Republican Senator Blasted for Seconding Trump's 'Paid Troublemakers' at Town Halls Claim Without Providing 'Receipts'

Kansas Senator Roger Marshall is being blasted by social media users after amplifying President Donald Trump's claim that Republican Town Hall Meetings are being attended by protestors who have been paid to disrupt the events and berate legislators, despite there being no evidence to suggest this.

"Paid 'troublemakers' are attending Republican Town Hall Meetings. It is all a part of the game for the Democrats, but just like our big LANDSLIDE ELECTION, it's not going to work for them!" Trump wrote to his social media platform, Truth Social, on Monday.

Marshall then reposted the post to X accompanied by the caption, "Can confirm."

Users flooded the replies of his post to ask for evidence of the phenomenon multiple Republican legislators have insisted is true.

"Receipts?" asked one user.

"Can you provide evidence that there were paid agitators in Oakley? If so, that's a very important story," asked another user.

Others took to the replies of Marshall's post to point out that many protestors at the town hall events were in fact the constituents of the legislators present there, ridiculing GOP politicians for attempting to inflate a baseless conspiracy theory.

"That's what you think of your constituents? We're just paid 'troublemakers?'" said one user.

"Nope, not paid trouble makers. *Your constituents* who will hopefully vote you out next year a make you the next one term Senator!!" wrote another.

"Lol you think 'paid troublemakers' drove out to Logan County, Kansas to ask you about Trump firing veterans?" wrote a third user. "Come back to reality!"

"What a pathetic lie of an excuse for turning your back on your constituents and veterans. The video doesn't lie: you can't take the heat," said a fourth user, sharing a video of a protest at a GOP-led town hall meeting.

"I missed the part in history class where elected officials only did things for constituents that were their party. There are democrats in Kansas. You know that those were all Kansas residents because you had them sign in with where they were from. You're lying and you know it," wrote another user.

The idea that paid protestors and Democrats are attending Republican-led town hall meetings with the goal of disrupting them has been repeated by various Republican lawmakers despite a lack of evidence behind the claim. Just last Wednesday, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson alleged that pro-Medicaid protestors at such meetings had been paid to attend.

"The videos you saw of the town halls were paid protestors. In many of those places, these are Democrats that went to the events early and filled up the seats," said Johnson while speaking to CNN's Kaitlan Collins on "The Source".

"One Republican acknowledged that they were his constituents, that's fantastic, OK, but they had Democrats come and fill the seats early. This is an old playbook that they pulled out and ran and it made it look like what is happening in Washington is unpopular," Johnson stated.