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kpete

(71,991 posts)
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 03:48 PM Feb 2022

During Traffic Stops, Miami Police hand out invitations to buy trump 2024 merchandise

In Miami Beach, getting pulled over by city police didn’t just mean a ticket for some drivers. Officers also handed them an invitation to check out a website selling Trump 2024 merchandise.

Drivers who went to a website listed on a flier handed out by Miami Beach police during traffic stops found Trump 2024 merchandise, such as this flag.

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A city police flier in circulation until last week explaining how to resolve minor traffic tickets online dropped a crucial hyphen for a Miami-Dade County courts website, steering drivers away from a bland judicial portal and to an online store selling flags, videos and caps celebrating former President Donald Trump and his potential third run for the White House.

Offerings at miamidadeclerk.com include Trump 2024 camouflage caps, a DVD exploring the possibility of a “one-world centralized government” without Trump in the White House, and two Trump-themed flags featuring the obscenity “F***” (one paired with “Biden”, the other with “Your Feelings.”)

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article258397463.html#storylink=cpy
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article258397463.html
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During Traffic Stops, Miami Police hand out invitations to buy trump 2024 merchandise (Original Post) kpete Feb 2022 OP
Geezus H. Cripes! mobeau69 Feb 2022 #1
Isn't that website impersonating an official court office? C_U_L8R Feb 2022 #2
"Typographical error" my ass. mobeau69 Feb 2022 #3
Yeah... IrishAfricanAmerican Feb 2022 #12
that is outrageous. barbtries Feb 2022 #4
So what are they going to Do Cha Feb 2022 #5
They will issue a stern letter about their disappointment. OldBaldy1701E Feb 2022 #19
Typosquatting... PoliticAverse Feb 2022 #6
A new thin multigraincracker Feb 2022 #7
No wonder Art Acevedo couldn't get along with them Sucha NastyWoman Feb 2022 #8
Outrageous! Firestorm49 Feb 2022 #9
How is Rebl2 Feb 2022 #10
OMFG! Totally vomitocious LymphocyteLover Feb 2022 #11
It's odd that Disaffected Feb 2022 #13
looks like a scam taking advantage of the typo IronLionZion Feb 2022 #14
Literally a thin line. Geechie Feb 2022 #15
Obviously the website was started AFTER seeing the typo... WarGamer Feb 2022 #16
Dial 911, Shakedown in progress bucolic_frolic Feb 2022 #17
The "#9 best seller" on that website - 'Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump' groundloop Feb 2022 #18
"Take America Back"?? From who? Americans? SunSeeker Feb 2022 #20
"Take America Backwards". calimary Feb 2022 #22
Exactly. nt SunSeeker Feb 2022 #23
Quick search shows the website registered by Epik Inc. (ugh) ToxMarz Feb 2022 #21

C_U_L8R

(45,002 posts)
2. Isn't that website impersonating an official court office?
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 04:00 PM
Feb 2022

This outfit is clearly trying to fool people with something very close to an official URL.

OldBaldy1701E

(5,128 posts)
19. They will issue a stern letter about their disappointment.
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 06:40 PM
Feb 2022

Other than that, I doubt anyone in Floridum will do much. I suppose they will stop it eventually, but only when DeSantis gears up for his run to the White House.

Sucha NastyWoman

(2,748 posts)
8. No wonder Art Acevedo couldn't get along with them
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 05:31 PM
Feb 2022

He is a very honorable police chief, who didn’t fit into the syndicate.

Disaffected

(4,554 posts)
13. It's odd that
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 06:29 PM
Feb 2022

the website contains the expected tacky and vulgar crap (along with Chinese sounding English) but also a link to the "#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump" video.

These idiots can't even grift properly....

IronLionZion

(45,442 posts)
14. looks like a scam taking advantage of the typo
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 06:31 PM
Feb 2022

since the real site has a hyphen. Of course Trumpy types are into scamming people. That's how their hero Trump lives life.

Geechie

(865 posts)
15. Literally a thin line.
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 06:34 PM
Feb 2022

Or rather a hyphen:

www.miami-dadeclerk.com

vs

www.miamidadeclerk.com

(The latter redirects to the Frumpy site)

ToxMarz

(2,166 posts)
21. Quick search shows the website registered by Epik Inc. (ugh)
Tue Feb 15, 2022, 06:48 PM
Feb 2022

to a P.O Box in St Kitts and Nevis caribbean islands under the name Synergy Technologies LLC (https://synergytech.com) i

https://www.whois.com/whois/miamidadeclerk.com

miamidadeclerk(dot)com


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_(company)

Epik is an American domain registrar and web hosting company known for providing services to websites that host far-right, neo-Nazi, and other extremist content. It has been described as a haven for the far-right because of its willingness to provide services to far-right websites that have been denied service by other Internet service providers.[1][7]

Some of Epik's notable clients have included social network Gab and the imageboard website 8chan.[8] In 2021, the Parler social network moved its domain registration to Epik when it was denied hosting and other web services after it was used to help plan the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol.[9] Epik has also provided hosting and registrar services to Patriots.win, formerly TheDonald.win, an independent far-right forum that has served as the successor for the r/The_Donald subreddit that was banned in June 2020.

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