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Trump flashes middle finger at Heckler during factory visit (photos)
United States President Donald Trump was caught on camera on Tuesday responding with an obscene gesture to a heckler during a visit to an automobile plant in Michigan, according to a video circulating widely on social media.
The incident happened during a tour of the Ford F-150 factory in Detroit, where Trump was seen standing on an elevated walkway overlooking the factory floor, dressed in a long black overcoat.
Amid shouting from below, the president appeared to identify the heckler, pointed in the person’s direction and frowned while saying a few words.
He then raised his middle finger before continuing with the visit, as captured in the video now trending online.
The heckler has not been identified, but White House spokesman Steven Cheung told AFP they got what they deserved.
“A lunatic was wildly screaming expletives in a complete fit of rage, and the President gave an appropriate and unambiguous response,” Cheung said.
The heckler seemed to shout, in part, “pedophile protector,” TMZ reported.
The 79-year-old Republican’s second term has been dogged by demands to release the files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was once a friend to Trump and the jet set.
Epstein, a financier, was awaiting trial for allegedly trafficking underage girls when he died in a New York jail cell in 2019 — a death officially ruled a suicide but long the subject of conspiracy theories amplified by Trump’s supporters.
Trump approved bipartisan legislation to release the files, but his Department of Justice has failed to meet the December 19 deadline to release them all.
Earlier this month, justice officials said it was still reviewing more than two million documents for release.
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