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   An Obama-tied activist group training tens of thousands of   
   agitators to protest President Trump’s policies plans to hit   
   Republican lawmakers supporting those policies even harder this   
   week, when they return home for the congressional recess and   
   hold town hall meetings and other functions.   
      
   Organizing for Action, a group founded by former President   
   Barack Obama and featured prominently on his new post-presidency   
   website, is distributing a training manual to anti-Trump   
   activists that advises them to bully GOP lawmakers into backing   
   off support for repealing ObamaCare, curbing immigration from   
   high-risk Islamic nations and building a border wall.   
      
   In a new Facebook post, OFA calls on activists to mobilize   
   against Republicans from now until Feb. 26, when   
   “representatives are going to be in their home districts.”   
      
   The protesters disrupted town halls earlier this month,   
   including one held in Utah by House Oversight Committee Chairman   
   Jason Chaffetz, who was confronted by hundreds of angry   
   demonstrators claiming to be his constituents.   
      
   The manual, published with OFA partner “Indivisible,” advises   
   protesters to go into halls quietly so as not to raise alarms,   
   and “grab seats at the front of the room but do not all sit   
   together.” Rather, spread out in pairs to make it seem like the   
   whole room opposes the Republican host’s positions. “This will   
   help reinforce the impression of broad consensus.” It also urges   
   them to ask “hostile” questions — while keeping “a firm hold on   
   the mic” — and loudly boo the GOP politician if he isn’t “giving   
   you real answers.”   
      
   “Express your concern [to the event’s hosts] they are giving a   
   platform to pro-Trump authoritarianism, racism, and corruption,”   
   it says.   
      
   The goal is to make Republicans, even from safe districts,   
   second-guess their support for the Trump agenda, and to prime   
   “the ground for the 2018 midterms when Democrats retake power.”   
      
   “Even the safest [Republican] will be deeply alarmed by signs of   
   organized opposition,” the document states, “because these   
   actions create the impression that they’re not connected to   
   their district and not listening to their constituents.”   
      
   After the event, protesters are advised to feed video footage to   
   local and national media.   
      
   “Unfavorable exchanges caught on video can be devastating” for   
   Republican lawmakers, it says, when “shared through social media   
   and picked up by local and national media.” After protesters   
   gave MSNBC, CNN and the networks footage of their dust-up with   
   Chaffetz, for example, the outlets ran them continuously,   
   forcing Chaffetz to issue statements defending himself.   
      
   The manual also advises protesters to flood “Trump-friendly”   
   lawmakers’ Hill offices with angry phone calls and emails   
   demanding the resignation of top White House adviser Steve   
   Bannon.   
      
   A script advises callers to complain: “I’m honestly scared that   
   a known racist and anti-Semite will be working just feet from   
   the Oval Office … It is everyone’s business if a man who   
   promoted white supremacy is serving as an adviser to the   
   president.”   
      
   The document provides no evidence to support such accusations.   
      
   Protesters, who may or may not be affiliated with OFA, are also   
   storming district offices. Last week, GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher   
   blamed a “mob” of anti-Trump activists for knocking unconscious   
   a 71-year-old female staffer at his Southern California office.   
   A video of the incident, showing a small crowd around an opening   
   door, was less conclusive.   
      
   Separately, OFA, which is run by ex-Obama officials and   
   staffers, plans to stage 400 rallies across 42 states this year   
   to attack Trump and Republicans over ObamaCare’s repeal.   
      
   “This is a fight we can win,” OFA recently told its foot   
   soldiers. “They’re starting to waver.”   
      
   On Thursday, Trump insisted he’s moving ahead with plans to   
   repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which has ballooned   
   health insurance premiums and deductibles. “ObamaCare is a   
   disaster, folks,” he said, adding that activists protesting its   
   repeal are hijacking GOP town halls and other events.   
      
   “They fill up our rallies with people that you wonder how they   
   get there,” the president said. “But they’re not the Republican   
   people that our representatives are representing.”   
      
   As The Post reported, OFA boasts more than 250 offices   
   nationwide and more than 32,000 organizers, with another 25,000   
   actively under training. Since November, it’s beefed up staff   
   and fundraising, though as a “social welfare” nonprofit, it does   
   not have to reveal its donors.   
      
      
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