Eric Trump said he believed the incident was politically motivated.
USA TODAYPresident Donald Trump's son Eric Trump said an employee of an upscale Chicago cocktail bar spit on him Tuesday night in an incident he believed was politically motivated.
"For a party that preaches tolerance, this once again demonstrates they have very little civility," he added, apparently assuming the employee was a Democrat."When somebody is sick enough to resort to spitting on someone, it just emphasizes a sickness and desperation and the fact that we’re winning."
Eric Trump attends a French-U.S. ceremony at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, northwestern France, on June 6, 2019.Kokonas made headlines earlier this year when he invited Clemson University's NCAA championship football team to"experience what an actual celebration dinner should be" after the team was given fast food during a trip to the White House, where the staff had been impacted by a government shutdown.
The alleged spitting is the latest in a string of incidents in the past two years in which members of the Trump administration, as well as Republican lawmakers, have described being confronted and harassed at restaurants by people over policy differences.Kellyanne Conway alleged assault:In June 2018, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was asked to leave a Virginia restaurant.
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