Republican frontrunner Donald Trump threatened Sunday to send his supporters to infiltrate the campaign rallies of Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders, whom Trump continued to insist was behind disruptions at his events. “I do not condone violence in any shape”, Trump told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
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Trump has blamed supporters of Democrat Bernie Sanders for the violence. Fighting broke out between supporters and protestors, with clashes both inside and outside the venue. “If they want to do this… we’re going to go strongly for your arrests”.
University staff and faculty members had urged the school not to allow the rally and submitted a letter to administrators requesting they distance themselves from the event, according to the New York Times.
Trump once said he’d like to punch a protestor “in the face” and told one crowd that they should “knock the crap” out of anyone who throws a tomato at the stage. To call me a communist is a lie.
“(But) at the end of the day, in any campaign, responsibility starts at the top”, Cruz said. Trump said afterward: “Maybe he should have been roughed up”. “DiMassimo said several times his support for Sanders did not prompt the stunt”, CNN reported on Sunday after DiMassimo sat down for an exclusive interview with the network.
“The people are angry at that”, he said. “I was ready for ’em, but it’s much better if the cops do it, don’t we agree?”
“When I saw the violence in Chicago, I just had enough”, Kasich said. “His language, his intonations, when you talk about carrying people out in stretchers, you see at his rallies people sucker-punched, folks kick people when they’re down”.
“What he is disturbed about and what I’m disturbed about is we have a major candidate for president of the United States, Donald Trump, who is literally inciting violence among his supporters”.
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“Bernie Sanders is lying when he says his disruptors aren’t told to go to my events”, Mr. Trump tweeted Sunday. 6,000 people showed up to support Trump, and roughly 2,500 people were present to protest against him on the streets, while hundreds more were inside. Trump has repeatedly said that protesters at his events have ties to the Sanders campaign and progressive groups such as MoveOn.org. “It’s worth asking ourselves what each of us may have done to contribute to this vicious atmosphere in our politics”, Obama said, noting, “some may be more to blame than others for the current climate, all of us are responsible for reversing it”.
