The connections between Vladimir Putin’s Russia and Donald Trump’s White House are too numerous and infuriating to list for one blog post. Even with the resignation of Michael Flynn, the irony of it all is that many of Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters just don’t care and are happy to support a President that asks a foreign super power to “keep hacking” the United States. This obviously comes with some major pushback from the White House:
White House pushes back on CNN report that said it asked the FBI to knock down Russia connection story https://t.co/0t0XjL3n16 pic.twitter.com/GaKdQp9DxW
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) February 24, 2017
America!
This morning at the Conservative Political Action Conference in D.C., this ignorance was on full display when members of the crowd started waving Russian flags with a gold “Trump” logo before POTUS spoke to the crowd. They were eventually confiscated.
Ronald Reagan is in his grave.
Crowd at CPAC waving these little pro-Trump flags that look exactly like the Russian flag. Staffers quickly come around to confiscate them. pic.twitter.com/YhPpkwFCNc
— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) February 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/835147339442569218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Fortunately, CPAC staffers noticed the Russian flags and stepped in to avoid a PR crisis.
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/835172399360376832
https://twitter.com/TaylorLorenz/status/835156458971021312
UPDATE — Apparently here is the prankster troll that handed out the flags:
Ryan Clayton, @Project_Veritas nemesis gets kicked out of @realDonaldTrump speech at #CPAC for handing out Russian flags. pic.twitter.com/0rLgeqIC3A
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) February 24, 2017