On Friday, a Trump rally at the University of Illinois-Chicago had to be canceled because of several clashes between Trump backers and protesters inside the hall. In Saturday’s case, Trump’s US Secret Service detail was forced onstage to protect the candidate after the protester looked poised to rush the stage. While it’s questionable that anyone would be charged for exercising free speech, Trump’s supporters said they like the idea because they don’t like him being interrupted.
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Speaking on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, the senator called into question the style of the Trump campaign, which has increasingly been the source of fisticuffs between Trump supporters and protesters. “We dumped Trump!” rose inside the University of IL at Chicago pavilion where the event was held.
Trump asserted Saturday that the Chicago protest was a professionally staged “planned attack”. “They don’t talk about what’s really happing in these forums and these rooms and these stadiums”, Trump said.
“I was ready for him, but it’s much easier if the cops do it, don’t we agree?”
Trump tells MSNBC in a telephone interview that, “I think we did the right thing”. “If they want to do this. we’re going to go strongly for your arrests”.
It was the second time police used pepper spray at the Saturday night protests, which drew hundreds of people to line both sides of Main Street in front of the Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland, where Trump spoke at 6 p.m.
During one of more than a dozen interruptions, Trump asked police to arrest the demonstrators, saying he would “file whatever charges you want”. For more than an hour before the event was to begin, security teams led protesters out, one by one, but many more remained, sparring with Trump supporters.
The Chicago rally was cancelled by Trump, a quite unusual development in America’s electoral history.
This week, an older white Trump supporter was caught on video punching a younger African-American protester as police led the protester out of a rally in North Carolina.
Republican rivals say the violence is a natural outgrowth of Trump’s rhetoric, such as statements he would like to punch a protester in the face, that some protesters could be taken out on stretchers, and that he would pay the legal fees of supporters who strike back.
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Ohio Gov. John Kasich said Trump had “created a toxic environment” that “has allowed his supporters and those who sometimes seek confrontation to come together in violence”. We don’t know what the hell it says. Bernie Sanders, and he also blamed President Barack Obama for dividing the country.
