A town hall meeting sponsored by U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu devolved into a raucous face-off even before it started Monday night when a handful of Donald Trump supporters disrupted a largely Democratic crowd calling for the president’s impeachment.
Lieu, who has gained a national following in recent months for his scathing tweets taking aim at the Trump administration, had not yet taken the stage at the Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center when Trump supporters agitated the roughly 900 people inside with signs that read “Ted Lie” and “We love Trump.”
Trump supporters, Democrats clash at rowdy town hall hosted by Rep. Ted Lieu in Redondo Beachhttps://t.co/QUlZUaKM7L pic.twitter.com/9x0iXeWrTJ
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) April 25, 2017
At one point, Lieu paused and told one heckler, “Dude, I make up the rules, you got it?”
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