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TexasTowelie

(118,261 posts)
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 02:44 AM Jul 2018

Trump supporters tried to get 'Baby Trump' balloon activist fired from homeless shelter [View all]

Trump supporters tried to get a Hillsborough man fired from his job at a homeless family shelter over his activism. But it backfired, and is instead motivating Didier Jimenez-Castro to make his protests go even more viral.

Jimenez-Castro, an organizer of the movement to bring the Baby Trump balloon to New Jersey, said his job was in jeopardy after defenders of the president contacted his employer, alleging he was misrepresenting the organization in his activism.

However, the 29-year-old said he never brought his places of work into the protest, or named them. He believes Trump supporters may have found his employer through Facebook, and began calling and emailing the organization, where he works with homeless families.

When his higher-ups first spoke to him about the complaints, he "thought it was going to blow up" and he'd lose his job, Jimenez-Castro said.

Read more: https://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/07/trump_supporters_tried_to_get_baby_trump_balloon_activist_fired_from_homeless_shelter.html

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