A pair of protesters were ejected from President Trump’s rally in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, including one wearing a T-shirt proclaiming “Kill Your Local Pedophile.”
The protesters were also wearing hats embroidered with upside-down flags, which is used as a distress symbol in times of extreme danger. It has been co-opted by the anti-Trump resistance in defiance of the president.
As the pair began heckling the president at the rally Friday night for Sen. Darline Graham, the crowd shouted over them, chanting “USA, USA, USA.” It’s unclear what they were shouting.
“That’s all right. That person is going home to mom [and] going to be scolded because mom is voting for us,” Mr. Trump said of the protester.
Images on social media showed the hecklers being forcibly removed from the event.
The “pedophile” shirt was presumably a reference to Mr. Trump’s ties with deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who died in 2019 in an apparent suicide. Mr. Trump and Epstein were friends, but had a falling out in the mid-2000s over a real estate transaction.
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Mr. Trump said he hadn’t talked to Epstein in over a decade, after the New York financier was arrested on federal drug trafficking charges. Although Democrats have underscored the connection between the two men, Mr. Trump hasn’t been publicly accused of wrongdoing.
Mr. Trump was in South Carolina to campaign for Ms. Graham, a Republican, who faces a runoff in the state’s GOP Senate primary next week.
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