Feds Charge Ohio Man Who Tried to Rush Trump Stage

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/feds-charge-ohio-man-rush-trump-stage-37666954 ^

[4rcane]

A man who tried to rush the stage at a Donald Trump rally in Ohio was charged by federal prosecutors Tuesday with illegally entering a restricted area. Authorities say Thomas Dimassimo, of Fairborn, jumped a barricade and rushed at Trump on Saturday. Video from the rally shows Dimassimo was able to touch the stage before security officials tackled him. Dimassimo, 22, was charged in federal court in Dayton. The misdemeanor charge carries up to a one-year prison sentence. Dimassimo, who attends Wright State University in Dayton, is a hard-working college student whose intentions were benevolent and a way to express his political ideals, his attorney, Jon Paul Rion, said. "He clearly did not mean any ill will toward any person and was simply expressing his political views," Rion said. Dimassimo is a senior at Wright State majoring in acting, said university spokesman Seth Bauguess.

[4rcane]

about time, I hope this is true and he get 1 year in jail. Messing with Secret Service.

[MamaB]

Bless his little heart. Really dumb to be a sr in college.

[dschapin]

Good, anyone who rushes the stage of a presidential candidate should be charged.

[Jeff Head]

IMHO, the charges should be stiffer.

He did not "just enter a restrict5ed area."

By his own admissions he indicated that:

1) He did not think the secret service presences would be as big as it was.
2) That he wanted to physically take the microphone away form Trump so he could make his own statement.
3) That his goal was martyrdom.

It is clear from his other social media posts that this was premeditated.

IMHO, this militant activist should be accused of a Federal Crime. He violated federal law in attacking a presidential candidate who was under Secret service protection.

He should spend about a decade in Leavenworth or someplace like that.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: Dimassimo, who attends Wright State University in Dayton, is a hard-working college student ::

Hah!
He’s and “acting” major. He ain’t “hard-working” in any concept of that term.

[stocksthatgoup]

He’s a hard-working student lol

[Blue Jays]

One would think "Wright State University" would seek to distance themselves from this 22 y.o. nitwit who is a student there.

[BradtotheBone]

“He clearly did not mean any ill will toward any person and was simply expressing his political views,”

Where do they come up with this BS???

[Paladin2]

As long as the Feds are coming down like a TON Of Bricks on the out west Ranchers protesting the original BLM, the libtard disruptors need to pay the price. BLM v2.0 can caucus from behind bars.

[4rcane]

You can’t mess around with this stuff. Presidents have been assassinated and shot before. You can’t keep giving ppl like this a pass

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

In my world, Trump should have handed the microphone to this mook and summarily followed it up with a right cross to the nose.

THAT would have played to all of America.

[Mr. K]

“A hard working student whose intentions were benevolent...”
WTF??????

[MplsSteve]

Freedom of speech has many facets, popular and unpopular, reasonable and unreasonable.

Rushing the stage is NOT a popular or reasonable exercising of that right.

This kid is really misguided. I think jail is a bit harsh. I’d like to see him spending several long hot summers doing yard work for senior citizens or assisting crews as they repair playground equipment or scrub away graffiti.

That should hopefully cure him of his problem.

[CGASMIA68]

So lets see how long and IF the lame stream media put this it there???

[AuntB]

” illegally entering a restricted area.”

It’s federal law to even threaten verbally a major presidential candidate. Why isn’t he charged with that? WTH? May not be close enough to the general election for that to kick in.

[Starboard]

He’s an “acting” major. He ain’t “hard-working” in any concept of that term.

**************
He needs to start ‘acting’ like a responsible adult.

[Guenevere]

Throw the book at him!.....a year in jail at least!!!!

[Grampa Dave]

There are severe laws on the books that make what happened to Trump in Chicago, Ohio and other places illegal. See #1 below. Then, there are severe laws for those involved in conspiracies against political events. So some rectums sitting in front of their computers organizing and ordering actions like what happen to Trump last week could find themselves facing severe fines and jail time. Mediots on TV and pushing or dog whistling violence against Trump are guilty. See #2 below.

#1:

For one thing, the law makes it easier for the government to criminalize protest. Period. It is a federal offense, punishable by up to 10 years in prison to protest anywhere the Secret Service might be guarding someone. For another, it’s almost impossible to predict what constitutes “disorderly or disruptive conduct” or what sorts of conduct authorities deem to “impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions.”

#2: There is another interesting Code/law that applies the conspiracy/violation of peaceful assembly and free speech.

18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; .... They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 696; Pub. L. 90–284, title I, § 103(a), Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 75; Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7018(a), (b)(1), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4396; Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60006(a), title XXXII, §§ 320103(a), 320201(a), title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1970, 2109, 2113, 2147; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, §§ 604(b)(14)(A), 607(a), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3507, 3511.)

[Thibodeaux]

he is a student until his loans run out