Trump Booed & Heckled At Libertarian Convention After Asking For Endorsement, Ex-President Responds By Insulting Party

At the Libertarian Party’s national convention on Saturday, former President Donald Trump was loudly booed and heckled by attendees. When he came on stage, Trump was immediately met with jeers. Some of his supporters attempted to override the crowd’s negative reception by chanting, “We want Trump.”

The boos reached a peak when Trump asked the Libertarian attendees to “nominate me or at least vote for me” to “get rid of the worst president in history,” a dig at current President Joe Biden. As attendees became visibly and audibly upset, Trump followed up with another statement.

“Only do that if you want to win; if you want to lose, don’t do that. Keep getting your 3% every four years,” Trump said. After receiving hostile reactions, Trump concluded his speech after 34 minutes. 

Despite the crowd’s opposition to Trump, the former president found common ground with voters on several topics. Trump promised to include Libertarians in positions of power if reelected, which earned some cheers. He also addressed the imprisonment of Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road black-market website that became known as a drug supermarket, with Libertarian voters holding signs that read, “Free Ross.”

Trump’s initial invitation to the convention sparked outrage from voters and delegates who felt his presence took time away from other Libertarian nominees. Delegates claimed Trump, a Republican, did not represent Libertarian views and, therefore, intruded on the convention.

On Friday, potential Libertarian nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dug into Trump in his campaign speech at the convention. Kennedy Jr. accused Trump of “caving” on Covid-19 lockdowns, appealing to anti-vax attendees. Kennedy Jr.’s statement earned him a standing ovation. 

Despite positive reactions, Kennedy Jr. was eliminated in the first round of votes. The Libertarian Party voted Chase Oliver as their presidential candidate.

In 2015, uInterview interviewed Ross Ulbricht’s mother, Lyn, about his trial. “Evidence favorable to Ross, exculpatory evidence, was suppressed,” Lynn told uInterview in an exclusive interview. “It wasn’t permitted to come out. Witnesses were stopped from testifying on the behalf of the defense…. Also, the defense attorney was hamstrung by evidentiary rules that were put into place on the fourth day of the trial from properly cross-examining and establishing reasonable doubt, which is his job. So, yes, I’d say it was an unfair trial. Due process rights were violated, and that’s important for all of us, not just for Ross. So yeah, that is overstepping your bounds. The government had a very specific narrative and anything that deviated from that was not allowed to be heard. Ross’s libertarian/non-violent views were not allowed to be heard, for example. Lots of things were erased.”