Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star has been wrangled behind a wall, muted, stomped, and flipped off, but with two weeks left to go before the presidential election, a vandal decided to take a drastic next step.
A man dressed as a city construction worker pulverized the star with a sledgehammer around 5:45 a.m. PT Wednesday. The culprit, Jamie Otis, said he had wanted to actually remove the star to auction it off as a means of raising money for the women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault, Deadline reports. Trump has threatened to sue his accusers.
Otis failed, to say the least. The star ended up smashed into pieces but couldn't be removed:
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Trump was awarded the star in 2007 for his work on The Apprentice.
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