The Florida Goes Trump rallies were held in more than 20 cities across the state on Aug. 20, 2016. News releases touting the event were rife with grammatical errors and used language ripped from a traditional Trump stump speech.
"We want to support our candidate and show the whole country that we must unite and make America great again!" read a posting about the rallies. "On August 20, we want to gather patriots on the start of Floridian towns and cities and march to unite America and support Donald Trump!"
Russian-linked Facebook group "Being Patriotic" sent messages to its followers as it was planning the rallies, stressing the importance of winning Florida.
"Florida is still a purple state and we need to appoint it red," read the message, according to the indictment. "If we lose Florida, we lose America."
Beyond the rallies, the Russian scheme also used its social media reach to falsely tie Clinton to voter fraud in South Florida, a region with a long history of voting abnormalities.
Russian-linked Twitter accounts on Nov. 2, well into the state's early-voting period, blasted out a tweet saying voter fraud was occurring because "tens of thousands of ineligible mail in Hillary voters are being reported in Broward County, Florida."
Broward County is home to the biggest concentration of registered Democrats in the state.
