Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton said he is guilty of “political arson”. also adding that “the ugly, divisive rhetoric we are hearing from Donald Trump and the encouragement of violence and aggression is wrong, and it’s risky”.
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He was responding to a question on Sopan Deb, who was on assignment with CBS News to cover the Trump Campaign, who was not only heckled by pro-Trump supporters but also grounded, handcuffed and briefly detained by the police at a Chicago rally on Friday.
Trump critics say his own statements at campaign rallies have fanned the flames and helped escalate the situation to violence. What that means is that Donald Trump is literally inciting violence with his supporters.
“As is the case virtually every day, Donald Trump is showing the American people that he is a pathological liar”, Sanders wrote.
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.
The clashes began more than an hour before the event was due to start, and continued after it was cancelled, minutes after Mr Trump was to have appeared.
Sanders, the 74-year-old Democratic Senator from Vermont, who is running his presidential campaign on the slogan of democratic socialism, was quick to fire back. People kick people when they’re down. “That’s why I love the protesters. I do not condone violence in any shape”, Trump said on “Meet the Press.” That was both frustrating and amusing for groups like the grass-roots People for Bernie, whose Facebook and Twitter accounts were used by organizers, but which played no role in organizing.
Speaking about the sucker punch that took place at a rally this week, Trump confirmed to Chuck Todd that he’s asked his people to look into supporting the legal fees for the supporter who threw the punch.
What’s surprising is that Donald Trump doesn’t seem bothered about all these interruptions, since he claims that his rallies draw tens of thousands of people, mentioning that recently, 35,000 people attended a rally in Alabama. Bernie Sanders have predictably criticized the billionaire real estate developer, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Sen.
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“Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing”, Trump said in Alabama. Ted Cruz pledged during a debate earlier this month to support Trump if he is the GOP nominee.
