President Trump’s midterm election rally in Texas Wednesday was interrupted by several protesters, some of whom shouted down an angel mom talking about how two criminal illegal immigrants murdered her son.
About twelve people disrupted the San Antonio rally within the first 45 minutes of the president’s remarks, which focused on portraying the Lone Star State as being under threat if Democrats beat Trump’s slate of endorsed candidates in the November contests.
Trump repeatedly fired back at the hecklers, insulting their appearance and accusing them of being “paid” to interrupt the proceedings.
“His mom voted for Trump,” the president said after the first interruption.
“That guy’s got to lose a lot of weight,” he said after a second person started shouting.
“They’re paid protesters,” Trump claimed after yet another disruption. “They’re paid by enemies of our nation.”
The protests continued even when angel mom Marie Vega took the stage to recount the harrowing story of how she survived an armed robbery by two illegal immigrants that left her husband injured and her Border Patrol agent son, Javier “Harvey” Vega Jr., dead.
“Everything was going perfect until two career criminal illegal aliens decided to ambush us in an attempt to steal two four-wheel-drive trucks,” Vega said of the day her son was murdered.
“Without warning, they jumped out of the stolen vehicle they were driving and … they shot at us, killing my Harvey as he so desperately tried to protect us,” she recalled. “They shot my husband in the back and continued shooting at everyone there, including my two little grandsons and their friend.
“In an attempt to protect our family, I picked up the AR that Harvey had reached for before getting shot in the chest, and I returned fire.”
Just as Vega charged that Democrats “want to strip” Americans of their Second Amendment rights, a commotion broke out in the crowd, forcing her to pause for about a minute.
Unlike Trump’s previous Lone Star State event, the president asked Republican Senate hopeful Ken Paxton to join him on stage Wednesday night.
Trump also eschewed mocking Paxton’s manner of dress or public speaking skills, which he’s done in the past.
“I think he’s probably the greatest attorney general in the history of the state of Texas. He is tough. And he was with us all the way,” Trump said of Paxton.
“If you get elected for job performance, you’re going to have a blowout because there’s nobody like him,” he added, telling voters the GOP Senate candidate is “the only thing standing between you and the migrant conquest, the invasion you had two years ago.”
“I’m very proud of him and I think he’s going to be an unbelievable senator,” the president later said.
Meanwhile, Trump repeatedly attacked Paxton’s opponent, Democrat James Talarico – referring to him as “Talafreako,” a “fake” and accusing the lefty state lawmaker of being a vegan.
The president also quipped that first lady Melania Trump has insisted that he pronounce the word “vegan” correctly at his rallies
“You know, my wife told me, ‘Sir, do me a favor … it’s not vaygun, it’s vegan… Please pronounce that word properly,’” the president told the crowd.
In his defense, Trump said: “How the hell would I know? I like steak.”
He also ripped Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), whom he provided an eyebrow-raising pardon last year.
“I gave a full pardon at the request of his two daughters because they said, ‘Please don’t let them take my mother and father away,’” he said of the congressman and his wife, both of whom were indicted on federal corruption charges.
“But shockingly, after the pardon was given … only a few days later, he said he was going to stay and remain in the Democrat Party,” Trump fumed.
“Many consider this to be a tremendous act of disloyalty, and it certainly showed him to be an extremely ungrateful kind of a person,” he continued. “ I mean, you know, I saved him from going to jail for like, I think, 15 or 20 years.”
“He was afraid to do it,” Trump said of why Cuellar declined to switch political allegiances.
Trump also seemed to clear up comments he made at a Nebraska rally Monday about Iran blowing up Los Angeles and San Diego, which drew backlash from Democrats.
“We had no choice because we can’t let them have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said of the Iran war.
“But you want to see trauma? You want to see problems? And I said it the other day: Let them hit a missile into San Diego or Los Angeles,” he continued, before adding, “We’re not going to let that happen. We protect our cities. We protect our country. We’re not letting them.”
