Rare News Desk
CLEVELAND — For many, the group of bikers riding around Cleveland during the Republican National Convention was the best part of this massive political convention.
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The Bikers for Trump, who are made up of self-proclaimed “patriotic bikers with the sole purpose of electing Donald Trump President of the United States,” have followed the Republican nominee to various rallies including, of course, this week’s RNC.
“Right now, we’re an unsafe country,” Johnny Bones, a Marine veteran, told Rare. “Over the last eight years, there has been a division.”
His biggest reason for supporting Trump?
“Second amendment rights. I love my guns,” Bones said.
So much so that he has 13 of them.
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The men, who were wearing their full riding gear despite the sweltering heat, were resting and chatting with each other when a protest in Cleveland’s Public Square broke out Thursday. They jumped up mid-conversation when they heard that the group rumored to have burned an American flag the day before may do it again.
“We just are here to make sure a flag doesn’t get burned,” Bones said.
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Amid the unfolding chaos, which did not result in any burned flags, came a moment of reflection when 97 year-old Sidney Walton was wheeled into the protesting crowd by his son Paul. Walton is an Army veteran who fought in World War II and was on his way to the RNC floor.
“It’s amazing to have a World War II veteran in your presence,” Bikers for Trump member Daryl Rembowski told Rare while choking back tears. “He stands for everything we’re doing. If he can do it, we can do it.”
The biker community has a bond unlike any other, the group explained.
“If more people lived by the code we lived by, it’d be a much better country,” one of the bikers, “Gator,” a Cleveland native, told Rare. “We don’t steal, we don’t lie to each other, we don’t cheat other. We cover each others’ backs.”
“Your word is your bond,” said Bones, who calls Gator his family.
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