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Pickup truck torched by ‘mob of anti-Trump vandals because owner had bumper sticker supporting the President’
A US man believes his Nissan truck was torched because it had pro-Donald Trump bumper stickers
A SUPPORTER of Donald Trump had his truck vandalised and torched in what the owner believes was a targeted attack.
Johnny MacKay thinks his Nissan Titan truck was targeted was because it had two stickers supporting the Republican President on the rear bumper.
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One sticker said "TRUMP 2020"; and the other read "TRUMP: KEEP AMERICA GREAT."
His truck was daubed with an anti-Trump slogan, spray-painted in silver writing, before being set alight.
MacKay had downed a few drinks at the Garage Bar and Grille in Vancouver, Washington State on Sunday night and because of that he’d left it in the car park and got an Uber home.
When he returned the next day to pick it up he was shocked to discover the state of his vehicle.
He told : “"All of a sudden I saw the tires were melted, the windows were shattered, and I was just in shock.”
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MacKay said that while he did not vote for Trump in the presidential race, he supported Trump now because he was in office.
"Maybe he wasn't the guy you voted for or maybe he wasn't who you wanted in office, but now he is," Mackay said. "People just need to relax."
He added that he had only recently put the stickers on his truck.
MacKay said: "I literally just put them on this weekend.
"If I would've known somebody would've taken politics this far -- I saw them, I thought they were funny and apparently somebody didn't get the joke."
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Randy Sanchagrin, who lives near to the bar, said: "All of a sudden I hear a loud bomb and the windows shake.”
He went outside to see the truck in flames and rushed inside to get his sister to call the emergency services while he went back out to see if anyone was in the truck.
By the time I ran back to the street it was so bad there was no getting close to it," he said.
MacKay said he did not think it was an accident.
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"If you say anything that someone doesn't like you are ultimately a target," he said. "You're automatically the enemy and they have to hurt you."
MacKay, an Uber driver, also has a message for the person who took away his source of income.
"(They) need help," he said. "Whether it was from drugs or a mental condition, this person needs to get help. If they blow up at this, who knows."
Vancouver Police confirmed they are treating the incident as suspicious.
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