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 help organize the rally. To assist their efforts, Defendants and their co-conspirators, through false U.S. personas, offered money to certain U.S. persons to cover rally expenses.

On or about June 5, 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators, while posing as a U.S. grassroots activist, used the account @MarchgfogTrump to contact a volunteer for the Trump Campaign in New York. The volunteer agreed to provide

signs for the “March for Trump” rally.

55. In or around late July 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used the Faeebook group

“Being Patriotic,” the Twitter account @March_for_Trump, and other false U.S. personas to

organize a series of coordinated rallies in Florida. The rallies were collectively referred to as

“Florida Goes Trump” and held on August 20, 2016.

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in or around August 2016, Defendants and their co-conspirators used false U.S. pcrsonas to communicate with Trump Campaign staff involved in local community outreach about the “Florida Goes Trump” rallies.

Defendants and their co-conspirators purchased advertisements on Faceka and lnstagram to promote the “Florida Goes Trump" rallies.

Defendants and their co-conspirators also used false U.S. personas to contact multiple grassroots groups supporting then-candidate Trump in an unoﬁicial capacity. Many of these groups agreed to participate in the “Florida Goes Trump" rallies and serve as local coordinators.

Defendants and their co-conspirators also used false U.S. personas to ask real U.S. persons to participate in the “Florida Goes Trump” rallies. Defendants and their

co-conspirators asked certain of these individuals to perform tasks at the rallies.

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