Another Trump rally, another brawl. It was more of the same during Donald Trump's latest rally in Albany, N.Y., when a Trump supporter was caught on camera shoving another man twice in the face.
The man, identified as "Mike," proudly proclaimed he was a Trump supporter and said he shoved the man because he was allegedly "yelling in [his] face."
Well, he's not wrong. Multiple videos of the incident show the two engaging in a shouting match in the middle of the crowd at Monday's rally. "Mike" can be seen lunging and shoving his right palm into the other man's face, before backing up and doing it again.
The two were eventually separated, but that didn't stop "Mike" from trying to get in the last word: "Hey, I'll snatch anybody up if they yell in my face over anything. I have my personal rights and my personal space. They're gonna start yelling about some ****, I'll snatch your **** up. That's all."
As for the other man? He remains unidentified and it seems like he always will. There are no reports of any charges being filed following the incident, and police on the scene say that no arrests were made.
Outbreaks of violence like this has been a recurring feature of Trump's rallies as of late. Trump himself has been blamed for inciting crowds at the rally and was even sued by three people who claim they were attacked or subjected to racial slurs at a Kentucky rally.
Trump has consistently denied these charges, but his speech at the Times Union Center in Albany on Monday evening could only be seen as an attempt to rouse the audience. The speech was a continuation of a recurring theme of his campaign: the "crooked" GOP nominating process - with Saturday's loss in Colorado as a focus.
"Because we thought we were having an election, and a number of months ago they decided to do it by you know what, right?" Trump began. "Right? They said we'll do it by delegate. They said we're going to do it by delegate. Oh. Isn't that nice."
He added: "And the delegates were all there all waiting and the head guy, in fact one of them tweeting out today or said today by mistake and then they withdrew it something to the effect 'see never Trump look what we did never Trump.' Because if I go to the voters of Colorado, we win Colorado. So it's a crooked, crooked system."
Is the process as crooked as he says? Not quite. Colorado's decision was reached via a vote by state GOP in August. The debate was prompted after Ron Paul supporters finagled a sizable chunk of the delegates in 2012 despite coming in far behind Romney and Santorum in the state's caucuses that year, and after the RNC changed its rules to eliminate nonbinding straw polls.
RNC chairman Reince Priebus even offered a statement on Twitter in a bid to correct Trump and set the record straight.
The rules were set last year. Nothing mysterious --nothing new. The rules have not changed. The rules are the same. Nothing different.
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) April 12, 2016
The rest of Trump's speech echoed other themes he mentioned in the past such as the fact that he got less delegates than Sen. Ted Cruz in Louisiana despite coming out ahead of the primary.
He then went on to remind the crowd of Cruz's apparent hatred of New York, in reference to comments Cruz once made about "New York values."
"We have the greatest values," Trump said. "Nobody has values like us."
Check out a video of the brawl below:
