It just wouldn’t be a Donald Trump speech without a protester interrupting the real estate mogul and being escorted out by security.
A protester, identified by reporters on scene as Medea Benjamin, cofounder of the anti-war group, Code Pink, could be seen drawing the crowd’s attention up in the stands Thursday as Trump gave his speech to the Republican National Convention.
Trump had to veer off-script to address her interruption as the crowd chanted, “U-S-A! U-S-A!”
“How great are our police! And how great is Cleveland!” Trump declared.
Watch the interruption:
Reporters on scene captured security escorting Benjamin out of the Quicken Loans Arena:
Here is footage of the anti Trump protester being dragged out of the arena: pic.twitter.com/WLXMFL11ZY
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) July 22, 2016
.@medeabenjamin of Code Pink being escorted out of #RNCinCLE pic.twitter.com/Sd46xx18hl
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) July 22, 2016
I wonder if that woman can help me get into a Rolling Stones show.
She may just have stones hard enough to get the job done.
Darn! I was hoping it was Ted Cruz. Well, there’s still time…
its who you know and how you present yourself. If you don’t look like a protester, you win.
So shave the beard?