The Philadelphia Eagles appear to not be fans of Vice President Kamala Harris as news has broken out that they have begun removing fake endorsement advertisements depicting Harris in their team’s gear.
In an X post, the NFL team wrote that they are in the process of removing the advertisements, stating that they were not responsible for them.
“We are aware counterfeit political ads are being circulated and are working with our advertising partner to have them removed,” the team posed on X.
Several videos have gone viral showing the Philadelphia Eagles supporting Harris. The advertisement features a drawing of Harris wearing an Eagles helmet with a caption that reads “Kamala, Official candidate of the Philadelphia Eagles.”
It also has a link to “philadelphiaeagles.com/vote,” which is an official website belonging to the Eagles designed to get people to vote.
The link also shows previous primary election voting deadlines from the spring in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
According to Fox29 Philadelphia reporter Steve Keely, a Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) said that the city owns the bus shelters where the advertisements have been placed, per the Post Millennial.
“SEPTA’s ad spaces are mostly in train stations and on-board buses and trains. So far, we have not heard anything about ads like this appearing on SEPTA property,” a spokesman for SEPTA said.
Matt Cassidy, who is with Philadelphia’s Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems, informed CBS News Philadelphia that the city is looking at the incident as vandalism and currently working with the advertising company to have all of the posters removed by Tuesday.
“A number of illegally placed posters of Kamala Harris and the Philadelphia Eagles were placed in bus shelters in Philadelphia,” the city wrote in a statement to the outlet. “These were not digital ads placed by the Harris campaign, the Philadelphia EAGLES, SEPTA, The City of Philadelphia or the media agency, Intersection, that handles the transit ad space.
“This was not a digital breach; whomever is responsible for the illegally placed posters, broke into the securely covered shelter ad space and somehow put the posters in the space. Intersection has advised the City’s Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems (OTIS) that they plan to conduct a full inventory tomorrow of all bus shelters, and remove any illegally posters. The City has a process to review all bus shelter ads but this, again, was not a digital ad.”
A video that has since gone viral was posted on X showing a Philadelphia citizen taking matters into his own hands by covering up the fake advertisements by placing copies of the Eagle’s official statement calling them “counterfeit” on top of them.
While it is unknown as to who created or posted the advertisements around the city, journalist Laura Loomer pointed out on X that Christian Molnar, the Director of Team Relationships for the Eagles, wrote a post contradicting both the city and the Eagles had stated about the advertisements being placed illegally and without knowledge.
In a separate post, Molnar wrote that taking down the signs was considered vandalism. Loomer was able to take a screenshot of Molnar’s post before it was deleted.
One of Loomer’s followers commented on the post that Molnar has several anti-Trump posts on his account.
Most of the advertisements have been taken down as of Tuesday.
Source: Resistthemainstream
