Tyler Linfesty told CNN’s Don Lemon that he is actually a Democratic Socialist and that he signed up to go to the rally a week ago with his three friends because he wanted to see the President and hear what he had to say.
“I’m not going to pass up the chance to see the President of the United States,” he told Lemon.
Linfesty told the Billings Gazette that he found out that morning he had been selected to attend the rally and meet Trump. He contacted the Trump campaign and asked to reserve seats for his friends.
He said he and his friends did not have an agenda and had an open mind before attending.
“I didn’t really have a plan,” Linfesty told the Gazette. “I was just going to clap for things I agreed with and not clap for things I didn’t agree with.”
Linfesty told CNN’s Lemon that all of his facial expressions were honest.
“All of those reactions were my actual reactions,” he said. “I would have made those faces if anyone were to say that to me. I was not trying to protest, those were just my actual, honest reactions.”
Once he and his two friends were replaced on stage, he said they were escorted by Secret Service into a back room where agents looked at his ID.
After 10 minutes, they told him he could leave.
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