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Questions About The Chaos At The Capitol That Desperately Need To Be Answered

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Guest Post by Michael Snyder

Like most Americans, I was absolutely horrified by the violence that I watched at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.  But I had a difficult time trying to understand what I was witnessing.  Trump supporters are almost always extremely peaceful, but many of those that were storming the Capitol were being very violent.  That didn’t make sense to me.  And how in the world did protesters get into the U.S. Capitol in the first place?

Well, it turns out that police actually opened up the barricades that were surrounding the U.S. Capitol and purposely allowed protesters to storm the building.  You can see this on video right here…

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Why Was This ‘Crowd Hire’ Company Recruiting $25 An Hour ‘Political Activists’ In Charlotte Last Week?

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by Tyler Durden
Aug 16, 2017 4:45 PM

Trump ignited a political firestorm yesterday during an impromptu press conference in which he said there was “blame on both sides” for the tragic events that occurred in Charlottesville over the weekend.

Now, the discovery of a craigslist ad posted last Monday, almost a full week before the Charlottesville protests, is raising new questions over whether paid protesters were sourced by a Los Angeles based “public relations firm specializing in innovative events” to serve as agitators in counterprotests.

The ad was posted by a company called “Crowds on Demand” and offered $25 per hour to “actors and photographers” to participate in events in the “Charlotte, NC area.”  While the ad didn’t explicitly define a role to be filled by its crowd of “actors and photographers” it did ask applicants to comment on whether they were “ok with participating in peaceful protests.”  Here is the text from the ad:

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