Donald Trump supporters assaulted a Black Lives Matter activist at a Trump rally on Saturday—and Trump thinks they might just have done the right thing. The assault after activist Mercutio Southall Jr. interrupted the rally by yelling “Black lives matter” was not a small matter:
A white man punched and attempted to choke a black protester who was thrown on the ground at a Donald Trump rally here on Saturday morning, as an onlooker yelled, "Don't choke him! Don't choke him!"
And it wasn’t one on one: “In a video captured by CNN reporter Jeremy Diamond, rally attendees swarm around the man, kicking and punching him as he curls up on the ground.”
At the time, Trump called for security to eject Southall, and in a Sunday interview, Trump made clear where he thinks the blame lies—not with the group of people who assaulted one man:
Southall "was so obnoxious and so loud, he was screaming. I had 10,000 people in the room yesterday, 10,000 people, and this guy started screaming by himself and they — I don't know, rough up, he should have been — maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing," Trump said, according to a transcript of the interview.
Disgusting! How dare he interrupt Trump’s campaign of racial hatred by insisting that anyone other than white people matter.