Thousands of teens tried to sabotage a Staten Island Republican rally last week by hoarding online tickets — just as they did to embarrass President Trump in Tulsa, Okla. in June.
But the GOP bamboozled them into pouring nearly $16,000 into party coffers instead.
On Sept. 19, out-of-staters using fake, frequently lewd names — including “Grabemby DePussay,” “Ivana Punchyou” and “F–kyou Trump” — began signing up online for the “TRiUMPh Rally,” a free get-out-the-vote event.
“We had about 1,500 RSVPs from Staten Islanders. Then all of a sudden we started seeing the numbers tick up to 10,000, 15,000, 75,000,” Staten Island GOP chairman Brendan Lantry told The Post. “We knew something was not right.”
Lantry’s wife Jessica, an avid TikTok user, soon traced the sign-ups to their source: a clip posted earlier that day by a 19-year-old from Brooklyn calling herself Felisrae.
To deter the troublemakers, Lantry added a nonrefundable $5 fee to the online sign-up form.Enlarge Image
“But they kept coming,” Lantry said. “From Colorado and California and Chicago and Houston, all over the country.”
Multiple “Ruth Ginsbergs” — from Salisbury, Md., and Greensboro, N.C. — gladly paid for their ducats.
By the time the Oct. 3 rally began in a commercial parking lot on the South Shore, the Trump-haters had shelled out $15,785 to buy more than 3,000 vouchers they had no intention of using.
“They hate this president so much that they’re willing to donate to the Republican Party to troll him,” Lantry said.
And the thousands of Trump-hating no-shows were barely missed. No seats were provided at the open-air rally, and the event drew 2,500 locals, who filmed a get-well message for Trump as he recuperated from his bout with COVID-19.
“Thank you, progressives, for helping us put on a successful rally,” Lantry said.
15 comments:
I cant wait for the day when this frankenstein social media comes back to haunt all of these snowflake morons.
You have to get up early to get ahead of Trump. TRUMP 2020
Not a good sign for the future of the Republican Party.
LOL typical idiots from Salisbury MD.
Sounds like something Michelle Gregory would spend her money on.
Salisbury has turned into a bunch of mentally ill confused LGBT misfits that think this type of behavior is some type of "success". You can thank Jake Day for the inevitable chaos that will destroy Salisbury. All the losers from the western shore, new York and New Jersey have flocked here bringing their same progressive liberal ideology along with the garbage that destroyed the cities they RAN from
The progressives are a hate mongrel ling bunch of losers who believe in wind turbines, solar panels, and anything anti Trump. The problem is their policies are dangerous and many work in government positions.
My money is on Dudley-Eshbach...
You must not have comprehended from the article what the rest of us did. Any chance to screw over the screw overs is a plus.
9:10- So you can't read?
Thanks for donating Molly! Trump 2020🇺🇸
Wait until trump wins in a landslide 3 weeks from now ! Its going to be sweet to watch these idiots implode!
910 - huh?
Wicomico voted Trump almost 2 to 1. It will be 4 to 1 fact of the matter People are not okay with abortion at any trimester for any reason
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Brooklynn // 19
She looks angry at the world.
Not a lot of young Republicans on social media and the fast growing states of Texas, Florida and Georgia are fading from red to blue.
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