Someone Brought a Confederate Flag to Trump Florida Rally
Someone brought a Confederate flag to the venue for Donald Trump‘s Florida rally tonight. It went about as you’d expect.
The flag said “TRUMP 2016” on it:
Ummmm a Confederate flag with Trump's name on it here in Orlando. pic.twitter.com/FuB5w5uNit
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 11, 2016
Confederate flag with "Trump 2016" spotted inside Kissimmee campaign rally pic.twitter.com/SflBzyKGMW
— Chris Snyder (@ChrisSnyderFox) August 11, 2016
There's a very large confederate flag printed w/ Trump near the stage. Speeches have started and it's still up. pic.twitter.com/RJ1URdoadh
— Molly Hensley-Clancy (@mollyhc) August 11, 2016
Confederate flag flying at Trump rally in FL pic.twitter.com/qp9QA6gf9b
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 11, 2016
Confederate flag is hanging from a grandstand at tonight's Trump rally near Orlando pic.twitter.com/IWOhPprzOt
— David Martosko (@dmartosko) August 11, 2016
Trump 2016 on a Confederate Flag here in Kissimmee, FL pic.twitter.com/OLZChxwAry
— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) August 11, 2016
It was apparently taken down briefly before going back up. But then not only did people intervene, but a black couple yelled at the man flying it for, well, obvious reasons:
Local security just asked the confederate flag flyers to take it down at Trump rally in FL.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 11, 2016
Trump camp security and law enforcement asked man who hung Confederate flag to take it down. He balled it up, stayed at rally.
— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) August 11, 2016
Man flying the Confederate flag said campaign staffers and local police told him he had to take down the flag or he would be escorted out.
— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) August 11, 2016
Local security removing African American couple that was yelling at confederate flag flyers. Crowd boos.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 11, 2016
An African American couple was just removed by local police after yelling between them and the group that brought the Confederate flag.
— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) August 11, 2016
Oh, and just for the hell of it, this is what he had to say:
Man is 27yo Trump fan Brandon Partin: "They’re making me take it down because the media is going to spin it into something that it isn’t"
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) August 11, 2016
Because what possible other way could the media possibly spin the proud holding-up of a Confederate flag.
Thankfully, the flag was replaced by a more apropos one:
Confederate flag at Trump rally now replaced with an American flag https://t.co/EGuxnQYhqC pic.twitter.com/H9aVYL3W0n
— Katherine Faulders (@KFaulders) August 11, 2016
[featured image via CNN’s Jim Acosta]
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