ITS OFFICIAL: President Trump SHOCKS the World at Orlando Florida Speech

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Trump’s 2020 Campaign Kickoff Attracted Extremists To A City That Hates Trump

Christopher Mathias

HuffPostJune 19, 2019

ORLANDO, Fla. — President Donald Trump announced the formal launch of his 2020 reelection campaign Tuesday evening at a rally in Orlando, attracting thousands of supporters — including many far-right extremists — to a city that mostly detests him.

The president’s fans showed up hours before the rally began, standing outside the Amway Center in the sweltering heat and the pouring rain. Many sported “Make America Great Again” hats or T-shirts with slogans like “Make Democrats Cry Again” and “Deplorable Lives Matter.”

There were also about a dozen men wearing black Fred Perry polo shirts, the uniform of the violent neo-fascist gang the Proud Boys. “We are the Proud Boys, baby!” one very proud boy yelled into a megaphone, attempting to recruit new members among the MAGA crowd.

“When you come out here, it’s a brotherhood. It’s a family. It’s like being at a revival, man,” Joe Biggs, a Florida-based Proud Boys member, could be heard telling another right-wing activist about the Trump rally.

A short time later, journalists filmed the Proud Boys in much larger numbers as they marched through the streets, chanting, “Pinochet did nothing wrong!” The slogan, popular among white supremacists, is a reference to former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s practice of murdering leftists by throwing them out of helicopters.

 

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The Proud Boys, known for violently attacking leftists themselves, then attempted to confront counterprotesters in downtown Orlando, but they were stopped by police.

“The Trump campaign is well aware of the organized participation of Proud Boys rallies merging into Trump events,” an unidentified GOP operative told New York Times reporter Trip Gabriel Tuesday night. “They don’t care. Staff are to treat it like a coalition they can’t talk about.”

Trump’s 2016 campaign and the first 2½ years of his presidency have emboldened a far-right, white nationalist movement in the United States, leading to outbreaks of political violence. His 2020 campaign launch Tuesday portended more of the same.

Fascists and conspiracy theorists were not fringe figures among this massive crowd of Trump supporters, but represented a large segment of the people, offering up a sobering look at the voting base the GOP has cultivated for itself. It’s why so many people in Orlando, a decidedly liberal city, never wanted this rally here at all.

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“I definitely feel disappointed and frustrated and angry,” Christopher Furino, a 27-year-old *****, nonbinary labor organizer and activist in Orlando, said of the rally. “Particularly because it feels very much a slap in the face to LGBTQ people on the heels of the three-year anniversary of Pulse, and that we’re in Pride Month as well.”

On June 12, 2016, a gunman who pledged allegiance to the self-described Islamic State shot and killed 49 people inside Pulse, a *** nightclub. At the time, Trump used the massacre to justify his proposal to ban an entire religious group, Muslims, from entering the U.S.

Yet, the Trump administration itself is very much part of this country’s anti-LGBTQ movement, Furino said. They pointed specifically to the deaths of transgender inmates inside the administration’s concentration camps for immigrants on the southern border.

 

“I think Trump and the right in general are trying to use a particular narrative that is intentionally divisive and vilifies trans people,” Furino said.

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An inflatable Baby Trump balloon towered over protesters during a rally Tuesday, June 18, in Orlando, Florida. A large group protesting against President Donald Trump were rallying near the location where he announced his reelection campaign. More

Rasha Mubarak, 34, a Palestinian American Muslim activist and a national committeewoman with the Florida Young Democrats, said Trump’s visit to Orlando was “disruptive, irresponsible and triggering beyond belief.”

“Just yesterday, Trump threatened to deport thousands of immigrants, and next week we are reminded that it’s been one year since the Supreme Court decided to uphold the Muslim ban,” Mubarak said, adding that the president’s “discriminatory and divisive policies will never be welcomed nor housed by our City Beautiful.”

Ahead of the rally, the Florida Democratic Party released a new poll: Roughly 70% of Orlando-area residents disapprove of Trump’s job performance, and only 28% said they would vote for Trump if the election were held today.

But the Trump campaign has singled out Florida as a must-win state in 2020, and packing Amway Center was aimed at consolidating the president’s base in the middle of the Sunshine State.

Among those who traveled from afar to the rally were the followers of the unhinged pro-Trump conspiracy theory surrounding QAnon.

QAnon, or simply “Q,” is an anonymous poster on various online message boards, namely 8chan, who claims to be a government employee with high-level security clearance. Followers of Q believe, among many other things, that this anonymous poster is working with the Trump administration to mass arrest the president’s political opponents for running a global pedophile ring.  

Lori Bray, a retired schoolteacher from Ocala, Florida, wore a QAnon T-shirt to the rally.

“I believe there’s a lot of witchcraft and evil things going on,” she said of those deep state actors that she believes Q will one day expose.

“A lot of people involved in child pornography and the sale of children — not just children, but other people too,” Bray said. “And I believe that they’ve been trying to destroy our country for a long time. They’ve been trying to bring down America so that we will become part of the one-world government, trying to weaken us.”

Throughout Tuesday’s rally, HuffPost spotted many QAnon believers posing for photos and selfies in front of the stage, all wearing Q shirts and hats. One campaign volunteer posed for a photo while holding a Q sign.

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Some Q bros in at the Trump rally in #Orlando.

There are so many Q people here

 

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Also in front of the stage inside the Amway Center were multiple members of Bikers for Trump, a motorcycle and activist group with a large social media following. Earlier this year, Trump suggested that these bikers were among the “tough people” who would support him if his political opponents went too far in their investigations of his alleged crimes. The bikers, the president said in what seemed like a threat of violence, could make things “very bad, very bad.”

“We’re not out there looking for a fight, but we’re certainly not gonna back down from one either,” said Chris Cox, the South Carolina-based founder of Bikers for Trump.

Standing near Cox was 37-year-old Daniel McQuarrie, a Disney employee wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with “INFOwars.com” on the sleeve — a reference to the far-right conspiracy website and video channel run by Alex Jones. (Trump himself has appeared on Infowars.)

“Sandy Hook was a hoax,” McQuarrie said, parroting Jones’ cruel and unfounded conspiracy theory that the massacre of 13 children at a Connecticut elementary school was staged. “He’s got proof.”

Standing near McQuarrie was Anna Connelly, a 62-year-old house painter from Inverness, Florida, who was wearing a National Rifle Association T-shirt and holding a sticker someone had just given her. “Assume the news media is lying,” it said. “You want it?” Connelly asked HuffPost.

After arguing, falsely, that most newspapers in the U.S. are owned by communists, Connelly then railed against immigration in explicitly white nationalist terms.

“If you don’t stop immigration now, the illegals, it’s gonna change the demographics of our country. And when you change the demographics of the people of the country, then you change the government of the country, and I would not like to see what goes on in Europe go on here,” she said.

Connelly also had particularly bigoted words for Muslims. “Look at what they did to their countries,” she said. Whereas America is “still trying to progress,” she argued, Muslims are “still living in the past.”

In seats near Connelly sat 52-year-old Sheryl Tumey and her grandson. Both wore T-shirts blaring the logo for the III% United Patriots, the Florida-based chapter of the 3 Percenter militia movement.

“Here in Florida, we have over 1,700 members and we support the Constitution,” said Tumey, who works at a gun shop in Eustis, Florida. “We are not a hate group, a racist group. All of those things are false. We’re an inclusive group that believes in the Constitution of the United States of America.” 

Earlier this year, three members of a 3 Percenters group in Kansas were convicted in a plot to massacre Muslims.

When Trump finally took the stage Tuesday evening, at around 8 p.m., the crowd of 20,000 inside the stadium went wild. He used his speech to lash out at the media in the arena, repeatedly denigrating them as “fake news.”

“Tell the truth!” the crowd started to chant, pointing their fingers at the designated press area.

As Trump’s speech wore on, some in the crowd filtered out early. It had been a long day. Tumey, the 3 Percent militia member, left the arena with her grandson. When his speech eventually ended, a Proud Boy stepped outside and lit up a cigarette. Down the block, an Infowars host conducted an interview with two men in MAGA hats.

 

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Protester Willie Tillman, a 34-year-old Orlando resident, holds up a sign as Trump supporters leave the president’s campaign rally

 

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Further down the block, a 33-year-old protester named Willie Tillman stood among a sea of Trump supporters leaving the arena. He sat on a bike holding up a sign that read “**** Trump” on one side and “You gotta be kidding me with this bull ****,” on the other.

Tillman, who works at a nearby bakery, didn’t see any neighbors among those passing by, heckling him with shouts of “Trump 2020!”

“I stay on this side of this town,” he said. “I don’t know where they come from.”

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Edited June 20, 2019 by Shabibilicious

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Moderators, something went wrong and this article posted multiple times, please help.

 

Forget it....seemed to correct itself.  Thanks anyways.

 

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Edited June 20, 2019 by Shabibilicious

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1 minute ago, Shabibilicious said:

Moderators, something went wrong and this article posted multiple times, please help.

 

GO RV, then BV

 

Strange... But then again maybe not.

 

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12 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

Moderators, something went wrong and this article posted multiple times, please help.

 

Forget it....seemed to correct itself.  Thanks anyways.

 

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Something is most definitely wrong with it that much is for sure.

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7 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

Something is most definitely wrong with it that much is for sure.

 

Glad you agree....Trump is like chum in extremist saturated waters.

 

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Orlando Rally Goer Explains Why Some Left Early

 

RUSH: Winter Haven in Florida, Kyle. How you doing, Kyle? Welcome to the program.

 

CALLER: Rush, great to be here. Thanks so much for doing all you do, saving us and teaching us and here we are living in clown world America, honk, honk, and thank you for being the guiding light.

 

RUSH: Thank you, sir. Thank you. I appreciate that.

 

CALLER: Yes, sir. So I was at the rally last night, and I just want to talk on what Major Garrett had mentioned.

 

RUSH: Yeah, go ahead.

 

CALLER: Okay. Yeah. He was saying that, you know, some of the audience was leaving early. The reason being that I myself and my wife a large number of left before is the SunRail, which is the train that runs north and south --

 

RUSH: Right. It’s like the light rail.

 

CALLER: Right, exactly. A lot of people wanted to take that, most for the first time since I-4 was gonna be so clogged up and they extended the hours so I think 10 o'clock was the last train, 10:15, something like that. So everybody wanted to make sure they got on that to get to where they needed to go in time.

 

RUSH: See, there's always an explanation. How much in advance did you have to get there to get in last night?

 

CALLER: I mean, we waited in line in the torrential rain and the hot sun for over 10 hours.

 

RUSH: All right. So this guy shows up in the torrential rains, in the hot tropical humidity for 10 hours! You can imagine the smells. Well, I'm just saying it's not these people's fault. I mean, come on, folks, have you smelled a bunch of athletes after playing a hot game in September? It's not pretty.

 

Anyway, that's going on. They show up 10 hours early. Then when the thing is over they realize they've got one chance to catch the plugged up, overcrowded light rail train back home, and they want to make it because they've been through so much, they stayed for most of the whole thing, and not the whole thing, and the Drive-Bys think they've got a scoop.

 

“People left after the event. And some people left before it was over. (gasping) Never seen that at a Trump rally before.” I don't think that's probably true, either. I'll bet you any number of people have had to leave. The Trump rally in Cape Girardeau, the one before the election last November, a woman fainted, and Trump stopped and just stood at the podium, nobody said a word for 30 minutes while EMS came in, treated the woman.

 

He totally suspended it. Stood there for 30 minutes, everybody chatting with each other, hoping this woman is okay, suspended the thing for 30 minutes until she was gone, then resumed. It was 30 minutes late, therefore, late getting out. Nobody left. I was there. One of the last to get out of there, by the way, because once the president leaves nobody can leave 'til he's out of town, or at least at the airport.

 

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Let me see if I got this straight Kyle from Winter Haven.....people stood in line for 10 hours in the swampy Florida heat salivating for a glimpse of Trump and his incoherent ramblings....only to leave early to catch the last train home? 

 

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38 minutes ago, Shabibilicious said:

see if I got this straight Kyle from Winter Haven.....people stood in line for 10 hours in the swampy Florida heat salivating for a glimpse of Trump and his incoherent ramblings....only to leave early to catch the last train home? 

You're really picking at straws now.

 

Not to mention that you are missing the overall big picture. Think on a Biblical scale.

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32 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

You're really picking at straws now.

 

You're not a Rush Limbaugh fan?.....that's surprising.    

 

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Just now, Shabibilicious said:

 

You're not a Rush Limbaugh fan?.....that's surprising.    

 

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I added to my post above you might want to re-read it. And by the way I like Rush Limbaugh very much. But you are are parsing thoughts

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42 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

You're really picking at straws now.

 

Not to mention that you are missing the overall big picture. Think on a Biblical scale.

 

Oh, Herod the Great....got it.

 

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1 hour ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

Oh, Herod the Great....got it.

 

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 I was thinking more in the realm of eschatology.

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5 minutes ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

 I was thinking more in the realm of eschatology.

 

It was the last train home for the night.....not the last train to eternity.  

 

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It was the last train home for the night.....not the last train to eternity.  

 

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Ya Think? 

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1 minute ago, ladyGrace'sDaddy said:

Ya Think? 

 

All the time.  

 

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