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Mystery Solved

by Josh Marshall
02.24.17 | 4:22 pm

We’ve gotten to the bottom of that rather mysterious outbreak of Russophilia at CPAC where a bunch of feral young Trumpers starting waving Russian flags with the name “Trump” emblazoned on them with chants of “USA, USA!”.

It was masterful trolling by some progressive activists who pranked the Trumpers.

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