Take for what it’s worth that Patrick Ruffini is firmly in the #NeverTrump camp, but a Trump Magazine post the Echelon Insights founder circulated Monday night by “conservative strategist” Gary Forbes of the Forbes Group calling for “extremely aggressive actions” to keep Colorado’s and Wyoming’s delegates from the Republican Convention in Cleveland this summer sounds like something straight out of the far-Left’s playbook.
https://twitter.com/gqforbes/status/722048769525694464
CO/WY "must not be allowed to vote." Collect email, phone, photos of delegates. Take "extremely aggressive action." pic.twitter.com/pzCoyQQcdw
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 19, 2016
Block streets? Cancel their flights?
"The Forbes Group is compiling a database of GOP delegates with photos of them and their family members." https://t.co/wTUGpiZ4ph
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 19, 2016
Meet Gary Forbes, Roger Stone's colleague, that is part of but "not part of" the Trump campaign. https://t.co/0u9zhRn2ft
— Trump's Still Colluding and Obstructing (@Real_TrumpFacts) April 19, 2016
@PatrickRuffini @NoahCRothman This makes Roger Stone look like an amateur.
— Phil Arnold (@phil_philar) April 19, 2016
This tweet from last week claims that Gary Forbes isn’t really Gary Forbes at all.
https://twitter.com/rstanley2016/status/717749251338551298
In any case, a longer post on Forbes’ website also encourages Trump supporters to “discard the word peaceful” and “organize a protest of no less than 500 demonstrators to camp out in front of the homes of the at-risk delegates,” suggesting that they draw from groups like “bikers for Trump, truckers, local working class unions, etc. to show the anger and might of the American people.”
“We want each at-risk delegate, while in Cleveland, to receive urgent phone calls from their families and neighbors, that there is a massive demonstration happening in their front yard, with protesters waving signs that are warning that they not betray us,” the post continues. “Keep the demonstrations peaceful, as long as that delegate does not switch his/her vote.”
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@PatrickRuffini Bikers, truckers and unions, oh my! @NoahCRothman
— CLA (@ConservativeLA) April 19, 2016
@patrickruffini I like how he says “legal means” and then describes illegal actions.
— Ben Cook (@BenjaminCook) April 19, 2016
Find bikers and truckers who know the legal intricacies of delegate prevention https://t.co/h3nETwCK93
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 19, 2016
@PatrickRuffini This is a blatant physical threat. You really should chill and try coming up with an actual campaign.
— Ken Brisnehan (@KBrisnehan) April 19, 2016
@PatrickRuffini I will personally offer to escort the delegates to the convention and dare anyone to stand in our way.
— Andy Janes (@ADJanes) April 19, 2016
@PatrickRuffini Trumpkins and Mr. Forbes would be wise to know that Colorado has a "Make My Day law" or castle law. Best to leave ppl alone.
— T (@Kerugma) April 19, 2016
@PatrickRuffini If they would put a 10th of the effort they are putting into inciting violence into campaigning, they would be at 1237.
— Aaron Kupsky (@ark54301) April 19, 2016
@PatrickRuffini If the man really authored these lines he doesn't know colorado and Wyoming men and women. Lol They'll spit in his eye.
— ❌Sam Adams ⚓️ (@Catalinapby1) April 19, 2016
He doesn’t know Colorado and Wyoming women and men? On a lighter note, we’re pretty sure this Trump supporter (who has since deleted his tweet) doesn’t know any black neighbors either, but he gets a solid D- for effort.
@moelane @wriemer @PatrickRuffini pic.twitter.com/MZZgd9Zcmr
— Volume Cellular Inc. (@VolumeCellular) April 19, 2016
https://twitter.com/moelane/status/722269392780845056
We think we know them. Isn’t that “African American Family At Home” from 123 Shutterstock Lane?
"Search Google for this image" is not the friend of the Trumpbot
— Patrick Ruffini (@PatrickRuffini) April 19, 2016
h/t @PatrickRuffini pic.twitter.com/scKTwAroIq
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) April 19, 2016
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