Students for Trump Founder Ryan Fournier Arrested, Accused of Using Gun to Strike a Woman

Ryan Fournier, the co-founder of Students for Trump, was arrested in North Carolina last week on accusations that he struck a woman in the head with a handgun, records show.

Fournier, 27, allegedly grabbed the woman by her right arm and struck her in the forehead with a 9MM Sig Sauer P229 pistol, according to the Johnson County magistrate.

The victim – identified by Axios as Fournier’s girlfriend – suffered a minor injury in the alleged attack.

Fournier was taken into custody on Nov. 21 and faces two misdemeanor charges of assault on a female and assault with a deadly weapon.

He was released on a $2,500 bond and is scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 18.

Fournier co-founded the youth political group during former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign when he was a student at Campbell University.

Trump headlined a Students for Trump event at a Phoenix, Ariz. megachurch in June 2020.

Fournier now leads a group called Radical Alert, which proclaims to be “exposing” hate that has “taken over American college campuses.”

John Lambert, who co-founded Students for Trump with Fournier, was sentenced to 13 months in prison in May 2021 for posing as a lawyer to steal money from his victims.

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