“If Phish was holding a free concert at the Flynn and gave away 20,000 free tickets, we would cancel the event out of public safety concerns”, Burlington Police Chief Brandon del Pozo told the Burlington Free Press.
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The Republican front runner makes headlines wherever he goes, but Donald Trump’s visit to Bernie Sanders’ home turf may be more than a publicity stunt. “You have to”, he said.
Trump nevertheless praised the fact that protesters help draw the cameras to show off his massive crowd sizes: “That’s why I love protesters”, he said. Bernie! Bernie!” As about half a dozen protesters were walked out, Trump’s supporters responded “Trump! Professionally, were just going to handle it. Jim Billado, 55, of Bakersfield, was one of the hundreds of people waiting in line Thursday for the rally. Doney said he still planned to vote for Trump.
Trump closed the rally on his recurring theme of strength.
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The Burlington Free Press talked to one man who is glad that Trump is coming and that the “free-speech absolutists won”, even though he doesn’t agree with him.
But the majority of the crowd cheered enthusiastically as Trump touted his poll numbers, slammed both Democrats and Republicans, and repeated some of the policy proposals popular among his supporters.
When she told a Trump staffer at the entrance that she was not a Trump supporter, Martenis said the staffer tried to deny her entrance, calling it a “private affair”, but she was allowed in after she said she wanted to hear what Trump had to say.
Protesters gathered outside the theater during Trump’s speech cheered as people were removed from the building.
Trump spoke of his desire to build a wall on the southern border of the United States and to protect gun owners against what he sees as any infringements of their Constitutional rights to gun ownership from the Obama administration. Some who refused to declare their allegiance to Trump’s campaign were turned away at the door.
Real-estate mogul Donald Trump ended his Thursday-night campaign rally by calling for an end to so-called gun-free zones on schools and United States military bases. “You know it’s about 10 degrees below zero outside”, the boisterous billionaire barked from the stage.
The space where he will be speaking can only fit around 1,400 people.
Two young women were escorted out after shouting “Get Trump out! Tell him we will send it to him in a couple of weeks”. “Get ’em out of here”, Trump said.
Burlington police said in a statement that the Trump campaign informed the department that it has issued “nearly 20,000” tickets to the event, with at least 6,500 ticket-holders having “confirmed a desire to attend using a valid, verifiable email address”.
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Eventually the heckling died down after a few more protests.
