Jovanni Valle was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat in Manhattan’s Lower East Side when he was hit on the head with a bottle at 3:30 am, the New York Post reports.
Valle is a 26-year-old right-wing activist who had attended a book party for Milo Yiannopoulous’ new book “Dangerous.” He said he was attacked after his MAGA hat fell off while he was dancing at the bar. A woman, Emma Rodriguez, then “repeatedly” stepped on his hat until he said ‘That’s enough, what are you doing?’ to which she replied ‘I hate this hat, I hate you.”
After Valle placed his hand on the woman’s shoulder, Rodriguez’s boyfriend, Leonardo Heinert, started to “repeatedly punch” Valle while Rodriguez “smashed a bottle” over his head.”
Valle said of the incident:
“I wear my hat because I want to make America great again like the president. I like Trump because he doesn’t sugarcoat anything. A hat that says ‘America’ and ‘great’ on it shouldn’t be polarizing. This is a political hate crime. I got attacked for what I think.”
Luckily Valle, who is uninsured, found support in plastic surgeon and fellow Trump supporter Dr. Joseph Pober, who offered to fix Valle’s facial scarring for free. Pober said:
“This is something that had to be done. When I heard about this I was shocked. It’s freedom of speech that is being attacked and assaulted… I can’t imagine that anyone in America would viciously assault you, break your nose and slice your face with a broken beer bottle.”
Pober has so far provided an estimated $30,000 worth of medical services to Valle free of charge, with two more free surgeries to come.
Valle is an ardent right-wing activist, having made headlines earlier this year for interrupting a production of the Public Theatre’s Trump-themed “Julius Caesar.” Valle stormed the stage shouting “Liberal hate kills.”
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