Latest / The Epstein Chronicles / Outrage Grows After Epstein Files Protester Is Attacked at Trump Rally (10/14/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
- 0:03Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. A couple of days ago at a rally
- 0:06Speaker 1: in Ohio, a woman wearing a Release the Epstein Files
- 0:10Speaker 1: shirt was attacked at a Trump rally. And now people
- 0:15Speaker 1: are wondering why there wasn't some sort of police action
- 0:19Speaker 1: to hold the people that attacked her accountable. And listen,
- 0:22Speaker 1: you can assault people because they have different opinions. Now,
- 0:26Speaker 1: if you want to have her removed, that's one thing, right?
- 0:28Speaker 1: It's a private event. I get that. Not that I agree,
- 0:31Speaker 1: but I get it. But when you put hands on somebody,
- 0:35Speaker 1: and you're just some regular joker in the crowd, that
- 0:38Speaker 1: shit's unacceptable. And I don't care what side does it.
- 0:41Speaker 1: And what's even more disgusting is you have the President
- 0:44Speaker 1: of the United States up there talking shit and cheering
- 0:47Speaker 1: these dudes on. And remember, it was men who did
- 0:51Speaker 1: this to some woman. And I don't care if she's
- 0:53Speaker 1: a woman that you don't like or one that, you know,
- 0:56Speaker 1: is different from you, whatever. It doesn't matter. Unless you're
- 0:59Speaker 1: defending yourself, you shouldn't be putting your hands on anybody,
- 1:03Speaker 1: especially some woman, some random woman in the crowd. And
- 1:06Speaker 1: it's not like there's no evidence, right? The dude got
- 1:08Speaker 1: on the internet and bragged about it. And of course,
- 1:11Speaker 1: there's the videos. So why didn't law enforcement do something?
- 1:15Speaker 1: Why didn't they hold anybody accountable? Or will they? I
- 1:19Speaker 1: guess that's still a question that needs to be answered.
- 1:21Speaker 1: So today, we're going to follow up on that story
- 1:24Speaker 1: a little bit. And to do that, we have an
- 1:25Speaker 1: article from the International Business Times. Headline, Where's the Arrest?
- 1:31Speaker 1: Outrage erupts after Trump rally supporter punches female protester. This
- 1:36Speaker 1: article was authored by Kate Flores Denilang. And look, if
- 1:42Speaker 1: it was a woman who assaulted her, that would still
- 1:45Speaker 1: be horrible, right? But at least it would be, you know,
- 1:48Speaker 1: more of a fair fight, if you will. What are
- 1:50Speaker 1: these grown-ass old men doing putting their hands on this woman? Like,
- 1:54Speaker 1: come on. It's such bitch behavior. And I see a
- 1:58Speaker 1: lot of these younger dudes on like Twitter, you know,
- 2:00Speaker 1: the Andrew Tate types, that are completely okay with this
- 2:03Speaker 1: kind of shit. And I don't think there's anything that
- 2:07Speaker 1: makes you a bigger bitch than putting your hands on
- 2:10Speaker 1: a woman, especially over some shit like this. Unless you're
- 2:13Speaker 1: defending your life, I don't even want to hear it.
- 2:16Speaker 1: A violent confrontation at a presidential campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio,
- 2:20Speaker 1: has sparked widespread public anger and online condemnation after video
- 2:24Speaker 1: footage captured a supporter striking a female protester in the
- 2:27Speaker 1: face while the crowd cheered. Like, on what planet is
- 2:31Speaker 1: that okay? Can you imagine, at a Republican rally, for, say,
- 2:36Speaker 1: I don't know, Ronald Reagan? Some dude punching some woman
- 2:40Speaker 1: in the face? How do you think that would have
- 2:42Speaker 1: been handled? And do you think the crowd would have
- 2:44Speaker 1: been okay with it? Because the answer is they wouldn't
- 2:47Speaker 1: have been. And it would have been a big problem
- 2:49Speaker 1: for the person putting their hands on somebody. But we
- 2:52Speaker 1: live in a different time now. And I think that
- 2:55Speaker 1: the chance for us to bridge that gap has come
- 2:58Speaker 1: and gone. When we get to a point where people
- 3:01Speaker 1: are cheering, some dude punching some lady in the face
- 3:05Speaker 1: or shoving her to the ground and trying to slam
- 3:06Speaker 1: her face off the ground over politics, we've come to
- 3:10Speaker 1: a very, very dangerous place, folks. According to a report
- 3:15Speaker 1: from Fox News, the protester was wearing a t-shirt reading,
- 3:18Speaker 1: Release the Epstein Files, when an unidentified man shoved her,
- 3:21Speaker 1: pulled her hair, struck her in the face, and attempted
- 3:24Speaker 1: to slam her towards the ground. So what happens, like
- 3:28Speaker 1: I said earlier, when this happens to Nick Shirley? Is
- 3:30Speaker 1: that going to be okay? Or how about the other dude?
- 3:33Speaker 1: I forget his name. Goes around, you know, same kind
- 3:35Speaker 1: of thing. What happens when he gets attacked? Is that
- 3:38Speaker 1: going to be cool? Because I'll be the first one
- 3:41Speaker 1: to tell you, it's not cool, okay? It doesn't matter
- 3:45Speaker 1: what side's doing this. This is something that all of
- 3:47Speaker 1: us should be criticizing. Law enforcement officers intervened and escorted
- 3:53Speaker 1: the woman out of the venue, while the man seen
- 3:55Speaker 1: striking her appeared to remain inside the venue and exchanged
- 3:58Speaker 1: high fives with fellow attendees. That should have been what
- 4:01Speaker 1: they did. Okay, escort her out of the building. I
- 4:04Speaker 1: have no problem with that. And if she's being disruptive,
- 4:07Speaker 1: she should be removed. But it shouldn't go any further
- 4:10Speaker 1: than that. She didn't put her hands on anybody, did she?
- 4:14Speaker 1: What did she do that would lead to her getting
- 4:16Speaker 1: a beatdown? Well, besides wearing a Release the Epstein Files shirt.
- 4:21Speaker 1: And the most ironic part about it is the dude
- 4:23Speaker 1: that put hands on her, my guess is anyway, was
- 4:26Speaker 1: one of those Q guys, you know, that believed in
- 4:28Speaker 1: Pizzagate and kids getting trafficked in Wayfair containers and Tom
- 4:33Speaker 1: Hanks being at Gitmo, the whole thing. But now, now
- 4:37Speaker 1: that Epstein's exposed, well, we can't have that. Instead, I'm
- 4:41Speaker 1: going to resort to violence at a political rally. Because,
- 4:44Speaker 1: you know, that really slams home the point. It's like
- 4:46Speaker 1: the old saying, right? The beatings will continue until morale improves.
- 4:51Speaker 1: Viral video clips of the altercation posted on X by
- 4:54Speaker 1: political commentator Joshua Reed Eagle drew a million views, triggering
- 4:58Speaker 1: immediate outrage across social media platforms over how police and
- 5:02Speaker 1: rally organizers handled the assault. Online commentators overwhelmingly questioned why
- 5:08Speaker 1: officers removed the protester while allowing the aggressor to remain
- 5:11Speaker 1: unpunished inside the venue. They all should have been removed. Everybody.
- 5:15Speaker 1: Whoever was in the altercation, they're gone. And if somebody
- 5:19Speaker 1: committed a felony or a misdemeanor, some sort of assault,
- 5:22Speaker 1: they should have been arrested. User Mark D. questioned the
- 5:29Speaker 1: response from police, writing, and then they take her away
- 5:32Speaker 1: and owe punishment for the men who beat her up?
- 5:35Speaker 1: User Fox raised similar concerns regarding the double standard, asking,
- 5:39Speaker 1: why didn't the men that jumped her get escorted out?
- 5:41Speaker 1: Why was the police manhandling her? And that's a good
- 5:44Speaker 1: question too. Some woman gets into a physical altercation with
- 5:48Speaker 1: some dudes. You have to manhandle her? Now look, again,
- 5:52Speaker 1: I'm not sticking up for this woman in general, going
- 5:54Speaker 1: there to cause a disturbance. Not a good idea. Right?
- 5:58Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean she should have her pants put
- 6:00Speaker 1: on her, or that her safety should be in jeopardy.
- 6:04Speaker 1: What kind of country do you guys want to live in?
- 6:07Speaker 1: User Craig Walton emphasized the free speech implications of the
- 6:10Speaker 1: police intervention. Asking why are the police manhandling as if
- 6:14Speaker 1: a crime has been committed so much for free speech? Hey, well,
- 6:17Speaker 1: that doesn't really come into the equation. This is a
- 6:20Speaker 1: private event. So the people who are hosting the event,
- 6:24Speaker 1: they have the right to kick people out whenever they want.
- 6:26Speaker 1: And that's what they should have done. We wouldn't be
- 6:29Speaker 1: talking about this if they would have removed her. Sure,
- 6:32Speaker 1: it would have been unseemly. It would have been disgusting.
- 6:35Speaker 1: But this, this is something different. Not only did this
- 6:39Speaker 1: lady have hands put on her, but everybody cheered for it. Like,
- 6:42Speaker 1: that's certainly not anything I'm ever going to get behind.
- 6:45Speaker 1: And if that puts me on the outs with people,
- 6:47Speaker 1: I don't care. User Ali Razi pointed out the Constitution
- 6:51Speaker 1: responsibility of leadership, commenting that an official holding high office
- 6:55Speaker 1: is cheering the axe of his dumb followers for attacking
- 6:58Speaker 1: his citizen while defaming and making fun of her physical appearance.
- 7:02Speaker 1: That is an issue. That's certainly an issue. And Donald
- 7:06Speaker 1: Trump should have stepped up and did the right thing
- 7:08Speaker 1: and told everybody to stop. alright, everybody calm down, let's
- 7:12Speaker 1: see what's going on, let's get the police over there,
- 7:14Speaker 1: and let's figure it out. But instead, calls her fat,
- 7:17Speaker 1: talks about her appearance, and goads people on. Not exactly
- 7:22Speaker 1: the thing you want to do if you're trying to
- 7:23Speaker 1: calm the situation. User Gagan, whatever the fuck, described the
- 7:29Speaker 1: crowd reaction as alarming, writing, this is truly insane. They
- 7:33Speaker 1: are really brain dead delusional cult. User Debra, my friends
- 7:37Speaker 1: call me Slayer, characterized the incident as a symbolic of
- 7:40Speaker 1: wider group behavior, posting, This is a perfect example of
- 7:44Speaker 1: how MAGA men treat women and anyone who opposes their views. Well,
- 7:48Speaker 1: I'm not going to paint everybody with a brush, but
- 7:51Speaker 1: this is not a good look. And cheering for this shit? Well,
- 7:55Speaker 1: you're going to open the door for people to say
- 7:57Speaker 1: exactly what Debra said. Kind of hard to dispute it
- 8:00Speaker 1: when everybody's cheering for it. During the disruption, President Trump
- 8:05Speaker 1: addressed the incident from the stage, accusing the demonstrator of
- 8:08Speaker 1: being a paid activist without offering evidence. Appearing unaware that
- 8:12Speaker 1: the protester was a woman, Trump made derogatory comments regarding
- 8:16Speaker 1: the individual's physical appearance and weight, telling the audience that
- 8:20Speaker 1: the protester needed to go on a diet. Boy, isn't
- 8:23Speaker 1: that the orange calling the carrot orange. Like, what are
- 8:27Speaker 1: we doing here? Go on a diet? Buddy, come on. Mr. President,
- 8:32Speaker 1: is that really the rhetoric you should be firing off
- 8:34Speaker 1: from the stage? According to a report from Fox News,
- 8:39Speaker 1: the Ohio incident marks the second violent altercation at a
- 8:42Speaker 1: Trump campaign rally within days. A similar fight occurred at
- 8:46Speaker 1: a rally in San Antonio, Texas, where a supporter wearing
- 8:49Speaker 1: a campaign hat grabbed a heckler by the hair and
- 8:52Speaker 1: pulled him to the floor. While the release the Epstein
- 8:55Speaker 1: filed shirt worn by the protestor highlights ongoing bipartisan calls
- 8:59Speaker 1: for the government to release remaining investigative documents related to
- 9:03Speaker 1: the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Local authorities had
- 9:08Speaker 1: not confirmed any official charges or arrests related to the
- 9:12Speaker 1: Youngstown assault. There should be an investigation. And then based
- 9:16Speaker 1: on what we've seen anyway, sure looks like there should
- 9:19Speaker 1: be charges. How can the Youngstown police not charge people
- 9:22Speaker 1: for what happened here? It's not like it's a big secret.
- 9:25Speaker 1: It didn't happen in private. It didn't happen out in
- 9:27Speaker 1: the alley. It happened right there on the open floor
- 9:30Speaker 1: of this rally. So there needs to be accountability for
- 9:33Speaker 1: people that took part in that. And unfortunately, it doesn't
- 9:36Speaker 1: look like there's going to be. But I think the
- 9:37Speaker 1: overall lesson here is that this whole entire subject is
- 9:42Speaker 1: politically charged. And there's going to be a lot of
- 9:45Speaker 1: chaos around this topic, especially considering how much of an
- 9:49Speaker 1: issue it's become during campaign season. And hopefully this isn't
- 9:53Speaker 1: something that we're going to continue to see. Now, do
- 9:56Speaker 1: I feel confident that we're not going to see it? No.
- 10:00Speaker 1: I don't feel confident because I think that the Rubicon
- 10:02Speaker 1: has been crossed. And once you cross the Rubicon, there's
- 10:06Speaker 1: no coming back. And we're now in a place where
- 10:09Speaker 1: if one side says up is bad, then the other
- 10:12Speaker 1: side says up is good. And on and on it goes,
- 10:16Speaker 1: no matter the topic. And when you get to a
- 10:19Speaker 1: point like that, where there's no common ground whatsoever, you
- 10:22Speaker 1: have found yourself in a very perilous place. And in
- 10:26Speaker 1: my opinion, that's where we're at right now. Literally teetering
- 10:30Speaker 1: on the edge. The question is, how long before we
- 10:35Speaker 1: stumble off it? All the information that goes with this
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