‘No Kings’ Protester Assaulted By MAGA Supporter At Event Near Mar-A-Lago: MS NOW Report | EUROtoday

MS NOW White House correspondent Jake Traylor on Saturday reported dwell from one of many many “No Kings” protests being held in opposition to President Donald Trump, capturing a part of an altercation that one demonstrator mentioned was began by a few indignant MAGA followers.

Traylor reported for “Velshi” from West Palm Beach, Florida, the place hundreds of protesters gathered close to Mar-a-Lago to make their voices heard. He advised host Ali Velshi {that a} group of Trump supporters have been counterprotesting the occasion, nonetheless, simply 100 yards down the street.

“I’d say proper now, Ali, there are 2,000, 3,000 on the ‘No Kings,’ mentioned Traylor.

He continued, “Over at the Trump protest, there are about a couple dozen. But moments ago, we actually saw a protester from the pro-Trump protest come over here and initially just say a lot of defamatory things towards the peaceful protesting.”

Traylor mentioned that “it got physical for a moment” when a Trump supporter “jumped the caution tape” to enter the “No Kings” protest, regardless of being requested to depart, with footage of an ensuing altercation being proven on-screen. A neighborhood man corroborated the declare.

“These two gentlemen were yelling and screaming at a bunch of us, and our side was remaining completely quiet, wasn’t even responding,” mentioned a “No Kings” protester recognized solely as Michael, who advised Traylor that he witnessed it himself.

He continued, “And a young woman started taking pictures of him with her camera and one of the guys walked over and, it looked like it was an open fist, actually, like, took such a swing, knocked the camera out of her hands, and I believe it actually cracked.”

Michael added that he advised the person, “Now you’re going to jail,” earlier than informing native authorities.

He advised Traylor, “I ran over around to the parking lot, there was about a dozen cops hanging out, and I said, ‘There’s an assault in progress,’ and they all came running.”

Michael mentioned the person then “started running from the police,” who purportedly gave chase.

Trump has often blamed “the left” for political violence throughout the nation, regardless of frequently and actively stoking it himself. He infamously steered final 12 months {that a} group of Democratic veterans in Congress needs to be hanged for making an innocuous video.

Lawmakers from each side of the aisle have known as for an finish to the bipartisan blame sport about whose social gathering commits extra political violence than the opposite.

A research revealed in 2024 by the National Institute of Justice, which was prominently accessible on the Justice Department web site, discovered that “the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”

The research was quietly faraway from the Justice Department web site in September.