm so sick of this crap. Social media are a blessing and a curse.

[struggle4progress]

7. We're only burning counterfeit American flags: they're the ones with the blue stripes!

A Russian agent has been giving them to unwary children!


https://www.newsweek.com/flag-donald-trump-color-marker-incorrect-stripes-american-flag-us-flag-1090990

[workinclasszero]

8. Fucking idiot Trump cult

is scared shitless obviously