Florida man charged with driving van into GOP voter tent said he dislikes Trump and had to 'take a stand,' police say
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A Jacksonville, Florida, man jailed after allegedly crashing a minivan through a tent of Republican volunteers in a Walmart parking lot told investigators he does not like President Donald Trump and felt "someone had to take a stand," according to his arrest report.
Gregory William Loel Timm, 27, was jailed on $500,000 bail on two counts of aggravated assault on a person 65 years old or older, plus criminal mischief and driving with a suspended license, jail records show.
Timm is accused of deliberately crashing his GMC Safari into a tent of Republican volunteers who were registering voters outside the Walmart on Saturday. No one was struck by the van.
In response to Timm's arrest, Trump issued a warning on Twitter: "Be careful tough guys who you play with!"
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., tweeted it was "a politically motivated attack." Local GOP leaders joined Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry on Monday to further condemn what happened.
"You should not have to fear physical injury or worse to express political beliefs in America," said GOP Duval County Chairman Dean Black. "Nowhere in our country, nowhere in our city should anyone fear for their physical health because of their political views and their political activities."
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Just another TDS sufferer, Not shocking I never seen this on the news.
Definitely sporting that lost in space proglib look...
Don't know where some are looking but I have seen it reported.
First time I have seen a pic though.
In the first days after this story broke, only one of the 3 major TV stations - ABC, CBS, NBC - which are all left-wing, gave it a whopping 25 seconds of attention. The other two gave it zero. To its credit, FNC provided a lot of info and details.
meh, with all the blue-hairs in florida mowing down crowds with their caddies on a semi-regular basis, I'm surprised the story got any national attention.
Exactly. The Virginia terrorism that never happened got way more press.
Trump supporters have also committed acts of violence or attempted violence.
Cesar Sayoc mailed 16 homemade pipe bombs to prominent critics of Trump across the country. Luckily none of them detonated.
A man placed Scott Eisen, a photojournalist, in a choke-hold and punched him in the face while shouting: “Fake news! Trump 2020!”
Morris May pepper-sprayed the face of a demonstrator preparing for a “Stand Against Hate” rally in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He was wearing a shirt referencing Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.
Michael Hari and two co-conspirators allegedly bombed a mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota. No one was injured. A person who knew Hari told the Intercept that Trump’s rhetoric had “flipped that switch” in Hari and persuaded him to act.
Dennis Mothersbaugh sucker-punched two demonstrators who were protesting against a far-right rally in Charlottesville. After he was arrested, Mothersbaugh appeared in court wearing a “God, Guns & Trump” shirt.
Alex Ramos and five other men beat a black man at a parking garage during a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. He punched and kicked the man while wearing his red Make America Great Again baseball cap. Their victim, DeAndre Harris, sustained a broken wrist and a head wound.
LouisTravieso attacked two men and a woman in Washington DC, after one of them made a comment about his red Make America Great Again baseball cap and said they had a problem with his politics.
Only two hours.
What does only two hours mean?
I'm willing to bet it wasn't hard to look that up. Thanks for proving my point.
Facts don't have to be hard to find or take long to look up. You are just po'd that I pointed out some of the violence committed in the name of your false prophet. I think the violence from BOTH sides is abhorrent.
What is it with you lefties always telling someone what they think. I am not like you, I don't need someone to tell me what I think.
False prophet? again what are you babbling about, I worship no man or thing.
The only worthwhile part of your comment.
I never claimed that Trump supporters didn't commit acts of violence, I stated that when the it is done by the left it is downplayed by the press where as if it is a Trump supporter it is the end of the world.
Haven't you heard? TDS isn't real. /s
I vote this one as the most under reported story of the year
It goes without saying that if this was a right-wing nutjob that drove thru DNC volunteers it would have been front and center for a week.
It is odd that the video he made of himself committing the crime is nowhere to be seen now. I swear I seen some of his footage.
We have pictures of it posted on seeds & articles for the rest of the year. It would dominate the news. We would have calls for the President to denounce it over and over!
It is odd that the video he made of himself committing the crime is nowhere to be seen now.
No we wouldn't want the country to see that/Sar
Then you have another TDS sufferer attacking teenage boys in New Hampshire...
The bottom line. If it had been reversed it would have been the story for weeks. Thank God for Fox News Channel because w/o them few would even know this happened
It doesn't fit the left-wing media's propaganda that "Trumpsters" are the violent ones, so they all basically ignored it.
Here’s a bunch more of the same:
Startling threats and violence against GOP voters: Part of a pattern?
A startling rash of threats and violent incidents targeting Republican voters in recent weeks is raising concerns about the increasingly toxic political climate, just as the 2020 presidential primaries are getting started.
The incidents began earlier this month when a Florida man, Gregory Timm, 27, allegedly rammed his van into a Republican Party voter registration tent. According to reports, Timm ran over chairs and tables, and witnesses said he recorded the scene moments after the incident, made an obscene gesture and sped off.
FLORIDA MAN ACCUSED OF DRIVING VAN INTO TRUMP SUPPORTER'S TENT
Timm has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault on a person 65 years old or older, one count of criminal mischief and driving with a suspended license. An arrest report said Timm told deputies he did not like President Trump and “someone had to take a stand.”
Days later, in Windham, N.H., amid the state’s first-in-the-nation primary last Tuesday, a man allegedly assaulted a 15-year-old Trump supporter and two adults who had been volunteering at a polling site, Fox News first reported.
The New Hampshire man, Patrick Bradley, 34, was charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct after allegedly getting in the face of the teenage boy, Nate Campbell, who was wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat, and slapping him across the face. He also is said to have assaulted two other adults who attempted to intervene.
NEW HAMPSHIRE MAN ARRESTED AFTER ALLEGEDLY ASSAULTING PRO-TRUMP TEEN AT POLLING SITE
Police arrested Bradley days after the incident. He was also accused of throwing Trump campaign signs and attempting to knock over the Trump campaign tent set up at the Windham High School polling site.
Campbell's mother, Cathy Campbell, in an exclusive interview with Fox News last week, said "it's scary that you can't express which political party you are. People need to know how much intolerance there is right now."
"I was apprehensive about him wearing the MAGA hat, because we know it can provoke and we know people don’t like Trump,” she explained. “But he wore the hat because he’s a proud 15-year-old and he doesn’t know what people are going to be like.”
She added: "It sickens me that people would be angry at a kid for wearing a stupid hat."
The president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., spoke out last week after the incident in New Hampshire, accusing the mainstream media of not calling out the violence against Trump supporters and Republicans.
“So a leftist attacks 3 Trump supporters, including a 15-year-old child, in NH this week,” Trump Jr. tweeted Thursday. “Last week a deranged leftist attempted to run over a group of Trump supporters with a car in FL. What will it take for the MSM to finally call out leftwing violence?” Also, over the weekend, protesters at the University of California at Santa Cruz smashed a College Republicans information table.
According to reports, and a video posted on social media, two protesters tore up placards and ripped down signage—with one of them appearing to spit on a 13-star “Betsy Ross” American flag that is seen on the ground.
PROTESTERS WRECK COLLEGE REPUBLICANS' INFO TABLE, SPIT ON US FLAG AT UC SANTA CRUZ, VIDEO SHOWS
“I think this guy’s trying to assault me,” one protester is heard saying in the video, laughing, as someone tries to grab an American flag away from him. The man attempting to take back the flag later in the video falls to the ground during the struggle.
“Get a life!” those fighting off the protesters say at one point.
The video starts when the incident is already underway, so it’s not clear exactly how it began. But Dylan Temple, president of the College Republicans chapter at UC Santa Cruz, told The Post Millennial it began when one of the protesters grabbed one of the group’s flags.
Temple said he immediately reported the matter to campus police. Subsequent posts on social media gave a name for one of the protesters, but it was unclear if that person was charged with any crimes.
Meanwhile, police at Arizona State University said that they were investigating a video that showed an individual shouting violent threats at a group of pro-Trump students on campus. The video, posted by Students for Trump at Arizona State University on Feb. 5, shows an individual at ASU's Tempe campus repeatedly shouting at a group of conservative students, saying: "Slash Republicans' throats."
Also, last week, retired New York City police officer Daniel Sprague said he got punched in the face at a Tennessee bar, all because he was wearing a birthday hat and a shirt with Trump-like slogans. The man was wearing a hat that said “Make Fifty Great Again” and a shirt that said “Making America Great since 1970.” "At one point," Sprague said, "a female came up from behind me, spun me around, and punched me in the face and then grabbed my hat off my head and was just yelling, 'How dare you?'"
He told the station he believes the woman was wearing a ring or had a set of keys in her hands when she lunged at him because the wound was "pretty deep and it goes to the bone."
"People have different views, but we're not supposed to take it out on each other," Sprague said.
Meanwhile, last month a Florida man was sentenced to 90 days in jail and one year of supervised probation after slapping the bill of a man’s “Make America Great Again” hat before telling the man to “go back to Russia you f--- communist” and spitting on him, investigators said.
Fox News' Dom Calicchio, Matt London and Vandana Rambaran contributed to this report.
What a vicious lot!
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Republican volunteers who were registering voters...
I don't think this is how Motor Voters works.
Too many crazed people running around.
Agreed. And it is not confined one particular ideology.
True.
Lock him up.
And yes, I did see this reported soon after it happened.
The idiot tried to tape it, showed the police but apparently jerked the phone away went he hit the tent leg.
The tape is in evidence against his sorry ass, lol.
I did try to look up his video again, I came up with this. Way more cooler, I'm guessing Lake Superior.
In that video Nobody got hurt and ore freighter is way cooler than a minivan
That couldn't have been from this year, there is very little ice on the great lakes this year, there were ships passing Tawas in the middle of January here on lake Huron and perchville you needed a boat last week.
Defiantly, not even if it was lake Superior.
17% I heard, Then even with the open lakes the snowbelt I live around has been lacking.
My brother has been slaying the Walley's in his boat.
I think the Sioux Locks are closed and there are ice houses everywhere, but there really isn't anywhere near as much ice as last year. I haven't noticed the Icebreaker moving from the Duluth port since before Christmas either.
They close every winter for maintenance.
The winter forecast predictions fell flat on there face. I'm not one much to believe in Michigan weather forecasts. I put more stock in the wooly caterpillar.
It's been too long since I've been up there.
If it wasn't a full day's drive (one way) I'd seriously think about attending the opening.
I can be at freighters restaurant in a couple hour drinking a cocktail. I'll hold a table for ya.
They love Trump down in Florida. I was really not surprised when he won that state in the elections. I was in Ft. Lauderdale during full election season and there was Trump shirts and stands all over the place.
Not surprised. A lot of white trash there.
And most of it moved there from New York