A supporter holds up a book to be signed by US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Cleveland, Ohio March 12, 2016. He is saying that if you go out and beat somebody up, that is OK, “I’ll pay the legal fees”.
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Speaking at a Democratic Party town hall organised by CNN, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton repeated her characterisation of Mr Trump as a political arsonist and rebuffed his claims that he was not responsible for last week’s ugly scenes.
Trump suggested the rally was a make-good for the canceled rally in Chicago, as supporters cheered at the suggestion they came to Bloomington because the Friday event was canceled because of clashes between protesters and supporters.
Nevertheless, Trump said that if his supporters were to go to a Bernie Sanders rally, everyone would feel bad for Bernie, but that when protesters go to Trump rallies, the media depict Donald Trump as the bad guy.
Sanders struck back at Trump, describing the NY billionaire as “a candidate that has promoted hatred and division”.
Trump answered during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press”.
For months, Trump has said demonstrators should be “roughed up” and that his supporters should “knock the crap out of ’em”. “His language, his intonations, when you talk about carrying people out in stretchers, you see at his rallies people sucker-punched, folks kick people when they’re down”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump returned to IL on Sunday for a stump speech at an airplane hangar in Bloomington before a far more receptive and calmer audience than the Chicago rally that was canceled Friday night.
Both Sanders and Trump have roused their supporters by railing against global trade agreements and decades of wage stagnation. Sanders’ official Twitter account retorted: “Send them”.
“This man can not stop lying about anything”, Sanders said.
Instead, he has sought to lay the blame with his Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, who he accused of overseeing deliberate provocations – the very same charge that has been leveled at Trump himself.
Besides Ohio, Illinois and Florida, voters in North Carolina and Missouri will cast primary ballots on Tuesday.
Opponents of Donald Trump who’ve been patiently waiting for Republicans to turn on the businessman and GOP front-runner will just have to keep waiting.
“Trump has got to get on the TV and tell his supporters that violence in the political process in America is not acceptable”.
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Rubio has taken the unusual step of encouraging his supporters in OH to vote Kasich to reduce the chances that Trump will win all of the state’s delegates.
