Dem group in Texas defaces huge Trump billboard to read ‘Take Trump to Prison’ – & says ‘we fixed it’
A DEMOCRATIC group defaced a huge Donald Trump billboard in Texas so it read “Take Trump to Prison.” On Thursday, Turn Texas Blue admitted that they had “fixed” the enormous Trump poster after a tweet about it went viral. “Trump put up a billboard in Houston last week,” the political group tweeted. “We fixed it.” […]
A DEMOCRATIC group defaced a huge Donald Trump billboard in Texas so it read “Take Trump to Prison.”
On Thursday, Turn Texas Blue admitted that they had “fixed” the enormous Trump poster after a tweet about it went viral.
“Trump put up a billboard in Houston last week,” the political group tweeted. “We fixed it.”
The day before, Houston lawyer Rogelio Garcia shared a photo of the sign on Twitter, which is located off I-45 near Telephone Road.
“So Trump drops a big (approx 40×60 feet) expensive political sign in my largely Hispanic neighborhood in Houston TX about a week ago which upset me,” Garcia wrote.
“I wake up this morning and this is what the sign looks like now hahahahah.”
“I promise you folks I had nothing to do with this,” the attorney continued, followed by winking emojis. “However I wish I had.”
The tweet had amassed over 87,000 likes and over 23,000 retweets by Saturday morning.
After revealing they were behind it, Turn Texas Blue also took credit for changing Houston’s iconic “Be Someone” overpass sign in the same thread.
“We also changed our beloved ‘BE SOMEONE’ bridge to VOTE OR DIE a couple of weeks ago,” they said.
The news came while Trump made appearances in several battleground states like Florida and Georgia – including his NBC News Town Hall interview on Thursday night.
Trump lost his ratings battle to Joe Biden, who reportedly garnered more more viewers during his ABC News interview, which aired at the same time.
Trump‘s town hall was seen on three networks, NBC, MSNBC and CNBC.
Nielsen TV ratings show Trump pulled in a total of around 13.4million viewers, while Biden‘s chat on ABC was watched by 14.1million.
These figures – audience measurement systems operated by Nielsen Media Research – don’t take online and streaming numbers into account, however.
Sources claimed Trump was eager to humiliate his election rival by “blowing him out of the water” in TV ratings.
“He looks at this the same way he looks at attendance at his rallies versus the [turnout] Biden gets for his events,” an anonymous source told The Daily Beast.
Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller said: “We’re gonna have a much bigger audience than Joe.”
The president had refused to debate Biden online, saying it was a “waste of time”, after a second head-to-head was moved into cyberspace following his coronavirus diagnosis.
His town hall – moderated by Savannah Guthrie – was approximately 30 minutes shorter than Biden’s program and was much more combative in tone.
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In a statement the president’s campaign boasted that he had “soundly defeated” the moderator – branding her a “Joe Biden surrogate”.
It added: “President Trump masterfully handled Guthrie’s attacks and interacted warmly and effectively with the voters in the room.”
She quizzed Trump about a range of issues, from his administration’s Covid-19, response, the right-wing conspiracy group QAnon, to his tax returns and debt.
