Trump Rents Out Iowa Movie Theater For Screening Of Benghazi Film ’13 Hours’

Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump speaks with the moderators at a break during the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2... Republican presidential candidate, businessman Donald Trump speaks with the moderators at a break during the Fox Business Network Republican presidential debate at the North Charleston Coliseum, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in North Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) MORE LESS
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump plans to give away free tickets to a showing of Michael Bay’s action flick “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” at an Iowa movie theater, according to The Des Moines Register.

Trump’s Iowa co-chair Tana Goertz told the newspaper on Thursday that her candidate “would like all Americans to know the truth about what happened at Benghazi.”

The screening is Friday at 6 p.m. at the Carmike Cobblestone 9 Theatre in Des Moines.

“The theater is paid for. The tickets are paid for. You just have to RSVP,” Goertz said.

One of Trump’s rallying cries against Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has been the 2011 terror attacks in Libya. In November, Trump released an Instagram video superimposing Clinton laughing over newspaper headlines and burning images of the Benghazi compound.

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  1. Everyone loves a good batch of war fiction with an agenda.

  2. Avatar for aduzik aduzik says:

    Haha, that is by far the crummiest theater in Des Moines. Old, no stadium seating, small screens. (At least it was when I lived there) Seems like the perfect place to watch a propaganda film.

  3. 13 Hours.
    The perfect Michael Bay movie.
    Lots of explosions, painfully sophomoric dialog, tramples history in the search for $$$.
    The only thing missing is the slow-motion shot of the beautiful young women’s boobs bouncing as she runs away from a HUUUUUUGGGGE explosion.
    Ammo-Sexual Porn.

  4. Is this legal? Can a candidate just give free stuff? How about a free six-pack to everyone who promises to vote for him? (Or shows a selfie of themselves actually voting for him?)

  5. Trump is the Michael Bay film of the presidential race, I guess, so this makes sense.

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