“Tolkien was a prankster even in his youth.“
Trudeau RESIGNED! A cartoon is – BANNED! This does not augur well! 2025 is the Year of the Super Godfather! You have to pay fealty, and give the World Godfather a big bag of money to do business. I predict that Trump will threaten pot growers and dealers, then throw them a BIG BONE, drop a hint to POTHEADS, their supply will dry up – unless they mind BIG DADDY!
Tolkien and I loved to dress in costumes. I made the Kesey-Tolkien connection via PRANKS. I pranked the Kesey mural. Both Ken and Jerry Garcia died of substance abuse. No one will give me money because I am clean and sober for 38 years – and I own Biblical knowledge!
If Al Capone could have put the squeeze on AA, he would have. Trump found a way. He will not rest to he come in your home – and give you a BIG SQUEAZE!
I was The Piper! I hereby…..resign!
JP
Ann Telnaes says the rough version of the cartoon she drew for The Washington Post , shown above, was rejected by the paper’s editorial page editor.
Ann Telnaes
A Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Washington Post has resigned after its editorial page editor rejected a cartoon she created to mock media and tech titans abasing themselves before President-elect Donald Trump.
“A longtime fan of the Marx Brothers, Tolkien was a prankster even in his youth. When Tolkien attended Oxford as a young adult, he had a reputation as a joker: as a freshman, he started a club called the Apolausticks, “those who are devoted to self-indulgence,” and once he and a friend leapt inside an empty bus and drove around picking up other students and making speeches to the crowd that had assembled.”
How did Jerry Garcia die?
Garcia died on August 9th, 1995, at the age of 53. His death occurred at the Serenity Knolls Treatment Center, a rehabilitation facility in Forest Knolls, California, where he was undergoing treatment for his long-standing struggles with addiction, something that was well documented throughout his life.
The official cause of death was confirmed as a massive heart attack. Garcia had a history of health issues, including diabetes, weight problems, and a decades-long battle with substance abuse, including heroin. These factors, combined with his heavy touring schedule and the stresses of fame, had taken a toll on his body. At the time of his death, Garcia was seeking treatment in an effort to regain his health.
In the years leading up to his death, Garcia’s health had visibly declined, and many close to him tried to steer him onto a safer path. He suffered from sleep apnea, struggled with his weight, and had a diabetic coma in 1986, which was a wake-up call for both him and his bandmates. While Garcia made efforts to improve his health periodically, including practising yoga and losing weight, he often reverted to unhealthy habits, particularly during stressful times.
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PORTLAND, MAINE —
The Trump administration’s anti-marijuana move has some members of the president’s voting base fuming.
Fans of President Donald Trump who use marijuana say Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ move to tighten federal oversight of the drug is the first time they’ve felt let down by the man they helped elect. The move feels especially punitive to Trump voters who work in the growing industry around legalized marijuana that has taken root in states of all political stripes.
Tale of Two Murals
Posted on August 29, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
There once were two Kesey Murals in Springfield. My friend Nancy described the first one and got one of names of the artists, right, so I was able to restore the lost description of the mural that was painted on the outside wall of the The Creamery that Chuck told me the town leaders hated.
Promoting A Sober Bohemian Lifestyle
Posted on August 28, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
Yesterday was the fiftieth anniversary of NANCY’S GRATEFUL CONCERT.
In August 1972, the Springfield Creamery hit a financial rough patch. Owners Chuck and Sue Kesey had been in business for more than a decade and just introduced a new probiotic product called Nancy’s Yogurt. But debts and back taxes threatened to shut them down.
That’s when somebody got the groovy idea to ask a popular psychedelic rock band for help. And help they did.
“It’s almost working. I think it’s now working…yay! We’re back on the air again,” said Merry Prankster and 60’s psychedelic leader, Ken Babbs, who emceed the benefit show which he dubbed the “Field Trip.”
Dead bassist Phil Lesh saunters up to the mic, “We’d sure like to thank the Springfield Creamery for making it possible for us to play out here in front of all you folks here. This is really where we get off the best,” he told the growing crowd.
“Ok,” Babbs said, “So here ya go, the Grateful Dead!” The crowd cheers wildly as the band breaks into Promised Land.
No one knows for sure how many people made their way to that field for the show but a common estimate is 20,000. Sue Kesey says most of the attendees bought their tickets which were printed on unused yogurt labels. “Tickets were $3.00 and $3.50 at the gate,” she said. “I don’t know why we would have ever wanted to make change at the gate? But anyway.”
At the dedication of the Kesey mural I asked Chuck Kesey why a trophy was at the top of the bookshelf, that I later learned was Babb’s bookcase. Here’s his answer:
Nancy’s Yogurt Saves the World
Posted on March 5, 2016 by Royal Rosamond Press
Here is the story of Nan Yogurtmundi who was worshipped by the Grateful Dead and the Kesey Family. Swami Yogurtmundi was the first girl I ever kissed. We were twelve and living in Oakland.
The Hog Rainbow Farm showed up at the Sunshine Dream concert. If this how Erin Sullivan came to paint the rainbow in the Creamery mural? Dudes delivering Crumb comics in San Francisco would come up and get a shit-load of Yogurtmundi take back to SF and sell it to Organic Food Stores. This is key because we see the first appearance of The Wholey Trinity of Alternative Capitalism….The Farm…..The Product…….The Arts! Now add the Sunshine Dream Grateful Dead Concert – and a scorching hot day – and we have a True transcendence that left Woodstock in its wake. No one thought to bring water. The main concern was to get some mind-altering LSD in ones system – and reach Nirvana! Emerald Valley Nudity was born out of necessity.
With the coming of the hateful Trumpite Shout-downs, it is time to rekindle The Generation of Love. “Get out!’ has replaced the ‘Human Be-in’ that Nan Yogurtmundi and I attended at the Polo Grounds in 1966. Let us put tiny cymbals on our fingers and imitate the naked Sadgurus.
I have come to Change The Name. We buried Hippie in 1966 and renamed him Freebie. That did not take. I told Belle of Rosamond, which is a spiritual movement in Russia. I hereby give us the name ROSMIRANS. ‘Wondrous Rose of Peace from the Sea’. And, why we are at it, let us change the name of Springfield to – Nancyland? How about Creamville Nancy and I have roots in San Francisco and Oakland.
Sunshine Daydream is a music documentary film starring the rock band the Grateful Dead. It was shot at their August 27, 1972 concert at the Old Renaissance Faire Grounds in Veneta, Oregon.[1][2] Unreleased for many years, the movie was sometimes shown at small film festivals, and bootleg recordings of it circulated on VHS and DVD, and as digital downloads. A digitally remastered and reedited official version of the film was released on August 1, 2013, showing only one time in selected theaters.[3][4][5][6] It was screened with Grateful Days, a new documentary short that includes interviews with some of the concert attendees. Sunshine Daydream was released on DVD and Blu-ray on September 17, 2013.
Sunshine Daydream is also a live album containing the complete August 27, 1972 Grateful Dead concert. Produced as a 3–disc CD and as a 4-disc LP, it was released by Rhino Records on September 17, 2013.[7]
The name Sunshine Daydream is taken from the coda section of the Dead song “Sugar Magnolia“.
The show was a benefit for the Springfield Creamery in nearby Springfield, Oregon.[9] Merry Pranksters Ken Kesey and Ken Babbs emceed the concert. The Dead played all afternoon and into the dark after an opening set by the New Riders of the Purple Sage. In 2004, the New Riders’ performance was released as an album called Veneta, Oregon, 8/27/72.
Springfield Creamery got its start in 1960, when Chuck and Sue Kesey graduated from college and returned home to Springfield, Oregon. Chuck, brother of author Ken Kesey (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”) and Sue, with support from Chuck’s father Fred Kesey (manager of Eugene Farmers Creamery in Eugene) supplied gallon glass returnable jugs of milk to other creameries. They also supplied the Springfield schools with milk each school day.
By 1969, things had changed. Chuck’s father had recently passed away, the dairy industry was in transition and the sixties natural foods movement was in full bloom. “We needed something to niche us, so we could remain independent, to create a brand of our own,” says Sue Kesey. “We knew that if we were going to survive, we were going to have to do something that was different from everyone else. We had to find something unique.”
What they found, in 1970, was yogurt. Nancy Hamren had moved to Oregon from San Francisco and was working at the creamery as a bookkeeper. Nancy had a strong dedication to doing things the natural way, and a love for yogurt that she’d inherited from her natural foods pioneering grandmother.
Chuck and Nancy started experimenting with making yogurt with acidophilus cultures. They sold it in glass canning jars and five-gallon buckets at Willamette People’s Coop and Porters Fine Foods in Eugene, Ore. and became the first creamery in the U.S. to sell acidophilus cultured yogurt. “We never used sugar,” says Nancy. “We cooked our own fruit and added vanilla and honey.”
One day the manager from Willamette People’s Coop called and said ‘give me some more of that Nancy’s Yogurt.’ Sue says, “We thought, well, that sounds better than ‘Chuck’s Yogurt.’” The Nancy’s brand was born.
Nancy’s Yogurt expanded to the Bay Area thanks to two young entrepreneurs — a University of Oregon graduate named Gilbert Rosborne and his partner, music legend Huey Lewis. “They had an underground comic book route, delivering the Fabulous Furry Brothers and R. Crumb comics to natural food stores in San Francisco,” says Nancy. “Once a week, they rented a U-haul and packed it up with ice and Nancy’s Yogurt and drove it down to the Bay Area. Somehow, people there connected Nancy’s Yogurt with Chuck’s brother, Ken Kesey. It took off.”
[edit] A Grateful Dead Solution
But 1972 was a hard year financially. In an imaginative move, Chuck Kesey went down to Marin County and talked the Grateful Dead into coming up to Eugene and doing a benefit concert for the creamery. It was an epic event. More than 20,000 people attended. The tickets were printed on Nancy’s Yogurt labels, and a movie was made of the concert entitled ‘Sunshine Daydream.’ Grateful Dead Concerts became a tradition after that, with 10 more concerts in the following years. “It always seemed like we had more awareness after those concerts,” Nancy says. “Not that we ever put up banners saying ‘brought to you by Nancy’s Yogurt,’ but concertgoers knew we were part of these events and we were part of this alternative culture that was music, natural foods and natural living.”
[edit] Nancy’s Expands
As demand for natural foods continued to grow, more natural foods stores opened and Nancy’s Yogurt expanded to store shelves in Portland and Seattle. But the natural foods industry was still very regional. As distribution became more dependable, Nancy’s Yogurt was one of the first natural food products to be distributed far from its production location.
And in time they reached out to the mainstream markets. “We had a lot of conversations with our smaller natural food customers in the late 70’s, not wanting us to sell to mass market stores,” says Sue. “But our mission has always been to get the best food at the best price to the most people. When the Safeways and Fred Meyers of the world came knocking on our door and said we’d really like to stock your product, it completely blew us away. It was one of the first natural food breakthroughs into mainstream markets, and it’s been a wonderful relationship now for nearly 25 years.”[[1]]
Recovering The Lost Magical Mural
Posted on September 1, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
Years ago I suggested Nazarite Queen Helena of Abiabene was the Sleeping Beauty Princess, Rosamond. I have found the remnant of the Nazarite church she founded in Iraq. The Church of the East has its roots in Adiabeni a place associated with the Magi – who followed a star! I followed this question; “What is in a name?”
“The Brothers Grimm included a variant, Briar Rose, in their collection (1812). It truncates the story as Perrault and Basile told it to the ending now generally known: the arrival of the prince concludes the tale. Some translations of the Grimm tale give the princess the name Rosamond.”
Erin Sullivan, who painted most of the starry objects in the Creamery Mural, told me she was a friend of the authors of the book ‘Holy Blood, Holy Grail’, and she felt compelled to read ‘The Da Vinci Code’ after the lawsuit. I had not yet found Erin when I wrote this on this post;
“Where’s Ken’s copy of ‘The Da Vinci Code’? Before Ken, Homer Simpson was recruited as the Axis Mundi. Consider Robert Anton Wilson’s ‘The Cosmic Trigger’. Like it or not, we are all hurtling in space. And the mothers that born us want to be proud of all their children. For sure they don’t want us to fall in with the wrong crowd, a bunch of oddballs. Now, the bookcase makes perfect artistic sense. Do you agree?”
Wow! What a Cosmic Trigger Coincidence! Erin posted this post on this Facebook and said it was an example of her ‘Retrograde of Venus’. I am changing it, but have the original. Here is what Erin wrote me – that floored me!
“Boy, could I tell you about Dan Brown . . . I am published by Penguin/Tarcher . . . I was the editor for Arkana Contemporary Astrology, Penguin UK . . . . And, he ripped off my authors and friends, Michael Baigent and Rich Leigh who are the authors of Holy Grail, etc.
Rich Leigh who are the authors of Holy Grail, etc. When they lost the lawsuit, Rich died of a heart attack four months later . . . Michael has since died 4 years ago from cancer . . . , When I was forced to read DaVinci, by the tine I got to page 38, I thought it was Rich Leigh under a boring pseudonym . . . AND, it is also straight out of my book on Retrograde Planets, in the VENUS chapter!!!!””
Erin asked me if I had seen the mural her and Laura Foster painted. I told her I saw it in 1986, when I went to visit my childhood friend, Nancy Hamren, who worked there. We talked about the commune we lived in with the Zorthian sisters, whose father was a famous muralist who was inspired by my kindred, Thomas Hart Benton – who was the mentor of Jackson Pollock! Erin was thrilled to be placed amongst these stars of the Art World, as will Laura be when I find her.
Here is my sister. This site and these images of beautiful Rosamond women, came to be owned by a hostile outsider who tried to get me to sign a legal document that would forbid me to write about Christine – and my family!
On my visit, Nancy suggested I author the history of the hippies because I could recall so much. A year later I began ‘The Gideon Computer’. In 1989, began a theological novel ‘The Lion of God’ where I say Mary Magdalene was the real Messiah of the Jews, and thus was called Jesus, which means “Savior”. Because John was the “savior” of the Jews, and a son of a Rabbi, he would be married. In my book her marries Mary Magdalene. A parchment is saying Jesus was married.
While living with my kindred, Michael Dundon, I found ‘Holy Blood, Holy Grail’ on his shelf. It belonged to his wife, who inherited it from her father who was a Freemason. As fate would have it Michael worked with Jerry Hamren building houses. At Jerry and Nancy’s wedding, I talked for almost an hour with Ken Babbs about our books we were authoring. In 1996, I am a member of a Templar yahoogroup that Dan Brown allegedly eavesdropped on.
I conversed with several authors on this group, one of them being Margaret Starbird, whose ‘Alibastar Jar’ is about the Divine Feminine. We are friends on Facebook and exchange information. She has read about my Rose Line, my real flesh and blood! All my revelations began when I walked past that mural rendered by two women. That I would find the Queen that some scholars are suggesting born “saviors” sons who may have know Jesus’ family, is beyond profound. Did the Spirit of the Magi guide me?
Take note of the energy field around my head in the photo above. My famous sister ‘Rosamond’ captured this image in her studio. I was going to be her first male subject. But, when she developed the film, she freaked. In the background is the empty canvas she was going to put me on, and thus, make me famous and known all over the world!
Helena’s sarcophagus was on display at the Louvre MUSEum, where Dan Brown has his hero find the lost tomb of Mary Magdalene. This is a profound coincidence. It has rossettes, roses around it. I am a true scholar, and not a fiction writer. I found her! I win!
I also have proven te Knight Templars owned the Shroud of Turin by following my family names of Rosamond and Rougemont. I sent this to Erin. I am a renowned genealogist.
The 2003 conspiracy fiction novel The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown makes reference to this book, also liberally using most of the above claims as key plot elements;[22] indeed, in 2005 Baigent and Leigh unsuccessfully sued Brown’s publisher, Random House, for plagiarism, on the grounds that Brown’s book makes extensive use of their research
“I found that article once. However I can give you a photo of the original mural! And there is a story behind it . . . but you can email me at: erin@ and I can send you the photo . . . I am super busy right now but happy to tell the right story . . . it was fun, and it was good . . . Erin Sullivan”
Magic is the most enduring and endearing element in the galaxy. Last night I discovered there was a photo that went with the sandblasting of the Springfield Creamery Mural. The sandblaster looks like a spaceman – in deep space! Erin Sullivan and I are honored to present this image to the people of Springfield where we hope it will find a permanent home.
Erin and I are now exchanging information on FB message. We are TELEMUSING a word I conjured up in this post, WHERE, Erin’s lost mural reappear. We are the two converging lines of Creative Magical Souls, who perhaps roam the Universe, and come to the aid of Planets in dire distress?
My friend, Stefin Eins is amazed at what is transpiring. He is putting together a show in New York on ‘Other Dimensions’. His lover, Christine Wandel, was my lover, and Keith’s lover, who was Nancy Hamren’s lover, and my sister’s lover. Keith was the lover of Berry Zorthian. Before that, Wandel was Peter Shapiro’s lover, he the lead guitarist for The Loading Zone, and The Marbles, who played at Ken Kesey’s first Acid Tests.
The Sleeping Beauty Princess is name Rosamond. My autobiography I have been working on for ten years is titled ‘Capturing Beauty’. My mother is Rosemary Rosamond. Her mother is Mary Magdalene Rosamond. Dan Brown and his wife, eavesdropped on the Grail Bloodline groups I belonged to. They were sued by two authors. My Rose Line is made up of my kindred, and not a survey line, or, what have you!
In the cement I saw the Scars of Stars shooting Across the Universe. I saw a man looking up at the universe, and another man running. He is ‘The Sandblaster’. The man, is a woman, come to claim her Cosmic Work of Art……that can never be blasted away!
There is such a thing as ‘Cosmic Justice’.
I was born October 8, 1946 two minutes after the sun set. An amazing star-shower was suddenly visible. The nurses in the maternity ward bid my mother to come to the window and look, but, was too spent having just delivered me.
Rosemary said she had a vision while she was giving birth to me, she telling herself she must not forget it. She forgot.
Rosemary named me after John the Baptist because she believed I was born on the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. I was born three days after Yom Kippur.
When my Astrologer began her five hour (recorded) reading of my chart, she began
with these words;
“Jon, I have never seen a chart like yours, never knew it was possible. It
begins where all charts in theory begin, on the exact cusp of Pisces and Aries..
For this reason I had to move up the time of your birth ten minutes, or in
theory, you were not born. As it is now, you barely escaped becoming a veritable
prisoner in this lifetime, that is, all the information you came here to share.”
The 1946 event marked an important first for meteor astronomy—the detection of a meteor shower by radar. In the United States alone, 21 radar systems were operated at frequencies of 100, 600, 1200, 3000 and 10000 Mc/sec. From these instruments only the radar operating at 100 Mc/sec detected meteor echoes. The majority of all meteor activity occurred between 3:00 and 4:30 UT on October 10. Other radar equipment operating in London and the Soviet Union operated at frequencies between 3.5 Mc/sec and 212 Mc/sec and confirmed that maximum occurred between 3:00 and 4:00. Most interesting was a record obtained by J. A. Pierce, who used a 3.5 Mc/sec pulsed ionospheric sounder and found that meteors were so numerous that a temporary ionosphere was formed at a height of 90 km. The meteoric ionosphere lasted three hours and was confirmed elsewhere.
Here is my mother’s mother, Mary Magdalene Rosamond with my mother, Rosemary.
I am very grateful for the help my childhood friend, Nancy Hamren provided in retrieving the Lost Mural, and grateful for the help Michael Powell contributed in retrieving lost Kesey Family History.
I own the copyright on the Springfield Creamery Mural.
http://www.nancysyogurt.com/index.php/springfield-creamery/the-kesey-family
Jon Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press.
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Why Consult a Master Augur?
Posted on November 17, 2016 by Royal Rosamond Press
Why consult a Master Augur? Why indeed! Hitler did not consult a Master Augur, and look what happened to his Thousand Year Reich.
Trump stiffed the Master Augur he felt pressured into consulting (by ancient Italians who helped Giuliani rise to the top) and, look what happened to him! He never did want to become President of the United States. the Don was doing some crowd sourcing, and getting free publicity for the chain of golf courses he had in the works. PAR TRUMP. And, now look what he got himself into! The Fix-it Man swore he would never consult a master augur again.
Now, he will pay the piper. Everything he touches will turn into shit, not gold. I sent him my card seven days ago, after studying a flight of geese. No reply! Since Pennsylvania Avenue was laid out by the Pontimus Maximus of Washington, every President has consulted us before they head down that great way. Mark Anthony was a Master Augur, as was Pontius Pilate, who submitted Jesus to a augur’s test, and announced;
“I find no fault in this king.”
My real Patriotic kinfolk consulted a Master augur before they went into battle with the British. We had a Mime Troupe, too. We made fun of the Brits. We made giant slingshots, and bombarded them with watermelons while in black face.
The augur was a priest and official in the classical Roman world. His main role was the practice of augury, interpreting the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds: whether they are flying in groups or alone, what noises they make as they fly, direction of flight and what kind of birds they are. This was known as “taking the auspices.” The ceremony and function of the augur was central to any major undertaking in Roman society—public or private—including matters of war, commerce, and religion.
When I went to see Laura, Alley Valkyries’ attorney, I was in my Augur outfit. I am trying to sell my vision, my idea, where a hundred thousand left-wing radicals and liberals register as Republicans, and disrupt that party from within. Laura and Hermes are tying to be polite to this crazy dude wearing a Merlin hat. The smirking dude wearing a green scarf, chose to be rude to this Master Augur. (Woe be!) He made fun of me, and scoffed. He was so sure he was in the creamy nugget center of Hipness and Hippiedom, and had all the Right Stuff. He gleefully informs me I have an uphill battle getting anyone to listen to me, least follow me – the nut!
Hardy! Har! Har!
I told him about the radical Republicans and the Forty-Eighters who fought to the Confederates. Who foresaw Trump winning the White House with the help of a Neo-Confederate racists whose thugs took over the Republican party, and, are using Trump as their puppet? Too bad we didn’t have a dog in the fight – for the inner sanctum – real shit-disturbers opposing the nomination of Trump – and getting in the face of Stephen Bannon. Now, the whole damn left, and all of liberalism, have an uphill battle! Are you ready now……….to consult the Master Augur?
Take note of the creature playing a Shepard’s flute in the garden. Who is that? I design golf courses, by the way.
Jon ‘The Master Augur’
“I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
Here is some music to augur by. Note how desperate Huckabee is to back down from the fight he picked with students. Does he fear a mass rebellion of students line we saw in the 60s, where several universities were shut down?
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Mike Huckabee apologized for posting a false news report blaming “liberal, Jewish” students for an alleged hate crime that involved a mention of President-elect Donald Trump.
The story, appearing on the Conservative Tribune website, blamed an attack in March at Northwestern University on “liberal, Jewish Northwestern students” seeking to smear Trump and his supporters.
New York Daily News columnist Shaun King exposed the story’s false claims on Wednesday, and Huckabee removed the post from his Facebook page. The ex-Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate apologized on his website.
“They accused me of spreading false information and hatred, and demanded an apology,” Huckabee said of the Daily News. “And they’re right, I do owe readers an apology.
Huckabee, who has millions of followers on Facebook, frequently posts poorly sourced stories from conservative websites.
He ran in the Republican primaries this election but dropped out early and endorsed Trump, who last week won the presidential election.
In the removed posting, captured in a screenshot by King, Huckabee not only shared the article, but summarized it in the comment part of the post, stating “Everything You Know is Wrong Dept.”
“They’re two liberal, Jewish Northeastern students who were trying to smear Trump and his supporters,” Huckabee’s post said.
The Conservative Tribune story made it appear as if the vandalism was recent, although it took place in March.
Contemporary reporting by the Chicago Tribune of the vandalism in March on Northwestern’s nondenominational chapel said the students were charged with spray-painting a swastika, homophobic and racist slurs as well as the name “Trump” in the chapel.
The Chicago Tribune did not identify the accused, Anthony Morales, 19, and Matthew Kafker, 18, with any political allegiance or otherwise suggest that the attack was a false flag bid to smear Trump, nor did it say they were Jewish.
Huckabee, who leads tours of evangelical Christians to Israel, said in his apology that he identified the students as Jewish because that’s how they were described in the Conservative Tribune story. He did not intend it as a slur.
“It was considered relevant only because the hateful graffiti included a swastika, obviously intended to make it falsely appear that the vandalism was committed by anti-Jewish Trump supporters,” he said, evidently sticking to his belief, absent any evidence, that the attack was an attempt to smear Trump.
The Conservative Tribune also corrected the story online, and in an attached note attributed its designation of the students as Jewish to another dubiously sourced conservative website, Gateway Pundit.
The Jewish identification remained on the Gateway Pundit’s posting Wednesday night. It’s not clear why the Gateway Pundit made the assumption; it linked to a New York Jewish Week account of the vandalism, which did not identify the students as Jewish.
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