Posted on 11/06/2016 8:23:10 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
The man whose protest at a Donald Trump rally in Nevada led the Secret Service to rush the GOP nominee offstage said he went to the event "with a simple sign" to "voice my displeasure with the nominee that the party picked."
Austin Crites, who said he is a registered Republican, said in an interview today with ABC News' "Good Morning America" that he held up a sign proclaiming "Republicans Against Trump" at the rally in Reno on Saturday.
After he raised the sign, "of course there was the booing going on around me," Crites told "GMA." "Then a couple of guys started trying to violently rip the sign out of my hand, grabbing my arm, grabbing the sign ... then all of a sudden I just got tackled by several people at once ... eventually the police came, and I was thankful for that."
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“Anyone at a Presidential campaign rally that’s pushing to the front of a crowd and reaching toward their waistband is gonna get a beatdown.”
Anyone at a Trump rally who had already voted for Hillary is there for nefarious reasons. Common sense.
It appears there’s a lot of incriminating info out there on this creep. I hope the SS doesn’t just let him go; I hope and pray they make his live a living hell as a warning to others who want to go down this road.
Guess Hillary wanted to freak Trump out. From what I’ve heard, it didn’t phase him.
Trump Attacker Is Hillary Supporter, Mentioned in Wikileaks, Hit Previous Rally
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/11/update-trump-attacker-birddogging-hillary-mentioned-wikileaks/
If he wanted to protest, there was a small group of protesters outside the building by the parking lot, he could have done it there. So that is not the real reason.
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