Crowd Waves Russian Flags for Trump

Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

Trying to get to the bottom of this. Section of the crowd starts waving what appeared to be Russian flags at the Trump speech …

Putin faction? Trolling?

Here’s a rush transcript of what MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt just said on air … “In the room there was back and forth about a section of the crowd that appeared to be waving Russian flags. I just want to clear that up. It seems that people who were waving them may have been unwitting. They appeared to be people who were celebrate being president trump here. They were participating in chants of ‘USA, USA’.”

Here’s what appears to be a CPAC staffers confiscating the Russian flags …

Latest Editors' Blog
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Associate Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: