Leftist opens fire on Trump supporter’s property after taking Trump banner down

Benjamin Michael Campbell was described as driving 55 miles per hour down the road. However, when he saw a Trump banner on Mark Thomas’s property, Campbell came to a screeching halt, exited his vehicle, then walked to a Trump banner on one of the busses parked on private property. Partly standing on his toes, Campbell aggressively brought the banner down. Thomas fired warning shots into the air from an unseen location. Campbell responded by driving by the property and firing at the home side of the street.

From Daily Mail:

Thomas said that Campbell first caught his eye as he drove down his road at around 55 miles per hour before coming to a sudden, screeching halt.

The Republican homeowner said he checked his security cameras, and watched a man wearing an ‘Antifa-style mask’ emerge from his Jeep Cherokee to inspect a Trump banner attached to a bus parked on the Thomas family property.

‘He was driving along, saw the sign, slammed on his brakes, you know, had a political trigger moment, and he just had to tear the sign down,’ Thomas said.

‘He started reaching up on his tippy toes, trying to get to the edge of the sign. I just thought to myself, this is not happening. I don’t believe this.

‘I’m a Trump supporter. I have weapons for my protection and my enjoyment and I keep them handy.

‘You know, what good are they if you can’t get to them when you need them? So I reached over and grabbed my rifle.’

Thomas said he walked out to his porch while armed with the rifle, and fired two warning shots into the air from a spot where Campbell could ‘very clearly’ see him.

‘By this point, he had ripped the sign off, and he just whipped it up and then threw it down on the ground. Like he was proud of what he just did. I thought, Holy smokes,’ Thomas said.

The intruder returned to his Jeep, but instead of heeding Thomas’ warning and leaving, he circled back down his road while raising a gun through the sun roof and firing multiple times, video shows.

‘He fired five to six rounds as he was heading back down the driveway to the highway that passes in front of my place,’ Thomas told the Daily Mail.

‘I found one bullet hole in my refrigerator, which is on my porch.’ Thomas was standing on the porch at this point, and the bullet missed him by meters.

Referring to his surveillance footage of the incident, Thomas said: ‘You can see the dirt and grass flying up in the air and coming back down where bullets struck the front yard.

‘I heard: boom, tap, and another bullet hit something metallic. That one could have very easily come close to me. He was most definitely trying to kill me.’

Additional Reading:

Parnaby, L. (2025, October 20). Exclusive: Accountant arrested after ‘opening fire on MAGA supporter’ in dispute over Trump sign… as victim recalls bullets whizzing past his head. Daily Mail. Link.