Former Covington Catholic Student Nick Sandmann to Speak at Republican National Convention
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A former Covington Catholic High School student at the center of a controversial viral video filmed at the National Mall in January 2019 will speak at the Republican National Convention next week, he tweeted today.
Nicholas Sandmann was on a school trip to Washington, D.C. for a pro-life march when videos captured him and other students from Covington Catholic in a face-off with Native Americans who were participating in an Indigenous Peoples March.
Those videos, which featured some students whooping and doing the tomahawk chop, went viral, initially drawing ire toward Sandmann — who was shown wearing a red "Make America Great Again" hat, standing across from indigenous marcher Nathan Phillips as the latter beat a small drum — and the other students for harassing the indigenous marchers.
Longer video released later showed a more complicated story, with the marchers approaching the students first.
Sandmann's attorneys filed defamation lawsuits against a number of media outlets that reported the story, including The Washington Post and CNN. Some of those outlets have since settled the suits for undisclosed amounts. Sandmann graduated from Covington Catholic this year.
" I can’t tell you all enough about how excited I am to be apart of this years RNC!" Sandmann tweeted this morning, retweeting an announcement about his appearance posted by an official campaign account for President Donald Trump.
The convention is slated to take place next week in Charlotte, North Carolina. Republican elected officials and candidates will speak, along with Sandmann and other guests like Patricia and Mark McCloskey, a St. Louis couple who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters who marched through their gated community earlier this year. The McCloskeys have said they were simply protecting their home, while detractors have claimed they may have broken the law by brandishing the handgun and AR-15-style rifle at the marchers.
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So much for the claim he was not political.
John,
That was a ridiculous claim. He was wearing a MAGA hat. Isn't that a political statement?
I agree. Certain people always wanted him to appear 'innocent' though.
people always wanted him to appear 'innocent' though.
Well, what is he guilty off other than standing in a public space?
So wearing a political hat entitles kids to be lied about, threatened and doxxed by supposedly objective news outlets?
If he is willing to have his picture taken with Trump Jr. and speak at the Trump convention he was not just a high school kid on the day of the incident either, was he?
He was a high school kid the day he was attacked by the internet mob. Are you claiming the online mob could foretell the future? What crime was he guilty of when he was attacked? Wearing a hat?
Just to be clear, do you think harassing a kid for wearing a political hat is acceptable behavior?
wtf does that even pretend to mean?????
Where or when did he claim to be nonpolitical?
And why does it matter?
the claim he was not politica
Who claimed that?
It's been more than a year and a half since the media tried to ruin his life. He was on a class trip on Jan 18, 2019, he was made political by the media now he's just living the life he's been given.
As I recall, we originally heard that these two characters were "liberals", and therefore why would they want to point guns at innocent protesters.
LOL.
Now they are promoting Trump's re-election.
I dont answer your questions. Feel free to keep asking though.
Misguided youth.
Trump is really scraping the bottom of the barrel with his choice of speakers. Hey, why not get the cop(s) who murdered George Floyd and Zimmerman if they can find him to speak. The racists which are a majority of his base will be leg tingling all over the place.
I think you are putting your finger on it Paula.
Biden gets highly educated and prominent people to speak. Who does Trump get, the 3 Stooges, refuges from mom's basement, Gong Show rejects, and Lenny the pinhead boy.
LOL
aka "white grievance" figures
Dems just feature terrorist supporting anti-Semites, Farrakhan supporters, bartenders, apologists for communism, a sex offender, and an ex first lady who mailed in a speech she gave weeks ago.
Ha!!!!!!!!!!!
Whiskey foxtrot echo charlie kilo.
Republican elected officials and candidates will speak, along with Sandmann and other guests like Patricia and Mark McCloskey, a St. Louis couple who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters who marched through their gated community earlier this year.
From Mr. Smirky D. Grin, to 'Get the fuck off of our street before we blow your brains out all over our palm trees', then throw in the 'Pillow Guy', his dangling cross, and an opportunity to stock up on the latest cure du jour, it's surely slated to be a class act from beginning to end.
I'm sure many progressives will be so excited to fantasize publicly about attacking him again. Or is the thrill gone now that's of age?
...excited to fantasize publicly about attacking him? What are you talking about? And what are you trying to imply with the age reference?
Don't you remember this incident? The internet, and this site, was full of big talking liberals fantasizing about how much they wanted to slap him (or worse).
I was just curious if the obsession with hitting him wore off once he turned 18. I don't fantasize about assaulting kids for wearing hats or smirking, so I was wondering if any of the progressives on this site who do could share their motivations.
Oh yeah! He needed to be spanked like the disrespectful little boy he was.
Actually, this is a little sad. If he thinks he's going to be welcomed into Trump's inner circle, he is going to be disappointed. On the other hand, disappointment builds character. He's about to learn that bigly.
disrespectful??
lmao
the kid showed way more maturity than the ass banging his little drum inches from the kid's face. maybe thats why he picked on a kid, figured the kid wouldn't do anything while many adults would have pushed him out of their face
Hey, the young man is already multi millions rich as a result of the stupidity of leftist liberal MSM. Go ahead, put some more money in his bank account and get even more jealous!
Easily impressed by money, are you? I gotta tell you, that's not necessarily a good quality to possess. In fact, I would consider hesitance before I exhibited that quality to others.
The settlement was confidential, therefore, no actual settlement amount was disclosed. However, under no plausible, realistic circumstances did he receive a huge multi-million dollar settlement. He most likely received a nominal nuisance settlement. Based on the state of his pleadings (status of his legal case), he is lucky he got anything. The insurance companies involved paid him something to save their litigation costs as a business decision, and he and his attorneys happily accepted it. Anything more would be extremely unlikely.
so you have no idea how much Sandman got, either.
I'm not interested in anything you have to say.
And?
Am I supposed to care?
since that isn't remotely close to what he stated, where and how did you manage to come up with that?
Come to think of it, someone who survived hydroxychloroquine will probably make a speaking appearance.
Please watch the whole thing and give us your thoughts.
And that's the campaign message being put out by Republican governors, former Presidents and virtually every sane American as that is what all the evidence boils down to. Trump bad, really, really bad. From top to bottom, not a single redeemable quality to be found.
Let's not forget Lev Parnas of Ukrainian scandal fame. . I think I saw his name on the speakers list too.
Maybe they can dig up the moron who thought the chloroquine used in fish tanks would work for CV provention. They can prop him up, put a MAGA hat on him, and spray him down with air freshener.
I'm such a covfefe, I had to look it up to be sure you were kidding.
I was kidding, but you know what, I bet you there are some other lulus on the real list.
just added to the speakers list
Yeah, maybe karen whitsett, the michigan dem who Claims hydroxychloroquine saved her life, and then had the gall to thank trump. Maybe she’ll be there?
or, maybe kamala harris’s sister, who’s been taking hydroxychloroquine for years for lupus. Hydroxychloroquine has been around for so long the list of “survivors” 😜is extremely long.
how the fck did our country get so damn STUPID....
These two might have had something to do with the latest display of dumbassery.
I guess it's always good to appear to have young people enthusiastic about your party.
He is supporting Trump ...... he ..... must .... be .... resisted at all costs ..... must attack ..... must smear .... must find his car to key it ..... etc, etc
- Democrat Party Platform item #44
Why does that pic look like JR is grooming a new victim...