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Video Proof: Viral Michigan Pro-Trump Swastika Photo Is a Hoax
Right Journalism ^ | 04.19.2020 | Natalie Dagenhardt

Posted on 04/19/2020 7:49:18 AM PDT by USA Conservative

Thousands of protesters on foot and in vehicles converged Wednesday on Michigan’s capital to rally against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders in the state.

“Operation Gridlock,” organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition, created a huge bumper-to-bumper traffic jam around the Michigan Capitol Building in Lansing, Fox 2 Detroit reported.

Meshawn Maddock, an organizer for the group, said the demonstrators include Republicans, Democrats, and independents.

As social media lit up with comments and photographs of the event, one image supposedly showing a flag bearing a swastika flag and the words “Trump” and “Pence” started to go viral.

This photograph was taken a month earlier at a protest in Boise, Idaho.

Conservative activist Andy Ngo debunked the photo and wrote:

Seen the viral photo that purportedly shows a Trump supporter displaying a swastika at the Lansing, Mich. protest against Gov. Whitmer’s stay at home order? It’s a hoax. Video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlaH00Z4hd8&feature=emb_title

More evidence of dirty tricks backfiring. It’s interesting how hoaxes ultimately benefit those that they aim to discredit. That’s some kinky self-flagellation they’re into.

The interesting fact is that his photo managed to gain the attention of Snopes who said that the photo was taken a month earlier at a protest in Boise, Idaho by Trump’s supporters.

Please share this article wherever you can. It is the only way we can work around their censorship and ensure people receive news about issues that the mainstream media suppress.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: blogspam; boise; clickbait; fakenews; gretchenwhitmer; idaho; michigan; operationgridlock; swastika
MSNBC and RawStory caught slandering Michigan's protestors: Hoaxers gonna Hoax This is quite literally a false flag operation. Yet the corporate press will roll with just about anything that's unverified.
1 posted on 04/19/2020 7:49:18 AM PDT by USA Conservative
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To: USA Conservative

So, Captain America is a Bernie Bro?


2 posted on 04/19/2020 7:52:52 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: USA Conservative
The interesting fact is that his photo managed to gain the attention of Snopes who said that the photo was taken a month earlier at a protest in Boise, Idaho by Trump’s supporters.

But that is a lie also, as it was a Bernie Antifa bro at a Bernie rally.

3 posted on 04/19/2020 8:01:54 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

They have their paid shills to infiltrate the GOP groups. They do this with the Q followers as well. It’s so old.


4 posted on 04/19/2020 8:02:02 AM PDT by USA Conservative
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To: USA Conservative

Classic Alinsky, sadly it works with too many of the Beyonce is a hero crowd


5 posted on 04/19/2020 8:09:25 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: USA Conservative
I saw two or three news clips of the Michigan protest, and saw many American flags, but in her statement the governor said the crowd was waving Confederate flags and "Nazi" flags. Typical Dem liar. There MIGHT have been ONE person with a Confederate flag (although I didn't see one), and even if someone DID have a "Nazi" flag, chances are that it would have been a leftist plant trying to discredit the rally.

As for the Confederate flag, in my lifetime it was mostly associated with hippies, as a sign of protest and rebellion, and later on in that TV show. In neither case was it intended as a means of racial intimidation or harassment.
6 posted on 04/19/2020 8:27:49 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: USA Conservative

Libs destroyed the Tea Party movement with their plants. Tea Party people were labeled racists, bigots, etc. They’re trying to label these good people too.


7 posted on 04/19/2020 8:29:21 AM PDT by boycott
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Libs destroyed the Tea Party movement with their plants.

Tea Party people were labeled racists, bigots, etc.

How did that happen? Why did Tea Partiers allow it, and what can we learn from that experience?

They’re trying to label these good people too.

Of course they are, because they can get away with it.

How do we counter this or fight back, knowing the cards are stacked against us?

8 posted on 04/19/2020 8:38:20 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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To: USA Conservative
Conservative activist Andy Ngo debunked the photo

Andy Ngo is not a conservative activist.

He just exposes their lies, and they hate him for it.

9 posted on 04/19/2020 8:41:18 AM PDT by Jess Kitting
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>> swastika flag and the words “Trump” and “Pence” started to go viral. <<
The overuse of “go viral” is embarrassing to the point that it’s practically meaningless.


10 posted on 04/19/2020 9:08:46 AM PDT by JoeRed
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The interesting fact is that his photo managed to gain the attention of Snopes who said that the photo was taken a month earlier at a protest in Boise, Idaho by Trump’s supporters.

But that is a lie also, as it was a Bernie Antifa bro at a Bernie rally.

Not an additional lie.

The perps were bernie bros antifa, but the photo was taken by by Trump supporters.

The sentence was badly worded, but the media does not know what grammar means and could never diagram a sentence.

11 posted on 04/19/2020 10:27:48 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Conservative activist Andy Ngo debunked the photo...
The fact that swastikas and other Nazi regalia are ALWAYS false flag ops should be a clue, even for those who never seem to get a clue.

12 posted on 04/19/2020 10:28:36 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Democrats did ‘hoaxes’ against blacks in the Jim Crow South too... Just ask Emmett Till’s Aunt.


13 posted on 04/19/2020 10:41:57 AM PDT by GOPJ (HOW TO: Virus-Free Food: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKx-F4AKteE)
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To: USS Alaska

Or they intentionally worded it such as to make it seem it was a trump supporter.


14 posted on 04/19/2020 12:31:43 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Jess Kitting
How do we counter this or fight back, knowing the cards are stacked against us?

Next time, you keep doing the same thing, only more of it.

In Michigan, if there was 100,000 the first time, next time make it 200,000.

15 posted on 04/19/2020 9:21:07 PM PDT by politicianslie (DEMOCRATS blocking Trump's Malaria drug combo from treatment is MURDER = Landslide in Nov!)
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