In X posts in which she denounced President Trump and Trump supporters who beat up a woman at a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, former GOP Representative and MAGA star Marjorie Taylor Greene labeled the MAGA movement a cult that has borne rotten fruit.
The men brutalized the woman, who wore a “Release the Epstein Files” T-shirt, after she rose and heckled Trump.
As sheriff’s officers led the woman away, Trump called her a “paid protester” and said she needed to lose weight.
The yet-to-be-charged crimes are the second time in a week that Trump cultists have attacked protesters at a rally. Authorities in Bexar County, Texas, are looking for information that will lead to arrests in assaults on October 7 in San Antonio.
In a now-scrubbed Facebook post, a man admitted that he and his two friends were the assailants.
Since when does “RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES” justify violence? When did MAGA start supporting violence against women?
The footage of a woman with a “Release The Epstein Files” shirt stands at a Trump rally shouting at Trump to release the Epstein files and gets physically beaten… pic.twitter.com/7bLGPJywGr
The Attack
Trump was in town to boost the flagging campaign of GOP Senate candidate John Husted, who trails far-left Democrat Sherrod Brown in polls. Also on the ballot in November is Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running for governor.
While Trump supporters vociferously supported releasing the Epstein Files, that cause has, apparently, lost steam because Trump says it’s no longer an issue.
Not so for the admittedly obese heckler, who paid a price for heckling Trump.
“A pair of men, one in an adjustable baseball cap and a bald man in a dark T-shirt, put hands on a woman Monday during the GOP event inside Covelli Centre in Youngstown,” as NBC News described the scene:
The man in a blue baseball cap pawed at the woman, wearing a shirt reading “Release the Epstein Files,” and pushed her down before the balding man jumped on her.
He appeared to throw multiple punches at the woman’s face, pull her hair and put her in a headlock before uniformed law enforcement officers arrived to take her away.
As is his custom with protesters at his rallies, Trump ridiculed the woman.
“He’s a paid protester,” Trump said as the crowd bellowed “USA! USA!”:
“They’re all paid,” he continued:
They get paid by the lefties in order to destroy our country. They’re scum. But he’s going back home to Mom. He’s going back home to Mom. Look at him. Look at him. Terrible. Don’t we love law enforcement? Oh, he’s gotta go on a diet! He’s a fat guy. Wow. Wow. Gotta go on a diet fast. We all do.
The woman was also a “low-class protester,” Trump said.
Charges have not been filed against the assailants, Cleveland.com reported.
Facebook Confessions?
Yet a rally attendee supposedly confessed on Facebook that he and a friend and the friend’s son assaulted a woman.
Said one post:
“I went to a Trump rally in Ohio in Youngstown, and a protester started badmouth and Trump so myself in the green shirt, his son and the camo jacket and his father we subdued her and threw her to the ground and smashed her face in the concrete.”
“I went to the Trump rally … and a protester started calling Trump, a fascist and a friend of mine [and] his son … and myself subdued her and threw her to the concrete took [sic] the police came. I’m in a green shirt with a hat on,” a second post said:
Video shows a man in a blue hat and green shirt reach toward the woman’s throat and then her face.
Doxxers have posted the man’s address and employer and hope to get him fired.
Reaction
The expected and customary leftist fury on social media ensued.
But former Trump supporter and now sworn foe Taylor Greene called out the MAGA “cult” for sanctioning violence against women. Taylor Greene, who pushed for a bill to release the Epstein files and earned Trump hatred and vitriol in return, devoted three X posts to the shocking attack.
“When did MAGA become a cult? When did it start supporting beating women?” Taylor Greene asked in a video:
When did it start to be a group of people that thinks it’s okay to chant “USA! USA! USA!” while a woman gets beaten down by the men around her because she’s wearing a Release The Epstein Frist T-shirt, and she stands up at the rally … and yells to the president, “release the Eptesin Files?”
Watch this video honestly.
Did she deserve to be beaten by MAGA men because she’s a “libtard”?
Or because she disrupted the Trump rally with her offensive “release the Epstein files” tshirt?Trump and the party that defends women from men in our sports cheers for beating women. https://t.co/KKTlLSO0GY
Taylor Greene found the video of the beat-down “absolutely shocking, disgusting and outrageous.”
Taylor Greene said she attended more such rallies than “any other elected Republican” and spoke at more “than I could even count.” She helped Trump get elected, and the GOP was once the party that defended women, “especially from men who were trying to come in our sports, bathrooms, dorm rooms,” she continued:
But now when you watch this video, I really want you to ask yourself a question, especially if you’re a Christian. If you’re a Christian, you know, the term “know them by their fruit.” And I want you to watch this video and think about “know them by their fruit.”… Well, at this MAGA rally, this woman stood up and the men around her proceeded to beat her down, and then the police hauled her out, while the president made fun of her, calling her a man, calling her fat — when the president is fat himself — and the whole crowd erupted in chanting “USA! USA!”
Is that the fruit that MAGA has borne? Is that the fruit MAGA bears?
“Did she deserve to be beaten by MAGA men because she’s a ‘libtard?’” Taylor Greene asked in an earlier post.
“Late stage MAGA is so disgusting and unrecognizable to me,” she wrote.
Taylor Greene called MAGA “an ugly grotesque cult that does not display Christian values because the cult leader himself is not a Christian even though the vast majority who attend his rallies would identify as Christian.”
She called Trump a wolf in sheep’s clothing who has led the flock astray.
Late stage MAGA is so disgusting and unrecognizable to me, and I find this shocking as one who attended more Trump rallies than I can count.
A woman with a “Release The Epstein Files” shirt stands at a Trump rally shouting at Trump to release the Epstein files and gets physically… pic.twitter.com/ZNLsLyIf9H
Previous Violence
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is still seeking information that will lead to the arrest of individuals involved in the violence on October 7 in San Antonio.
Deputies booted 18 people out of the rally but didn’t arrest anyone, KSAT.com reported.
But several anti-Trump, Free Palestine protesters reported being assaulted.
“We got assaulted,” Dominic Garza told the website:
Dominic Garza, Guliana Garza and Matthew Tabares said they attended the rally to protest Trump.
“I got pushed,” Dominic Garza said. “She (Guliana) got kneed in the back and shoved.”
Trump supporters attacked Tabares as he chanted “Free Palestine,” he told the website.
Tabares said a man tried to punch him, and a woman “threw a punch at me with her phone in her hand.”
Editor’s note: This story has been updated from an earlier version.
