Man arrested at Trump rally told police act was preplanned
Security personnel surround Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after a man tried to rush the stage during a campaign rally in Vandalia, Ohio, outside of Dayton, on Saturday. The man was stopped and Trump continued with his speech. (Carrie Cochran/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)
CLEVELAND » A man arrested after trying to jump on the stage at Republican Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Dayton reportedly told police he planned to grab the microphone and yell that Trump is a racist but didn’t intend to hurt anyone.
The Dayton Daily News reports that it has obtained a police report that says 22-year-old Thomas DiMassimo told officers that he’d given his car keys to his girlfriend at Saturday’s rally anticipating that he’d be arrested. DiMassimo, of Fairborn, was charged with misdemeanor inducing panic and disorderly conduct. He was released on bail.
DiMassimo, an acting student with Wright State University’s theater program, couldn’t be reached for comment. It’s unclear if he has an attorney.
Trump was campaigning ahead of Tuesday’s Ohio primary.
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He must have read somewhere that any publicity is good publicity, and thought this would be good for his acting career. Brilliant..!
Bernie and Hillary will share his legal fees.
George Soros already covered it.
lol ^5
Give me a break. They had nothing to do with this. Trump attracts crackpots and racists.
Everyone who doesn’t subscribe to the Liberal agenda is, by definition, “racist”. That way, the real issues on a defunct agenda go undebated. Such a predictable outcome.
And, anyone who dislikes Trump and disagrees with you is a “liberal” calling you a racist, right? See how easy that is?
Nobody is afraid of punishment any more. Such foul miscreants should be treated the way aberrant kids were dealt with in the past : With a good spanking.
Something is severely wrong in a country where this criminal is freed shortly after his deed and being giving publicity in a friendly interview on leftist CNN, sitting in a park.
So now you want to do away with bail for petty crimes and the free press? Keep going!
Klastri, you missed the point by a mile. It is the leftist “free press” making the criminal look like the good guy or victim.
Ronin006 – I wasn’t responding to you.
I was responding to your comment to Allaha. Are you now trying to stop my free speech rights?
You certainly wouldn’t want to give him his own news show, not like Iran-Contra hero Ollie North…never!
typical hiliar democrat brown shirt action designed to disrupt and deny republicans their right to gather peacefully to hear their candidates’ speeches and campaign issues.
Are you another TRUMPED dummy?
Only dummies ask dumb questions.
Good one!
Exactly how much evidence do you need? Just look at his comments.
Liberals can’t handle free speech. They try to grab your mike and yell insults or troll you in the blogs…same animal. Intolerant little brains that can’t argue logically for their position without being exposed as fools, so they resort to surpassing any opposition. With all these accusations about nazi’s and brownshirts…look no further than the ones who can’t tolerate free speech.
That was “suppressing”…thank your auto spell
The true blue right wing patriots would never disrupt a public gathering. They were so quiet and respectful during the town hall meetings about Obamacare. Never shouting down the politicians and officials who tried to speak. Just good Christian folks who would never judge others or cast the first some, who focus only on the logs in their eyes, not the specks in others. Who love and forgive their enemies, and show love to the poor. Just look how well run those deep red southern states are. Such healthy people. Sure they take more from the federal government than they pay in taxes, while the liberal states subsidize then, but they hate the government for making them do it. Oh, you guys are right again. You’re always so so right.
Here is free speech: You are full of it. All Trump does is get the racists and weak minded people going. 75% of whatever comes out of his mouth is a liar and the rest is just plane strange.
Trump has a nice “plane” and there is nothing strange about it. Weak minded? I never saw a liar come out of his mouth. Make America Great Again
You need to have someone teach you about who the brown shirts were and what they did. Your ignorance is remarkable.
there you go again, you need to stop your bad habit of insulting people
that you don’t agree with.
I just call out liars. And believe me … I’m not going to take any advice from you.
why don’t you call out yourself then. LOL!
den – Are you 12 years old?
klastri always does that..he/she is a very angry person who can’t handle the TRUTH if it hit him/her in the face.
yeah Keonigohan, klastri is such an a-hole.
one wonders if he learned how to be one or
if he was born that way.
LOL!
Kinda like when someone is compared to Hitler, which seems commonplace these days. Seriously, who can be compared to Hitler? Maybe two or three other people in history.
It’s not so much about comparing individual’s to Hitler, as it is about recalling history’s examples of leaders able to twist a society into committing injustices. I doubt many Germans would have supported Hitler had they become privy to what he and his ideology would become. Democrats may represent moving in directions that will change this country into just another European style nation, but Trump seems to be propelling us into a willingness to morph some our fundamental precepts. Either way we go, America as it was intended appears to have a bleak future.
The brown shirts were infamous for disturbing and shutting down other parties. Klastri as usual does not make sense, instead he is the intentional distorting moralist.
Could you choose just one day – maybe in the next week or two – when you write things that make sense? The Sturmabteilung were murderers.
Klastri , my comment makes more sense than your ilk who compare Trump to Hitler.
Allaha – You are lying of course. I never compared Trump to Hitler and would never do so. You are also lying if you claim to know who I associate with in thought or deed.
Brown Shirts? Refresh my memory please.
Actually, one of Hitler’s brownshirt’s important functions centered around disrupting the opposition’s political rallies, which describes rather well the actions of this individual, especially since his admission that the incident was preplanned. However, whether or not Clinton’s organization actively promotes or encourages such activities remains unknown. So far.. So, in this instance, we rate st1d’s assertion as “partly true”. And, since you implied his comment was inaccurate based on an ignorance of brownshirt history, we must rate your response as “false”…
🙂
hawaiikone…. If every politician is compared to Hitler, it sort of weakens the comparison, doesn’t it? Use of hackneyed comparisons don’t reflect well on the user’s intellect. Very easily dismissed.
calentura, not sure what your point is, as the original use of “brownshirt” mentality is applicable when directly challenged. As I noted to you in another comment, it’s not about Hitler as such, it’s about our remembering the gradual steps that can lead us where we really don’t want to be. Protest is an American right, as long as it’s undertaken within the framework of the rights of others.
Tired of your tripe. The involvement of ANSWER and Moveon.org in a conspiracy to shut down the Trump event in Chicago is a classic example of the tactics employed by the Nazis (National Socialist), Communists, and various leftists anarchist groups (eg. the G20 demonstrations in Seattle), the ACORN/SEIU activities. Even the demonstrations in Ferguson, MO were infiltrated by these nihilists.
This fundamental attack on free speech is now part and parcel of the American left’s tool bag, nurtured and encouraged in the brainless halls of our failed universities.
Yo, in your incorrect reference to “brown shirts”, evidently don’t get this.
Allaha probably would have complained if protestors has disputed a speech by Adolph H. “How dare they… scum… Someone should punch them in the face!”
Winston would have joined in, “We need to make Germany great again. We’re over run with liberal jews. The must be deported. And if I say they’re terrorists, we can torture them and kill their families.”
st1d is correct in describing the antics of protesters at the Trump rally as a “brown shirt action.” The intent of the protest was to silence the opposition and to prevent people from assembling peacefully to hear what Trump had to say, and that is what the brown shirts did to support Hitler’s rise to power. It seems like Moveon.org, college professors and others who organized the protest used a page from the Sturmabteilung (brown shirts) Play Book for Suppressing Opposition. The question now is what page will be used next.
Ronin006 would never have interrupted Hitler,”That’s just rude. Let the man speak and show some respect. “
DannoBoy, your mind is a bit confused. Hitler, a very bad man, used the brown shirts, aka Storm Troopers, to silence his opposition in his rise to power. Liberals consider Trump a bad man, but he is not the one using Storm Trooper tactics to support his campaign. On the contrary, those tactics are being used by liberals to silence Trump, to prevent people from peacefully assembling to hear what he has to say, and to support Hillary, Sanders or another Democrat for President.
i do not expect an honest and true telling of brown shirts’ history or of present brown shirts activities and circumstances from klastri or from any other of hiliar’s gruber apologists. the truth is that their beginnings and actions during their early campaigns mirror that of hiliar’s democrat brown shirts actions today.
it is for us to remember the true history and lessons learned from that disastrous era of hate and fear that the brown shirts capitalized on and how their rhetoric enflamed the racial and class wars that socialists must promote to demonize their opponents.
we must remember the consequences of allowing their distortions and hatred go unanswered and unchallenged. whenever they raise their phlegmatic hate speech we must expose their false arguments to the light of truth and logic.
they can not be dismissed and ignored as merely spoiled children seeking to loot the nation’s wealth and well being while they claim to act in the name of doing a greater good.
they need to be confronted, corrected and exposed as the false prophets they are.
The False-Crack Cowgirl McGraw is a perfect example of such.
Confront Hillary but not Trump
Hillary is dangerous. Sure, she never directed the protesters in any way, while Trump has repeatedly incited crowds to violence. Sure, she never threatened people’s religious freedom, and Trump has. Sure she is supported by a wide demographic of all Americans, while Trump is supported mainly by white men. Sure other countries are appalled by Trump”s bigotry. But Hillary is the evil one. As for Trump? At least he’s better than Cruz.Now he’s scary… evil genius scary.
Well, danny, assuming your a democrat, you’ll have to assume some of the guilt here, as your party’s offerings are pitiful. Even the GOP had a couple of reasonable choices, men that could have worked for all of us. No denying the republican voters are foolish for ignoring their chance at a viable candidate, but your team hasn’t even been able to cough up anyone palatable enough for all of us. Our buddy choyd likes Gary Johnson, and he ain’t bad. Maybe it’s actually time for us to really surprise Washington..
Kasisch isn’t scary, but I’d have to learn to spell his name right. Hillary is icky, not scary. Bernie hasn’t grabbed me. Sounds like a broken record, “It’s the wall street fat cats… click….It’s the wall street fat cats… click….It’s the wall street fat cats… click….” But he’s not scary either. Marco, oh poor Matco, but I don’t like pity votes.
Yes, there isn’t a great option. But I find Cruz icky and scary. Trump is a scary babooze who should never get the car keys.
Bless our founders, racist as most were, for the wisdom of checks and balances.
Are you crazy? Trump loves this stuff. He will twist it with his lies anyway he can. It will give him something to talk about besides building a wall. LOL
This is unsurprising. Many cynical viewers already think a lot of the campaign rally drama appearing on CNN or the major news shows are planned well ahead of time. Perhaps not orchestrated to the nth degree but not acts fired by pure passion either.
Mentally challenged psycho. Lock him up in a rubber room in a straitjacket and adult depends.
I believe that room’s proper name is the Democratic Caucus.
Gotta hangs the depends every once in a while, otherwise going smell stink.
OMG how the heck did the word “hangs” get in there. I meant “change”. Well I guess this iPhone 5 is too good for itself sometimes for those that make many typos like myself. “Hang” the depends is actually a good idea, so one can wash out the gunk and let it dry for reuse. Speaking of which I am glad that u guys don’t have that dreaded “Comment sent for approval” anymore.
Lock him up for what? Bad acting or freedom of speech.
Foolish plan, dangerous move and he’s lucky he didn’t pay a higher price. It’ll be interesting, and perhaps enlightening, to compare his eventual penalties to those of Quick Draw McGraw.
You are so right! Chances are great that his acting career will go nowhere and when he tries to enter the work force he will have a lot of explaining to do. Criminal records are checked before hiring anyone these days. He may as well switch to Political Science major and start volunteering for Hillary’s campaign.
Well it took David Cassidy 45 years to get arrested for DUI, since he starred in “The Partridge Family”. Whether a transgression occurs at the beginning of life or the end of life, it does not matter. All I can say is: “I told u so”.
“DiMassimo, an acting student…” That says it all. This was his 15 seconds of fame.
Headline could be misleading in that it was planned by an organized group to disrupt Trump’s campaign. Was merely a millennial!
I agree!
Second your motion: the clicking business is competitive and more clicks means more advertising revenue for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
DiMassimo, an acting student with Wright State University’s theater program, couldn’t be reached for comment. It’s unclear if he has an attorney. Don’t need an attorney. Just plead “no contest” and get on with ur acting life.
SA..Please work on these headlines. should be “Man arrested at Trump rally told police: act was pre-planned”.
Too bad he didn’t grab the microphone.
Of course, he is an acting student. This is one big act that is playing out and Trump is the biggest comedic liar!
“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your Health Care plan, you can keep your Health Care plan.” The Incompetent One.
What the heck is an “Acting Student”? Agitators such as these in a dead end pursuit have nothing better to do with their time than to disrupt lawful assembly. Keep an eye on this one. Guarantee, NOTHING will become of it. However, if a bunch of conservatives had dared pull the same stunt on obama, you had better watch out! Just another example of the hypocrisy rampant on the Left.