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Michael Moore says he knows the armed protesters at the Liberate Michigan protests — and they're frauds

Elizabeth Preza
May 24, 2020

Filmmaker and Michigan native Michael Moore says he knows the kinds of people who have been bringing guns, Confederate flags and swastika iconography to the Michigan state capital to protest the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, and they’re nothing to worry about.“I want to appeal to people to not be afraid of these guys with the guns,” the 66-year-old liberal provocateur and Flint native said Friday on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher.” “I went to high school with them. I know them.”Moore, who correctly predicted Donald Trump would win the presidential election in 2016, said those protesters tal...

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