Posted by Tina
The man arrested for charging the stage at a Trump rally in Ohio, Tommy DiMassimo, was charged with disorderly conduct and inducing panic. Both are misdemeanors. However it has since been discovered that the self described activist has made videos for ISIS:
By his own admissions DiMassimo is self-identified as an activist with Black Lives Matter, and various left-wing social justice groups. In addition he’s a Bernie Sanders supporter.
However, shocking new video has now surfaced of Tommy DiMassimo also participating in ISIS propaganda videos, and possibly being a part of their anti-U.S. agenda. This video was uploaded in May 2015. You can see DiMassimo is the principal subject within the video which begins with him dragging a flag and talking to the camera operator. (see video)
An update to the story confirms his support for Bernie Sanders from his Twitter account.
Apparently old Bernie’s supporters led the charge in Chicago! MSNBC:
This is a very disturbing sign of the destructive intent of radical left leaders. Revolution is their political game. The intent is to flaunt the Constitution and buck the rule of law for their own destructive ends. Tactics include creating disturbances, denial of speech and assembly to others, creating chaos and violence, or “burning it down,” as they did in Ferguson.
Intolerant, controlling, name calling radicals who whip up dissent with accusations and lies are a bunch of radical thugs who add nothing to America and destroy much in their wake…time to sweep this militant garbage into the dust bin of history.
This is not America.
This is exactly how America was formed!
Forget the non truths, forget the fact that you bunch people into groups….you clearly do not understand what is going on. From Chico there is not a view.
Hey one can commit a crime and suckerpunch a human on video and Trump will pay your legal fees!
Stop for a second and explain to me how a bunch of trumps racist thugs are not radicals. It’s like you live in the 50’s
And yes you are gullible…. OR You keep re-posting others untrue propaganda because you want it to be true. I at this point think you know very well what you are doing.
You are so freaking gullible it hurts. The “ISIS” video was made by opponents of his protests, not by Dimassimo himself. The guy is a moron, but falsely accusing someone of collaborating with ISIS, when you do not have all the facts, is about as low as you can go. You may have put this guy’s life in danger.
“Video from the Wright State protest appears to have been used in a hoax ISIS video, which was uploaded to YouTube last year. The video has since been deleted and does not appear to have been actually affiliated with ISIS. There is no indication that Dimassimo is an ISIS supporter, although the video is being used by Trump fans to claim he is.”
http://heavy.com/news/2016/03/thomas-tom-tommy-dimassimo-donald-trump-rally-rush-stage-secret-service-protester-twitter-younglionking7-photos-video/
Still no comment on the violence committed by Trump’s supporters and members of his campaign staff, all with the full support of Trump himself?
Democrats should be equally upset at their party leaders for only allowing two choices – a crook and a Socialist/Communist – for their primary voters. The Bernie supporters are sounding more like SDS, or the Weathermen. Especially since Bill Ayres was right in the middle of the Chicago mayhem.
Suggestion for cities where the Black LIES Matter clowns might make an appearance: Roll out the high-pressure water hoses. Fire hose use would do two things – non-lethal crowd control and would also give these cretins a bath!
You need to correct this article immediately. The protester is NOT a supporter of ISIS, and the video was made by an opponent.
Show some class. Show some integrity. Correct your false allegations.
Always Chris has a dismissive easy explanation. Is he right this time?
Possibly, however, an UPDATE has again been added to my original link. Scroll down to view the “deleted video,” captured from another site:
Chris quotes from his article: …”…which was uploaded to YouTube last year. The video has since been deleted and does not appear to have been actually affiliated with ISIS. There is no indication that Dimassimo is an ISIS supporter.”
Words like “does not appear” and “no indication that” are not convincing.
I don’t argue that the You Tube account was deleted. But who deleted it? Also, if not he, then who uploaded the video in the first place and to what end?
Chris why are you so quick to dismiss what looks like, at the very least, a man with strong sympathies with ISIS and AGAINST the United States?
Tina: “I don’t argue that the You Tube account was deleted. But who deleted it? Also, if not he, then who uploaded the video in the first place and to what end?”
Again, the video was uploaded by a critic of Dimassimo’s, possibly the same person who made the “Tommy Dimassimo wasn’t hugged enough as a child” Facebook page. Dimassimo himself had nothing to do with it.
“Chris why are you so quick to dismiss what looks like, at the very least, a man with strong sympathies with ISIS and AGAINST the United States?”
Other than the video, which was not made by Dimassimo, what evidence is there that he has strong sympathies with ISIS? I haven’t seen any. He’s a flag burner, which makes him a radical lefty of the sort I have no respect for, but that means he supports a Muslim terrorist group? If that’s the case, why is he a vocal supporter of Bernie Sanders, a Jewish man?
Again, it is completely wrong to accuse someone of collaborating with a terrorist group on such thin evidence. The responsible thing to do would be to retract these allegations until there is more evidence to support them.
Instead I added a question mark.
Since you have sufficiently countered the original accusation I think it’s safe t say we’ve covered the story as it unfolded.
Remember Chris, we are NOT a news outlet. We are a blog where news and events of the day are discussed and debated.
You often have nothing but an opinionated accusation to offer about Republicans and journalists who speak from the right, so quit trying to pull that Mr. Superior act.
A “critic of DiMassimo” posted the video. I wonder why he would do that…he seems like such a nice, clean cut, all around typical American kind of kid.
Let’s not forget that this royal a$$#o&@’s entire purpose was to spit in Trumps face and deny the people in attendance their right to peacefully assemble and hear their candidate speak.
J this entire atmosphere is reminiscent of the old Weatherman days. It’s not surprising since all of the radicals of the era have found their home in leadership positions in government, education and the law. Radical leaders create militant activism and a brutish political atmosphere.
Many of the Democrat rank and file, the blue collar workers, support Trump. The only supporters left for Democrats are the more radical elements of their social interest groups. Hillary isn’t attracting much of a crowd. Rallies have been cancelled due to low turnout, they have turned to “intimate” town halls, and most of the debates were hidden. And Bernie attracts mostly old hippies and the young skulls full of mush.
If we (the nation) manage to survive still free, the nation will be better off when the boomer based anti-American left cabal bites the dust.
Educating the young must be our last gasp goal! I cannot believe how ungrateful and ignorant we have become as a nation. What we have been teaching our young is a disgrace!
You are absolutely right, our educators have been filling the young’s heads with what to think and not how to think. They are now voters who are unable to apply critical thinking skills to see both sides of issues and come up with their own conclusions. They won’t allow the civil discussion to take place to hear what others think and how they came to their understanding.
As a curriculum, program/degree, articulation specialist my primary job was to work with faculty, deans, professional members of the community, university articulation officers and the state to insure our courses met specific standards and requirements. I have to give credit to those involved in the development of courses for those students wanting to complete vocational certificates and degrees. Their interest was always for the student’s ability to obtain a career that would support them upon graduation. But, on the undergraduate courses for students who intended to transfer to a four year university the course content was written by faculty who promoted their political views.
Understand that community college courses must be approved by the four year universities to obtain a written agreement. If the CC faculty doesn’t follow the content of the university level course no agreement is granted and the transfer student can’t earn the lower-level course credit.
One could even follow this same pattern down into the high and junior high schools.
Protestors and followers today are the second wave of the 1960s radicals who are now tenured faculty imbedded throughout our educational system.
BREAKING: TERRORIST BILL AYERS PROTESTS DONALD TRUMP IN CHICAGO:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/03/bill-ayers-protests-trump-in-chicago/
Again, according to my research, the only actual blows struck to date were launched by Trumpets, not the opposition. I dare say this will change in the weeks and months to come.
But right here and right now, your prejudice is flagrant and undeniable, and will live on in infamy.
I haven’t said much about Trump supporters that have been violent because they were likely charged and will pay the price and because the trouble making jerks deserved what they got! They could have stayed home or gone to a movie or peaceful assembled at a Bernie rally!
Admit it, these jerks are just being complete asses.
Wait. The female Breitbart journalist who was grabbed and bruised by one of Trump’s campaign managers “deserved what she got?”
You are frightening.
“because the trouble making jerks deserved what they got! ”
First of all That is an Anti American Statement. What we have here is the push for an Authoritarian gov by whites for the whites of 1 religion and race ….. correct?
Corporations were behind the rise of Hitler. The playbook is in a modern play again.
Second of All they are not Bernie supporters either. You are clueless to the political environment or how propaganda has so many misinformed including BLM.
Divide and Conquer is into pieces not 2 parties.
You just advocated violence. This country is one sick place
Looks like your source, Conservative Treehouse, has been falling for pro-Trump hoaxes all day. In addition to spreading the false allegation that Dimassimo has ties to ISIS, they also shared the false story that a black Trump supporter was shot and killed outside Trump’s rally by BLM activists. This never happened; they got the story from website called “The Christian Times,” which bills itself as satire but is actually designed to be intentionally misleading and inflammatory.
Multiple commenters have asked the Conservative Treehouse to take down or update the false story, but so far they have not done so.
Because they’re incredibly dishonest and irresponsible, and because this story helps their narrative, so they don’t care that it’s not true.
Update: Conservative Treehouse has now taken down their article repeating the fake story that a black Trump supporter was shot by BLM activists, though their fake story about Dimassimo being involved with ISIS remains up.
Chris
The slurs and Twitter wars he creates has been in view for a long time. Charles C Johnson has even been banned at a point.
Conservative Treehouse is a well known Hateful Propaganda site.
He attacks Charles Johnson like a nazi warrior.
I have watched this crap for a couple years. What I never had time for was to follow the money. It is 100% a propaganda rag.
I do not care about your politics but I do not understand why you are not familiar with these things?
All Respects.
BTW it is Charles C Johnson (Conservative Treehouse) vs Charles Johnson (LittleGreenFootballs)
“The video description on the YouTube page was mostly written in arabic text. When Lead Stories translated it, we discovered it ridiculed Dimassimo, including references to his manhood. Whoever posted it was not a fan of Dimassimo. And it was not produced by ISIS.
In fact, the video was a reproduction of a video that was uploaded to Dimassimo’s YouTube account on April 29, 2015 titled “Not My Flag.” In the video, he is seen dragon an American flag across campus. He and other protesters are seen walking on flags.
Dimassimo is seen arguing with a “pro flag protester.”
The original sound, however, was removed for the “ISIS” version and replaced with arabic music similar to what is heard in authentic ISIS propaganda videos.
The fake ISIS video has been made private and is no longer viewable on YouTube. Dimassimo’s original is still available.”
http://donald-trump.leadstories.com/727799-trump-protester-not-isis.html?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork
Retract and apologize.
“Hassan Hassan, the co-author of the book “ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror,” says the video is “definitely not an ISIS video” based on its content.
“This is utterly farcical; the video is incontrovertibly fake and Trump’s accusations about it being linked to ISIS serve only to underline the totality of his ignorance on this issue,” said Charles Lister, a fellow at the Middle East Institute.
Lister noted the video contains a long list of elements that a jihadi video would never include, among them countless uncovered women, men in shorts and tank tops, and a man holding arms with a woman.
“Nobody can deny that ISIS poses a threat to U.S. national security, but giving credence to such ridiculous claims is arguably even more dangerous,” Lister said.”
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article65738952.html#storylink=cpy
Retract and apologize.
A question mark is all I will do. See the comment in my latest reply above and then go pound sand. Your pompous smarmy little posture looks ridiculous even in print. Lord you are full of yourself.
“A question mark is all I will do.”
Pathetic. You KNOW the story was false, and that the attacker had no connection to ISIS, and you still won’t issue a ful retraction?
What the hell is wrong with you? Refusing to admit you were wrong because you don’t like me is more important than the truth? I’m “smarmy” because I object when you falsely accuse someone of being connected to ISIS?!
You have failed a basic, easy test of ethics in this case, Tina, and you’re delusional if you think I won’t remind you of your dishonesty and hypocrisy every time you complain about liberal lies in the future. You have finally, fully discredited yourself.
“You often have nothing but an opinionated accusation to offer about Republicans and journalists who speak from the right, so quit trying to pull that Mr. Superior act.”
I’ve never accused someone of being a supporter of ISIS, then refused to retract my accusation when proven false. That means that I AM ethically superior to you, as are most people.
I also find it interesting that you reserve all your animosity for me, and have nothing to say against the source that lied to you. Why attack me for being “pompous” and not the Conservative Treehouse for feeding you a false story, playing on your gullibility and making you outraged over something that isn’t true?
You like being lied to, Tina, when the lie serves your narrative. In this case, you wanted to believe that all your ideological enemies are working together, and that BLM, socialists, and ISIS are all working together to destroy American values like freedom of speech. It’s a paranoid belief, but one you’re wedded to. So you easily bought an obviously fake story about the Trump rusher being an ISIS-connected Sanders supporter, and when that was proven false, you attacked the messenger, because you wanted to believe it.
You like being lied to, and hate being told when you’re being lied to. It’s why you attacked me when I pointed out that, no, actually, Germany did not ban sausages in cafeterias; that, no, actually, Obamacare doesn’t ban mammograms for women of a certain age; that, no, actually, Michael Mann never said that no climate change has happened since 1998; and many, many other silly rumors you have spread that I have debunked here on Post Scripts over the years.
Maybe it’s time for you to consider that when someone has to keep debunking rumors you are spreading, the debunker is. Not. The. Problem. And that it isn’t arrogance or self-righteousness that motivates me to do so, but sheer exhaustion over the amount of easily disproven lies I see spread in the right-wing blogosphere on a daily basis.
The lies are the problem.
Chris there is nothing wrong with me. I fixed the title with a question mark so that the big broad public that fights tooth and nail each day to read your amazing comments is not mislead by a headline. Anyone who bothers with the rest, this is a blog, will see for themselves what happened. They are not as stupid as you assume. I repeat…we are not making news here, we comment on what is in the news. This was out there and you got every chance you wanted to counter and discredit it. But that isn’t enough for someone as vile as you.
I would respond quite differently to anyone who bothered to treat me with respect. But every chance you get you resort to gotcha and attempts to humiliate. You revert to that bratty kid who tattles on his fellow classmates. Sorry, dude, you have no authority over me and I will not bend to your petty, sanctimonious demand.
You are en example of why half the country is so damned angry…you and you’re pathetic need to control and instruct.
Get over yourself.
You want respect? Earn it. You could have easily shown that you cared about the truth by changing the headline or updating the article. Adding a question mark does nothing–there’s nothing in question here! You KNOW the story wasn’t true! But you believe sticking it to me is more important than the truth.
You have shown yourself unworthy of respect.
When I posted the story I didn’t know it was phony. It was not outside the realm of possibility in my opinion.
Your very first statement was: “You are so freaking gullible it hurts.”
You led the conversation, Chris. Your first shot was an pompous insult.
You are a guest here. Where the heck do you get off lecturing anyone about “earning” respect after performing like an adolescent jerk?
anyone whose interested in the creeps that are out to deny Trump supporters, see video of the peaceful, respectful Trump protesters in Chicago. According to the CNN news cast, the Soros backed Moveon.org helped organize this militant effort to prevent free speech and assembly.
There was a telling moment during the Chicago mayhem I saw on FoxNews. A non-Bernie supporter, aged around 50-60 was listening to a young pro-Bernie supporter (both white) rant and rave while the non-Bernie supporter kept a smile on his face.
The young man evidently felt that his position should be automatically accepted without question as the smile continued (with no words) and the young man got more and more agitated and his voice kept getting louder and louder, complete with arm waving and aggression.
Anyone watching had no doubt as to whose “supporters” were causing the disruption
Let the record show that Tina believes being asked to remove a false allegation connecting a man to ISIS is a “petty, sanctimonious demand.”
I’m sure if someone posted an article title “Tina Grazier Connected to ISIS,” she’d feel differently. I’m equally sure that adding a question mark wouldn’t make her feel any better about such a dishonest title.
I didn’t try to humiliate you, Tina. You humiliated yourself.
Chris left no room for the possibility of an honest mistake. Instead he immediately went to insults. Chris did not ask. Chris accused and then demanded!
Correcting the record was not enough. Chris was out for blood and humiliation. Chris was rude, arrogant, and demanding.
A question mark will do because for those hours when this militant activist was being investigated, this item of interest became a part of the ongoing story. A question mark will do because the man’s name is NOT in the title. The question mark is sufficient because the reader is not led to believe the accusation is true but to question. The question mark will do because anyone who bothers to read the blog will discover the answer to the question and Chris can take the credit. too bad that doesn’t offer enough satisfaction for him.
Chris’s ilk likes to pretend they are not creating chaos and mayhem. They play the victim card and want others to believe they are above reproach. Had there been no protest in Chicago, a protest created to deny other Americans their right to freely assemble and hear what Trump had to say (free speech), none of this would have been in the news. But they did protest,they did shut it down, and I have no reason to apologize for posting what I believed to be possible at the time.
As a representative of those who are absolutely fed up and done with the arrogant intolerant control freak attitudes of the radical political left (Chris) and their special rights, holier than thou agenda, I refuse to bend to his arrogant gotcha demands.
As long as we are doing records, let the record show that Chris has been an unreasonable, rude, politically correct, know it all, jerk as a guest on Post Scripts…and not for the first time.
As long as we are doing records, let the record show that Chris has been an unreasonable, rude, politically correct, know it all, jerk as a guest on Post Scripts…and not for the first time.
Yep.
You wonder Why Trump? If the shoe fits!
You do have a responsibility, Jack and Tina, not to spread dangerous defamations. We acknowledge the difficulty in finding copy, but for the site to run quiet a day or two would not bring the world to an end.
And, it would cut down on the public humiliation. You do get caught out a little too often. And doesn’t that move you to reconsider your usual sources?
Amen
Once more a pathetic and adnuseium lecture from Chris using words to incite verse helpful contribution from the one who anoints himself with a self-acclaimed coronation of gifted intelligence as well the keeper of an equally questionable crystal ball of all that should be.
Tina, in the beginning clearly pointed out the need for future updates of the post about certain statements. It is my belief Post Scripts is here to challenging one to study the articles core, encourage thought, and not readily accept it as gospel. People like Chris and others of his ilk only post to discredit with their take it or leave it responses.
Tina once more has shown there is no reason to debate Chris, the best one can do is dispel his liberal slant of what political accountability is in his mindset. His cryptic posts suggests that anything in opposition to his ideology is always wrong. The flip side of that is reflected by his political ideology of self-rightness and therefore only those of a liberal slant are essentially entitled to skate on precisely worded responses of misdirection. It would not surprise me to discover this was a liberal contrived and leaked article to attempt to incite voters against a GOP candidate.
Chris responses have become predicable, notably selective in nature, and proven to be taken out of context more often than not by Tina and others willing to engage his hubris.
In rare cases where he has a valid point, it is lost in childish ridicule of others opinions.
If anyone needs to monitor their posts more effectively, Chris needs only to seek a mirror to locate that person.
Tina was correct in the use of a question mark, but Chris needed to feed his own ego once more. And of course if any of the ISIS remarks made about Tommy DiMassimo are proven to interlink with all his activist BS then it would be other than Chris to reveal it.
A fair and accurate assessment. Chris is Quentin Colgan’s replacement.
LOL….well, at least Chris hasn’t threatened to kill us! : )
Oh give me a large break!
When and where do YOU ever put your a$$ n the line in this fashion?
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We’ve been at this over ten years…as a hobby…”a little too often” is quite an overstatement.
Well, there’s this and the German bratwurst debacle in, what, three weeks?
Just a quick news search for non-rabid back-up would save you some grief.
Very true Libby. Sometimes the time I have to post something is limited. I honestly thought, as I was headed out the door, that the story could be true. I’m very aware that information moves swiftly and changes sometimes hour by hour. Nothing is written in stone.
I would be saved some grief but I honestly can’t say it won’t happen again. Ah well…still having fun.