Mr Trump described the protesters who caused him to cancel a rally in Chicago yesterday as thugs. All I know is what’s on the Internet”, Trump said.
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Jones has told The Associated Press that he and others went to the event as observers, not protesters.
“The one guy was a bad dude, he was swinging, he was hitting people, he was a very bad guy, and the police came in and they really were very effective”.
“Certainly he’s not in love with our country, that I can tell you”, he said.
The intensity of the hostility Trump faces among those opposed to his candidacy was underscored Saturday morning in Ohio.
Meanwhile, a woman caught in a photo making a Nazi salute outside the Chicago arena where the Trump rally was canceled told The New York Times that she used the gesture as a type of counter protest against those who compare Trump to the Nazi leader.
Following a series of violent and disruptive campaign rallies this weekend, Donald Trump is blaming Bernie Sanders. He also cited the First Amendment, stating that he and his supporters have a right to say what they want and to be heard. “‘I wish we were in the old days when you could punch somebody in the head.’ What do you think that says to his supporters?”
Trump blamed the tensions at Chicago event on Sanders’ supporters and called protesters at a Cleveland campaign event “Bernie’s crowd”.
A group of U.S. Secret Service agents briefly formed a protective ring around Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at his rally in OH, but then quickly left the stage and allowed him to continue his speech.
Trump said some of the protesters represented “our communist friend” Bernie Sanders.
During his interview to CNN, Trump insisted that he tries to bring down the temper in his rallies and refuted strongly that he tries to incite violence.
Sunday’s rally did have some protesters as well but all were escorted out of the venue without conflict.
Trump defended his supporters and said he was considering helping to pay the legal fees of a 78-year-old white man who punched a young black man at a Trump rally in North Carolina last week. Trump asked. “You made a statement that at my rallies … it’s risky”.
“They said Trump is a second Hitler”. “And I knew that if this is what I felt, when I saw what they were doing to other people, I couldn’t imagine what others felt”. “I have by far the biggest crowds, 25,000, 30,000 people”.
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But Trump stood by his comments telling supporters to take whatever action necessary to stop a protester prepared to throw a tomato, pointing out that he could be severely hurt.
