A lot of people have dismissed Donald Trump as a WWE-esque heel, a showman whose blustery ways are a carefully cultivated act.
Whether that’s true is up for debate, but a rally today for Trump in Radford, Virginia certainly had a wrasslin’ feel, with a Secret Service agent chokeslamming a journalist.
Here’s the chokeslam:
SEE IT: The moment the @TIME photographer was attacked during the Donald Trump rally https://t.co/VTFQw6iekY pic.twitter.com/aYAqa8B1Xe
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) February 29, 2016
And the aftermath:
https://twitter.com/JoePerticone/status/704367346916462592
Balls, though, for the reporter, going back at the guy with the gun
Trump recently suggested weakening libel protections for the press, to allow more people to sue. Guess his Secret Service detail took that attitude to heart.