A federal lawsuit filed on Friday seeks to block President Trump’s UFC event from being held on the White House lawn.
The event is scheduled to take place on the White House South Lawn on 14 June, which is Flag Day and President Trump’s 80th birthday. It will be part of the broader package of celebrations for the 250th anniversary of America’s founding.
The lawsuit, filed by two Virginia residents, claims the decision to host the event on the White House lawn was unlawful.
The plaintiffs argue the event failed to meet the requirements for authorization under the National Park Service’s temporary rule set in place for the 250th anniversary. This rule allows the agency to disregard its permitting rules and allow “special events planned, organized and executed” by federal agencies.
“The event is neither ‘for the celebration of the 250th anniversary of American Independence’ nor, crucially, being ‘planned, organized, and executed’ by the federal government,” the plaintiffs said in the suit.
“Rather, UFC Freedom 250 is a private, for-profit sporting event being ‘planned, organized, and executed’ by the UFC, its broadcast partners, and its advertisers, not by the federal government.”
“This is a profoundly corrupt scheme to enrich the President and his friends,” Brendan Ballou, founder of the Public Integrity Project that represents the plaintiffs, said.
“If this fight is allowed to proceed, it will be only the beginning, and our national monuments will become little more than branding opportunities for the rich and well-connected. We plan to stop that.”
The White House responded by labelling the lawsuit “an obstructionist, baseless, and dilatory” attempt to prevent the event from taking place, and said the event would be no different from other “properly permitted events on the Ellipse and National Mall throughout the year.”
Construction crews have already begun assembling an octagon on the South Lawn, ready for the event.
According to the UFC, up to 85,000 free tickets will be issued to spectators.
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> Brendan Ballou, founder of the Public Integrity Project
Sounds like some dumb n*igger bullshit filled with leftist Jews and white women.
UFC has forever been the fantasy of choice for most American men. Must we all look and act like Mike Pence? Our government is closer to the people it represents than it has ever been, even if its complicated by the homosexual community, paid protestors, black lives matter, and Antifa. UFC is like baseball and apple pie, its solely Amerian.
I could not think of a more appropriate way to acknowledge Trumps 80th birthday than this event
The only white American UFC champ, Sean Strickland, is banned from the event.
Hes not being a good goy.
UFC is owned by a jew now. UFC went from good, to really bad, really fast.