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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 07:58 AM Nov 2020

Vets for Trump founder one of two armed men arrested outside ballot counting center

The founder of Vets for Trump was arrested on Thursday night outside the vote counting center in Philadelphia for illegally carrying a gun.

Joshua Macias, 42, from Chesapeake, Virginia, and Antonio Lamotta, 61, from the same town, were detained on Thursday night, police in Philadelphia said.

Macias founded Vets for Trump in 2016; Lamotta is a member ...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8922951/Vets-Trump-founder-one-two-armed-men-arrested-outside-Philadelphia-ballot-counting-center.html

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Vets for Trump founder one of two armed men arrested outside ballot counting center (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2020 OP
Gun-toting men went to Philly to 'straighten out the vote' struggle4progress Nov 2020 #1
Nothing like showing up in a decked-out Hummer PatSeg Nov 2020 #5
So that's where he got the money for that Hummerhoid- Vets for Trump contributions into his pocket. NBachers Nov 2020 #2
They also had a huge Q sticker on their Hummer. C_U_L8R Nov 2020 #3
This is an especially personally gratifying LOL. Jirel Nov 2020 #4

struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
1. Gun-toting men went to Philly to 'straighten out the vote'
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 08:00 AM
Nov 2020

By Ben Feuerherd
November 6, 2020 | 7:21pm

... The Hummer they were riding in was decked out in regalia related to QAnon, a conspiracy theory that suggests the world is run by a secret pedophile cabal that President Trump is working to demolish ...

https://nypost.com/2020/11/06/virginia-men-who-went-to-philly-to-straighten-out-vote-charged/


PatSeg

(47,428 posts)
5. Nothing like showing up in a decked-out Hummer
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 09:44 AM
Nov 2020

when you're about to commit a crime! Not exactly subtle. These guys would make piss poor bank robbers.

NBachers

(17,108 posts)
2. So that's where he got the money for that Hummerhoid- Vets for Trump contributions into his pocket.
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 08:04 AM
Nov 2020

Well, there's operating costs and stuff to consider, ain't there?

Another two-bit grifter on the prowl for dupes, marks, and suckers.

C_U_L8R

(45,002 posts)
3. They also had a huge Q sticker on their Hummer.
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 08:50 AM
Nov 2020

Advertising that they're dumb and crazy as well as small penis'd.

Jirel

(2,018 posts)
4. This is an especially personally gratifying LOL.
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 09:39 AM
Nov 2020

I laid bare a scam this piece of s*** was trying to pull on some local businessmen with the help of a former marine officer, a Faux news blonde, and a defunct sham company they’d been using for some time to gather “investors” for a product that doesn’t exist. Doxxing is your friend.

Huge golf clap for Macias.

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