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
TPM explains:
… 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…
Apart from cheering on the pranksters, what’s on the agenda as we prepare to start the weekend?
BREAKING: Fifty-three percent of Americans want congressional probe of Trump, Russia, new NBC News/WSJ poll shows https://t.co/9ktMsuGZ0z pic.twitter.com/fUaNSgRwnF
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 24, 2017
If I were a GOP member of congress, I'd take note of the fact that, by a > 3 to 1 margin, Independents want a Russia/Trump investigation. pic.twitter.com/2FHoqrnmjp
— Tom Bonier (@tbonier) February 24, 2017
The President-Asterisk is on it!!!!…
The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security "leakers" that have permeated our government for a long time. They can't even……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2017
find the leakers within the FBI itself. Classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on U.S. FIND NOW
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 24, 2017
Why doesn’t he ask the Russians to hack the FBI? https://t.co/kUMVDJXpoK
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) February 24, 2017
You know you're the president, right? You could take charge here, get a group to plug the leaks. Call them Plumbers!https://t.co/SpV087ly7v
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) February 24, 2017
"Senior Trump officials said they didn't do anything wrong because they never discussed the investigation, only news reports about it."
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) February 24, 2017
One reason this WH will keep leaking more than Obama's is leaks are weapons in internal disputes. Far more conflicts in this administration
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) February 24, 2017
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