A tweet was shared throughout Twitter showing an individual labeled as a Trump supporter with a Nazi sign at a Trump rally. It was another fake news lie slandering Trump supporters.
The picture above was reportedly posted as a depiction of Trump supporters last weekend at a Michigan rally protesting Michigan’s Democrat Governor’s insane and tyrannical mandates due to the coronavirus. This was reported at Reason.com by Elizabeth Nolan Brown who warned not to get fooled by tweets like the one above:
After last week’s protest around the Michigan Capitol, a picture of someone holding a large swastika flag that said “TRUMP PENCE” began circulating on social media as a sign of the supposed Nazi leanings of Trump supporters and the people protesting. But after some viral outrage about the kind of people the conservative organizers of these protests were in cahoots with, it turns out that the picture in question actually came from a March 2 Bernie Sanders rally in Boise, Idaho.
Here is that March 2nd tweet:
Today I witnessed a bunch of trump supporters crashing a peaceful rally I was attending with my family. They were profane, disrespectful & crowded behind a nazi flag. Not one trumpster confronted him on his racism. They all stood behind him of course, showing their true selves pic.twitter.com/BrFSvDiF82
— Nonona' Ohtsevehn Estse' (@notaxiwarrior) March 2, 2020
The twitter account that first tweeted the offensive picture and dishonest tweet was with the handle Thunder Walks About, who then claimed the picture was actually from a Boise, Idaho Bernie rally, but it was still Trump Supporters:
Edit for clarification: This was at a Bernie Sanders rally, the trump supporters were counter protesting. It was held at the Ann Morrison park in Boise, ID.
Today I witnessed a bunch of trump supporters crashing a peaceful rally I was attending with my family. They were profane. https://t.co/mQcejBpGuT
— Nonona' Ohtsevehn Estse' (@notaxiwarrior) March 3, 2020
Ms. Brown then reported:
The man holding the swastika flag also showed up at a rally in Arizona, where he was kicked out, shouted anti-Semitic slurs at people, and was subsequently reported on by Buzzfeed. He was identified as Robert Sterkeson, who describes himself as a “stunt activist” and the Anti-Defamation League describes as a white supremacist.”
This is incorrect, the man holding the flag is not Robert Sterkeson, the real culprit is a member of Bernie Sanders’ PR team who was deliberately posting in front of Trump supporters in order to create a fake incident. This event took place over a month ago in Ann Morrison park in Boise, ID.
We found that the twitter account Thunder Walks About is a fake account that uses the picture of an individual from the UK, likely without her knowing it, as the person running the account:
The tweet is part of a pretty sophisticated disinformation campaign and it’s being ran by the same team (Barbara Hermel Bach is one member) that produced several other successful progressive memes. They also generate most of the anti-Trump content on the internet. Their content is disgusting:
The Nazi tweet has had replica tweets with thousands of likes:
My Dad was wounded in WW2 liberating a concentration camp. His 2 brothers were captured in battle by the Nazis and held in a detention camp. They fought to give their children a better life. This is not the life they envisioned. pic.twitter.com/WLocHY8QUS
— Mark Stern (on Post. https://post.news) (@mfstern) April 17, 2020
Washington Post reporter Brian Klaas retweeted the above tweet using it as an example of Trump supporters being Nazi’s:
Living in the UK through this, I’m grateful there is no Fox News here. There’s plenty of polarization, but Britons are not gathering in crowds to protest lockdowns that save lives; there’s no media outlet calling thousands of deaths a “hoax”; no leader encouraging insurrection.
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) April 19, 2020
According to Yaacov Apelbaum:
Brian Klass is an American originally from Minnesota who lives and works in the UK. He is governor Mark Dayton’s former driver. He received his BA from Carleton College, a masters degree in Politics Science from Oxford, and his PhD in Comparative Government from Oxford. He has worked with Soros affiliated organizations and has ties to the British IC. He is a fellow in the department of global politics at the London School of Economics, an assistant professor of global politics at University College London, and a reporter for The Washington Post.
Image 7: Brian Klass in his own wordsKlass knows several of the key players in the Steele Dossier such as Luke Harding and Ellen Nakashima (the reporter behind the allegation that the Russians hacked/leaked the DNC emails). Klass is a frequent television commentator and democratic political consultant, a US campaign adviser, and political analyst of US and foreign policy in mainstream media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and CBS. He is an author of several anti-Trump books including: “The Despot’s Apprentice: Donald Trump’s Attack on Democracy”, the “The Despot’s Accomplice: How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy”, and the Co-Author of “How to Rig an Election”.
It’s really disgusting what the far left is willing to do and say to obtain and stay in power. Lie, slander, spy on or harass, they will do anything for power.
Andy Ngo has more…
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1251674097404108806
