Two men carried out a literal false flag operation at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) hall where President Trump was due to give a speech.
Two male protesters tricked conference attendees into taking and waving Russian flags.
CPAC organizers confiscated the Trump-Russian flags and threatened to throw out anyone seen holding one.
The Atlantic reports:
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Jason Charter, 22, and Ryan Clayton, 36, passed out roughly 1,000 red, white, and blue flags, each bearing a gold-emblazoned “TRUMP” in the center, to an auditorium full of attendees waiting for President Trump to address the conference. Audience members waved the pennants—and took pictures with them—until CPAC staffers realized the trick: They were Russian flags.
The stunt made waves on social media, as journalists covering CPAC noticed the scramble to confiscate the insignia.
No joke, someone has been handing out Russian flags that say #Trump on them. And people are waving them.#CPAC2017 pic.twitter.com/CDZS5oEqyL
— Maya Shwayder (@MayaErgas) February 24, 2017
A section of people in the back of #CPAC2017 waving Russian flags — a staffer just came and demanded they all be handed over. pic.twitter.com/mZVoVUqudn
— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) February 24, 2017
Clayton himself was photographed outside, holding up a larger version of the flag:
#CPAC pic.twitter.com/Hb8JUxVfIm
— Ali Rogin (@AliABCNews) February 24, 2017
“Most people didn’t realize it was a Russian flag, or they didn’t care,” Charter told me in a phone interview. He and Clayton had purchased tickets to CPAC for the day the president was scheduled to speak, and managed to disperse the flags with surprising ease among the crowd.
But the two wouldn’t call it a “false-flag” operation. “It’s true-flag operation,” Clayton told me over the phone, in a thick, mock Russian accent. “It show how Trump and Russia are so connected, they like peas in pod!” The CPAC stunt comes after a report from February 14 suggesting that Trump aides were in contact with Russian intelligence officials in the year before the U.S. presidential election. Trump himself has also praised Russian President Vladimir Putin on a number of occasions.
After the flag trick, Clayton was escorted from the premises, but Charter wasn’t booted until he stood up during Trump’s official remarks to accuse him of being a “fascist” and “Putin’s puppet.”
“And, I was banned from CPAC,” Charter said, sounding pleased. “I think there are multiple ways you can resist against Trump, and I think this is one way that’s extremely effective,” Charter said. In other words, he said, “It’s fun to have a joke sometimes in a very serious situation.”
“We will continue doing these actions until Trump is impeached.”
The two are members of Americans Take Action, a self-proclaimed “resistance organization” whose website features a petition to impeach Trump and lists three priorities: restoring free and fair elections, creating a purpose-driven economy, and maintaining an open internet.
The group is relatively new, but it’s already been busy. In late January, Clayton, the organization’s president, and Charter infiltrated and attempted to film a private event held by James O’Keefe, a conservative provocateur and the leader of Project Veritas, Charter told me. The group also attempted to disrupt Trump’s inauguration by shouting lines from the Constitution during his inaugural address.
Its choice of O’Keefe as a target is a reminder that groups on both sides of the political spectrum frequently stage stunts like these in an effort to attract media coverage for their agendas, as Charter and Clayton successfully did on Friday.
“We will continue doing these actions until Trump is impeached,” an unrepentant Charter said.
“Remember,” Clayton added, still committed to the fake accent, “In Trump’s America, flag wave you!”
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All of these attempts by leftists and their BFF nevertrumpers, actually have a positive effect.
I wasn’t a Trump supporter until I saw the concerted effort by the establishment to discredit him.
Now I want as much anti-maga memorabelia, to add to my Trump memorabelia, so I can build a collection of rarities of this entertaining and historical presidency.
Where do I get one of these silly flags? Do I have to go to huffpo, will they sell them to me? They would sell more of these, then anything else they’re advertising, but that would be capitalism.
They should do me a BERNIE, and give more out for freeee!