Distributors of Donald Trump-themed merchandise fought one another and have been ejected earlier than the Republican nominee headlined a rally at Saginaw Valley State College in Michigan on Thursday, the Michigan Advance reported.
Video shared by reporter Anna Liz Nichols confirmed a number of blows exchanged in a confrontation involving no less than 4 males on the campus. Watch it here.
Photographers for The Related Press and Agence France-Presse additionally recognized the combatants as sellers of Trump-related souvenirs, as did the previous president’s marketing campaign.
“The Trump marketing campaign experiences that the entire people concerned within the altercation have been distributors, none have been attendees and all have been ejected from the premises,” a Trump marketing campaign official texted the Michigan Advance.
HuffPost reached out to Saginaw metropolis police and college police for remark.
A college spokesperson told Newsweek, “I don’t consider College Police have been concerned within the response to the altercation, as it’s my understanding that they have been contained in the Ryder Heart, [the] web site of the marketing campaign occasion, on the time of the incident.”
Trump later gave a speech within the college’s rec heart, repeating lies that he received the 2020 election, The New York Times reported.