A TRUMP supporter has been charged with assault after being accused of “forcefully exhaling on protesters” outside of the president’s golf club in Virginia.
Raymond Deskins, 61, was hit with a simple assault charge on Sunday and released on a summons after the incident over the weekend.
In a video that’s been circulating online, a man identified as Deskins can be seen blowing air onto two women after they repeatedly asked him to get away.
“You’re in my face and you don’t have a mask, so you need to back off,” she said.
After Deskins breathed on them, one of them claimed: “That’s assault!”
“I breathed on you,” Deskins said in response as he appeared to smirk.
Masks aren’t required to be worn outside in Virginia.
One of the women involved in the encounter, Kathy Beynette, told WRC-TV that she and one other person were protesting Trump outside Trump National Golf Club.
She said a group of pro-Trump demonstrators were counter-protesting across the street.
Beynette told the news station: “Then, quite out of nowhere, the guy came over from across the street, came charging across the street.”
Deskins was wearing a Trump shirt and and inflatable pool float with the president’s face on it around his waist.
“He just proceeded to assault us by taking a deep breath and doing a very powerful exhalation on both of us.”
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that deputies were called by two separate parties on Saturday who claimed they were assaulted.
The department acknowledged the video that caught the encounter, but said it didn’t capture the whole exchange between the groups and law enforcement didn’t witness what happened.
Both groups were told they could go to the Loudoun County Magistrate and obtain a citizen’s warrant.
The sheriff’s office charged Deskins on Sunday with that warrant.
Now, Beynette said, she’s concerned she’ll get sick after the incident.
“We’re both senior citizens both close to 70 years old, which puts us in a high-risk category,” she said.
“Because of this guy, my family has had to cancel the small Thanksgiving that we had planned with just a few people because I said I might’ve been exposed.”
As of Monday, Virginia has reported more than 217,000 coronavirus cases and nearly 4,000 virus-related deaths.
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