The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump’s YANKEE BANNER STUNT is EXPOSED as MAGA OP

Episode Date: May 25, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas exposes the latest Donald Trump operation where he had a supporter drop a banner of his mugshot during the national anthem at Yankee Stadium during a baseball game. Go to https://magicspoon.com/MEIDAS to grab a variety pack and try it today! And be sure to use our promo code MEIDAS at checkout to save five dollars off your order! Visit https://meidastouch.com for more! Join us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/meidastouch Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown Lights On with Jessica Denson: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/lights-on-with-jessica-denson On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It was first posted by the right-wing propagandist sports commentator, or so-called sports commentator, Clay Travis. And Clay Travis posted this photo. You see there is a kind of large Trump flag draping down from the stands. And Clay Travis at Yankee Stadium and Clay Travis goes, fans at Yankee Stadium just unveiled a huge Trump mugshot banner with, quote, never surrender on it. The ultimate irony is he's surrendering in that photograph. It was a mugshot taken in Fulton County, Georgia. But that's what Clay Travis put out. Yankee fans unveiled the mugshot banner of Donald Trump at Yankee Stadium. Wow. Then Donald Trump reposts it. And then you have all the MAGA people

like Marjorie Taylor Greene say, amazing. Joe Concha goes, Trump may end up doing a rally at Yankee Stadium or Madison Square Garden next. Remember, they want to project strength. So they use a large crowd at Yankee Stadium. They have this Trump banner, a massive Trump banner, and they go, look what's going down at Yankee Stadium. Well, let's take a deeper look. The first thing I want you to notice is when you actually zoom in on the picture, there's

only one human being who's actually holding this banner. You see the individual right there. The other side of the banner is tied to an empty seat. They can't even find two people to actually hold this banner. Only one person was willing to do it. You also see a few people looking at like, what the heck are you doing there? Also notable is that they put this banner down. This individual draped this banner during the playing of the national anthem. When the national anthem was playing, that's when they said, you know what?

Let's drop this Trump banner right now. And by they, I mean this one human being right here. But let's take a deeper look at how this banner actually got there for this PR stunt during the playing of the national anthem. Someone by the name of Dion Sinney, who runs a store called Magaswag.com, who sells Trump flags and Trump banners and makes a lot of money doing it. And in the past, he would pay people basically $5,000 or so, or that's what was being purported that he was going to pay. I don't know if he actually paid him to hang Trump banners and Trump flags at public places, at sports events. And here's Deon Sinney right here. He calls it hashtag

operation flag drop. In other words, it is an op. You don't have to take my word for it. Take the MAGA word for it, that this was an op. Another successful hashtag, Operation Flag Drop. Trump mugshot at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Great job, America First Warehouse at America First Warehouse. In other words, it's a grifty advertisement op, like all things with MAGA. Here comes Laura Loomer saying, great job, Dion Cine. My friends, Dion and at American First Warehouse just dropped the never surrender Trump mugshot flag at Yankee Stadium in New York the night before President Trump, former president, and disgraced our Oval Office, before Trump's rally in the Bronx.

You love to see it. And then you have all the other people. Yankee Stadium, Operation Flag Drop, night before South Bronx rally. It doesn't get any better. That's Tina Forte. You may recognize that name. She's the one who perennially runs against AOC and says all of those very bizarre and strange things. But just so you see that Dion Cini, oh, Ben, you're saying that he pays people to do this?

Look, I don't know specifically who he paid or how he paid or how much he paid for that. But in the past, this is something that he has advertised that he does. He pays people to do this. Dion Cini posted back on May 8th, please share. I will pay $5,000 to anyone who will drop the 16 by 20 Trump flag at Walt Disney World. Cash money. And then another post on, I think this was on Facebook. Is anyone going to Walt Disney World or is in Walt Disney? Dion Cini is offering $5,000 cash if you drop the Trump flag. By the way, Dion Cini, it's least purported by the Judy Brown

that he has a, let's just say, a very unique history and background in supporting groups like the Proud Boys and others. I can't independently verify that, so I just want to be clear about that. But she says that he's an ex-Proud Boy from Brooklyn. He does those silly Trump flag drops at sporting events. He grips MAGA by selling Trump flags and merchandise for the stupid. He has been banned in many places. Just MAGA's busy making America the laughingstock of the world again. Any other country, she says that, imagine what would go down if you engaged in conduct like this. Growing up, cereal is one of the best parts of being a kid.

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where Dion Cine and all these magas put photographs of the prosecutors and the judges and all these other people that they don't like on these like penis shaped balloons. And then they released it at the courthouse and like just littered and then they would, oh, look what we did. Like this, like infantile act. That was Dion Cini, the same person who did the flag drop. It's all connected here. Here, let me just remind you

what they did then. Play this clip. I love it. Flying pigs. Out of all the courthouse. Look at this. Oh, I love it. I love it.

Oh my God. Perfect timing. Oh shit. I love it Oh my god, perfect timing Oh shit Whose face is over there? Somebody's face is over there I love it I love it I love it

Can't make you shut up They kept on Oh, it's Alvin Bragg's face on the balloons. Oh some of them Alvin Bragg I'll be bragging. I can't make it up. Everybody's recording. And by the way, Deon Sinney doesn't like any other flag. So he was also seen and there's this video right here of him and others, apparently burning a DeSantis flag.

And you'll see they burn the face and then he puts his face out in front of it. And this was, you know, several months back when Trump and DeSantis were running against each other. They're very territorial over their MAGA flags. You know, that's why I said these people aren't even conservatives. It's like, what? It's like just bizarre, culty, grifty, you know, my opinions, my opinion, culty, kind of just grifty. Then they light the flag and then he puts his face through it and he says these horrific things. Here, watch this, this play this clip he's a traitor not yet not yet not yet ron desantis there you go there you go you're fucking you're a piece of shit see his face you see his face burn his face burn his face? You see his face? Burn his face. Burn his face. Burn his face. Ron DeSantis.

Fucking defend the IRA. See, it's gone. It's gone. It's his face. Look, I want to do a thing. Look. Ron DeSantis can suck these nuts. You do it, you do it. Hat tip to freedomnews.tv for getting that footage. They do a really good job. Check out freedomnews.tv and support the work that they do there. I think they do a lot of good independent journalism. Once again, freedomnews.tv, check out the work that they do there. Tina Forte, who you saw post and kind of congratulate him and say, great job, just so you

see who that is. Let me show you this clip, play it. What a fucking disgrace. And where are the Republicans? Silent as usual. You want to know why? Because Republicans are just as swampy as the demon rat motherfuckers. That's right. You're swampy on both fucking sides. You want to know why? Because Republicans are just as swampy as the demon rat motherfuckers. That's right. You're swampy on both fucking sides. And as you know, this follows a long series of stunts that we've debunked just even over the past three weeks. Almost not a day goes by where the Trump and MAGA world, where they're not trying to pull

every day, they're trying to pull some stunt. And we call them out like during the trial where they said they went to pull. Every day they're trying to pull some stunt. And we call them out like during the trial where they said they went to the bodega to see the Trump supporters. And it turned out that it was actually, that was actually these like, the people who were leading the chants were the New York Young Republicans.

Then Trump said he was meeting with like union workers in front of the courthouse. And then right-wing media posted, look, Trump's with a black union worker. And he was actually with like George Santos's like main advisor, George Santos even have a main advisor, like George Santos's communication director who's like wearing a hat that says, I'm an American worker. And then they acted like black American union worker supports Donald Trump. First off, the guy identifies as an Indian American and he's just a MAGA guy who was like basically planted there. So you have all of that. You have, of course, Donald Trump when he went out to

non-union plant shops and said it's a union shop. He claimed he spoke to the family of a woman who was murdered and never spoke to her. It's constant stunts. They say in New Jersey, it's 100,000 people when it's probably closer to 5,000 to 10,000 people there, when the whole venue didn't hold more than 20,000 and it wasn't even half full. It's just a constant stream of these stunts over and over and over again that we just have to debunk. Oh, and by the way, you know, remember Dion Cini and these people were trying to have like this, like a Trump cruise around the Bronx and they had to cancel it because recently, because they couldn't even get enough people on

the cruise ship. And so this is the type of propaganda that they're pushing. And it's important that we call it out, understand the origins, understand that these are actually ops. They say it themselves. And we need to educate others what's going on here because the media is not gonna be doing it. I'm Ben Myselis.

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