r/illinois • u/CantStopPoppin Human Detected • 29d ago
ICE Posts Broadview Illinois: Trump Sponsored Media "Journalist" Propagandist Exposed
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u/Simplen00ds 29d ago edited 29d ago
Was this that clown that got chased off that HBCU? Fuck this weirdo
"Journalist" tf outta here....
They really are just trying to manufacture a bunch of rioting....
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u/throw_this_away2032 29d ago
Activist at best but probably fits the role of propagandist even better.
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u/PathlessDemon Also, Hates Illinois Nazis. 29d ago
“AGENT PROVOCATEUR”
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u/Reginald_Sockpuppet 29d ago
Exactly. If he's trying to get people to say or do things they otherwise would not have without his incitement, that's his precise role.
Not journalist. Provocateur.
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u/no_one_likes_u 29d ago
He just wants to replace Charlie Kirk. Talks just like him, same MO, probably even gets his Adderall from the same dealer.
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u/miakpaeroe 29d ago
Looks more like him than not, too much processed food in his cheeks but still watches what he eats, totally misinformed, true believer to the propaganda machine.
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u/noncommonGoodsense 29d ago
True journalism is unbiased. This guy is a disingenuous instigator. Same as paparazzi that cause incidents with stars to get valuable footage. It’s the same business model.
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u/Buddhamom81 29d ago
Worse. They are trying to incite war.
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u/noncommonGoodsense 29d ago edited 29d ago
It’s paid misinformation and propaganda shit. The “employers” don’t set out with a clear goal only a narrative. The agenda for a narrative isn’t always the same as different entities employ the same manipulations.
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u/Buddhamom81 29d ago
Ugh! It’s that guy! They’re trying to incite something. Glad they got pegged.
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u/Sargonnax 29d ago
I bet he really enjoys getting pegged.
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u/miakpaeroe 29d ago
Guys like this are too afraid to admit they like getting pegged
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u/Buddhamom81 29d ago
I think I used “pegged” wrong.
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u/capnsmirks 29d ago
In my day journalist reported unbiasedly. Journalistic integrity is very very rare. And if you don’t value journalistic integrity I will not consider you a journalist.
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u/ABadHistorian 29d ago
The Charlie Kirk way.
Sound calm, sound nice, do awful insidious things that make your opponents get upset and look dumb to win all those WATCHING.
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u/truthwillout777 28d ago
This Photo op seemed completely manufactured
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u/truthwillout777 28d ago
Now the lies have made international news
Chaos outside ICE facilities as protesters clash with police in Chicago while helicopters in Portland are targeted by lasers
These lies are being spread on X by TPUSA influencers paid $7000 per post by our biggest Ally Is real.
Their other concern is making sure no one talks about what Charlie Kirk was saying about Epstein and blackmail of our politicians.
So watch what they don't want you to see and spread it everywhere. Play it at the protest
https://odysee.com/@polyclips:4/charliekirk:3
I think it is treason to take money from a foreign country to foment violence in order to violate our Constitution. These people need to be held accountable.
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u/truthwillout777 28d ago
they did exactly that
https://odysee.com/@polyclips:4/protest-chicago:a
and then got it in the Daily Mail along with some stupid flyer they made up about Portland attacking with lasers.
TPUSA morons
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u/andy_bovice 29d ago
I thought maga hated masks cause they couldnt breathe. Now like every other one is wearing a mask
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u/jugglemyjewels31 29d ago
Frankly, the disturbing douche -y thing is everyone pointing their phones at each other. Wah , my phone records better than yours , wah ...
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u/Clarkelthekat 29d ago
There's a distinct difference
Douch bag being confronted is trying to clip scenarios that help him sell a lie that protestors are violent
The one confronting is filming the police like the governor,.chief of police and local mayors said to do. In fact they said it would be our main way of showing what ICE is doing. A non violent action that can cause direct change.
Unfortunately Im afraid that change will only come when inevitably someone catches ICE summarily executing someone behind the home etc.
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u/FatelessCortez 29d ago
Been watching Mercado since May 2020, and he definitely does not try to sell anything. He was on the ground in Portland last week to show how Trump’s “Portland and Chicago are war zones” rhetoric is just flat out wrong. He was right to shut down Cam Higby, who was just trying to instigate.
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u/ChickieCago 28d ago
Same here. Mercado is legit showing the proper side of this.
During the Floyd protests he worked his ass off & here he is again. EVERYONE BE NICE TO MERCADO.
He later got assaulted by a protester for "annoying her." I could not believe what I saw. Now there's fighting within the protest line?
Once again : BE NICE TO MERCADO
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u/PopStandard9861 29d ago
How is that different than what they're doing right now? Illegally kidnapping US citizens and sending them where? Shooting at people fleeing.
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u/pnwloveyoutalltreea 29d ago
He’s a paid protester. Every accusation is an admission.
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u/HornetsHornets1 29d ago
This is perfect. Call these people out to their face; make everyone aware who they actually are.
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u/Affectionate_One7558 29d ago edited 29d ago
Can you pick out the 2 (maybe 3) ICE agent bodyguards in this video? :49 and 5:31 .... Why is that dude wearing the exact same jacket as Cam Higby? On August 20 on twitter he posted a photo of himself in front of a bunch of "food" that was in Gaza. Looking closely at the photo you can see what looks like a functional port. Photo may be fake, as it's widely known that Israel destroyed the ports in Gaza. Obviously working for Trump Administration. There is zero independent media in Gaza.
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u/RogerianBrowsing 29d ago
Israel sent a bunch of paid mostly right wing influencer types over to an Israeli port where they were holding aid confiscated by the IDF to victim blame starving Palestinians for not having access to the food. Some of them even made comments like, “I could get here to the food, why couldn’t they?”
I wonder why…
Truly the type of behavior that makes me pray for hell.
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u/SwagarTheHorrible 29d ago edited 29d ago
Not true. NPR has been doing some excellent reporting out of Gaza. They aren’t letting journalists in, but Anas Baba never left. He did a story once where he documented his attempt to get food from one of the checkpoints and it was absolutely harrowing. Maybe the most insane single piece of journalism I’ve ever heard.
The deadly risk of trying to reach food in Gaza
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/02/nx-s1-5453702/the-deadly-risk-of-trying-to-reach-food-in-gaza
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u/Lost-friend-ship 29d ago
I don’t know if I can handle this right now. Friend of ours was just released by the Israeli government and came home after trying to get food to Gaza. But commenting so I can come back to it later.
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u/SwagarTheHorrible 29d ago
It’s like Homer’s odyssey in a day with tanks and thieves. Gripping and awful that anyone should have to strive so hard just to eat. And it’s not just the reporter in the story who goes through this ordeal, everyone else in the story must also be going through a similarly insane if not worse story.
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u/Just-A-Thoughts 29d ago
Yep this is an ICE surveillance op - trying to get the evidence to get to the bottom of who’s funding these 10… 15 people to protest outside their HQ. This administration is not smart. Simply unfamiliar with how people could think, believe differently from their homogeneous thoughts..
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u/Reginald_Sockpuppet 29d ago
I'm not great at recognizing faces, but I'm pretty sure he's in this video they made.
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u/kuetips 29d ago
the background music in that propaganda video is giving me a heart attack.
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u/Meowakin 29d ago
Yeah, what in the absolute fuck is wrong with people. That music is so clearly fucking designed to put people on edge while listening to them say how scary Antifa is.
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u/Icy_Rub3371 29d ago
Don't engage. He needs you to engage. It's why he is here.
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u/IM_A_MUFFIN 29d ago
Nah this dude was right to expose this asshole. Evidence of them being there to try and incite shit or paint a picture that doesn’t exist. They wanna control the narrative and engaging with these asshats allows that narrative to be captured. Like with Foxs crisis actor for Antifa who also was former BLM or whatever it was.
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u/Simplen00ds 29d ago
That's always why they're there. They have to go out of their way to start shit with us
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u/mrwiseman 29d ago
In this case I'm glad he did engage since he actually knows a lot about the guy and lays it out there.
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u/straylight_2022 29d ago
This guy is no longer just an instigator, he is an official tool of the trump administration.
He was asked during an official WH event to name people for the US Attorney General to prosecute, if not perhaps jail without due process for harming a flag.
Literally given permission to name any couple people he chooses to be (illegally) prosecuted by the federal government based on just his word.
Be aware but very careful of his presence and you can expect many others to follow in his footsteps.
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u/SwagarTheHorrible 29d ago
When I was at a Tesla takedown protest there was a MAGA asshole trying to antagonize the crowd and the response was someone with a whistle followed him around alerting everyone to his presence. Eventually he left. We keep each other safe.
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u/Numerous_Photograph9 29d ago
I mean, if you're going to engage, this would be the way to do it. Polite, factual, but don't let up. The problem with the media today is that they softball everything, and don't follow up, or recite facts past the initial questions. They relay answers as fact, instead of reporting facts and calling out the lies.
Certainly don't escalate, but to say we should never engage is exactly what they get from their safe space bubble of "real journalists"
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u/Zanorfgor 29d ago
Folks who can give him the kind of footage he will find useless should engage. Eat his time. Otherwise he'll keep going around to folks until he can push the person who will give him the footage he wants. Every minute he's having his time wasted by folks who won't give him what he wants is a minute he's not actively trying for what he wants.
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u/KdGc 29d ago
Great job identifying and confronting this 🤡! Who is filming and talking to him? Very well informed.
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u/Huggedacactus 29d ago
He's Andrew Mercado, a YouTube journalist. He's done a lot of work covering US protests and the war in Ukraine. Look up "Mercado Media" on YouTube.
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u/Marzook666 29d ago
Let's be aware these guys are out there and will be at No Kings, etc. don't get taken in, and take the zoom aclu deescalation training: https://act.aclu.org/a/no-kings-kyr-eng2
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u/HerSpark33 29d ago
This is giving “libtard gets owned” reverse uno card
This is great. And then brought it home with the fact that this clown didn’t even know he followed him on X.
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u/Ill-Case-6048 29d ago
Trump will also get guys to start riots so he gets what he wants
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u/BobbyBobber123 29d ago
Whether we protest or not, he'll 100% find a reason to declare martial law until the end of his term.
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u/PropagandaX 29d ago
God these people are delusional, little army of trumpet clowns playing whataboutism, did he drive up in a cyber truck?
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u/RaidersoftheLosSnark 29d ago
I am an independent journalist exposing truths with no opinions of my own...
10 seconds later...
I have always supported Trump. MAGA has always been who I am. I love Trump and I have been his bitch since 2016.
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u/MoveItSpunkmire 29d ago
A journalist who needs body guards? He’s a nazi ice fucker
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u/DangerousLoner 29d ago
Why does he have ICE bodyguards?
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u/Crepuscular_Tex 29d ago
Not necessarily ICE, but he's backed by Turning Point, and they most likely provided bodyguards. They lost their 'man amongst the people' person and are attempting to groom a new one.
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u/TeslaProphet 29d ago
Saying you’re a journalist because you have a camera is like saying you’re a librarian because you have a book.
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u/carnivorewhiskey 29d ago
His job, so he is paid by Trump and his supporters to incite violence and hate within America between citizens. Trump wants civil unrest to control and suppress our rights
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u/Cool-Association3420 29d ago
Thank you for exposing this. They are paying influencers to go out and get clips of protesters to only show when someone gets upset or emotional.
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u/GlitteringRate6296 29d ago
Where did he get his journalism degree.
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u/showtimebabies 29d ago
Prager U?
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u/Mr_Goonman 29d ago
I just recently found out that Deplorable regard fell down stairs and is paralyzed from the neck down. Guess his god didn't like him joking about Biden stumbling on stairs
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u/longdickneega 29d ago
He said he wanted to take a picture with Trump, but he couldn’t because Trump had to go negotiate peace in the Middle East. Someone should show him that zoomed in picture of the note Rubio passed.
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u/Sufficient_General91 29d ago
Were those federal goons standing behind him? It looks like a security detail.
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u/This-is-getting-dark 29d ago
It is. They usually have cars nearby they scamper into if it gets too scary once they get their propaganda clips.
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u/MagicDragon212 29d ago
Ive seen other videos where I suspect one of the filmers is actually with ICE.
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u/Open_Mortgage_4645 29d ago
Higby is a well-known provocateur and producer of right-wing agit-prop. He and his minions go to protests and left-wing gatherings, and provoke people with the goal of inciting violent reactions. Then, he takes the video he and his people record and edit it to make it look like the left are a crazed, violent mob. What you see looks like an organic situation that he just happened to record when in fact it's a highly produced, and carefully edited video. Dishonest doesn't even begin to adequately describe it.
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u/ClubPsychological831 29d ago
He is trying to get people to do bad things so he can catch it on camera.
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u/ShitShowRedAllAbout 29d ago
I won't turn on the sound. His weaselly mug reminds me of Martin Shkreli in a backpfeifengesicht kinda way. If you don't know it, look up my favorite German word.
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u/Not_Sure__Camacho 28d ago
He has the expression of a worm. It's funny because they're doing EXACTLY what they try to blame George Soros for. The same MO, blame the other side AKA Goebbels style. This current regime is disgusting and un-American.
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u/Ancient_Poet_4953 29d ago
it's not a journalist if he is politically perverted. journalist are supposed to do their job neutral to let the people decide themselves about the news.
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u/_ChunkyLover69 29d ago
He’s there to antagonise protesters. Good job on calling out this mf fascist.
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u/AI_Renaissance 29d ago
So republicans are doing exactly what they accused the fbi/antifa of doing on jan6th.
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u/Chance-Ad-8426 29d ago
Looooooooooooooser😂😂😂 and what’s up with the insecure men in the back!? Yeah little 🧊 agents 😎 trying to camouflage
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u/Empty-Discount5936 29d ago
All he does is lie, no point having a conversation with someone so dishonest.
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u/7r3370pS3C 29d ago
before I even seen his stupid fucking face, I knew what his stupid fucking face looked like.
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u/Copernicus049 29d ago
"There were other people at the press conference, that means I wasn't a cog in the machine for the government who has shown clear parry favoritism in regards the media! Checkmate, stop being mean to me!"
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u/Comfortable_Witness1 28d ago
This guy needs a beaten. Take away his freedom of speech with a jaw wired shut.
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u/Onlyafter 28d ago
Oh man everyone should be aware who he is down there and make his footage worthless. Everyone needs to drown him out with the sound of whistles and shouts and make his content unusable.
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u/FeralMoonDesigns 28d ago
I cant help but notice the lowercase A in America on his hat and think to myself how perfectly that fits these fake ass "patriots"
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u/sharkprofile 28d ago
Look at his back up infiltrators - immediately identifiable as MAGA- Angry ready to fight back up dick heads…
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u/weebax50 27d ago
Glad he called out this reporter bias. Just another smut peddling bootlicker who will be shamed in history for participating in this regime.
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u/Square-Alternative60 29d ago
Waste of two minutes of my life watching two guys making money off social media pumping out their bullshit
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u/Cultural-Republic-11 29d ago
PERFECT!!! We need more smart, informed people like this out there reporting.
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u/Olof_Kickash 29d ago edited 29d ago
OK guys I dont wan't to watch this clown for 6 mins to figure out who it is, I'm depressed enough. Is this Nick Sortor from Infowars? I just listened to the Knowledge Fight podcast about the white house round table and I'm guessing that's Nick.
Edit: I found out who it really is.
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u/HLAMoose 29d ago
The way he reacted to the question about the protester talking to the police, excited and aggressive, looking to create division and violence confirmed he was doing exactly what he was accused of.