Man with "Republicans Against Trump" sign beaten at Trump rally, Trump incited fight

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Last edited Sun Nov 6, 2016, 09:49 AM - Edit history (1)

Trump mocked a protester and caused the fight to break out, "How much are you being paid? $1500 dollars? Alright, take him out.""
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/i/videos/tweet/795084484173512704

Paul Lewis Verified account ‏@PaulLewis 1 hour ago
This is the man who was ejected from the rally, sparking panic. He was holding a sign: "Republicans Against Trump"


One of Trump's idiot supporters yelled "gun" and created an uproar. Trump was rushed off stage as pandemonium ensued.

John Santucci ‏@JTSantucci 3 hours ago
Senior sources tell @ABC the threat escalated when someone shouted gun at Trump rally. Source with direct knowledge says no weapon found

Joyce Karam ‏@Joyce_Karam 1 hour ago
#Reno recap:
•No Gun Found at Rally
•Man arrested was released
•He is Republican holding sign "Republicans against #Trump"

John Nichols ‏@NicholsUprising 1 hour ago Retweeted Paul Lewis
What "dangerous weapon" did guy who was detained briefly at Trump's Reno rally have in his possession? A "Republicans Against Trump" sign!

In the video you see Trump duck down to use the torso of the security guy as a shield.

CNN Politics ‏@CNNPolitics 3 hours ago
BREAKING: Donald Trump was rushed off stage by security personnel at a rally in Reno, Nevada
http://cnn.it/2fnOL1B

CBS News ‏@CBSNews 3 hours ago
CONTINUING COVERAGE: The suspect from the Trump rally is being led out the building by police officers
http://cbsn.ws/2ft7MhT

Jeremy Diamond @JDiamond1
Here's what happened to Austyn Crites, the man who raised a "Republicans Against Trump" sign & was detained after someone shouted "gun"

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4. lol

grabbing crotch extends to supporters...

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7. Is it just me or do these people look really stupid? And trump looked like

the bully-coward he is?

Good job, Coyotl

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8. Trump supporters tweeting about the signage and fight as "assassination attempt"

Anonymous ‏@YourAnonCentral 2 hours ago
Cowardly #Trump rushed off stage during his Nevada campaign rally, due to unarmed protester.:

Νia🚨IndictHillary 🚨 ‏@nia4_trump 3 hours ago
Assassination Attempt Trump Reno #TrumpRally Secret Service rush Trump to safety. Madman Trump re-takes stage! #MAGA

We have a global conspiracy in place already, we efficient liberals who control the universe:

Mike Cernovich🇺🇸 ‏@Cernovich 3 hours ago
Assassination attempt tonight, Secret Service heroes protect Trump would assailant. Media is covering this up!

Meanwhile, Hillary finished a rally in a heavy dowpour, but:

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 ‏@JackPosobiec 3h3 hours ago
Hillary ran away from rain today. Trump is back on stage minutes after assassination attempt.

And, of course, deplorably blame Hillary and the guy y'all just about kicked to death tonight:

DeplorableScottErnst ‏@RealScottErnst 1 hour ago
Man who caused assassination scare at #Trump rally in #Reno is a #HillaryClinton supporter. #MAGA #TrumpPence16

No way can they allow for truth to have anything to do with their minds.

Makada 🇺🇸 ‏@_Makada_ 2 hours ago
Trump is on his way to another rally in Colorado after assassination attempt in Reno, while Hillary cuts speeches short due to coughing fits

Cassandra Fairbanks ‏@CassandraRules 3 hours ago
Assassination threats are the fault of the Clinton campaign and the media who have painted Trump as the second coming of Hitler. Period.

Love the period. That makes it so much more truthy

They deserve our puns and satirical ridicule, to be sure:

Claude Taylor ‏@TrueFactsStated 3 hours ago Daytona Beach, FL
The incident at Trump's rally was an assassination attempt in the same sense that climate change is a Chinese conspiracy.

John Aravosis ‏@aravosis 3 hours ago
Trump campaign and Trump family are calling this an assassination attempt. A guy held up a sign.

Jeffrey Wright ‏@jfreewright 1 hour ago
Trump bravely returned to the stage in Reno after the "Republicans Against Trump" sign was determined to be unarmed & made of paper. #MAGA?

Danny Zuker ‏@DannyZuker 4 hours ago
Person who rushed the stage at Trump rally described as "White male in his thirties, large build and a time traveller."

MK ‏@Neethz426 27 seconds ago West Nyack, NY
Someone said Trump ran offstage in Reno for another dusting of Cheetos powder 😩😩

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9. Austyn Crites, beating victim, posted this:

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10. Photos and tweets: Paper Cut 2016 #Reno

Joanne Spruce ‏@JoanneSpruceC21 1 minute ago
"Trump protester: I was beaten for holding a 'Republicans against Trump' sign"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/06/trump-protester-i-was-beaten-for-holding-a-republicans-against-trump-sign
#Trump #sign #Crites #Reno

Richard Gardner ‏@RIchgard 4 minutes ago Santa Ana, CA
@AnthonyBialy he waved a sign in Reno, just to make trump fly? When all twitter starts to bristle, I hand my head & cry

(((vinniemontoya))) ‏@PiperDewn 7 minutes ago
Paper Cut 2016 #Reno

Never Forget Bot ‏@forgetmebot 9 minutes ago
Never Forget: The Great Reno "Scare" of 2016!

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11. Trump bots screw up a tweet storm.

Check out this cluster of Trump's troll army of non-persons tweeting the exact same thing, all without the link:

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12. Donald Trump Jr. and top aide retweet baseless allegation of assassination attempt

Donald Trump Jr. and top aide retweet baseless allegation of assassination attempt
By Aaron Blake November 5 at 11:46 PM

a scuffle erupted in the crowd directly in front of the stage and a man was led away. It wasn't immediately clear exactly what had happened.

But amid the chaos, some people seemed sure. Within minutes, at least two top Trump campaign voices -- Donald Trump Jr., and top social media aide Dan Scavino -- passed along unsubstantiated claims that the GOP nominee had just survived an "assassination attempt."



.... Trump Jr. also passed along a claim that the person who caused the disturbance had a gun.



.... multiple reporters interviewed the man who had been led away. He was not a Democrat, but rather a Republican who opposed Trump......

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13. I'm confused. I thought Republicans loved guns. Guns make them safe. Why did he run?

Marky Mark Twain ‏@OldManRiver1800 9 hours ago
I'm confused. I thought Republicans loved guns. Guns make them safe. Why did he run?

Trevor ‏@trev0r_m 4 minutes ago Wylie, TX
So a Republican holding an Anti-Trump sign in Reno was tackled and beaten by other R's, then accused of having a weapon to justify it??

Émerson Davi ‏@emersondavipc 17 minutes ago
Após ameaça, Donald Trump é retirado do palanque durante comício em Reno |
IG | IG http://dlvr.it/Mc0Y0b

Tids ‏@Tids_tweet 19 minutes ago
Donald Trump rushed off stage by Secret Service agents as cops escort protester out of Reno rally
http://dlvr.it/Mc0Xf1


Now, compare those to the Photoshop version the trump campaign is distributing:

"Crites said he is thankful law enforcement officers rushed into the crowd. He was released after spending nearly two hours detained in a bathroom guarded by riot-geared police at the convention center, according to the TV station." source http://dlvr.it/Mc0Xf1

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2860253.1478400740!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/campaign-2016-trump.jpg

Richard W. @IceManNYR
@brianstelter @NoahGrayCNN Trump mocking the protester before fight breaks out saying "How much are you being paid? $1500 dollars?"
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/i/videos/tweet/795084484173512704

Richard W. ‏@IceManNYR 12 hours ago
@brianstelter Video of camera man who left the press pen being harassed by Trump supporters caught by Right Side Broadcasting live feed.
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/IceManNYR/status/795077481309016064

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14. Full video with Trump instructing crowd, "Take him out."

I'm trying to find a short video clip of Trump saying,

"We have one of those guys from the Hillary Clinton campaign. How much you being paid, fifteen hundred dollars? Alright, take him out."

No luck yet, but the full rally tape is online, and the clip starts at 1h 52m 20s.

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15. VIDEO: Protester relives Trump fans' attack at Nevada rally

Nov 6, 2016

Austyn Crites tells how his plan to hold up a protest sign at a Trump rally ended in violence and the involvement of the Secret Service and police in Reno.

‘All of sudden these people next to me are getting violent,’ says the self-proclaimed Republican, who was wrestled and placed in a chokehold on Saturday. ‘I was very happy that the police came,’ he adds.

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16. Abbreviated Pundit

Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Last stop before election

Well, obviously this was the big overnight news and it will dominate the remainder of the election and reshape everything and be the biggest, most important, most earth-shaking story ever.

Except … no. No that’s not quite what happened. What happened was that a man in a Trump rally started to raise a sign. Some extra-twitchy Trump fan screamed “gun,” and the next moment the Secret Service came in to hustle Trump off stage.

Guy with sign was wrestled down and taken out of the rally, where he was found to be … a guy with a sign.

It took precisely 6.8 seconds for this story to go through the complete cycle of Republican paranoia and delusion, as illustrated in the delightful tweets of Citizens for Trump organizer and official social media jackass, Jack Posobiec. ...................

A minor scuffle at a campaign event gets spun as “an assassination attempt”

........... The situation was framed by some on social media as an “assassination attempt.” Donald Trump Jr. and Trump social media campaign aide Dan Scavino Jr. retweeted claims regarding the alleged “assassination attempt,” according to tweets screen-shotted by The Washington Post, which have since been removed. ........

"He's probably dead by now!"

Trump supporters beating up Trump protester/Austyn Crites

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17. LOL. Team Trump Not Backing Down on ‘Assassination Attempt’

Team Trump Not Backing Down on ‘Assassination Attempt’
On the final Sunday before election day, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway yet again found herself batting down the newest controversy affecting the campaign.
Andrew Desiderio, Asawin Suebsaeng 11.06.16

On Sunday, Donald Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway deflected when questioned over whether it was irresponsible for two top advisers to Donald Trump to suggest that an attempt was made to assassinate their candidate on Saturday night.

Almost immediately after a security scare at a Trump rally in Reno, Nevada, Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and the campaign’s social media director, Dan Scavino, retweeted a message on Twitter that described it as an “assassination attempt” against the Republican presidential nominee. However, there is no evidence that the incident was anything close to an attempt to kill or even hurt Trump.

.... As of Sunday morning, there is still no evidence that an “assassination attempt” on Trump took place in Reno this weekend. (In March, Trump falsely claimed that ISIS had attacked him .......

Some of Trump’s closest allies are more than happy to continue the “assassination” talk—again, with zero evidence from law enforcement officials, the Secret Service, or any reliable source that any such attempt was made on Saturday evening.

Ann Coulter, one of the biggest and hardest-working Trump boosters in conservative media, continued tweeting well into Sunday morning about those she’s dubbed “leftist assassins” such as Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth.

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18. Looks like the hacker was here.

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18. Following scare at Trump rally, life is now different for protester, death threats

Following scare at Trump rally, life is now different for protester
Seth A. Richardson, Reno (Nev.) Gazette-Journal 8:37 p.m. EST November 6, 2016

.... “For someone like me, this particular event will in fact change the rest of my life,” Crites said in an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal. “To what extent, that’s still yet to be seen, but I’m very cognizant that there is going to be a portion of the U.S. population that is going to doubt my true intentions no matter what I say. No matter what background I have, there will always be people who feel that I’m a sellout or something like this.” .....

“It’s interesting how a life can change so quickly over exercising freedom of speech with one sign,” he said. “There are people who carry signs all over the place and probably make thousands of Facebook posts and make dozens of speeches and such and they get almost no media attention and it doesn’t affect their lives.”

.... Crites said his only real issue with the negative coverage is people accusing him of attempting to kill Trump, a patently false allegation that could be dangerous.

... the ugliness didn’t stop at simple accusations. .... His family was also caught in the fray as his parent’s information was leaked online. His brother and sister-in-law were also targeted.

“My husband caught it worse because he shares a last name, but we’ve been getting a lot of direct messages with threats saying they’re going to come get us and our family and when Trump becomes president he’s going to have us killed. Threats like that,” said Jolene Hayes, Crites’ 33-year-old sister-in-law who lives in Alameda, Calif..............

Josh Marshall ‏@joshtpm 22 hours ago
Reno incident is Trump campaign in a nutshell: fear, jitters, freakout, spasm of Derp & violence, followed by manufacture of heroic fantasy.

Jeffrey Wright ‏@jfreewright Nov 5
Trump bravely returned to the stage in Reno after the "Republicans Against Trump" sign was determined to be unarmed & made of paper. #MAGA?