MS NOW White Home correspondent Jake Traylor on Saturday reported dwell from one of many many “No Kings” protests being held in opposition to President Donald Trump, capturing a part of an altercation that one demonstrator stated was began by a few offended MAGA followers.
Traylor reported for “Velshi” from West Palm Seashore, Florida, the place hundreds of protesters gathered close to Mar-a-Lago to make their voices heard. He instructed host Ali Velshi {that a} group of Trump supporters had been counterprotesting the occasion, nevertheless, simply 100 yards down the highway.
“I’d say proper now, Ali, there are 2,000, 3,000 on the ‘No Kings,’ stated Traylor.
He continued, “Over on the Trump protest, there are a couple of couple dozen. However moments in the past, we truly noticed a protester from the pro-Trump protest come over right here and initially simply say a variety of defamatory issues in direction of the peaceable protesting.”
Traylor stated that “it received bodily for a second” when a Trump supporter “jumped the warning tape” to enter the “No Kings” protest, regardless of being requested to depart, with footage of an ensuing altercation being proven on-screen. A neighborhood man corroborated the declare.
“These two gents had been yelling and screaming at a bunch of us, and our facet was remaining fully quiet, wasn’t even responding,” stated a “No Kings” protester recognized solely as Michael, who instructed Traylor that he witnessed it himself.
He continued, “And a younger lady began taking photos of him along with her digicam and one of many guys walked over and, it appeared prefer it was an open fist, truly, like, took such a swing, knocked the digicam out of her palms, and I consider it truly cracked.”
Michael added that he instructed the person, “Now you’re going to jail,” earlier than informing native authorities.
He instructed Traylor, “I ran over round to the parking zone, there was a couple of dozen cops hanging out, and I stated, ‘There’s an assault in progress,’ they usually all got here working.”
Michael stated the person then “began working from the police,” who purportedly gave chase.

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Trump has regularly blamed “the left” for political violence throughout the nation, regardless of commonly and actively stoking it himself. He infamously instructed final 12 months {that a} group of Democratic veterans in Congress ought to be hanged for making an innocuous video.
Lawmakers from either side of the aisle have known as for an finish to the bipartisan blame recreation about whose social gathering commits extra political violence than the opposite.
A research revealed in 2024 by the Nationwide Institute of Justice, which was prominently out there on the Justice Division web site, discovered that “the variety of far-right assaults continues to outpace all different sorts of terrorism and home violent extremism.”
The research was quietly faraway from the Justice Division web site in September.

