23K retweets, no mention that the flags were distributed as a prank by a pair of self-proclaimed "Resistance" activistspic.twitter.com/5PXyvDNzOd
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Then CPAC staff noticed it, got embarrassed, and confiscated. You'd have to be relatively sophisticated to interpret as a prank.
I like how @HeerJeet thinks the media shouldn't check the story first. Or correct themselves when it's revealed it was a plant. 
I replied to Jeet (& others) right off that I thought it might be a prank, I wasn't alone.
Yep, that was the chatter of the people I saw discussing it on twitter.
No. It doesn’t.
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