‘$250 protesters’: Trump reacts as hecklers disrupt his rally raising slogans on Epstein - watch

US President Donald Trump was interrupted by two hecklers in quick succession during a rally in Ohio, with one shouting that Trump had travelled on Jeffrey Epstein's plane, prompting the president to accuse the disruptors of being paid protesters.Responding to the heckler, Trump claimed that the man had been paid $250 to disrupt the event and described him as someone following the “radical left playbook”. Trump also brought up his past association with Epstein, the late convicted sex offender, claiming that he had thrown him out of a club around 20 years ago.Trump said: "You know, there's a guy, not a young guy, they gave him $250. Paid Protesters paid. Such. Such losers. Boy, you look at that guy. So that guy, he's right out of the radical left playbook. He's right out of the radical. This guy. This guy was very nondescript. But I will say this. You know, he mentioned Epstein. So I threw Jeffrey Epstein out of a club like 20 years ago because I thought he was a whack job."The interruptions came as Trump addressed the crowd at the Ohio rally. The hecklers' remarks disrupted his speech, prompting him to respond directly to the protesters.Trump has repeatedly alleged, without providing evidence, that people who interrupt his rallies are paid agitators. During the exchange, he also referred to the claim that protesters receive $250 for disrupting his events.In a separate incident reported by the Daily Mail, a heckler interrupted Trump during a rally in Mississippi on Monday, telling him: "Shove that ballroom up your fat a--," in an apparent reference to the planned construction of a new ballroom at the White House.Trump responded by telling the heckler to leave, saying: "Oh, go home," and "Go home, go home."He subsequently claimed that the protesters were being paid, saying: "He gets paid, you know they're paid protesters, they get paid $250 by, they think it's Soros."Trump was referring to billionaire George Soros, a major donor to Democratic and liberal causes. However, the president has not publicly provided evidence to substantiate his claims that the hecklers were paid to disrupt his rallies.You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.