A woman in a “Release the Epstein Files” shirt got punched in the face by a man in the crowd at President Donald Trump’s rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday night. Police escorted her out of the Covelli Centre. The man who hit her stayed inside.
It happened while Trump was speaking about the Ohio Senate race. Video from the stands shows several people grabbing and shoving the woman before a man in a black polo stood up, pulled her down by her hair and punched her in the face at least once.
“He’s gotta go on a diet!”
President Donald Trump, from the stage, apparently unaware the protester was a woman
From the stage, Trump called her a paid protester and said protesters are paid to destroy the country, offering no evidence for the claim. As officers walked her out, footage shows the man who struck her exchanging high fives with people around him. No arrest over the punch had been reported by Tuesday afternoon.
She was not the only one removed. Two other protesters were escorted out during the night, one during Sen. Jon Husted’s remarks and another who showed a Palestinian flag. Trump was in town backing Husted and gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy ahead of the midterms.
On her way out, the woman flipped off the crowd. That was the whole night in one scene: she came to be heard, got hit for it, and got removed, while the man who hit her watched the rest of the rally.
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