'Guilty Of Stupidity': Cape Restaurant Owner Regrets Attending President Trump Rally

The owner of a long-time restaurant in Eastham says his reputation is on the line after attending the President’s speech in Washington, D.C. last week. “I’ve done nothing wrong, I’m guilty of stupidity,” said Nate Nickerson, owner of Arnold’s Lobster and Clam Bar.

He says he attended the rally at the invitation of a friend and was far back in the crowd, barely able to hear the president’s words. But now he’s the subject of death threats and threats to boycott his Cape Cod restaurant because he says he’s been associated with the rioters. “I’ve been called a domestic terrorist, Hitler, that I went there to promote civil war,” he said.

Nickerson insists he was not near the violence when it broke out at the Capitol and denounces it. “What they did was incomprehensible, it’s not acceptable, beyond not acceptable it’s horrible,” he said.

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