In my last post, I promised to reveal more links between the formerly-fringe, Citizens for Trump, the Trump Twitter troll army, the “Taco Truck" guy, the egged Trump supporter and more.
I’m here to deliver on that promise. There’s a lot of ground to cover so please forgive me in advance if I start meandering.
These efforts were greatly assisted by the WordPress site for Latinos With Trump which allowed minutes from the meetings of the “core group” of organizers to be cached by Google. PDFs of the minutes for a number of meetings can be found on Scribd here and here. Cached pages from Google are here and here.
The disclosure notice at the bottom of the website www.latinoswithtrump.org claims no “authorization by, affiliation with, direction from, or endorsement from” any candidate:
Use of any name or likeness of any candidate or officeholder is for the purpose of #LatinosWithTrump political communication only, and in NO WAY indicates any authorization by, affiliation with, direction from, or endorsement from that person in any kind. Any contributions from foreign nationals or entities is prohibited.
The minutes tell a completely different story. From July 13th:
2. Natalie Davis is working on the wording of a script for our group, that will show our allegiance with the campaign, (Still waiting approval from Tim Clark).
From August 9th:
– Natalie David has been mobilized from CA and it’s now in charge of OH.
– Tim is planning an event for Latinos for trump, the target date it’s September 20th followed by a charity event on September 21th, the plan is to be televised and show the Latino support in national media, we would need at least 1000 people to make this happen, and in order to Donald Trump to actually attend.
– Tim requested a few Spanish speakers that will be trained to appear in Univision and Telemundo to be advocates for the Latinos message, the volunteers were: Irma, Regina, Maddie and Myself.
– Tim is working to find a wording we all can use to pass our message and that will be approved by the campaign.
From August 10th:
– Still waiting on word from Natalie Davis about the wording that we can use for all of our marketing.
Tim Clark is the California Director for the Trump campaign. Natalie Davis is currently the “Ohio Sportsmen and 2nd Amendment Outreach Coordinator” for the Donald Trump campaign.
Interestingly, up through the last minutes post on August 25th, Marco Gutierrez, of “taco truck on every corner” fame and founder of Latinos For Trump, was the co-chair of the group along with Jorge Herrera.
– Tim emailed Marco the guidelines to be a local representative, also Marco advise us to get involved locally in with the trump campaign. He also set up a documentary with tbs, and they will be following us during #OperationTacoBowl
I assume plans may have changed on September 1st when he made his infamous remark since he’s not mentioned in the group’s September 8th press release which was published by one of their media contacts, Amy Morena, of the “truther” tabloid “news” site Truthfeed.
Gutierrez maintains his own “official” Latinos For Trump website.
The minutes from their meetings reveal a number of interesting connections and once familiar with the individuals involved, it becomes quite obvious that much of the minority support for Trump as covered by the media is actually the same individuals from an embarassingly small group.
You won’t find a single article, video, etc about Trump’s support from the right-wing alt media that doesn’t include a quote, picture or video of one or more of these people and in many cases, their affiliation to the campaign isn’t mentioned. Worse yet, they make similar appearances in mainstream sources: Reuters, AP, Boston Globe, Guardian, Buzzfeed, etc.
Need another group? Swap out the signs and then you’ve got Immigrants 4 Trump. Need to show some support from the black community? Black Americans For Trump shares some of the same members (via Trump Street Team FL).
Speaking of Trump’s support among African Americans and desperate photo ops, I came across images from September where members of the group rallied with the insane anti-semite and former Yahweh Ben Yahweh cult member Michael The Black Man and his cadre of crazed conservative props.
Not suprisingly, I wasn’t the first to notice this either. There’s an interesting post at Rightscoop that shows the same groups together in August and reveals one of their many connections to the Trump Twitter troll army.
Now back to the minutes from the #LatinosWithTrump meetings. From the August 25th minutes (my bold):
– Kambree got in touch with right side broadcasting, she is a native of Dallas now living in the OC area, specialized in leadership and strategy. She is well connected with Wayne Dupree, Scott Baio, Dan Scavino etc. she wants to outsmart media that day by having visual aids about the dnc leaks, she invited breitbart, baked Alaska and other media outlets.
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– Ames at truth freed has done various articles and would do a press release on Saturday about the location.
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– I got in touch with bikers for trump and they are working on it so I passed the info to kambree since she is the one organizing most of the stuff with cernovich.
Kambree is Kambree Nelson, the co-host of The Wayne Dupree Show. She is a member of the Latinos With Trump board of advisors. She’s also an associate of none other than the King of alt right Twitter trolls and GamerGate principal, Mike Cernovich, as well as another well known Twitter troll and cohort of Milo Yiannopoulos, Baked Alaska (creator of #MAGA3X).
If you read my earlier post, you may recall that the Wayne Dupree Show was one of the sponsors of the Citizens for Trump and Roger Stone hosted America First "Unity Rally" held in Cleveland during the week of the Republican National Convention.
Citizens for Trump is a project of Patriotic Warriors, a for-profit organization which can best be thought of as the wetdream of Tom Berenger’s character in the 80’s movie Betrayed — a man who saw himself as a Patriotic Warrior fighting against the “Zionist Occupational Government” aka “ZOG.”
In case you don’t get the reference, from their about page:
Patriotic Warriors is an activist organization built to engage our community through information, training, outreach programs and other resources. We provide our members with cutting edge technology, activist strategies, and opportunities through our multiple take-action platforms.
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Patriotic Warriors endevours to fufill its mission through selling memberships, offering multiple online service platforms, direct donations, and generating internet merchandise sales.
Founded by Tim Selaty Sr (also founder of The Tea Party Tribune and a Facebook clone for the far-right called The Tea Party Community) and Patriot Movement figure, Melvin Lee, Patriotic Warriors is a for-profit organization intent on lousing up the Internet with as many wingnut (think 3%ers, Oath Keepers, etc) websites as they can manage. The Citizens for Trump "Why donate?" page lists some interesting things for which the non-tax deductible donations will be spent but right up at the very top:
Some of the things your support dollars will be expended on:
- Recruiting and training people to participate in our online rapid response activism programs
I’m assuming this a polite way of saying troll army. The CFT about page lists some notable staffers, including an associate of the above with the title “Security & Special Projects Director”:
Jan Morgan, National Spokesperson
Wayne Dupree, National Spokesperson
Kate Beecham, Research Director
Jack Posobiec, Security & Special Projects Director
Jan Morgan is also the national spokesperson (how PC of them!) for Patriotic Warriors. She apparently appears regularly on Fox Business and made something of a stir in 2014 when she declared her Hot Springs, Arkansas shooting range a “Muslim-free zone” and then early last year when she mistook two Hindu men for Muslims and denied them service.
Oh, did I forget to mention that? Patriotic Warriors have a real hard-on for Muslims and when they’re not sponsoring vigilante border patrols, they spend a lot of time telling the world just how much they hate Muslims.
Jack Posobiec’s duties seem to include things like generating propaganda for dissemination by the likes of The Gateway Pundit — including such memorable pieces as “Hillary To Hold Illegal Fundraisers In China.”
When he’s not paling around with Roger Stone and doing appearances on Infowars, he somehow finds the time to rally a Trump supporters to be part of a voter suppression army:
Jack Posobiec, a navy veteran and special projects director at Citizens for Trump, a grassroots support group, says he hopes to mobilise 3,000 volunteers in several key swing states in the final days of the campaign, including busing supporters from Texas to Ohio.
Good times. Good times. Another general in the troll army to which the above are connected is Jared Wyand, one of Twitter’s most prolific disinformers and founder of the website Project Purge for which Irma Hinojosa of Latinos With Trump, etc is a writer. A veteran of much trolling, in June, he participated in the harassment of a Texas valedictorian along with this troll who was one of the latest of the Alex Jones/Roger Stone-sponsored “Bill Clinton is a rapist!” agitators. Jim Hoft described her not-being-manhandled as she was removed from the Tim Kaine speech as her being “attacked and ejected.” Jim Hoft (The Gateway Pundit) is of course quite a drama queen in addition to being a hack bottom feeding clickbait propagandist.
Nearing the end now, I want to circle back around and tie in to my last post. During the San Diego Trump rally/protest, along with the Infowars-affiliated agitators, right in the thick of things was Nestor. See 13:44 in the video below. He’ll be the one with the “Gays For Trump” sign.
He’s appeared on/in Fox News, local LA affiliate Fox 11, LA Times, Wester Journalism, Breitbart, The College Fix, BizPac Review and numerous others. If you look closely in the below image of a Huntington Beach Trump flash mob, you’ll see Nestor Moto Jr next to Kambree Nelson and in front of Jorge Herrera. Over to the right is Jack and if I’m not mistaken, Irma.
Small world right? Remember Rachel Casey? She was the Trump supporter who was purportedly egged by anti-Trump protesters outside of a San Jose Trump rally in June. A favorite of celebrity victim of the Trump set, she was again trotted out by Breitbart just a few days ago now claiming that she must have been attacked by a team of Clinton-paid protesters because… James O’Keefe.
What Casey — who apparently lived in California just long enough to get hit with eggs before returning to her native Florida — has forgotten again is that she was actually the one doing the inciting, as her own cellphone video shows:
A witness to the events, Matthew Gonzales, wrote an informative account for the Silcon Valley De-Bug:
It was after that, you see the lady get egged in the face. What you did not see was that same lady flipping off and agitating the crowd by yelling "Go back to Mexico!" You did not see that on the "Breaking News" did you?
That was June 3rd and by the 22nd of July, she was back in Florida, hanging out with Arisley Travieso of Latinos With Trump and making America great again one overpass at a time.
A week later she was getting getting arrested for “DISORDERLY CONDUCT – BRAWLING FIGHTING CORRUPT PUBLIC MORAL DECENCY.”
Ary’s been fighting the Infowars fight for a long time.
Hell he was yelling, “Hey Barack, is your wife a member of the CFR” in Miami way back in 2007.
Thankfully he got his citizenship in August, just in time to vote.