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brooklynite

(93,873 posts)
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:05 AM Sep 2020

Trump's 'plane loaded with thugs' conspiracy theory matches months-old rumor

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by Omaha Steve (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: NBC News

The conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump pushed Monday that a plane “almost completely loaded with thugs” had been set to disrupt the Republican National Convention was almost identical to a rumor that went viral on Facebook three months ago.

In an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Trump claimed that “we had somebody get on a plane from a certain city this weekend, and in the plane it was almost completely loaded with thugs, wearing these dark uniforms, black uniforms, with gear and this and that.”

He then claimed the matter was “under investigation right now.”

There is no evidence of any such flight. When Ingraham asked for more information about the flight, the president said, "I'll tell you sometime." He then alleged the people had been headed to Washington to disrupt the RNC.


Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-s-plane-loaded-thugs-rumor-matches-months-old-facebook-n1238962

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Trump's 'plane loaded with thugs' conspiracy theory matches months-old rumor (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2020 OP
A plane loaded with thugs going to a convention that did not happen? ... The fucker is nutz. Botany Sep 2020 #1
Batshit crazy covers it. In_The_Wind Sep 2020 #5
That googlenewspost is some auto translation BS... TomVilmer Sep 2020 #18
so now we have airborne antifa ? drray23 Sep 2020 #2
420th Airborne ret5hd Sep 2020 #11
DUzy. NT mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 #19
So trump is saying that thugs flew to his "convention" mercuryblues Sep 2020 #3
plane fulla thugs and binders fulla wimmin. Fucking liars. CurtEastPoint Sep 2020 #4
Must have been a C-130 plane LiberalArkie Sep 2020 #6
Projection. Always. bucolic_frolic Sep 2020 #7
Oh FFS... TommyCelt Sep 2020 #8
TaKe HiM sErIoUsLy NoT lItErAlLy derp derp derp greenjar_01 Sep 2020 #9
Recommended. H2O Man Sep 2020 #10
"dark uniforms, black uniforms, with gear and this and that." Bayard Sep 2020 #12
Yes they are his guys! scarytomcat Sep 2020 #15
You can do better, brooklynite Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2020 #13
THE AIRAVAN IS COMING!!! eom Ztolkins Sep 2020 #14
Aren't thugs but good decent American citizens flying on a totally innocent trip doing their ... SWBTATTReg Sep 2020 #16
Lots of good discussion at the earlier LBN version of this thread progree Sep 2020 #17
It's Qanon originated and bot spread. L. Lin Wood (Rittenhouse's lawyer) is a Qanon follower, too. ancianita Sep 2020 #20
After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING Omaha Steve Sep 2020 #21

Botany

(70,291 posts)
1. A plane loaded with thugs going to a convention that did not happen? ... The fucker is nutz.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:07 AM
Sep 2020

On Morning Joe, they just showed part of trump's interview with Laura Ingraham

Trump was going full out racist, without any subtly

He was effectively saying let's bring back redlining to keep blacks out of the suburbs to protect our women

I have no words to express what a disgusting human being he is

and then in that interview he starts going batshit crazy talking about airplanes with thugs going to interrupt the Convention.

https://googlenewspost.com/2020/09/01/donald-trump-says-they-are-investigating-plane-full-of-thugs-in-black-uniforms-heading-to-the-rnc/

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214005623

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)
5. Batshit crazy covers it.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:11 AM
Sep 2020

TomVilmer

(1,832 posts)
18. That googlenewspost is some auto translation BS...
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 12:11 PM
Sep 2020
"... and opened fireplace, wounding one particular person ..."

drray23

(7,587 posts)
2. so now we have airborne antifa ?
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:07 AM
Sep 2020

its so ridiculous but his idiot cult will believe it.

ret5hd

(20,435 posts)
11. 420th Airborne
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:41 AM
Sep 2020

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,897 posts)
19. DUzy. NT
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 12:11 PM
Sep 2020

mercuryblues

(14,491 posts)
3. So trump is saying that thugs flew to his "convention"
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:08 AM
Sep 2020

with weapons and gear to incite violence. But I can't get on a plane with over 3 OZ of shampoo?

CurtEastPoint

(18,552 posts)
4. plane fulla thugs and binders fulla wimmin. Fucking liars.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:11 AM
Sep 2020

LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
6. Must have been a C-130 plane
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:15 AM
Sep 2020

bucolic_frolic

(42,676 posts)
7. Projection. Always.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:16 AM
Sep 2020

Revealing his plan to steal the election. Thugs. In suits. Brooks Bros. Rebellion again.

Setting up false narratives seems to be a predilection and a specialty. A con man fools the people. That's his most joyous fun.

TommyCelt

(838 posts)
8. Oh FFS...
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:20 AM
Sep 2020

"They had uniforms and gear and this and that... I'll tell you sometime."

He sure as hell knows his audience. Make a claim, with ZERO evidence, and it becomes unassailable truth because is comes from HIS mouth.

It's been said time and time again until it is cliché. But this is a cult. This is Goebbels-level propaganda. However the transition of power happens, it certainly is not going to be peaceful.

 

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)
9. TaKe HiM sErIoUsLy NoT lItErAlLy derp derp derp
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:28 AM
Sep 2020

"He was just kidding to troll the libs hardy har."

One of these two explanations pops out whenever he says completely indefensible shit like this.

H2O Man

(73,333 posts)
10. Recommended.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:39 AM
Sep 2020

This actually has some truth to it. In the early 1600s, a plane of Democratic thug activists disappeared while flying over the Bermuda Triangle. In the 400 years since, the ghosts of the missing thugs have appeared in the nightmares of paranoid republicans, most recently Richard Nixon and Donald Trump. The first siting of this danger -- call it a premonition, if you will -- cqan be found in Christopher Columbus's lost journal, from February 31, 1492, when the thugs warned him to beware of antifa and Black Lives Matter.

I swea that this is as factually accurate as Trump's claim.

Bayard

(21,805 posts)
12. "dark uniforms, black uniforms, with gear and this and that."
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 10:57 AM
Sep 2020

Isn't this the people he sent to Portland?

scarytomcat

(1,706 posts)
15. Yes they are his guys!
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 11:21 AM
Sep 2020

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,788 posts)
13. You can do better, brooklynite
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 11:02 AM
Sep 2020

Again, you post a duplicate post. It is two below your post in the LBN. Easily visible.

Ztolkins

(429 posts)
14. THE AIRAVAN IS COMING!!! eom
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 11:16 AM
Sep 2020

SWBTATTReg

(21,859 posts)
16. Aren't thugs but good decent American citizens flying on a totally innocent trip doing their ...
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 11:37 AM
Sep 2020

normal tasks (flying to families, work, for pleasure, etc.), the republican thugs will pick some plane and announce that they were the plane loaded w/ the fake thugs (like the fake pizza parlor in a NYC bsmt).

And how does one ID a plane load of thugs? With gear too, w/ no identifying marks provided, and if they were ID'ed, why in the hell is he sprouting off about a FBI investigation (or other agency), what were they doing criminally wrong?

What a moron, they wouldn't be able to board the planes w/ any of such 'equipment' that the MORON in chief is describing, so a LIE as well (and they weren't breaking any laws either simply wearing the dark uniforms blah blah blah). All fake.

What a lying MORONIC POS and PINO.

progree

(10,864 posts)
17. Lots of good discussion at the earlier LBN version of this thread
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 11:41 AM
Sep 2020

Trump's 'plane loaded with thugs' conspiracy theory matches months-old rumor
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142573302

ancianita

(35,813 posts)
20. It's Qanon originated and bot spread. L. Lin Wood (Rittenhouse's lawyer) is a Qanon follower, too.
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 01:47 PM
Sep 2020

Check out Lin Wood's twitter feed to see how he spreads that stuff.

Fox News is probably the Qanon newsfeed by now, too.

Omaha Steve

(99,073 posts)
21. After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING
Tue Sep 1, 2020, 02:03 PM
Sep 2020

Dupe. See the earlier post here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142573302

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