At a Saturday event in Dayton, Ohio, Donald Trump blamed Bernie Sanders supporters for the violence that forced the cancelation of his campaign rally in Chicago.
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Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Chicago on Friday was postponed amid growing security concerns.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on caucus day in Waterloo, Iowa February 1, 2016.
“To see Americans slugging themselves at a political rally deeply disturbed me”, Ohio Gov. Kasich, said while campaigning in Cincinnati.
Trump called off a later event in Chicago due to safety concerns after protesters packed into the arena where it was to take place. And there have been lots of instances off-campus at different Trump events where there’ve been these kinds of minor scuffles that have broken out and certainly has – apparently come to a head tonight.
“Once that’s starts happening, we’re not going to have any more protesters, folks”, Trump said.
This morning, Kasich was more somber, invoking his work to calm tensions after the death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year old black boy shot in Cleveland by a police officer. He said in a Fox News interview protests in Chicago had become “an industry” and some of the people involved were “probably being paid to do this”.
Videos showed angry supporters shouting racist and sexist slurs, as well as people inciting violence. Police later said that 31 people were arrested and charged with general peace disturbance, and one person was charged outside the venue with third-degree assault. One protester was physically removed from the stage by security.
“(My supporters) were taunted, they were harassed”, Trump said.
President Obama said that Trump’s rise is a distillation of what’s been happening within the GOP for more than a decade.
Bill Ayers the 1960’s and 1970’s domestic terrorist who bomb the New York City Police Headquarters building organized the protesters and was there leading them to shut down the Trump Supporters’ Freedom of Speech. “I was ready for ’em, but it’s much better if the cops do it, don’t we agree?”
He panned the protesters as weak “troublemakers”, ordered them to “go home to mommy” or “go home and get a job” because “they contribute nothing”.
Sanders. The blaming of Sanders supporters for the cancellation of Trump’s Chicago rally was not accidental.
Trump is calling the protesters “thugs” this morning, and predicting the confrontation will just make him all the more popular, tweeting that events in Chicago have “totally energized America”.
Crowd now chanting “Bernie!”
“These are people that are destroying our country”, he said at the time, adding, “You know part of the problem and part of the reason it takes so long is no one wants to hurt each other anymore and they’re being politically correct the way they take them out so it takes a little longer”.
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Cruz said late Friday that Trump has created “an environment that encourages this sort of nasty discourse”. This ignores the fact that the First Amendment also grants protesters the same free speech and assembly rights, and that nobody actually stopped Trump from speaking.
