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A Transylvania University student, Tristan Reynolds, told the Lexington Herald-Leader he was inside the campus cafe with 30 or 40 other people when a guy came in, banged something, a hatchet or an ax, on the table and said, The day of reckoning has come.
He asked somebody what their political affiliation was, they said Republican and the guy said, You are safe.
Mitchell W. Adkins, 19, of Cincinnati was arrested and charged with first-degree assault, fourth-degree assault, and three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment.
Middleton said Adkins made several threatening statements and then attacked a female student with a machete.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/04/28/machete-wielding-assailant-asked-about-political-affiliation-before-campus-attack-witness-says
Facebook page shows his likes include "Donald Trump Is Our President", "Christians Vote Trump", "Never Hillary", "Donald Trump For President", "Donald J. Trump", and "College Republicans."
https://www.facebook.com/mitchell.adkins.1293?ref=ts&fref=ts
Turbineguy
(37,291 posts)19 year old fucks up his life for trump.
NunnesBuznat
(47 posts)It reminds me of the disconnect of people always spewing shit about honor killings, but then turning around and going "well if you go home and there's a man in your house having sex with your wife, you're perfectly within your rights to fill him with bullets"
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,586 posts)Yuk. He's not only a Trumpazoid; he seems to be intensely anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant generally.
ck4829
(35,038 posts)What an absolutely disgusting thing to say.
kimbutgar
(21,055 posts)I think he going to lose his job over this. Unhinged guy.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,586 posts)He'll be lucky if all that happens is that he loses his job.
BeyondGeography
(39,345 posts)Got the white boy discount.