CNN’s MJ Lee tweeted that the protester said he would be pressing charges, comparing the guard’s treatment to how Trump treated Univision reporter Jorge Ramos at an August press conference. “We will go out and fight hard, and we will win“.
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Trump announced on Thursday that he had signed a pledge to the Republican Party, and will not be running as a third-party candidate in the upcoming presidential election.
Protesters were there to call attention to Trump’s always controversial comments about immigrants.
An unidentified Donald Trump protester dressed up like a member of the Ku Klux Klan in an apparent nod to Donald Trump’s divisive message about immigration. They made what looked like a Miss Universe effigy decorated with a banner that included swastikas.
The aggressor was wearing a suit and tie and n Trump button pinned to his lapel.
According to the Daily Caller it was Trump’s director of security, Keith Schiller, who grabbed a sign that read “Trump – Make America Racist Again” and began to walk back inside the building when the protester, identified by NY1 as Efraín Galicia, lunged at him and grabbed him from behind.
The confrontation turned violent when a bodyguard allegedly seized a sign “Make America Racist Again”.
A security guard for Donald Trump punched a protester on Thursday in the midst of a demonstration criticizing the Republican presidential candidate for his anti-immigrant rhetoric, NY1 Noticias reported.
Pushing: Video of the tussle shows Galicia grabbing a guard from behind and then that guard turning to slap him.
“They pushed me around”, Galicia told the New York Post.
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The Trump campaign told the New York Times that the guard had been “jumped from behind” and that they would “likely be pressing charges”.
