John McGraw is the perfect poster boy of the older white men flocking to Donald Trump’s rallies. They are filled anxieties about the changes they see taking place in the world around them, and are seething with imagined resentments and for those who are black and brown and have a perspective unlike their own which they regard as akin to treason.
Man charged for punch at Trump rally: 'We don't know if he's ISIS'
By Harper Neidig
"You bet I liked it," John McGraw told “Inside Edition” when he was asked if he enjoyed the rally. "Clocking the hell out of that big mouth."
McGraw was asked why he punched the protester, 26-year-old Rakeem Jones, during the event Wednesday.
“Well, number one, we don’t know if he’s ISIS," he said. "We don’t know who he is, but we know he’s not acting like an American and cussing me … and sticking his face in my head. If he wants it laid out, I laid it out."
"Yes, he deserved it. The next time we see him, we might have to kill him. We don’t know who he is. He might be with a terrorist organization," McGraw added.
The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office on Thursday said McGraw has been charged with assaulting a protester and disorderly conduct.
Black Protester Is Sucker-Punched by White Donald Trump Supporter at Rally
By Ashley Parker
Hope Hicks, a Trump campaign spokeswoman, called such incidents unfortunate but said the campaign had “no control” over its supporters’ behavior. She did note that the campaign plays a safety announcement before each event, instructing the crowd not to touch or harm protesters.
“We obviously discourage any kind of physical contact or engagement with protesters,” she said.
Later in the Fayetteville rally on Wednesday, when another in a series of demonstrators was being led out, Mr. Trump himself lamented what he called “the good old days” when someone who acted up would be carried out “on a stretcher.”
John McGraw calling Rakeem Jones an “it” is an example of how an alarming proportion of Trump’s followers tend to dehumanize People of Color, and some like McGraw even try to smear them as potential terrorists, (in McGraw’s case as the flimsiest justification for unprovoked violence).
Then later in a subsequent rally Donald Trump endorses McGraw’s kind of actions!? in fact Trump has a pattern of endorsing and applauding violence himself! Unbelievable! That should be unacceptable for any presidential hopeful.
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