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title: '''Miners for Trump'' rally poster (Internet Research Agency)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/miners-for-trump-ira-2016/
description: A 'Miners for Trump' rally poster reproduced in the Special Counsel's report.
section: Collection
---

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[!['Miners for Trump' rally poster (Internet Research Agency)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/miners-for-trump-ira-2016.png)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/miners-for-trump-ira-2016.png)

# 'Miners for Trump' rally poster (Internet Research Agency)

A 'Miners for Trump' rally poster reproduced in the Special Counsel's report. The Internet Research Agency, a St Petersburg company, used it to promote rallies in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia in October 2016 through accounts posing as American activists, and recruited real Americans to organise and attend without telling them who was asking.

- **Date:** October 2016
- **Period:** [Contemporary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=contemporary)
- **Made by:** Internet Research Agency (St Petersburg), via fake U.S. activist accounts
- **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia)
- **Country:** [Russia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=russia)
- **Medium:** [Digital posts](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=digital-post)
- **Issuer type:** [Covert network](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=covert-network)
- **Regime:** [Putin Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=putin-government)
- **Leader:** [Vladimir Putin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=vladimir-putin)
- **Audience:** [Foreign public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=foreign-public)
- **Purpose:** [Deceive or deny](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=deceive-deny)
- **Themes:** [Elections and party politics](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=elections-party-politics), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information), [Labor](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=labor)
- **Event:** [2016 US Election](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=2016-us-election)
- **Techniques:** [Astroturfing](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/astroturf/)
- **Source:** Impersonated Source falsified: fake personas, outlets or documents
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MinersForTrump.png), retrieved September 27, 2026
- **Rights:** Public domain (U.S. government work) U.S. Department of Justice, Special Counsel's Office (2019), Vol. I, p. 31.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
MINERS FOR TRUMP
BRING BACK OUR JOBS

HOW MANY PA WORKERS LOST THEIR JOBS
DUE TO OBAMA'S DESTRUCTIVE POLICIES?
HELP MR. TRUMP FIX IT!

WHEN:          OCTOBER 2, AT 2PM
WHERE:         STEEL PLAZA, PITTSBURGH
               MARCONY PLAZA, PHILLY

#TRUMPPENCE2016
```

Transcribes only the 'Miners for Trump' poster reproduced on the left of this exhibit page from the Mueller report; the report's own body text and the redacted 'Harm to Ongoing Matter' block on the right of the page are FRAME's source document, not part of the poster, and are not transcribed. 'Marcony Plaza' is transcribed exactly as printed on the poster (the actual venue is Marconi Plaza, Philadelphia).

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