“Obviously, while I appreciate that we had supporters at Trump’s rally in Chicago, our campaign did not organise the protests”, he said.
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Jedidiah Brown was there.
As for how he and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson could go from trading insults on the campaign trail to embracing each other at Carson’s formal endorsement event, Trump said it’s just the way things go in politics.
Trump ran into a vibrant community of student activists and civil- and immigrant-rights campaigners that has experience in organizing mass demonstrations and was energized by recent scandals over Chicago police shootings of young black men.
Don Brucker, 46, who described himself as Republican/Libertarian-leaning voter, said at the Bloomington, Ill., rally that Trump’s Republican rivals are treading into unsafe territory that will alienate voters like him. I call them disrupters. “So it became my mission to shut this down because this can’t go on in Chicago”.
During the address, Trump led supporters with a chant of “Build that wall!” and a call-and-response about who would pay for it (the country of Mexico). He’s also joked about how the protesters force TV cameras to pan out over the crowd and show how large they are.
Friday night’s melee between Trump supporters and protesters broke out after the Trump campaign cancelled a rally because of security concerns. He says someone swore at one in their group, and by the time they tried to object, the police were escorting him out. “And we don’t condone violence”, he said.
At a rally Saturday morning near Dayton, Ohio – Trump was interrupted repeatedly by protesters. “Give me a break – you tell me about how good he’s doing, he’s doing a awful job for OH”. He was able to touch the stage before he was tackled by security officials. And number two: “Get the right message out in our city: “America is already great – without the hate”. Someone threw a water bottle at him, Brown says, and another person put him in a headlock.
Critics of the police, as well as Trump supporters, were vocal on social media.
President Barack Obama: Said over the weekend: “Our leaders – those who aspire to be our leaders – should be trying to bring us together and not turning us against one another and speak out against violence and reject efforts to spread fear or turn us against one another”.
“With all of the rallies I’ve had-and I get more people than anybody by, as you know, a lot, thousands and thousands of people, 25,000 is nearly getting standard-you haven’t seen one person even injured at one of our rallies”, he said.
“The people are angry at that – they’re not angry about something I’m saying”. People that are Muslim – for women.
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But he says people who are still wavering may have a different reaction. “I think it’s ridiculous to blame Trump for a bunch of thugs out on the street”, he told the Huffington Post.
