Video taken outside a Saturday night rally for Donald Trump in Kansas City, Missouri, shows police officers pepper-spraying demonstrators, adding to the wave of violence following the campaign of the Republican presidential front-runner. After a string of separate protests, Trump started asking his event security what happens to hecklers after they’re ejected.
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What Donald Trump must do now is stop provoking violence and make it clear to his supporters that people who attend his rallies or protest should not be assaulted, should not be punched, should not be kicked.
The allegations by Trump, 69, was immediately denied by the Sanders campaign, which disassociated with the protesters who were chanting “Bernie Bernie” at Trump’s Chicago rally.
Trump was speaking Saturday at a campaign rally in Dayton when he was briefly surrounded by Secret Service agents, who formed a protective barrier around him.
Later that day, Trump rejected the suggestion that he or his supporters were to blame.
Bernie Sanders is reacting to protesters showing up at Donald Trump rallies who are his own supporters. “But when they have organized, professionally staged wiseguys, we’ve got to fight back”, he said at his OH campaign stop. “I promise”, he said in Iowa.
“Bernie Sanders is lying when he says his disruptors aren’t told to go to my events”, Mr. Trump tweeted Sunday.
Thus far, the only protests have been at Trump events.
Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton announced plans to visit a Chicago union hall on Monday. It’s a function of the press, the press likes to say what the press likes to say”, Trump said.
Trump appeared to be unfazed by the incident, giving a thumbs and saying: “I was ready for him, but it’s much easier if the cops do it”.
Meanwhile, Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and John Kasich suggested Saturday they may not support Trump if he becomes the GOP nominee.
Trump told people he is in favor of water boarding and free trade.
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“They were taunted, they were harassed by these other people”. He said the violence at the canceled Trump rally looked like “something out of the Third World”. Trump declined to go through with the rally because he “didn’t ‘want to see people hurt – or worse.” .
