{"id":164727,"date":"2025-09-17T11:52:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/led-by-donkeys-attacks-orwellian-arrests-after-trump-windsor-projections-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:52:05","slug":"led-by-donkeys-attacks-orwellian-arrests-after-trump-windsor-projections-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/led-by-donkeys-attacks-orwellian-arrests-after-trump-windsor-projections-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Led By Donkeys attacks \u2018Orwellian\u2019 arrests after Trump Windsor projections – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exclusive: Campaign group says it was behind stunt that showed images of Trump and Epstein on castle tower
The arrest of four men after images of Donald Trump alongside Jeffrey Epstein were projected on to Windsor Castle on Tuesday was \u201cOrwellian\u201d and \u201cridiculous\u201d, the group behind the protest has told the Guardian.
The political campaign group Led By Donkeys confirmed that it was behind the stunt, which saw several images of Trump and Epstein projected on to a tower while a soundtrack questioning the relationship between to the two men was played on a speaker.
A letter the US president allegedly sent to Epstein was also projected on to the castle, along with pictures of Epstein\u2019s victims, news clips about the case and police reports.
The police said in a statement that four adults were arrested on suspicion of malicious communications after an \u201cunauthorised projection\u201d at Windsor Castle, which they described as a \u201cpublic stunt\u201d. The four remain in custody.
A spokesperson for Led By Donkeys, which is funded by capped donations, said it was the first time anyone from the group had been arrested.
\u201cWe\u2019ve done, I reckon, 25 or 30 projections since we\u2019ve been going. Often the police come along and we have a chat to them, and they even have a laugh with us and occasionally tell us to not do it,\u201d they said. \u201cBut no one\u2019s ever been arrested before, so it is ridiculous that four of our guys have been arrested for malicious communications.\u201d
He added: \u201cForgive the cliche, but it is rather Orwellian for a piece of journalism, which raises questions about our guest\u2019s relationship with America\u2019s most notorious child sex trafficker to lead to arrests.\u201d
They added: \u201cWe\u2019re constantly told, you know, we need to see peaceful protests. Well, here\u2019s a peaceful protest \u2026 We projected a piece of journalism on to a wall and now people have been arrested for malicious communications. I think that, frankly, says a lot more about the policing of Trump\u2019s visit than it does about what we did.\u201d
The group said it was waiting for news about the four men who had been arrested. The spokesperson said they had carried out an \u201cEmperor\u2019s New Clothes\u201d protest.
\u201cTrump is being welcomed to our country, being given the unique honour of a second state visit, and it\u2019s being housed at our expense at Windsor Castle,\u201d they said. \u201cThis is like The Emperor\u2019s New Clothes \u2013 you\u2019ve got to point at it and say, \u2018Hang on. You know, this guy has incredibly close links to America\u2019s most notorious child sex trafficker. We probably need to talk about that.\u2019 And so we decided to build a film that would tell that story.\u201d
Trump has come under increasing pressure over his links with Epstein after the publication of a letter, the existence of which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal in July, by Congress\u2019s House oversight committee earlier this month<\/a>. The letter contains text of a purported dialogue between Trump and Epstein in which Trump calls him a \u201cpal\u201d and says: \u201cMay every day be another wonderful secret.\u201d
The text sits within a crude sketch of a silhouette of a naked woman. Trump had previously denied writing the letter and the White House has denied its authenticity.
The president will be greeted by King Charles on Wednesday for a day of pomp at Windsor Castle, about 25 miles west of London. The Prince and Princess of Wales will also meet the president and the first lady, Melania Trump, in the grounds of the Windsor estate.
Trump will be treated to a historic flypast, the first time US and UK aircraft have flown together in a military flypast for a state visit. In the evening Trump and his wife will be the guests of honour at a white-tie state banquet in Windsor Castle, alongside 160 guests in St George\u2019s Hall. The president will travel to the prime minister\u2019s country residence, Chequers, on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Exclusive: Campaign group says it was behind stunt that showed images of Trump and Epstein on castle towerThe arrest of four men after images of Donald Trump alongside Jeffrey Epstein were projected on to Windsor Castle on Tuesday was \u201cOrwellian\u201d and \u201cridiculous\u201d, the group behind the protest has told the Guardian.The political campaign group Led […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}