--- title: Republican Debate: Donald Trump Heckled by Protester description: The protester was reportedly affiliated with a group devoted to getting big money out of politics canonical: https://time.com/4150974/republican-debate-donald-trump-heckler/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-16T04:18:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:24:55.270Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Donald Trump Get Heckled by an Anti-Big-Money Protester og:description: The protester was reportedly affiliated with a group devoted to getting big money out of politics og:url: https://time.com/4150974/republican-debate-donald-trump-heckler/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Donald Trump Get Heckled by an Anti-Big-Money Protester twitter:description: The protester was reportedly affiliated with a group devoted to getting big money out of politics twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Donald Trump Get Heckled by an Anti-Big-Money Protester  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Dec 16, 2015 4:18 AM UTC  by [Charlotte Alter](https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/)  ## Charlotte Alter Senior Correspondent Dec 16, 2015 4:18 AM UTC Donald Trump was heckled by a protestor during [the Republican debate Tuesday night](http://time.com/4149585/republican-debate-donald-trump-ted-cruz-jeb-bush-cnn/), and the man was allegedly affiliated with [99%Rise](http://www.99rise.org/), a group dedicated to getting big money out of politics. A video of the heckler was taken by CNN’s Dylan Byers and posted on Twitter: > [](https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/676964069069451265) While it is not immediately clear what the protester was saying, Byers said he was affiliated with 99%Rise, a group which aims to “get big money out of American politics through nonviolent action.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4150974/republican-debate-donald-trump-heckler/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4150974/republican-debate-donald-trump-heckler/"},"headline":"Watch Donald Trump Get Heckled by an Anti-Big-Money Protester","datePublished":"2015-12-16T04:18:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:24:55.270Z","description":"The protester was reportedly affiliated with a group devoted to getting big money out of politics","url":"https://time.com/4150974/republican-debate-donald-trump-heckler/","keywords":["Republican debate","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/republican-debate/","name":"Republican debate"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4150974/republican-debate-donald-trump-heckler/","name":"Watch Donald Trump Get Heckled by an Anti-Big-Money Protester"}}]}] ```