Supreme Court Justice Alito’s home had
upside-down US flag —which neighbors
saw as support for ‘Stop the Steal’
New York Post,
by
Emily Crane
Original Article
Posted By: 4250Luis,
5/17/2024 12:00:58 PM
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had an upside-down US flag outside his Virginia home just weeks after the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, when it was being used as a symbol of MAGA’s “Stop the Steal” agenda.
A photo of the inverted flag, now widely associated with former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud, was published by the New York Times on Thursday.
Alito, who was appointed by Republican President George W. Bush, didn’t deny that the upside-down flag was flown over his front lawn — but blamed it on his wife, Martha-Ann
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
downnout 5/17/2024 12:23:00 PM (No. 1719634)
Slow news day??
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
thekidsmom66 5/17/2024 12:26:35 PM (No. 1719637)
Sorry, 'slimes, can't manage to get worked up over this.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/17/2024 12:48:33 PM (No. 1719658)
International sign of distress.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
hershey 5/17/2024 1:07:46 PM (No. 1719676)
An inverted flag is the internaional signal of distress...and the election sure put us in distress....the hell with all those complainers...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Newtsche 5/17/2024 1:11:20 PM (No. 1719679)
Yes, #3, a legitimate message, not disrespectful.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stuBdoc 5/17/2024 1:12:21 PM (No. 1719681)
As soon as I see "false claims of election fraud" I know I'm reading an editorial, not news. This is the Post! Why put the word "false"? It's OK to say "claims" but many don't believe they're false.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 5/17/2024 1:18:26 PM (No. 1719686)
FTA: Alito, who was appointed by Republican President George W. Bush, didn’t deny that the upside-down flag was flown over his front lawn — but blamed it on his wife, Martha-Ann Alito.
“Blamed”. Yep, Conservatives. Those cowardly weasels never own up to their actions. They always blame someone else! /s
If ever there was a time the U.S. was in distress, it is now! Federal law allows the flag to be flown upside down in times of distress.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Kate318 5/17/2024 2:06:16 PM (No. 1719725)
And? It’s a signal for a country in distress. And, we are. I’m sure if you poked around the liberal justices, you’d find a BLM sign or two.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
kono 5/17/2024 2:34:15 PM (No. 1719736)
That his neighbors interpreted the flag incorrectly is somehow his fault? I'm surprised this is from the NYP, as it seems more fitting for NYT.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 5/17/2024 3:13:24 PM (No. 1719758)
Boo-hoo!! And Justice Thomas tours the country in a RV. So what.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Birddog 5/17/2024 4:18:55 PM (No. 1719801)
No picture of the upside down flag posted....just one of armed Deputies having to guard the house against a gathered MOB, likely organized by the rude, abusive, foul mouthed, confrontational, leftwig neighbor.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
judy 5/17/2024 4:34:31 PM (No. 1719814)
It happened in 2021…typical media ….
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Scribelus 5/17/2024 5:49:53 PM (No. 1719851)
The quoted article reads more like something from Bozo’s Post, rather than the New York Post.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mifla 5/18/2024 5:10:50 AM (No. 1720043)
I've put up flags before. Every once in a while I clipped the flag by the wrong grommets and had to redo it. I wasn't making a political statement
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
rightdog 5/18/2024 6:25:34 AM (No. 1720061)
Has the NYP gone to the dark , repeating the tired claim "... former President Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud...."
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
JackBurton 5/18/2024 6:35:11 AM (No. 1720062)
RE: Donald Trump’s false claims of election fraud....
It’s impossible to have any sense and not know 2020 was stolen. I went through it all at the time, and several times after. Vote spikes, bell weather states and counties, suspension of the count, illegal deals on the voting process, easily hackable voting machines, eyewitness accounts of fraud, CCTV footage of fraud, expert polling analysis, expert computer analysis, expert probability analysis, impossible increases in turnout, millions upon millions of sudden new voters, hundreds of millions of dollars spent by Zuckerberg to control part of the electoral process, votes with no legitimate address, votes from dead people, votes from dementia sufferers, distortion of the electoral roll to prevent correction of false information, locking observers out of counting stations.....
You can believe it was honest if you are a fool. You can say it was honest if you are a liar. Those are your only options for denying it was stolen.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
edgar 5/18/2024 7:07:55 AM (No. 1720067)
"Neighbors say..." this has a "Lefties Pounce" vibe to it. Trying to create a headline for a non-story.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Red Jeep 5/18/2024 7:35:52 AM (No. 1720073)
Remember someone took a picture of the flag at the Alito's home 3 years ago so it must have been known then so why the uproar over it now?
From what I saw yesterday watching an hour of MSNBC, this whole matter is a Liberal scheme to get Justice Alito to recuse himself in the upcoming decisions regarding President Trump.
It seems that the Liberals are afraid that President Trump will win or receive a hung jury in the latest court case, win in the Supreme Court, and re-win the Presidency, so this is an attempt to throw a roadblock in his way,
I can't believe the lenths Liberals will go to lie, shade the truth to get their way. Truly evil people.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/18/2024 7:59:10 AM (No. 1720086)
I refuse to fly the flag until Biden is out of office and have had an empty flagpole standing there since January, 2021. This is not the real America.
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So Mrs. Alito was reacting to a neighbor who had a F Trump sign in his yard and, paraphrasing, he got nasty with them as they were walking in their neighborhood. She turned the flag upside down for a time as a reaction. GOOD FOR HER! Now you k ow, the rrrrrest of the story.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Venturer 5/18/2024 8:54:26 AM (No. 1720120)
Donald Trump's claim of election fraud was not false.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
bighambone 5/18/2024 10:17:01 AM (No. 1720157)
Someone should ask Mrs Alito what the story is, as chances are Justice Alito never noticed that the flag was displayed for a time upside down? It does not an appear that they reside in any sort of friendly neighborhood. Nobody really knows if Trump’s claims of election fraud were true or not as they were never really investigated.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/18/2024 10:21:14 AM (No. 1720161)
Who gives a flying doodle...I agree poster #1...must be a slow news day.....
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/18/2024 10:58:32 AM (No. 1720190)
Logic dictates that his neighbors were in favor of the steal, which makes them lowlife, dishonest democrats. I hope that Biden's presidency has been good for them.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 5/18/2024 12:09:17 PM (No. 1720241)
Ruth Bader Ginsberg gave talks to the pro-abortionists across the nation. Hypocrites much?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 5/18/2024 12:18:37 PM (No. 1720246)
What a rotten slanted story!!! I expected better of the NY Post. Many of us believe (MILLIONS!) that the 2020 election was stolen! And to use a pejorative to explain that it was the wife that did it is beneath the Post's standards! Where is Devine? She would never write this kind of trashy story!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/18/2024 12:24:31 PM (No. 1720251)
So what? My late father in law flew his flag at half mast every single day of the Carter adminstration.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 5/18/2024 12:29:01 PM (No. 1720254)
Reply 16 - Posted by: JackBurton
I'm saving your post for any of my "friends" who would question the 2020 election and give them all of your reasons for the Steal! THANK YOU!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 5/18/2024 12:40:21 PM (No. 1720260)
Heard it was placed that way by his wife who had been called the C word (rhymes with punt) by one of those neighbors, so she certainly felt in distress.
This is the Lefts desire to frame anything into something it's not in hopes of discrediting a person.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
janjan 5/18/2024 12:53:14 PM (No. 1720267)
The first of many BS stories designed to attack the SC. We were warned of this. Another brainiac move to get Trump.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Miamiwarrior 5/18/2024 1:00:06 PM (No. 1720273)
It seems that Justice Alito has a lot of conspiracy theorist neighbors. LOL
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
buckeye1 5/18/2024 2:38:09 PM (No. 1720312)
This nation has been in distress for years prior to Jan 6th. I'm stating it started when the US gave the Dems a veto proof Congress and Senate in 2008 and elected it's first Marxist presiden. Then even more distress when the newly enshrined Deep State tried to dent Trump his election and re election..
I believe you can thank Jim Comey and froends
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
4Liberty2020 5/18/2024 4:20:51 PM (No. 1720370)
When Biden stole the election I started putting all of the U.S. postal flag stamps upside down on all of my letters.
I also vowed to wear some black on my person ( clothes, shoes, socks or underwear) until he is gone.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
judy 5/18/2024 4:26:46 PM (No. 1720372)
NYPost is stooooo far left they report Old news…….
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
judy 5/18/2024 4:29:43 PM (No. 1720374)
I feel for the Alitos ..his neighbors are libs…..
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
pixelero 5/18/2024 4:48:12 PM (No. 1720384)
“False claim,” is it? A number of actions all across the country since the election, and in recent months, might give the lie to including such a construct, in a, “news,” article. But what do I know? By the way, hard to believe, but this is the New York, “Post,” not the Times.
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