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The flags were hung following the vice presidential debate Tuesday night.
Trump flags were hanging outside Boston City Hall Wednesday morning, amid a tight presidential race just over a month away. And they attracted the notice of at least one very high-profile employee there.
“We had a little issue here,” Mayor Michelle Wu said in an interview on “Java for Jimmy” Wednesday morning. “There was someone setting up Trump flags to city property outside.”
Brian Foley, a senate captain for former president Donald Trump’s campaign, told Boston.com he put up the flags to promote voter registration.
With several criminal cases against Trump, Foley, 26, of South Boston, said he has encountered people who did not know they could still vote for the Republican presidential nominee.
“We’re just out here showing people that yes, you can still vote for Trump,” Foley said. “With all the court cases going on, people don’t know that he’s still on the ballot.”
Trump became the first former president to become a convicted felon in May when a New York jury found him guilty of 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment.
“I think it’s all a ploy to keep him out of the race,” Foley said of the charges.
Foley said he and others working for the Trump campaign have set up about 97 similar standouts across the city — in South Boston, North End, and Ashmont, among others.
The campaign manager said “finances” are what drew him to work on Trump’s campaign.
“Most of us in this city, unless you’re in a college dorm, can’t afford to live,” he said.
The former president has come under fire for casting doubt about the fairness of the 2024 election. Still, Foley said he is prepared to accept the results of the election, regardless of which candidate wins come November, as long as it is “fair and honest.”
“I think this election might be one of the worst elections we’ve ever had in US history,” he said. “There’s so many scandals going on on both sides, you don’t know what’s true.”
Following the vice presidential debate Tuesday night, Foley said he thinks the vice presidential candidates are “good on both sides.”
“They both have their strengths,” he said. “As long as you’re a family man or woman and you’re putting America first, that’s all that matters.”
A Boston Police spokesperson said they’d had no complaints about the signs as of late Wednesday morning, and had no immediate plans to remove them.
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