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erictucker @erictucker https://twitter.com/erictucker/status/796543689237692416Anti-Trump protestors in Austin today are not as organic as they seem. Here are the busses they came in. #fakeprotests #trump2016 #austin 6:43 PM - 9 Nov 2016

Anthony Weiner is having such a hard time generating support for his limp campaign that he has resorted to paying a rent-a-crowd firm to provide “supporters” for his events, The Post has learned. Some of the gung-ho Weiner crowds, including at the Aug. 11 Dominican Day Parade in Manhattan, were really actors who were paid $15 an hour by the California firm Crowds on Demand, according to a source with direct knowledge of the deal. The source said surrogates for Weiner approached the Santa Monica-based company days after Indiana-native Sydney Leathers came forward to say that Weiner had continued his...

CHARLOTTE, NC — A New York-based labor coalition of major unions paid for two buses for protesters to get from New York to Tampa, and then to Charlotte, where the bus made a stop and let off some protesters. Three protesters at a demonstration outside the convention center in downtown Charlotte on Tuesday said that they had come from New York on a bus paid for by unions. One protester, Anthony Robledo, said he thought the bus was paid for by the United Federation of Teadhers; another, Yonni Miller, said that the buses came from UFT as well as the...

GRAND ISLE, La. -- Officials from Jefferson Parish claim BP bused 400 cleanup workers into Grand Isle on Friday in time for a visit from President Barack Obama. The extra workers were brought in for Friday only, at a rate of $12 an hour, officials told WDSU.

KIEV, Ukraine—Want to ensure a bigger draw for your lackluster candidate? In Ukraine, just contact Vladimir Boyko and he'll rent you a crowd. Mr. Boyko says his company, Easy Work, has assembled a database of several thousand students and can mobilize them on a day's notice to turn up at demonstrations anywhere in Kiev, stand for hours at a time, and cheer or jeer on cue. "We'll do business with any political party. Ideology doesn't matter to us," says the 21-year-old Web-design major at Kiev Polytechnic Institute. "It matters even less to most students," he adds, grinning. "They have become...