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According to reports, a Trump supporter in Texas is facing assault charges after he punched an elderly election worker after being told he had to remove his MAGA hat while in the polling station. The man had initially removed the hat, but put it on before he left the property, which is against the rules. When the man was asked to leave by the elderly worker, he became irate and punched him. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what happened.
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
A Trump supporter has been arrested after punching an elderly election worker who asked him to remove his MAGA hat while he was voting. No surprise, this came from the great state of Texas, which opened up early voting last week. So on Thursday, a 63-year-old Trump supporter goes in to vote. Unfortunately, when he went in to vote, because they were doing the early voting that is officially a polling station, he was wearing his MAGA hat. And according to Texas state law, uh, state law prohibits a person from wearing a badge, insignia, emblem or other similar communicative device relating to a candidate measure or political party appearing on the ballot. So you can't wear a MAGA hat when you go in to vote. So the elderly election worker, 69-year-old man said, Hey, uh, you have to take your hat off. And at first the guy said, okay, absolutely, yeah, yeah.
He takes his hat off, he casts his ballot, turns it in, and then he puts the hat back on. Well, an election clerk told him that was unacceptable. Bahar County Sheriff Javier Salazar told News station KENS five, he told the outlet that as the 69-year-old poll work pole worker was in the process of escorting the man out. He allegedly turned physical, throwing his arm, and then several punches at the clerk before leaving. He was arrested at his home and charged on Friday for injury to an elderly person. After a brief investigation, the poll worker reportedly did not suffer any major injuries requiring hospital, uh, hospitalization. The sheriff says, we're asking everybody to please, you know, tone down the violence. There's no room for violence when it comes to the political realm, and we just can't tolerate it. We can't allow it to happen.
All you had to do was, you know, not put the hat back on yet. And then the second time when you did put the hat back on and the guy was like, Hey, you gotta leave now. You were done voting anyway. Like, why didn't you just peacefully leave? Why did you feel the need to allegedly? 'cause he hasn't, you know, been convicted. Strike the elderly poll worker. Like, what goes through your minds? And here's the kicker, okay? We're not talking about like a 25-year-old Trump supporter, a 30-year-old Trump supporter. The Trump supporter with the MAGA hat was 63 years old himself. So you got two old men going at it, at the polling station in Texas because the one guy didn't like being told to take off his hat, I guess, and became violent because, you know, that's just the maga answer for everything, right?
We don't like Kamala Harris's, uh, interview with CBS. So MAGA folks get violent towards CBS. Donald Trump says, see, it ends the enemy of the people. Man gets arrested because he was planning to go to the CNN headquarters and shoot everybody. Donald Trump doesn't like the judges. The judges get death threats. Doesn't like the prosecutors. Prosecutors get death threats. That is their first go-to, I don't like the results of the election. Let's storm the capitol. Let's beat up police officers. Let's break stuff. Let's be deranged individuals because we don't like being told something isn't our way. That's, that's what it is. That's what happened here. And now that man, the 63-year-old who punched the 69-year-old, probably not gonna be a, a good spot for him to be in for the next couple years. I don't think he's gonna end up serving any prison time for this, obviously. But probation, parole, you know, community service, things like that, probably all because you got violent. 'cause you were told you can't wear your MAGA hat inside.
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