BlazeTV host Eric Bolling was accosted while dining at the Trump International Hotel by a passerby who said the conservative was responsible for his son’s death last year.
On Wednesday night, as he dined with friends, Bolling said that a man on a cellphone walked by his table and said that his son, Eric Chase Bolling, 19, “killed himself because he was embarrassed by his dad.”
Outraged by the “hateful moron,” Bolling jumped up and followed the unidentified man, his phone switched to video, and challenged him over his vile comments.
.@EricBolling was sitting with some friends at Trump Hotel in D.C. when a man walked by his table & said, loud enough for them to hear, Eric’s son “killed himself because he was embarrassed by his dad.”
Eric followed the hateful man outside & started filming what came next… pic.twitter.com/51FhqG6Nmh
— BlazeTV (@BlazeTV) March 21, 2019
“It was a drive by hit on me,” Bolling, host of “America,” said.
The attack was just one of many conservatives claim they have been subjected to by those angry with Republicans and President Trump.
It came as he was talking with conservative activist Hayden Williams about how he was attacked at the University of California, Berkeley last month.
I’m so very sorry @ericbolling. No one deserves this. This inexcusable. I pray for you and your family to find peace. ?? https://t.co/irLoUK1m09
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) March 22, 2019
Williams, with the Leadership Institute, told Secrets: “I was in D.C. to attend President Trump’s campus free speech executive order ceremony, and Eric had graciously invited me to have dinner with him at Trump International the night before the signing. At some point in the evening, a man walked right up to Eric and said, ‘Your son killed himself because he was embarrassed by his father.’ Quite frankly, it was one of the most disgusting, despicable things I’ve ever heard anyone say to another person.”
He added: “I was recently physically attacked at UC Berkeley by a stranger who walked up to me out of nowhere, and I don’t want to in anyway downplay the seriousness of what takes place on college campuses, but what happened to Eric was in many ways much worse than what I went through there. Attacking a man’s politics by targeting his deceased son is pure evil. People like that want to dehumanize conservatives because they disagree with us. It’s unreal and it needs to stop. We’re human beings, deserving of empathy and respect, just like them.”
The attack on Bolling drew supportive reaction.
“I’m so very sorry @ericbolling. No one deserves this. This inexcusable. I pray for you and your family to find peace,” tweeted former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.
