Economist Stephen Moore saꦯys a protester spit on him ಌafter he left the White House on the final night of the Republican National Convention.
Moore, an economic adviser to President Trump, said he had only walked about four blocks from the White House on Thursday when he found himself in “a very dangerous situation” in the middle of a Black Lives Matter rally, he told John Catsimatidis during an interview on WABC radio’s “Cats Roundtable.”
“When I walked out the gate, because I was one of the first people to leave, the security guard said, ‘Be careful out there,’ and I didn’t know what he meant,” Moore, 60, said in an interview that aired Sunday.
“And I went about three or four blocks from the White House and as I got through the police barricades I walked right into a Black Lives Matter rally and it was very similar to the experience that Rand Paul had.”
“There were many, many people who were being harassed and it was a very dangerous situation,” he said. “They started screaming lewd and vile things at me, coming right up into my face. One guy spit at me. I made the mistake of going off by myself, and I was quite frightened, frankly.”
Paul, a Republican senator from Kentucky, said he and his wife, Kelley, walked into a “harrowing” encounter with protesters aꦬfter leaving the White House on the last night of t💎he convention.
Video showed a group confronting the Pauls sꩵhouting “Say Her Na🍒me” and “Breonna Taylor.”
“Thursday night felt like being in a terrifying dystopian novel,” Kelley Paul for the Washington Examiner.
The demonstrations were among several across the nation’s capital on Thursday as Trump accepted the GOP nomination to seek a second term in ꦅan event held at the White House.