The presidential hopeful showed protesters no mercy during a rally in Vermont on Thursday – even calling for one to be ejected into the freezing cold without a coat.
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But Trump’s speech on Thursday in Burlington, Vermont – a liberal bastion and home to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders – did not go uninterrupted as the Vermont senator’s supporters and other Trump opponents interrupted the Republican more than eight times during the event. This was a rally for his supporters, created to be a show and meant to show the rest of the country that Trump will go talk to anyone and find supporters in unlikely places.
Rally attendees said they were asked at the security check-in whether they supported Trump’s White House bid. “I’m the only one”, Trump said.
On the trail lately not only has Sanders joked with his fans that he hopes they will give him a chance to take on Trump, but he has also ramped up the number of times he references the billionaire during his prepared remarks. Shannon, the former council president, said she was flabbergasted Trump would weed out people who simply wanted to hear the candidate speak. Confiscate his coat. You know, it’s about ten degrees below zero outside. “You can keep his coat”. But he particularly relished taunting Burlington resident and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
A man in California encouraged a fellow Iraqi refugee in Texas to join the civil war against the Syrian government and promised to teach him how to fight, federal authorities said Friday, a day after terrorism charges… “It gets signed my first day”, he said. “That’s bait”, Trump said, before vowing to sign an order ending the practice of gun-free zones on military bases.
Protesters directed their chants at Trump supporters as they left the theater. If an attendee was undecided or definitively not a Trump supporter, they were escorted by police away from the premises. “But this guy, I have to say, really is a pathological liar”. Rand Paul – says that while Trump taps into some of the same anxiety shared by tea partiers over political dysfunction, the businessman’s rise also signifies something much more dire.
Trump was addressing a rally crowd in Burlington, Vermont, as President Barack Obama was speaking at a televised town hall on gun violence in America.
We bumped into Katina Cummings after she had already been waiting in line for five hours to see Donald Trump. And if you look at the candidates, they’re not coming up here.
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“Donald J. Trump is the very definition of the American success story”, touts the website of his business group, The Trump Organization, a closely-held company where two of Trump’s sons and a daughter work.
