A crowd of protesters outside of the White House accosted Alice Johnson after President Trump’s Republican National Convention speech, according to a new report.
Johnson told members of Clubhouse, an invitation-only social media app, that she was accosted by demonstrators who yelled at her as she left the White House on Thursday evening. The protesters told her they wanted to do “terrible things” to her, according to the Daily Caller.
Johnson was granted clemency by Trump in 2018 after Kim Kardashian West lobbied the White House for her release from prison. Johnson spoke at the Republican National Convention and thanked the president for his criminal justice reform. On Friday, the president surprised her with a full pardon.
Kmele Foster, the host of the Fifth Column podcast, confirmed to the Washington Examiner that Johnson has spoken about her confrontation with protesters. Foster was also adamant that no one on Clubhouse told Johnson not to share her story, contrary to previous reports.
Several attendees of Trump’s nomination acceptance speech were accosted as they left the White House. Sen. Rand Paul said that police saved his life after a crowd of more than 100 protesters shouted threats at him and his wife, Kelley Paul. Kelley Paul wrote in the Washington Examiner that the crowd called her “a ‘bitch’ and ‘racist w—-’ alongside an endless torrent of ‘f— yous.’”
Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones, a Democrat who has endorsed Trump, was also confronted by protesters as he left the White House. Jones said that he was met by a “violent mob” of Democrats, Black Lives Matter protesters, and supporters of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
