“Look at my African-American over here”.
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San Jose Police said they made “a few arrests” during the melee.
Hillary Clinton said Friday Donald Trump bears responsibility for the violence outside his rallies.
Trump holds a rally Friday at the airport in Redding, at the northern end of the Sacramento Valley and about 200 miles north of San Francisco. “Just go out there and organize and persuade”, Obama said.
The latest violence followed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s scorching critique of Trump in a speech on Thursday in which she derided the real estate developer as a risky man with an angry, fearful world view.
Donald Trump sought to tout his support among African-Americans on Friday by pointing out a black man in the crowd and calling him “my African-American”.
Speaking at an event in Redding, California, Trump condemned the violent protests that had broken out after his campaign rally in San Jose the night before and called the protesters “thugs”.
San Jose police chief Eddie Garcia commended his officers response to the violence after the Thursday night rally, saying the 250 officers on hand showed discipline and restraint..
T were several incidents in which protesters were caught on video assaulting Trump’s supporters.
Trump supporter Debbie Tracey, a U.S. Navy veteran from San Jose, she came to hear Trump speak, she left his rally with two hats a T-shirt and a handful of signs that said “Veterans for Trump”.
The man Trump identified in the crowd, 1st District congressional candidate Gregory Cheadle, said he appreciated the attention and was inspired by Trump.
Very little of the blame for what happened in San Jose has been placed on Donald Trump. “She’s greedy as hell and that’s why I think that’s the reason she wants it”, he said.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – has warned against violent expressions during the presidential campaign, particularly against supporters of billionaire Donald Trump. She noted that there are many people who disagree with Trump but they were also appalled by the violence at his Silicon Valley rally. “He wants to put America back to work and bring jobs home”.
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Trump kicked off his campaign by calling some undocumented immigrants from Mexico “rapists” and criminals and then stoked Islamophobic sentiment in December by calling for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”.
