Trump campaign paying people to attend rally

[videohead5]

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This could be a fake ad.

Link to tweet

[wnylib]

1. Better get it in cash up front on entering the rally site.

Trump likes to stiff people. And forget about that bonus. It's just a lure to suck people in.

[PatSeg]

17. That was my first thought

Doesn't sound worth the trouble, plus a good chance you'll not get paid.

[Arne]

2. Is this a tweet? It's really funny.

[RussBLib]

3. ...and Trump is the one manipulating the voting numbers

...so he has to accuse the Democrats of it. Shameful that we have to contend with and put up with this obviously damaged "person."

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[NJCher]

27. this runs through my mind at least 10 times a day:

Shameful that we have to contend with and put up with this obviously damaged "person."

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Pretty pathetic, and what's even more funnier, is that Pres. Biden's audiences can easily beat tRUMP's,

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w/o payment of a dime (and I would give the offered money back to Pres. Biden, I don't need).

Pretty pathetic that everything that tRUMP does, is fake. A fake tan, fake shoes to make him taller, girdles to make him look thinner, fake smile, fake hair, fake everything...added later, w/ more input, fake audiences, fake business expertise, etc., in short, all fake fake fake!

[Beartracks]

8. Don't forget fake "business genius." n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

25. It's Even Worse

He's a fake business person!
He doesn't have the first idea on how businesses work or how to run one.
He inherited a company. That's how he got into the business.
The growth was luck & built on a mountain of debt.
And, if he had sold the company, invested index funds, and nothing else he'd be a real billionaire, owing nobody a dime.
He not just "not a business genius", he's a clueless drone about business.

[SWBTATTReg]

30. True. He is the ultimate faker...

[mahina]

12. Fake and loveless marriage

[PatSeg]

18. He might want to get his money back

on those girdles though. Thinner than what?

[SWBTATTReg]

34. True, but maybe he's a lot more fatter than he looks? Ha ha heh. I wouldn't be one bit surprised, he's pulled the

rug over people's eyes on literally everything about him. Fortunately for us, we all know what a true scumbag he is.

And to be truthful, I don't want to see him in his daily f**king press conferences like he did when COVID hit during his first term. I was (and still am) sick and tired of him and his mouth constantly going.

[PatSeg]

35. "Fatter than he looks"?

Damn!

I'm tired of him as well, but truthfully, we need to have him out there rambling on incoherently on a regular basis. At least until November. The public needs a constant reminder of who and what he is and the fact that he is getting worse all the time. Memories are short and it is easy to forget how truly horrible he is.

The best political ad Dems have is Trump talking.

[SWBTATTReg]

38. Yes, I think you're right. His mouth constantly running off all kinds of nonsense and crap is probably the

best political ads that we as Democrats have w/ this motormouth. It seems like every day/week, he's sticking his damn foot in his mouth, misquoting or saying an idiotic thing once again. I also think him losing all of his former cabinet members from his prior administration (hire only the best people) helps us too, when people hear of their nonstop stories on how incompetent he really is.

They tried sticking the 'senile' tag on Pres. Biden and it hasn't worked one bit. And they tried other tricks too, to try and nail Pres. Biden but Pres. Biden is tough and the skillset that Pres. Biden brings to the table speaks of his long-established history of being in government, being competent, getting things done. Proof of his competence that we need in government. And of course, the incompetent GOP boobs in Congress aren't helping tRUMP either. They are just as incompetent too. No wonder so many of them are leaving Congress (GOP members). tRUMP has destroyed the GOP and the GOP has let him do it.

And, they don't seem to care, the GOP, as a party, they bow down to this moron, despite his total incompetence. Perhaps the voters that tRUMP despises (and he did just that to their faces just a couple of days ago, he stated that he doesn't care about them, he just wants their votes). God, what a slap in the face. I hope that this drove 100s of thousands of them away or at least is making them think a little more about just exactly what did they get themselves into? Pres. Biden to his credit, jumped onto this idiotic remark.

[PatSeg]

39. In some ways, Trump has done us a great favor

He has revealed who and what the republican party really is and in the process probably damaged, if not destroyed, it for a very long time. All the years of family values, patriotism, support our troops, help our allies, oppose tyrants, etc. evaporated overnight.

Turns out they didn't stand for anything, just power and money. Trump is a mirror for them.

[CincyDem]

5. Feels like the old "Let's make a deal" strategy to create a high energy audience...

…”end up on a broadcast”…

Meaning if you wear and outlandish enough t-shirt, or wave a crazy enough sign…we’ll pay you $50 bucks (and of course we’ll tell the press all that support is “organic”.).

[pandr32]

6. He did this during 2020, too.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

10. He did it from the Get-go at TT in 2015.

Paid actors.

[sakabatou]

7. So even their campaign event audience is faked

[Hekate]

9. When he descended that golden escalator in 2016, that enthused crowd was hired...

Someone found it on Craigslist, wrote it up and it was posted at DU.

For Trump, originally it was only ever about promoting his brand, so the idea of hiring a crowd was simply what one does. As soon as he got a taste of what MAGA-intoxication could do, it was addictive for him as well. Or as Nicolle says: “High on his own supply.”

So as long as he can still grift some money, he will always use paid actors (where do you think they get “Blacks for Trump” ? ) to chum the waters, swell the crowd.

[PatSeg]

19. And I remember Rachel mentioning it on her show

[NanaCat]

37. I keep having to remind people that, no

It wasn't all about enhancing his brand. That was part of it, sure, but even he is smart enough to know that the enhancement comes from winning, not merely running.

Besides, he had tried to run several times in the past. You don't keep trying for the office if you don't want it for reasons far beyond a mere brand. You only do it when you want it for your ego and your lust for power and control, with every fiber of your being

[DoBW]

11. I thought that was taken for granted ...

along with applause cues, laugh cues, chant cues, the whole spiel. all staged with compensated losers

[Ms. Toad]

13. Reports of this kind of ad were widely circulated fake news in prior years.

https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/fabricated-craigslist-ad-about-trump-rally-actors-circulates-again-2024-03-27/

This particular ad does exist, but given the history of such "ads" this one is probably someone shitposting.

[Warpy]

14. In show biz, the claque was a well known thing

and they were paid to come to the theaters and music halls to applaud loudly, laugh heartily, and cheer for encores. Good artists didn't need them. Hacks did.

This is just a long standing tradition for no talent bums to make themselves look better than they are.

Sometimes it even works.

It's very telling that TFG has to hire one in addition to his usual collection of loudmouthed cheerleaders who tell the crowd what slogan to chant and when. I suppose the claque is there because he found the overheated and dehydrated crowd in Phoenix a little too low energy to suit his ego.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. Any extra bonus if I get heatstroke?

[et tu]

16. if you end up in the hospital

you're a loser and a sucker. only strong people need to attend
the bestest rally with the adored genius and his best ever followers!

[senseandsensibility]

20. Assuming this is a genuine ad

I would like to see some coverage of this, at least on MSNBC.

[Emile]

21. and he is doing so well in the polls too.

[fierywoman]

22. Make it into an ad, Lincoln Project!

[progressoid]

23. I call bullshit.

These Craigslist ads have been going around for years.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Horner attributed his success to Trumps’ particular base of supporters. He is the man behind such viral headlines as “The Amish in America Commit their Vote to Donald Trump” and “President Obama Signs Executive Order Banning the National Anthem at all Sporting Events Nationwide” — neither of which were true.

“My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time. I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they’ll post everything, believe anything. His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made that up. I posted a fake ad on Craigslist,” he told The Washington Post.

...https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-election-facebook-fake-news-creator-paul-horner-claims-responsibility/

[COL Mustard]

24. I wouldn't go to a T*ump rally for 10 times

That amount. Or any amount of money, to be honest.

[LymphocyteLover]

26. In that killer heat? They couldn't pay me enough!!!

[Ford_Prefect]

28. Isn't that another kind of election fraud? Paying people off again????

[former9thward]

32. The ad is fake.

For entertainment purposes only.

[brooklynite]

29. Ignore this....:

Unless there’s more compelling evidence than a Craigslist ad that anyone can post, I’m not wasting time on this

[B.See]

31. Reports of people being paid to attend Trump's

hate fests have appeared back in 2016, Black attendees in particular. This is nothing new.

[Maraya1969]

33. It is a fake ad. Reuters had it. But that doesn't mean he has not paid people to attend. He pays

people to do all sorts of things. I know he paid the people when he first announced his run in 2016 because they were wearing trump shirts and he was just then becoming a candidate.

[NanaCat]

36. This has been going on since he first ran for office.

I don't know if anyone has ever verified any of the ads.