A California man ended up in the hospital after a dispute with his neighbor over his Donald Trump flag.
John Muder from Orange County said his neighbor recently had their Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz outdoor sign stolen.
Muder thinks the neighbor assumed he was the one who took it because of his pro-Trump display.
He told FOX 11: ‘He was thinking it was me because I have my Trump sign, which is the furthest from the truth.’
The next thing Muder knew, the Trump banner hanging above his Ladera Ranch home’s garage was missing.
John Muder was left hospitalized after he and his neighbor allegedly had a political misunderstanding
Muder’s Trump flag that was hanging above his garage went missing and he suspected that his Harris-supporting neighbor was the culprit
With an inkling this may have been an act of misdirected retaliation, he checked the garbage pale of the Harris-supporting neighbor and discovered his flag stuffed inside.
‘I was on the sidewalk,’ Muder told the outlet. ‘I knew he had a Ring camera thing, so I said, “Hey, can you stay off my property?” I left. It was probably no more than 10 or 15 minutes later he came over to my house screaming and yelling.’
Surveillance footage captured the heated argument between the two men.
That is when the Trump-supporter said the situation took a violent turn.
He claimed his neighbor assaulted him inside of his garage and left him there ‘to die.’
Muder explained: ‘He knocked me out. I have a major brain bruise in the back of my head. I got kicked in the face, I believe.
‘There was mass blood. He left me there basically on my own to survive.’
Muder said he suffered from ‘bleeding of the brain’ and has been in the hospital for three days with a concussion.
‘He could be dead right now and this man didn’t care about it,’ his wife, Lourdes Barrueto, said to FOX 11. ‘All because we have a Trump flag.’
Muder told the outlet: ‘I just can’t believe the violence this guy alluded to. For what? A flag? Are you kidding me?
Muder and his wife told FOX 11 from the hospital that they do not understand why someone would turn violent over politics
Lourdes Barrueto and Muder pictured before the dispute, which has sinc eleft him hospitalized for three days
Muder said his neighbor beat him unconscious in his garage, leaving him with a severe concussion
‘If you’re willing to hurt someone over a political view, you need some serious help.’
Police confirmed with FOX 11 that they did arrest someone from a Ladera Ranch home for a fight. He was taken into custody for assault and battery charges.
The neighbor is allegedly out of jail on bond.
This has been one of many politically-driven feuds arising just before Election Day.
For instance, Algoma, Wisconsin is the most ‘politically divided in America’ and is being torn apart by locals warring over politics.
The left-leaning neighbor allegedly torn down Muder’s Trump flag and threw it in the trash
The partition in ‘friendly’ Algoma is so deep it even runs between husbands and wives.
The city of 3,200 people has always been tightly contested, but this election things are heating up even further.
Residents have been drawn into screaming matches in the street and even say they fear being ‘shot’ for declaring their political allegiances too outwardly.
Meanwhile, the intersection between the homes of two politically opposed neighbors has become so overrun with competing campaign signs it has been dubbed ‘crazy corner’.
Dennis Paul, a Republican and Abbey Bridges, a Democrat, recently got into an online spat which spilled over into the real world when Paul, 65, began hurling insults at Bridges, 40 as she walked her dog, the New York Times reported.
Muder believes this argument stemmed from a misunderstanding. His neighbor’s Harris-Waltz sign was stolen before the fight
Bridges ended up calling the police after she claims Paul made threats against her, which he denied.
She has resorted to keeping her shades drawn to avoid any further confrontations.
‘He called me a whole bunch of things that really didn’t make sense,’ she told the outlet. ‘Now, I am avoiding him like the plague.’
