A Donald Trump supporter was caught on camera telling a lesbian couple that they would ‘burn in hell’ for being gay and welcomed them to the ‘Trump era’.
Jessica Lundquist and Tiffany Steinberg were enjoying an evening out strolling down the Huntington Beach Pier hand-in-hand when they were approached by Anthony Miskulin.
Steinberg said her girlfriend was Snapchatting when Miskulin walked right up to them. In the caption of the their video, Steinberg says he ‘got all up in’ Lundquist’s face and started calling them sinners.
The video starts off showing Miskulin walking alongside the couple as they tried to walk the other away.
Jessica Lundquist and Tiffany Steinberg were enjoying an evening out strolling down the Huntington Beach Pier hand-in-hand when they were approached by Anthony Miskulin (left and right) who told them they would ‘burn in hell’ for being gay
Steinberg (right) said her girlfriend, Lundquist (left), was Snapchatting when Miskulin walked right up to them. In the caption of the their video, Steinberg says he ‘got all up in’ Lundquist’s face and started calling them sinners
But he continues to follow them through the area, telling them that they are ‘exchanging normal sexual behaviors with abnormal ones’.
‘Once you’re in hell, you can never leave hell,’ Miskulin says.
‘I don’t care!’ Steinberg is heard yelling at the man, who asks them if they would like to pray together.
When they both decline, Miskulin continues to follow Steinberg and Lundquist, who are both YouTubers, down the pier.
He then babbles that they are ‘going to burn in hell’ before telling them that it seems like they have had issues with men.
‘I am gay everyone. I would just like you to know. I am gay and I’m burning in hell. Just wanted you to know that this guy doesn’t agree but I am gay. Thank you everyone,’ Steinberg shouts.
‘Is this your first time in Orange County?’ the man asks. ‘No I live here,’ Steinberg replies.
The video starts off showing Miskulin (left and right) walking alongside the couple as they tried to walk the other away. But he continues to follow them, saying they are ‘exchanging normal sexual behaviors with abnormal ones’. Steinberg is pictured right
Moments later, a bystander comes up to couple and the man and asks if everything is okay. Steinberg (pictured) is heard telling the woman that the man has been harassing them. ‘Harassment is not legal,’ the girl is heard saying in the background
The couple said they were shocked by the Miskulin’s actions toward them last week
‘You’re kidding me?’ the man said before asking Steinberg if she is a Democrat.
When she answers ‘yes’, the guy asks: ‘Oh my God they let you move here?’
Moments later, a bystander comes up to couple and the man and asks if everything is okay.
Steinberg is heard telling the woman that the man has been harassing them. ‘Harassment is not legal,’ the girl is heard saying in the background.
The man then claims he’s a criminal defense attorney (which was a lie) before he says he’s exercising his freedom of speech.
He then identifies himself and gives the couple permission to film him because he wanted to get his message out. But when they tell him ‘no one agrees with you’ he responds by saying: ‘They do actually, this is the Trump era and you’re going to see a whole lot of things changing.’
Steinberg instantly turns away and they finally manage to get away from him as they troll him about Trump.
The couple said the incident occurred around 9pm on Sunday, October 15. They both said it was the very first time they had ever been discriminated against in public.
When Steinberg posted the video on Facebook, it received more than 100,000 views.
One commenter said that they had even dealt with Miskulin before.
Lundquist (left and right) and Steinberg finally manage to get away from the man as they troll him about being a Trump supporter
The couple (pictured) said the incident occurred around 9pm on Sunday, October 15. They both said it was the very first time they had ever been discriminated against in public
Facebook user Alec David Bauer wrote: ‘I got into a fat argument with him for this very reason [sic] he was giving two girls holding hands sh*t saying they are going to hell blah blah blah and then he told my autistic mute friend he was going to hell…he obviously didn’t know what was happening but I tore him a new one that day…this guy is a tool.’
Miskulin was interviewed by the Los Angeles Times last year explaining why he voted for Trump.
‘The reason I voted for Donald Trump for president was because I was tired of the politics of Washington.
‘I was tired of my country being run a much with illegal aliens who shouldn’t be here in the first place,’ he added.
Miskulin is definitely not a lawyer, but at one point in his life he made six figures as a loan officer before the Great Recession hit.
Now he works in corporate sales making $26,000 a year.
He told the Times last year that his vote for Trump ‘wasn’t out of bigotry’. ‘It wasn’t out of hatred. It was about survival,’ he added.
‘I’ve been to the welfare office before, and a lot of people who go there don’t speak English,’ Miskulin said.
‘Most of the people who go there, they’re not white. They’re not even black. The most people you see there are mostly Mexican…. They are illegal and they don’t belong in our country,’ he said at the time.