Gene Huber: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know (cardboard cutout dude)

[demmiblue]

Source: Heavy

The man invited on stage by Donald Trump at his Melbourne rally is a married car salesman from Boynton Beach, Florida whose social media pages are practically shrines to Trump.

Gene Huber’s Twitter profile photo shows him standing with a life-size cardboard cutout of Trump. On CNN after the rally, Huber said, “I’ve been with Mr. President Trump for over two years…” He said that Trump saw him on TV, and Huber said he “loved” Trump “with all his heart.” He said of the cardboard cutout: “I salute that every single day.”

He’s constantly advanced the president’s narratives against the news media and on other topics. Some people think Huber was a staged plant because he wrote on Facebook on February 14 about receiving a call from Trump and has checked in from various Trump properties and the White House on social media.

That all wouldn’t mean, if true, that he’s not really a Trump supporter (or super fan, as it appears), though, just that the moment was perhaps not as spontaneous as it appeared.

Read more: http://heavy.com/news/2017/02/gene-huber-donald-trump-rally-melbourne-florida-star-is-born-supporter-video-facebook-twitter-plant/

I don't do Facebook... what is the check in function? Do you actually have to be at the place you check in, or can you just say that you were there (i.e. is it tied to some sort of GPS function)?

[CincyDem]

1. Likely he was a plant but IIRC, you can "check in" from anywhere on FB.

It will autofill based on GPS but you can override it. Even the GPS suggestions give you a few choices. I haven't been there but I suspect that standing out on the Ellipse in DC would be close enough to get WH. Being across the street from a trump property would get it on the list.

All that said - IMHO he was a plant. Car salesman or not, his degree of preparedness to "say a few words" to the entire country, introduced by the president (his hero)...his calmness at being asked to speak was just a little too surprising.

Add to that the Secret Service letting him through with no vetting just because the president said so. I'm not buying it.

[demmiblue]

5. Thanks for the input.

Seems as if he was doing the 2017 God Emperor Trump adulation tour.

I think he was a plant, also.

[Historic NY]

2. Would you buy a used car from this guy?

[GP6971]

3. Not even a new one

let alone a used one.

[SchrodingersCatbox]

4. I wouldn't buy a Matchbox car from this guy nt