“You just can’t say anything you want as a president or as a presidential candidate”.
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The Chicago Police Department said in a news release sent Saturday night that the three men from Chicago and a 45-year-old woman from MI were arrested and charged for participating in a disturbance at the protest.
Trump will finish his Sunday schedule in Florida, following a scheduled town hall in Ohio. “He was swinging, he was hitting people, he was a very bad guy”, he said.
But Trump revealed another aspect of his own dependence on unverified news sources when he repeated that a man who rushed the stage at one of his events in OH on Saturday had ties to the Islamic State militant group.
Much of the attention on Tuesday will be on OH and Florida because they have the most delegates.
Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida senator who faces a must-win against Trump in Tuesday’s Florida primary, said the businessman exploits Americans’ anger and anxieties with conspiracy theories and exhortations that can appeal to those who are unbalanced.
Earlier, Trump had described the Chicago skirmishes as a “planned attack” by organized agitators against his supporters – the “nice folks”.
The clashes began more than an hour before the event was due to start, and continued after it was cancelled, minutes after Trump was to have appeared.
Speaking with The Associated Press aboard his campaign bus between stops in Ohio, Kasich brandished his iPad and read a list of roughly a dozen Trump quotes compiled by an aide. “I’m here in OH”, he had said. “It’s really cause for pause”.
Trump, who has harnessed the discontent of white, working class voters angry over global trade deals that cost them jobs, has made his opposition to the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement and proposed 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership a centrepiece of his campaign.
Donald Trump took a step toward supporting violent action by a supporter Sunday, saying that he had instructed his attorneys to look into paying legal expenses for the man charged last week with punching a protester who was being led out of a rally.
Sanders, though, sought to put the blame squarely on Trump. Trump suggested his backers may retaliate by protesting Sanders events.
Later that day at a rally in Cleveland, Mr. Trump speculated where the protesters came from: “You know where they come from?” Bernie Sanders, they have Sanders signs all over the place. “They deserve to see what a real honest politician sounds like”.
But Bill Schultz, 54, of Champaign, said he attended the rally in part to counter the increased visibility of anti-Trump demonstrators. Sanders is displaying more integrity than all of the remaining Republican presidential candidates combined. Sen.
Cruz was careful to criticize protesters for their methods, but said Trump encourages an essentially un-American atmosphere.
Donald Trump said Monday “there’s no violence, nobody’s been hurt” at his rallies, which have had a number of high-profile incidents of violence in the past week. “We don’t pledge allegiance to a man. We pledge allegiance to a flag”. “I do not condone violence in any shape”, Trump said on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Mr Cruz argued in Columbus, Ohio, that Republican voters were wasting their time with either Mr Kasich or Mr Rubio.
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In the Democratic race, Hillary Clinton ow has 766 delegates to Sanders’ 551, based on primaries and caucuses alone.
