Donald J. Trump called this protester fat and kicked him out of a rally. The protester told us that wasn’t the worst part.

Posted by INSIDER on Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Back in November, Donald Trump mocked as “overweight” a man whom security agents threw out of one of the presidential candidate’s rallies. But it was the violent xenophobia the man heard before the rally that really disturbed him.

—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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