A vice president of the liberal watchdog Media Matters For America accused newly-minted presidential candidate Donald Trump of hiring actors to appear at the mogul’s campaign launch on Tuesday.
In a post on Medium, executive VP Angelo Carusone wrote that Trump “seemingly paid some actors to participate in his presidential campaign launch.”
He based the accusation on anonymous “sources” as well as an Instagram post, which has since been taken down, that he said showed a person who is a “paid actor who regularly posts photos from his gigs on social media” and who was at the Trump rally.
Carusone wrote that another person in the same Instagram post was also an actor.
According to sources: some actors were hired to attend and participate in the event; and, a company called Extra Mile NYC connected Trump’s campaign/event organizers with the paid actors.
I reached out to Extra Mile NYC for comment, but they did not respond.
“So there you have it,” Carusone concluded.
Trump’s press secretary did not immediately respond to request from TPM for comment on Wednesday.
He didn’t hire actors…he hired clowns with him as the head clown!
Did he pay the actors the minimum wage or what?
nice of him to spread some of the nine billion $ around
Well of course he did. But seeing how litigious a drama queen like The Donald is…one better have that shit nailed down. I’m fairly confident Media Matters did however.
I thought it was funny to see any black folks in the audience considering how absolutely offensive he’s been talking smack about how he has such a great relationship with “the blacks”, the whole birther stuff, and blaming most crime on blacks and hispanics in our inner cities.
Isn’t Trump basically an actor? He certainly tries to play someone who is rich and powerful, and doesn’t do a very good job of it.