What a twist!
The fight at Republican presidential campaign caboose John Kasich’s Bay Ridge town hall was as staged as an episode of the “Jerry Springer Show,” according to tabloid television host Montel Williams, who was there stumping for the candidate.
“Ever seen a ‘protest’ that well-choreographed and protesters with obvious training in voice projection?” tweeted Williams, who has hosted “The Montel Williams Show” since 1991, and claimed the guys looked like actors.
Two disrupters seated near the stage stood up and burst out yelling at each other about party affiliations while Williams talked up the Ohio governor’s bid at the Bay Ridge Manor on April 7, prompting security to drag out the louts.
A Kasich spokesman claimed the troublemakers support Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and have pulled stunts like that before.
“Those were apparently two pro-Trump comedians that have attended candidate events in the past,” communications director Chris Schrimpf in an e-mail.
It definitely seemed staged, but Montel didn’t script it, and it caught his team off guard, a spokesman said in an e-mail.
