So this happened at CPAC early on Friday morning. Someone began passing out little flags with “Trump” printed on them as the President began his speech.

Trouble was, they were Russian flags.

Journalists, like Peter Hamby, formerly of CNN and now with Snapchat, were quick to point this out.

Crowd at CPAC waving these little pro-Trump flags that look exactly like the Russian flag. Staffers quickly come around to confiscate them. pic.twitter.com/YhPpkwFCNc

— Peter Hamby (@PeterHamby) February 24, 2017

What Hamby failed to report was the source of those flags. Hint: no Republicans or Trump supporters were involved.

Leave it to James O’Keefe for uncovering the identity of the flag man:

This was Ryan Clayton from Bob Creamer group "Americans Take Action" handing Russian flags. Ryan was forcibly removed. You edited that out. https://t.co/hKwywREjn5

— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) February 24, 2017

And David Martosko, of the British Daily Mail, confirms that it was indeed Clayton. Wonder why our intrepid American press couldn’t find out?

CPAC confirms to me that it was liberal activist Ryan Clayton who was ejected today for handing out the Trump-branded Russian Flags.

— David Martosko (@dmartosko) February 24, 2017

So let’s see who Ryan Clayton is, shall we?

Clayton is a writer for the Huffington Post, and is president of the activist group “Americans Take Action.”

Their website states that they want to “save democracy,” but how do they want to accomplish that?

One of their current campaigns, linked at the bottom of their main page, is “Remove President Donald Trump.”  It features this picture, along with a claim that “Russia intentionally helped Donald Trump win the 2016 Presidential election.”

Let me show you my shocked face.

So it took grassroots investigator O’Keefe to do the media’s job in gathering all pertinent information, and a foreign publication to confirm what O’Keefe found. Doing the job that Mainstream Media won’t do. Foiled again, journalists.