Disheartened Former Trump Campaign Aide Drops Lawsuit: He’s ‘Great At Propaganda’

WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 31: Alva Johnson photographed on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)
Alva Johnson photographed on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Alva Johnson, a former Trump campaign aide, dropped her lawsuit against the President for allegedly forcibly kissing her and enforcing discriminatory payment practices, conceding that the President is “great at propaganda.”

“I’m fighting against a person with unlimited resources, and repeatedly the judicial system has failed to find fault in his behavior,” she told the Daily Beast. “That’s a huge mountain to climb.”

Johnson initially filed her lawsuit in February. U.S. District Judge William Jung dismissed the suit in June, saying that the complaint was a “political lawsuit, not a tort and wages lawsuit,” but allowed her to redraft it if she wished.

Johnson said that she was on the receiving end of an outpouring of hate from Trump fans, calling the experience “very scary because a lot of his supporters are fanatics.”

“He has proven to be great at propaganda,” she added. “They do a great job of changing the narrative, even when we see things with our own eyes.”

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  1. Avatar for jtx jtx says:

    Live and learn.

  2. Donald Trump has harassed many women in his long sad career, but Alva Johnson was not one of them.

  3. Isn’t she the one that had a video of the kiss come out in public and it looked somewhat questionable as she seemed to initiate the kiss in the first place? As I recall, tRump looked fairly unfazed and even seemed to have his attention divided at that moment while surrounded by other people at the time.

  4. Propaganda implies you know what you want to say and have a tricky way to say it that covers up your real motive. Donald’s not that smart, he’s just saying bullshit because he doesn’t really know what the fuck he’s saying, he’s just pulling shit out of his ass which is directly connected to what he has of a brain.

  5. “He has proven to be great at propaganda,” she added. “They do a great job of changing the narrative, even when we see things with our own eyes.”

    I would disagree with this statement to an extent. He’s great at understanding what audience he appeals to and crafts propaganda that they will follow him for. The rest of us, not so much. And clearly, she didn’t mind the propaganda until he started to screw around with her paycheck.

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