A California man ended up in the hospital after a dispute with his neighbor over his donald trump flag.
John Muder of Orange County said his neighbor recently had his outside Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz sign stolen.
Muder believes the neighbor assumed he was the one who took it because of his pro-Trump display.
he said FOX 11: ‘I was thinking it was me because I have my Trump sign, which is the furthest thing from the truth.’
The next thing Muder knew, the Trump banner that hung over the garage of his Ladera Ranch home was missing.
John Muder was hospitalized after he and his neighbor allegedly had a political misunderstanding
Muder’s Trump flag hanging over his garage disappeared and he suspected his Harris-supporting neighbor was the culprit.
Suspecting that this might have been an act of misdirected retaliation, he went through the trash of the neighbor who supported Harris and discovered his flag stuffed inside.
“I was on the sidewalk,” Muder told the outlet. ‘I knew he had a Ring camera, so I said, “Hey, can you stay off my property?” I left. It was probably no more than 10 or 15 minutes after he came to my house screaming and shouting.’
Surveillance footage captured the heated argument between the two men.
That’s when the Trump supporter said the situation took a violent turn.
He claimed his neighbor attacked him inside his garage and left him there “to die.”
Muder explained: ‘He knocked me out. I have a large brain hematoma on the back of my head. I think they kicked me in the face.
‘There was massive blood. He left me there basically alone to survive.’
Muder said he suffered a “brain bleed” and has been in the hospital for three days with a concussion.
“He could be dead right now and this man didn’t care,” his wife, Lourdes Barrueto, told FOX 11. “All because we have a Trump flag.”
Muder told the outlet, “I just can’t believe the violence this guy alluded to.” So that? A flag? Are you kidding me?
Muder and his wife told FOX 11 from the hospital that they don’t understand why anyone would become politically violent.
Lourdes Barrueto and Muder in the photo before the dispute, which has since left him hospitalized for three days
Muder said his neighbor beat him unconscious in his garage, leaving him with a severe concussion.
“If you’re willing to hurt someone over a political opinion, you need serious help.”
Police confirmed with FOX 11 that they arrested someone from a Ladera Ranch home for a fight. He was arrested on charges of assault and battery.
The neighbor is supposedly out on bail.
This has been one of the many political disputes that arose just before election day.
For example, Algoma, Wisconsin, is the most “politically divided place in America” and is being torn apart by local fights over politics.
Left-wing neighbor allegedly tore Muder’s Trump flag and threw it in the trash
The division in ‘friendly’ Algoma is so deep that it even extends between husbands and wives.
The city of 3,200 people has always been hotly contested, but with this election things are heating up even more.
Residents have been involved in shouting matches in the street and even say they fear they will be “shot” for declaring their political allegiances too openly.
Meanwhile, the intersection between the homes of two politically opposing neighbors has become so overrun with rival campaign signs that it has been dubbed “crazy corner.”
Dennis Paul, a Republican, and Abbey Bridges, a Democrat, recently became involved in an online dispute that spilled over into the real world when Paul, 65, began insulting Bridges, 40, while walking their dog, the New York Times reported.
Muder believes this argument arose from a misunderstanding. Neighbor’s Harris-Waltz sign stolen before fight
Bridges ended up calling the police after claiming that Paul threatened her, which he denied.
He has resorted to keeping the curtains closed to avoid further confrontations.
“He called me a lot of things that really didn’t make sense,” he told the outlet. “Now I’m avoiding him like the plague.”
