Trump claims protesters were paid $250 to heckle him after his Kansas rally for an endangered senator is interrupted four times
From the Newshound archive · first published 20 October 2026.
President Donald Trump told the Park City crowd the hecklers would 'ruin their whole lives' because they get arrested. He branded them 'idiots' and joked one would go home to be slapped by mom and dad. He was there to rescue Senator Roger Marshall, who is neck and neck with Democrat Adam Hamilton. No Democrat has won a Kansas Senate seat since 1932.
Trump admitted the state was 'tending toward the purple' in his 98-minute speech.
He accused Hamilton, a Methodist pastor, of funding 'transgender crap' with church money.
Trump also boasted of spotting the giraffe to ace his cognitive test.
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