Posted on 03/10/2016 3:18:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Trump supporter who was filmed sucker punching a protester during Wednesday's rally in North Carolina said: "Next time, we might have to kill him."
Multiple videos show the protester, 26-year-old Rakeem Jones, raising a middle finger to the crowd as security escorted him from the rally - before the unnamed supporter punched him to the ground.
INSIDE EDITION tracked down the supporter, 78-year-old John McGraw, who was unrepentant.
When asked if he liked the rally, he said: "You bet I liked it. Knocking the hell out of that big mouth."
And when asked why he punched the protester, he said: "Number one, we don't know if he's ISIS. We don't know who he is, but we know he's not acting like an American, cussing me... If he wants it laid out, I laid it out."
He added: "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."
On Thursday, officials arrested and charged McGraw with assault and battery and disorderly conduct, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office.
Jones told INSIDE EDITION on Thursday morning that his left eye still hurts from the punch and he remains confused about why he was being taken out by security in the first place.
He added that he doesn't regret going to the rally for the GOP frontrunner.
"Donald Trump probably doesn't care about what happened. He is already onto the next thing," he said. "If I can go to another [Trump] rally, I would go if I can."
When IE told Jones about his alleged attacker's comments, he said he did not have a response.
Jones attended the rally with friends.
"The people that are going to his rallies are hateful people," Jones' friend Ronnie Rouse told IE. "Not in general, because you cannot put a label on all of the people - but there is hatred."
“The Trump supporter who was filmed sucker punching a protester during Wednesday’s rally in North Carolina said: “Next time, we might have to kill him.”
Exactly what my father, Master Chief Duntno, would have done and said. I don’t know what it will take for us to all start that reaction. The minute that puke flashed the finger, I’d have done the same thing, even though I am a little younger and may have knocked the little bstrd out, it would have been worth it. And the FACT is, we don’t do that shit at Hillary rallies, they gotta be taught some manners.
No they are not hateful people but when their good time gets shat upon they respond with a slap up side the head. :-)
I’m just saying.
Most all of your posts are very good. I completely agree with nearly all of them.
You even post pro-Trump posts. Quite a number of them in fact.
This post is not good.
But the Trumpets say that Cruz has no black supporters. Make up your minds...
Out of control violence at trump rallies, so says NBC, Brother!
This is instigator nonsense. I’ve never seen this horrendous debased level of discourse on this board and I won’t be opening threads like this in the future, but I felt to post here that I’m praying for the safety and protection of Donald J. Trump and every volunteer and worker in his campaign and for audience members too. The opposition will spare nothing to bring down Mr. Trump and blacken his name. Sickening. I don’t believe this stuff is indicative of Mr. Trump’s campaign.
brownshirt mentality responding to peaceful dissent with violence
When asked if he liked the rally, he said: “You bet I liked it. Knocking the hell out of that big mouth.”
wait.. He punched Trump?
No complaints about the post here ... first of all, that old man is a badazz ... also, 2DV posts a lot of stuff I’d otherwise miss, including the negative schizz, and he probably doesn’t understand that even the neg schizz creates opportunity to exploit ...
No wonder we became the spineless party that watches these arrogant aholes take over the country, writing laws by Presidential fiat and ignoring the Constitution.
Strong letter to follow.
Are they making it up? Did it actually happen?
Beck Did... The SS even paid him a visit..
Lindsay... he needs a visit as well.
and a long stay in a institution... Maybe next to Beck’s room.
Not a good idea to kill people unless they are in the act of trying to kill you first.
Not one of you has asked me yet if I agree with the old man.
Big fan of BLM, are ya?
Cruzoids are just desperate. Very sad what some people let themselves come to rather than accept reality.
One of Trump's campaign promises is that he will pay the legal fees of supporters who beat anyone suspected of being a protester.
Soon Mr. McGraw, and the rest of us, will learn if Trump will keep his promise.
This was the lead story on ABC’s so-called “World News Tonight.”
If it happened at a Hillary rally, it would be down the memory hole.
Didn’t Obama once say at one of his rallies in 2008 or 2012, “If they bring a knife to a fight, you bring a gun?”
I don’t remember any outrage from the media back then.
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