{"id":119034,"date":"2021-10-30T12:44:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T16:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=119034"},"modified":"2021-10-30T12:48:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T16:48:23","slug":"tiki-torch-personnel-standing-in-front-of-youngkin-tour-bus-a-leftist-stunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=119034","title":{"rendered":"Tiki torch personnel standing in front of Youngkin tour bus was a leftist stunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Holding tiki torches in front of Glenn Youngkin’s tour bus. (Jonathan Ernst\/Reuters)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A leftist group attempted to frame Youngkin as having racist support. You could see five individuals, with similar attire to include hats and sunglasses, holding what looks like relatively new tiki torches. Those don’t seem to be the only items on them that looks new or rarely used. It appears that the leftist group went out of its way to dress five people up to look like a stereotype, or caricature, of a racist.<\/p>\n

From Business Insider:<\/span><\/p>\n

People online quickly began to suspect there was something strange about it, and Youngkin’s campaign even accused his opponent, Virginia Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, of being behind the stunt.<\/p>\n

Vice News identified one of the people in the photo as a “low-level Democratic operative” and said the Lincoln Project admitted it was responsible for the stunt.<\/p>\n

“Today’s demonstration was our way of reminding Virginians what happened in Charlottesville four years ago, the Republican Party’s embrace of those values, and Glenn Youngkin’s failure to condemn it,” the conservative group said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The statement also said if Youngkin “will denounce Trump’s assertion that the Charlottesville rioters possessed ‘very fine’ qualities, we’ll withdraw the tiki torches. Until then, we’ll be back.”<\/p>\n

It was a reference to former President Donald Trump’s remarks that there were “very fine people” on “both sides” at the 2017 rally, during which Heather Heyer was killed when an avowed neo-Nazi drove his car into a group of people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Trump statement saying that there were very fine people on both sides was taken out of context. The entire statement that Trump made, back then, referenced the people that were there demonstrating peacefully. There were people on both sides doing this; however, the more violent groups received the lion’s share of the media’s attention. Trump was not referring to the violent groups. The racists were among the violent groups.<\/p>\n

The Business Insider has more on the story here<\/a>. You could also read this article on Yahoo<\/a> and the Post Millennial<\/a>. The Lincoln Project takes responsibility for the stunt this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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