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'Protester' Who Threw Russian Flags at Trump Is Longtime Dem Political Operative Ryan Clayton
PJ Media ^ | 10/24/17 | Debra Heine

Posted on 10/25/2017 2:02:24 AM PDT by markomalley

A longtime political operative known for pulling unhinged stunts in the service of Democrats was allowed to get dangerously close to the president today.

Wearing a suit and posing as a member of the press pool, Ryan Clayton screamed "Trump is treason!" and threw a handful of Russian flags at the president as he walked alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on his way to a GOP Senate lunch at the Capitol.

Clayton, who was arrested at the scene, is a member of the Robert Creamer group "Americans Take Action," according to Project Veritas' James O'Keefe.

Tuesday's incident wasn't the first time Clayton had used tiny Russian flags as a political prop. Last February, the operative handed out the flags to conservatives attending CPAC in an effort to manufacture an unflattering photo op.

He was also apprehended in a Senate office building after throwing Russian flags at Jared Kushner last July.

Robert Creamer is the longtime Alinskyite community organizer, convicted felon, and frequent Obama White House visitor whose nefarious campaign schemes were exposed by Project Veritas before the 2016 election.

After the election, O'Keefe's citizen journalism group Project Veritas conducted an investigation into some of the groups planning on disrupting the Trump inauguration.  One of the stings went awry when members of the progressive group "Undercurrent" grew suspicious and turned on the young, female Project Veritas journalist midway through the investigation.

Clayton and another operative, Lauren Windsor, harassed and intimidated the young woman as she desperately hailed a taxi, tormenting her with obscene taunts for what probably felt like an eternity. As she entered the taxi, both Windsor and Clayton sent Project Veritas Bob Creamer's regards. "You've been creamed!" they shrieked.

Clayton also disrupted James O'Keefe's talk at a private event in New York City by screaming and making a commotion in front of the door of the venue. O'Keefe surmised that it was an attempt to "bird-dog" him into reacting violently.

"Clayton was ejected from the restaurant, and the police were called," O'Keefe said. "I confronted him outside as he was surrounded by NYPD about the ridiculous and libelous allegations," he continued, referring to Clayton's crazed taunts accusing him of being a molester.

"Violence, agitation, aggression -- these people are unhinged and dangerous," O'Keefe said at the time.

Clayton also aggressively harassed the late, great Andrew Breitbart at the 2011 Netroots Nation conference in Minneapolis, Minn., after the conservative media mogul popped up at the left-wing convention.

Clayton was quickly apprehended after throwing the flags at the president. Trump and McConnell kept walking as if nothing had happened.

McConnell later told reporters that he had not even noticed that anything had happened.

“You guys were hollering so loud frankly I didn’t even notice it,” the Senate Majority leader told reporters.



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: robertcreamer; ryanclayton
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To: bagster
>>Where have all the cowboys gone?


21 posted on 10/25/2017 4:10:33 AM PDT by HLPhat ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS" -- Government with any other purpose is not American.)
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To: bagster

Busy digging up their guns, I reckon.


22 posted on 10/25/2017 4:24:39 AM PDT by 1_Inch_Group (Country Before Party)
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To: 1_Inch_Group
Don't take your guns to town son

Leave your guns at home 1 inch

Don't take your guns to town

Well okay, go ahead just this once.

23 posted on 10/25/2017 4:29:43 AM PDT by bagster (Social Culture Warrior (SCW))
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To: markomalley
A mentally ill Robert Creamer stooge. Who could have guessed that?

This protester was ironically idiotic as Hillary Clinton/DNC's Russian Scandal exploded at the same time of his protest.
24 posted on 10/25/2017 4:47:27 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: stockpirate

“The press in the crowd had to know he wasn’t the press and aided him in his attack”

The secret service and police need to be shaken up.


25 posted on 10/25/2017 4:54:00 AM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: markomalley

bkmk


26 posted on 10/25/2017 4:58:26 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: markomalley

I wonder why someone in the crowd (a Trump supporter, natch) didn’t yell ‘GUN!’ the moment he started tossing the flags.

Great hilarity would have ensued.


27 posted on 10/25/2017 5:41:20 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

like Bob Creamer, Clayton wrote for Huffington Post.

Huffington Post: Ryan Clayton
President, Americans Take Action
Ryan is the President of Americans Take Action, a populist network formed to restore free and fair elections in America, create a purpose driven economy, and save the free and open internet. Currently, our top priority is resisting the Trump regime, every day and every step of the way. With previous experience working in political advertising, for progressive non-profit organizations, for political candidates, and for elected officials, his background gives him a broad understanding of how campaigns, non-profits, and government institutions fit together to shape American public policy. Previously featured on MSNBC, FOX News, CNN, BBC, CCTV & RT with projects highlighted in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Herald, USA Today, The Guardian (UK), Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Nation Magazine, TPM, CNET, Raw Story, HotAir, Mediaite, Salon, Slate, Yahoo! News & THE HUFFINGTON POST. You can join him in the fight for the future at www.AmericansTakeAction.com

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/ryan-clayton


28 posted on 10/25/2017 6:07:19 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: markomalley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td67kYY9mdQ


29 posted on 10/25/2017 6:26:39 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Libtards wish anarchy and death for others, but not for themselves.)
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To: markomalley; LucyT; Whenifhow; WildHighlander57; bitt; Fedora; MarvinStinson
(from th article):" Clayton, who was arrested at the scene, is a member of the Robert Creamer group "Americans Take Action," according to Project Veritas' James O'Keefe."

Robert Creamer's "dirty tricks" organization up and running again.
Ping !

30 posted on 10/25/2017 8:12:46 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Thanks for the reminder.

Robert Creamer is an American political consultant, community organizer, and author. He is the husband of Democratic congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, the Congressional Representative for Illinois’s 9th congressional district.[1] His firm, Democracy Partners, works with issue campaigns. He also leads the nonprofit group Americans United for Change.[2]
In 2005, Creamer pleaded guilty to tax violations and $2.3 million in bank fraud in relation to paying checks with insufficient funds, to fund his public interest group in the 1990s.[1] He repaid the funds, and was convicted and sentenced to five months in prison at Terre Haute and eleven months house arrest.[2][3]
Creamer resigned from his consulting position with the Democratic National Committee in October 2016 after a video was released which showed him discussing a scheme to pay people to incite violence at rallies for the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.[4][5] The footage showed Creamer discussing fraudulent voting arrangements, although he did not endorse the methods discussed and voiced concern to the potential donor that those efforts would be tantamount to voter fraud. Creamer and Democratic Party spokespeople subsequently described the conversations as “hypothetical” and denied that the tactics described had been used.[4]


31 posted on 10/25/2017 8:21:44 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: markomalley

The Secret Service should have given him a .40 cal third eye when his hand was still in the air.


32 posted on 10/25/2017 9:06:25 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: rochester_veteran

“The dude needs a good butt whooping or two or three!”

He’d probably enjoy it too much.


33 posted on 10/25/2017 9:20:30 AM PDT by Mi-kha-el ((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
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To: All

Hopefully some good Patriot will put this idiot in a choke hold ....


34 posted on 10/25/2017 10:03:03 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: MarvinStinson
MarvinStinson :" Creamer and Democratic Party spokespeople subsequently described the conversations as “hypothetical” and denied that the tactics described had been used.[4]"

Talk is cheap !..
Actions speak louder than words !
Creamer spent several visits with former _resident Obama in the White Hut.

35 posted on 10/25/2017 1:01:54 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
Marvin Stinson :" Creamer resigned from his consulting position with the Democratic National Committee in October 2016
after a video was released which showed him discussing a scheme to pay people
to incite violence at rallies for the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.[4][5]"
(Bold italics mine)

Please note that Creamer resigned from the DNC from a consultant position.
A consultant position is a paid position, which means he isn't paid;
but, it doesn't preclude him from carrying out the same illegal "pay-for-play", and dirty tactics.

36 posted on 10/25/2017 1:11:13 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: markomalley
This was an egregious breach of security....and those responsible in the SS should be severely disciplined and reassigned. This nut could have had an explosive devise hidden on his chest, a small revolver, whatever.....

He has the same crazy look as the Runaway Bride.

Leni

37 posted on 10/25/2017 1:25:50 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: MinuteGal

bump


38 posted on 10/25/2017 2:09:42 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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