“Seriously. Okay? Just knock the hell – I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees”.
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Yesterday’s raucous began when a man wearing a Dreamville t-shirt rushed the stage Trump was delivering a speech on at a Dayton, Ohio event. “These other people, by the way, some represented Bernie, our communist friend”, Trump was quoted as saying.
“I think that he, in fact, has got to tell his supporters that in the United States of America we don’t go beating up people, that people have a right to peacefully protest, and I hope that becomes the tone of his campaign”.
Trump said his rallies are “peaceful”, and accused news reports of exaggerating the violence.
An Associated Press reporter counted fewer than 30 people being removed from the hangar in central IL, which officials said accommodated a capacity crowd of about 3,000.
Had the rally gone on, Trump said there would have been “an awfully big riot”.
In a statement issued later Saturday, Sanders added: “As is the case virtually every day, Donald Trump is showing the American people that he is a pathological liar”.
Several said afterward they had organized in advance with the intent of keeping Trump from speaking and were supporters of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders.
“Everybody was warned to move back”, Forté said.
Trump canceled his rally at the University of IL at Chicago on Friday after violence broke out in the arena where he was scheduled to speak.
Trump wrapped up the night by telling supporters to vote next Tuesday in the Missouri primary.
Earlier in Cleveland, a handful of protesters interrupted Trump’s rally in that city, but the event otherwise appeared calm.
Candidates planning last-minute campaign stops in IL on Monday include Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton, her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders and GOP candidate Ted Cruz.
His comments come a week after a 78-year-old Trump supporter was arrested after video showed he sucker-punched a protester who was being escorted from a Trump event in North Carolina.
A man arrested Saturday after he tried to get on the stage at a Donald Trump campaign rally in OH reportedly told police he planned to grab the microphone and yell that Trump is a racist but didn’t intend to hurt anyone.
Trump, on numerous occasions, slammed OH governor and presidential hopeful John Kasich, calling him an “absentee governor”.
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Chicago police later denied that the Trump campaign had discussed postponing the event with them.
