Trump supporter who paid $4K to smash Taylor Swift guitar says it was ‘just a joke’ now raising more for charity

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Vice President Kamala Harris.“Yes, you can connect the dots there,” Estes told NBC News on Tuesday when asked if he was a fan of the 45th president.

Still, while he wasn’t pleased with Swift’s decision to vote for the Democratic candidate in the upcoming election, he meant no ill will by his hammer-wielding antics, he insisted.“There was nothing malicious or anything about it,” Estes said.“It was just a joke at an auction that we had to raise money for kids, right?

And that’s all it was. There was nothing mean about it, nothing bad about it.”In the viral footage, a grinning Estes could be seen slowly approaching the stage to claim the guitar after placing his winning bid.Once in the front of the audience, Estes took the tool from the auctioneer and immediately started obliterating the instrument. “It was a funny, light-hearted thing.

I know maybe it seemed to be malicious, but everybody was laughing,” the auctioneer, Craig Meier, told the outlet. “There were people there, at the time, who joked around that he’s mad because he doesn’t know how to play the guitar.”Meanwhile, the since-shattered instrument is up for auction again — this time on eBay — after Estes donated it back to the youth charity just moments after he destroyed it.