



Things got uglier as people were leaving, she said, when she taunted them, saying "'You better learn to speak Russian,'" a reference to Trump's admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin. "'The first two words are going to be ha ha,'" she told WLOS.



At that point, a man "stopped in his tracks, and he turned around and just cold-cocked me," punching her in the face.



She said she fell on the tank she carried in a backpack and was treated at a hospital for sore ribs, a sore jaw and a scrape on her elbow.



Matt Price, a witness, told the Citizen-Times of Asheville that he saw Teter fall and heard a loud "metal clank" when her oxygen tank hit the ground. "Then a little eruption ensued and some people chased down that guy and there as a little heated moment right there before the cops stepped in."