“We felt so strongly that Donald Trump and his bigotry and racism wasn’t welcome here”, Casandra Robledo, a second-year student who helped organize the protest, tells the Los Angeles Times.
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“It’s more than a permission slip”. “I hope they arrest these people because they’re really violating all of us”, Trump said.
“There’s a lot of this feeling about violence coming from Trump’s campaign”, he said. We can count Friday’s display of unity as the one good thing to come out of Trump’s rallies. Sanders said on CNN that Trump “is a man who keeps implying violence, and then you end up getting what you see”.
McGraw “got carried away”, Trump said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, but “frankly wants to see America made great again”. The violent scenes in Chicago have prompted horrified responses from politicians, the media and police, with other Republican Presidential candidates like Florida Senator Marco Rubio warning that if the political climate continues to worsen, it’s only a matter of time before someone gets hurt. At a rally in Columbus, Ohio, the democrat candidate slammed Trump for creating a hostile environment that encourages violence.
Thomas Dimassimo, the campus activist grabbed by Secret Service agents after he tried to storm the stage of a Trump rally in Dayton, Ohio, wasn’t going to present Trump with a petition asking him to be a better person.
Trump also criticized the Democratic contenders, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sanders. Trump should urge his supporters to act peacefully.
Despite Sunday’s relative calm, Trump’s events unquestionably have become increasingly tense over the course of his campaign, and the candidate has frequently called for aggressive tactics against protesters.
Many in this crowd said they were angered by the protests aimed at disrupting Trump.
All three have condemned the violence at Trump’s rallies, but they also are not excusing the protesters. On Sunday, he said his campaign is “not provoking” and “wants peace”.
The officers had radioed their commanders saying that protesters trading jeers with Trump supporters on the other side were, against police orders, moving into the street. I do not like people disrupting anybody’s meetings.
Trump said the violence is rooted in people who are “sick and exhausted of this country being run by incompetent people that don’t know what they’re doing on trade deals, where our jobs are being ripped out of our countries”. He confirmed earlier Sunday that he was considering assisting a North Carolina man charged with assault after video captured him sucker-punching a protester at a March 9 rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina. “I’m just the messenger”, he said.
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Trump spoke Sunday morning to more than 3,000 people at the Synergy Flight Center at Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington, covering familiar ground two days before the state’s primary election – one of several on Tuesday that could effectively clinch the Republican nomination for the billionaire real estate developer.
