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Trump campaign hypes fake ‘assassination attempt’
A man was holding a sign. Then things got weird
Three days before the election, in the middle of get out the vote efforts across the country, the Trump campaign is claiming their candidate survived an assassination attempt. This is a fantasy.
Here is what really happened.
At a rally in Reno, Nevada on Saturday night, Donald Trump was talking about his strong support from the Hispanic community. Then he paused.
“Oh, we have one of those guys from the Hillary Clinton campaign,” he said peering down in front of him, shielding his eyes from the bright lights.
“How much are you being paid, $1,500? All right, take him out.”
There was some kind of scuffle, and before he knew it, he was quickly escorted off the stage by Secret Service.
The camera zoomed out to reveal a disturbance in the crowd and the Secret Service closing in on someone.
Soon, a surrogate came back onstage and assured everyone Trump would be back. In a few minutes, Trump came back onstage and continued with his speech.
“Nobody said it was going to be easy for us but we will never be stopped,” he said.
Minutes later the Trump campaign’s social media director Dan Scavino promoted a tweet claiming that Trump survived an assassination attempt. The same tweet was retweeted by Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
The Secret Service apprehended the man who prompted the incident. He was interviewed and quickly released.
According to the Secret Service, the incident started when an unidentified individual shouted “gun.” No weapon was found on the scene.
The man the Secret Service talked to is Austyn Crites, and he told the Gaurdian’s Paul Lewis that he is a Republican voting for the GOP this year, but not Trump.
Crites said held a sign that said “Republicans against Trump.” He was terrified by the crowd’s reaction to him. “I was in survival mode,” he said. “I knew I could die at that moment.”
He told Lewis that “Someone grabbed his testicles and had his neck was in a chokehold.”
As ThinkProgress reported earlier this year, “violence by Trump supporters has been a recurring issue at his campaign events.”
Trump himself sometimes seems to revel in an atmosphere of fear and paranoia, not only of policy and politics, but a more personal miasma at his rallies. “I’d like to punch him in the face.” “In the good ol’ days, they’d have knocked him out of seat so fast.” “Knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously, okay? Just knock the hell.” Trump has said each of these things at campaign rallies in response to protesters.
Asked about his comments, Trump said in March, “We have some protesters who are bad dudes, they have done bad things.”
UPDATE (12:15AM):
At his next event in Denver, a man introducing Trump claimed that there was “an attempt of murder” against Trump in Nevada. (There was not.)
