{"id":68856,"date":"2017-03-16T19:31:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T23:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68856"},"modified":"2017-03-16T19:32:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T23:32:48","slug":"conservative-standard-bearers-now-vulnerable-to-the-violent-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68856","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Standard-bearers Now Vulnerable to the Violent Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"posttitle\">SAVAGE: IT&#8217;S &#8216;OPEN SEASON ON TRUMP SUPPORTERS&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"deck\">Talk-radio star bloodied, shaken in assault at restaurant<\/h2>\n<p>WND.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_68857\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/trump-savage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68857\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68857\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/trump-savage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/trump-savage.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/trump-savage-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump and Michael Savage at Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Reacting to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2017\/03\/talk-radio-superstar-left-bloodied-shaken-in-public-assault\/\">violent attack on him at a San Francisco-area restaurant,<\/a> talk-radio host and author Michael Savage said it\u2019s \u201cclearly open season on prominent Trump supporters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2017\/03\/talk-radio-superstar-left-bloodied-shaken-in-public-assault\/\">as WND reported,<\/a> the day of the launch of his new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelsavage.wnd.com\/2017\/01\/trumps-war-his-battle-for-america-by-michael-savage\/\">\u201cTrump\u2019s War: His Battle for America,\u201d<\/a> Savage was finishing up dinner Tuesday night at Servino Restaurant in Tiburon, California, when the unnamed assailant charged up to Savage and began yelling. The attacker kicked the poodle out of the way, grabbed Savage and threw him to the ground, according to witnesses. Savage was not seriously hurt, but the incident left him bloodied and shaken, and Savage\u2019s lawyer said he will pursue charges, including hate crimes charges, because of Savage\u2019s political views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clearly open season on prominent Trump supporters,\u201d Savage told Breitbart.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fascist left has been empowered by their own false narrative that those who support borders, language and culture \u2013 my motto \u2013 are evil fascists!\u201d he said. \u201cThis is how Hitler came to power. He used his brownshirts to beat any opponents. The media and police are almost wholly driven by this lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is craziness in the air,\u201d Savage told his listeners at his opened his show, \u201cThe Savage Nation,\u201d\u00a0Thursday after wondering aloud why his attacker was not arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Savage said he often talks to people he meets in public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had many of them say, \u2018I like your family stories but I don\u2019t like your politics.\u2019 But I\u2019ve never had a man just come up and spontaneously assault me and my animal, and then hit a Good Samaritan, and \u2013 wait \u2013 and not get arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He recalled the rioting at the University of California at Berkeley last month in response to a planned appearance by Trump supporter Milo Yiannopoulos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not so much a societal problem. It is a liberal societal problem,\u201d Savage said.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a Florida man claimed he was the victim of a road rage incident because of a Trump bumper sticker and a Trump\/Pence flag hanging in his back car window, <a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/03\/09\/i-got-punched-in-the-face-because-of-my-trump-bumper-sticker\/\">the New York Post reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gregg Dunay said he was left battered and bloodied after an angry motorist refused to let him merge into an adjacent lane. The other driver rolled down his window and began cursing at him and said, \u2018I\u2019m not letting anyone with a Trump sticker in front of me.\u2019 The man jumped out of his car, punched Dunay in the eye, breaking his glasses, and sped off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/2017\/03\/trump-i-wouldnt-be-president-without-this-man\/\">In an interview with WND about his new book \u201cTrump\u2019s War,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Savage\u00a0said he decided to frame it\u00a0as a battle plan because he knew Trump\u2019s \u201cbig and unprecedented ideas\u201d would face so much opposition from the left, including violent opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Savage\u2019s attorney, Dan Horowitz, says\u00a0he will seek criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to seek felony charges against the man, and we\u2019re going to investigate this as a hate crime because of Michael\u2019s political views,\u201d Horowitz told Bay Area media blogger Rich Lieberman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2017\/03\/15\/pro-trump-radio-host-michael-savage-claims-he-was-assaulted-outside-marin-county-restaurant\/\">The San Jose Mercury News reported<\/a> a Tiburon police spokeswoman said a follow-up police report will be sent to the District Attorney\u2019s Office for review to see if any charges will be filed.<\/p>\n<p>Horowitz told the paper the assailant, about six feet five inches, approached the talk radio host \u201cyelling insults.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted Savage is about one foot shorter and is 75 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Horowitz said Savage told the man to \u201cgo away\u201d and it appears that the man knocked Savage to the ground while also pushing his dog out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, Horowitz said, another customer from the restaurant intervened, and the assailant punched him in the face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe called me from the scene,\u201d Horowitz told the paper. \u201cTruthfully, I think he was more furious than anything. He was saying he had just wanted to go out and have a nice dinner. He said, \u2018This guy can\u2019t get away with that.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018An ax to grind\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Savage\u2019s show Thursday, Horowitz explained that, according to the law, punching someone is only a misdemeanor unless there is serious injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rules protect the aggressive, violent person too much in this society,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Savage noted that the man knew his legal name, meaning the attack was premeditated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, obviously he has some kind of ax to grind with me, and I don\u2019t know who that man is to this day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Horowitz said that after talking to witnesses, there is no dispute the man followed Savage on the way out of the restaurant, closed the space and yelled at him.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasizing the potential danger of such a confrontation, the lawyer recalled the murder of John Lennon by a stranger who came up to him on a New York City street.<\/p>\n<p>Savage said the assailant lied to police, claiming Savage pushed him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is absurd. Both of my hands were holding onto things!\u201d Savage said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has lied and said I pushed him,\u201d Savage said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAVAGE: IT&#8217;S &#8216;OPEN SEASON ON TRUMP SUPPORTERS&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}