Political Commentator to Newsmax: Booted Out of Lyft Over Politics

Independent political commentator Shane Pratt told Newsmax on Wednesday that he was thrown out of his Lyft over his political views.

Pratt was in a Lyft going from downtown Phoenix to a friend’s house in Scottsdale when he and his friend started discussing rapper Nicki Minaj’s appearance at the Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference.

“It was like a historic moment for Nicki Minaj to be speaking at Amfest, standing up for Christians in Nigeria and really all over the world,” Pratt told Newsmax TV’s “The Chris Salcedo Show” on Wednesday.

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