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  • 2018-10-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Do These Photographs Show a Nazi Flag and Homophobic Merchandise at a Trump Rally in Pennsylvania? (en)
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  • Photographs purportedly showing a vendor displaying Nazi flags and homophobic stickers along with pro-Trump merchandise at a recent Pennsylvania rally for President Trump started making their way around social media in October 2018: These images were often shared with the caption Found at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania. They aren't even hiding it anymore. They're proud of their racism and homophobia. These pictures are genuine, but they were not recent in October 2018, nor were they taken at a rally for President Trump that month. The photographs were snapped more than two years earlier (before the election of Donald Trump) at the Bloomsburg Fair in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, in September 2016. The photograph showing the Nazi flag appears to have been taken by Pennsylvania resident Chloe Winters, who originally posted it on social media with a message stating that she was shocked and appalled that a swastika flag was on display at the fair: Bloomsburg Fair officials removed the offensive flag shortly after these photographs went viral on social media: Officials also found that the vendor, Lawrence Betsinger, was selling stickers and other memorabilia inappropriate for the fair. Betsinger was asked to leave after it was revealed that he was also a registered sex offender: (en)
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