Trump risks being ‘genuinely prosecuted’ for ‘dangerous’ Freedom 250 mishap: journalist

A close call involving performers at the Great American State Fair could land President Donald Trump behind bars, one journalist cautioned on Thursday.

Performers narrowly avoided injury Thursday when a section of the stage at the Washington, D.C. event appeared to give way, sending debris crashing down just feet from where they stood. According to Drop Site News founder Ryan Grim, however, the incident could end up haunting the president.

“This is incredibly dangerous stuff. Trump cutting safety corners with stage building is the kind of thing somebody can genuinely be prosecuted for if someone dies, which is not uncommon if you slap it together like this,” Grim wrote in a social media post on X to his more than 530,000 followers. “This equipment is deadly when falling from those heights.”

Organized by the Trump-linked group Freedom 250, the fair got off to a rough start last week after most of the artists previously slated to perform at the event backed out after learning of its connections to Trump. The fair has also experienced power failures that melted perishable foods and stalled a Ferris wheel, and has been ridiculed over what appear to be near-empty fields and booths.

Fair organizers have yet to release a statement regarding the incident Thursday, which had been initially flagged by independent journalist Aaron Parnas but since picked up by several news outlets.