Trump Supporter Attacks Reporter Screaming “This Is Trump’s America!”

A Trump supporter has been arrested in Colorado for allegedly assaulting a non-white news reporter and screaming “This is Trump’s America” at him. The man had allegedly followed the reporter’s vehicle for miles, screaming at him at stop lights demanding to know if he was a citizen, and then allegedly attempting to strangle him when the man exited the vehicle. The alleged attacker is sadly correct – this IS what Trump’s America looks like, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

A Trump supporter is in custody in the state of Colorado after allegedly assaulting a reporter for a local news station. The reporter was a man by the name of Ja’Ronn Alex, who as you can clearly see from this picture, is not a white guy, but he is according to their website, a native of Detroit. So here's what allegedly happened, and the reason I have to say allegedly is of course, because the individual, the man accused of the attacks, he has not pleaded guilty and he of course has not been convicted. So as of right now, all of this is alleged. But let me explain this to you. The man who attacked Mr. Alex allegedly pulled up next to him in the taxi cab that he was driving while Ja’Ronn Alex was in the news van and began shouting at him, demanding to know, are you even a US citizen?

And then screamed, this is Trump's America, which unfortunately is a very apt statement about what happened next. The news van carrying JJa’Ronn Alex continued to drive on. And according to the uh, uh, police statement, the man in the cab then followed them for 40 miles. 40 miles. He followed them because he was upset about the fact of a non-white person being in Grand Junction, Colorado. So he follows 'em for 40 miles. According to the police report, when Ja’Ronn Alex finally gets out of the van, the man parks, his cab gets out and begins assaulting Alex, holding him in a headlock and strangling him to the point where witnesses on the scene said that Alex looked like he was no longer able to breathe.

This is Trump's America. That is what the man yelled. And that, of course, is very accurate. This is what Trump's America is. White people unable to even comprehend the sight of a non-white person to the point where they feel it is now their duty to get out and physically assault them. That is where we have come as a country. We are not moving forward. We're not moving forward on any issue. We are falling behind the rest of the world on issues of math and science, literacy, health, environment, everything. And one of the more disturbing areas where we're falling behind the rest of the world is on the issue of race relations. As the world evolves and people understand, okay, not everybody looks like me, and that's fine. Most of the rest

Of the world has kind of moved on from that. I'm not saying they're perfect by any stretch, but we in the United States, we're going backwards. We have more hate today than we did 10, 15, 20, or 30 or 40 years ago. And it's not all because of Donald Trump, but he has absolutely made the racist who were once hiding in the shadows afraid to come out. He has made these people feel empowered. He has allowed them to come out of the shadows, embrace who they are, to the point where stories like this are becoming far too common.