Pro-Trump Merch Vendors Brawl Outside Michigan Rally and ‘Were Ejected From the Premises’

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A brawl broke out before former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Saginaw, Michigan on Thursday as spectators watched on.

Michigan Advance reporter Anna Liz Nichols captured footage of the fracas – which allegedly took place between vendors selling pro-Trump merchandise – and showed two men pummeling another man on the ground at Saginaw Valley State University, hours before Trump’s rally.

After the man got up, the brawl continued, with another man joining in until they were broken up.

Nichols claimed that “at least two of the people in the altercation were selling Trump gear” a claim confirmed by both AP and the Trump campaign.

“The Trump campaign reports that all of the individuals involved in the altercation were vendors, none were attendees and all were ejected from the premises,” a Trump campaign spokesperson told Michigan Advance following the incident.

It was not the first time a brawl broke out at one of Trump’s rallies.

In March 2016, a Trump rally descended into chaos after it was taken over by anti-Trump protesters, resulting in the event being cancelled last minute.

During his speech in Saginaw on Thursday, Trump boasted about the size of the audience – “Who ever fills big places like this at three o’clock in the afternoon?” – and attacked United Automobile Workers president Shawn Fain as “the dumbest union leader.”