{"id":379410,"date":"2018-10-02T21:52:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nimble-bat-scares-trump-rally-ahead-of-halloween-video-rt-us-news\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T21:52:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:52:18","slug":"nimble-bat-scares-trump-rally-ahead-of-halloween-video-rt-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nimble-bat-scares-trump-rally-ahead-of-halloween-video-rt-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Nimble bat scares Trump rally ahead of Halloween (VIDEO) \u2014 RT US News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.10\/thumbnail\/5bb3c2d7fc7e9394238b45ea.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        A winged creature of the night hilariously gatecrashed a rally for President Donald Trump with the bat stirring up chaos amongst the crowd. Police were even forced to swoop in to contain one of Count Dracula\u2019s minions. <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>With \u2018Make America Great Again\u2019 supporters turning out to see the president speak in Johnson City, Tennessee, the beginning of the event was almost overshadowed by an uninvited flying guest. No it wasn\u2019t Batman or Trump\u2019s enemies from the \u2018fake news media\u2019 \u2013 but a common fruit bat intent in stealing the limelight from the US president.<\/p>\n<p>With Halloween around the corner it was perhaps fitting that a bat \u2013 the winged disguise of horror character Dracula \u2013 should make an unscheduled appearance at a rally where Trump spoke about spooky subjects such as US healthcare and immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the bat\u2019s sudden appearance shows the creature swooped around Freedom Hall closely followed by a number of cops tasked with stopping it from interrupting the event.<\/p>\n<p>At one point a cop can be seen to hilariously flail a leg at the bat hopelessly missing the target.<\/p>\n<p>The frightening but likely harmless creature then flew towards a group of reporters who appeared to shriek with fear.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THERE IS A BAT LOOSE INSIDE TRUMP&#8217;S RALLY AT FREEDOM HALL!!!!!! POTUS&#8217; advance staffers are aware and working on the problem.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marcus DiPaola (@marcusdipaola) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcusdipaola\/status\/1046859503805894656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center\/><\/center><\/div>\n<p>Journalist Marcus DiPaola later said the bat was captured and released without harm.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\"><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump rally bat update: &#8220;It was captured and released WITHOUT HARM. We were very kind to the animal.&#8221; according to a person with knowledge of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>I believe I saw animal control involved, but am currently waiting for confirmation from my source.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marcus DiPaola (@marcusdipaola) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marcusdipaola\/status\/1046884500490395648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center\/><\/center><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>If you like this story, share it with a friend!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/440153-trump-bat-rally-interruption\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A winged creature of the night hilariously gatecrashed a rally for President Donald Trump with the bat stirring up chaos amongst the crowd. Police were even forced to swoop in to contain one of Count Dracula\u2019s minions. With \u2018Make America Great Again\u2019 supporters turning out to see the president speak in Johnson City, Tennessee, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":379411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}