Some Of The People You Meet At The MAGA Carnival Outside Trump's Arraignment

[japple]

Some Of The People You Meet At The MAGA Carnival Outside Trump’s Arraignment

Nice piece by Josh Kovensky of Talking Points Memo and including

video: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IMG_2234-1.mov


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/some-of-the-people-you-meet-at-the-maga-carnival-outside-trumps-arraignment

Some were basically real-life versions of online trolls, self-consciously silly and mildly contemptuous of attempts to discern why they were present.

One woman who identified herself as “transsexual barney” told TPM that she believed Trump was “guilty of misdemeanors” but that the charges were “totally Trumped up.”

Michael Picard, clad in homemade American flag overalls and a MAGA hat, told TPM that he had donned the garb because “if you don’t have an American flag overalls, you don’t support President Trump.” He said he had spent all night sewing them.

Hard to get that overall guy's picture out of my head. Need eye bleach.

[Ocelot II]

1. Some things can't be unseen...

[wnylib]

4. That's a lot of disrespect of the US flag on display for a self-proclaimed "patriot."

[sdfernando]

5. Other than the speedo butt-floss guy

this is the most disrespectful thing done to the flag I've seen.

[Ocelot II]

7. G. Gordon Liddy?

[japple]

8. Aiiiiyiiiiiyiiii!!! I had almost forgotten G. G. G-string

Gonna go with the bleach now.

[sdfernando]

12. IKR???

Must gouge eyes out now!

[Biophilic]

6. That is definitely someone I would like to know better.

Yeah, right. He is one scary dude.

[japple]

9. He said "I stayed up all night..." Bet his mama helped him.

eom

[Coventina]

10. That flag is saying, "I would have rather been burned!"

[NowISeetheLight]

11. As A Veteran

I’m really offended by this “less educated” MAGAT.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

2. Damn. They have Google U. on their side...

[tanyev]

3. Did somebody contact Extra Mile casting agency again?

Shortly after Donald Trump announced that he was running for president, the Hollywood Reporter wrote that a New York–based casting agency called Extra Mile had apparently hired actors to fill out his announcement event (which took place on June 16, 2015, at Trump Tower in New York). Trump’s team immediately denied that anyone at the announcement was a paid actor. A document released Thursday by the Federal Election Commission, however, concludes otherwise.

The FEC document is, specifically, a record of its decision not to sanction the Trump campaign for conduct related to the apparent transaction. A complaint filed by an activist group that supported Hillary Clinton had alleged that the Trump camp had violated reporting laws related to payments for the actors; the FEC concluded that no significant violation had occurred because the campaign later disclosed a payment to a contractor (Gotham Government Relations) that subcontracted with Extra Mile. But in the course of explaining why it would not discipline the campaign, the FEC concludes that some announcement attendees were, in fact, paid to be there:

In this matter, the available information indicates that the [Trump campaign] retained Gotham as an event consultant, and Gotham, in turn, subcontracted with Extra Mile to provide extra administrative support at Trump’s announcement, including the provision of at least some of the rally crowd.

To be clear, Extra Mile is a “background talent” casting agency. It does not provide, like, secretarial services.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/01/trump-paid-actors-to-fill-out-campaign-launch-fec-says.html

[Stuart G]

13. Also hard to get the picture of German people saluting Adolph Hitler before WWII..............

We must be vigilant and mindful of who these fascists really are.
The right winger fascists don't give a damn about this country. They only
care about a vision where they get everything they want....NO MATTER WHO AND WHAT THEY HURT.

IF THAT were a Trump dictatorship exactly like Hitler, then they would accept it...totally!