Pineapples, tomatoes, and bananas are “dangerous stuff” that could take a person’s life, Trump said.
last October, transcripts of which were filed in court on Tuesday and viewed by The Daily Beast. Furthermore, if someone showed up to one of his rallies bearing such ammunition, it would justify beating them up, he argued. Trump was being questioned under oath as part of a 2015 lawsuit brought by a group of activists who alleged the Trump Organization’s chief of security,hit one of them on the head when they were protesting outside of the company’s Manhattan headquarters.
“Some fruit is a lot worse...tomatoes are bad, by the way,” he continued. “But it’s very dangerous. No, I wanted them to watch. They were on alert. I remember that specific event because everybody was on alert. They were going to hit, they were going to hit hard.” Asked about telling rallygoers that he’d cover the legal fees of anyone who “knock[ed] the crap out of” a tomato-possessing protester, Trump doubled down on the idea that he faced a “serious threat.
One of the lawyers asked: “Is it your expectation that if your security guards see someone about to throw a tomato that they should knock the crap out of them?” To which Trump responded yes, but that they shouldn’t just limit themselves to protecting him from tomatoes. “A tomato, a pineapple, a lot of other things they throw,” he said.
Trump, of course, has a long history of inciting violence. In addition to telling rallygoers to “knock the crap out of” any protesters bearing tomatoes, he’s also previously
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