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Pro-Trump FBI protest cancelled after not one demonstrator showed up [1]

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Date: 2022-08-16

Protests can be pretty insane things these days. I remember the protests in the 60’s over the Vietnam War, but some of the ones I actually watched turned into songfests most of the time (at least where I lived). But I do not ever remember a single one that was canceled because no one showed up.

A pro-Trump protest that was scheduled to be held outside the FBI headquarters in Washington DC over the weekend was cancelled after it was promoted on far-right blogs as a suspected “trap”, The Daily Beast reported. www.independent.co.uk/...

But its interesting to see the mindset of those who planned to participate in this particular protest. How they got “trap” involved when, as long as they had their license to protest in order, the crowd that showed was peaceful and did not break any laws, I’ll never understand. The only thing I can remotely think was, that someone had actually planned to do something outside the law.

A Sunday demonstration outside the headquarters in the nation's capital was first promoted by the far-right Falun Gong-backed Epoch Times, who reported shortly after the August 8 raid at Trump's Florida residence that a veteran named Adam Hardage had called for a demonstration on the following Sunday "to protest the out-of-control FBI and its actions against President Trump". The outlet later reported on Thursday, just a few days before the event was scheduled to happen, that it had been cancelled after conspiracies began speculating throughout pro-Trump media forums that the event was a "trap" and could perhaps be co-opted by the same agency the supporters were protesting. www.punjabnewsexpress.com/...

The conspiracies….aha. The problem with conspiracies is that they are not grounded in reality, or in many cases, facts.

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