Trump’s charge took an even more controversial turn on Sunday morning, when he said on Twitter, “Be careful Bernie, or my supporters will go to yours!” “Obviously, while I appreciate that we had supporters at Trump’s rally in Chicago, our campaign did not organize the protests”. Secret Service agents briefly rushed the stage to form a protective circle around Trump after a man leapt over a barricade and charged toward the billionaire businessman.
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“This man can not stop lying”, the senator from Vermont said.
The chief acknowledged that officers twice used spray “foggers” during the event to control the throng, including one moment when he said two groups numbering about 200 people were preparing to fight. Trump blamed protesters for creating disturbances at his campaign events and said it is a “love fest” among his supporters.
His accusation came after a Trump rally in Chicago on Friday was called off amid scenes of violence that included fistfights and people throwing bottles in what many believe is a turning point in the campaign if not American politics.
Trump begged police to arrest the protesters going forward. Along with Trump and his supporters, the other Republican candidates criticized the behavior of the Chicago protesters.
Trump said during an appearance Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he didn’t consider his post on social media to be a threat.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is once again facing repeated disruptions from protesters as he campaigns in Kansas City, Missouri.
“I don’t take responsibility”.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Rubio said he may not be able to support Trump if he’s the GOP nominee, citing the way he’s “dividing both the party and the country so bitterly”.
Despite all the precautions, it took police nearly an hour to clear the arena, and when they did, protesters took to the streets, joining others who had set up shop across from the venue.
Police Chief Darryl Forté said he felt the officers acted appropriately because they were in danger of being surrounded by the advancing crowd that already had thrown objects.
Trump’s son added to incriminations and confusion when he tweeted and then deleted a false allegation that a woman appearing to give a Nazi salute, photographed on Friday night with a Trump T-shirt on, was in fact a planted Sanders supporter.
Donald Trump supporter shouts, ‘Go to Auschwitz!’ following a rally for the leading Republican candidate on March 12, 2016. The incident has raised questions from critics about the tone he has set for the campaign. Scraps of paper and empty water glasses littered the floor where hundreds of excited Trump supporters had stood. She asserted that she is not a Nazi sympathizer, as some who have seen the photo have suggested. A lot of them come from Bernie Sanders, whether he wants to say it or not.
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“You know Bernie was saying Mr. Trump should speak to his crowd”, Trump said. And you know what? “I mean, I say bad things about people and they say bad things about me”. If you want to do it right, you do it right.
