Mr. Trump is correct that this is not the way U.S. Sen.
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Trump’s anti-immigrant and racist rhetoric is a hallmark of his presidential campaign and has incited racism from his supporters.
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump suggested that a black man may have deserved to be attacked by several white attendees at his rally in Birmingham, Alabama on Saturday.
The man, who was allegedly wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt, was “shoved, tackled, kicked and punched” by vicious, white Trump supporters as security struggled to help the man to his feet. “It was disgusting what he was doing”.
Trump addressed the incident on Fox News on November 22 when host Ed Henry asked him about the protester, saying that an “African-American protester from Black Lives Matter who appears to have gotten roughed up”.
“I will tell you that the man that was – was I don’t know, you say roughed up, he was so obnoxious and so loud, he was screaming”, Trump said.
He gave a similarly winking response when his supporters have turned violent in the past.
Donald Trump’s interview on Sunday showed a change in his treatment of activists who try to disrupt his campaigns.
CNN’s Jeremy Diamond captured video of the incident. One lady kicked him, one lady punched him- well another person punched him- I don’t know if it was a male or female. At tonight’s rally in Columbus, Trump, not one to apologize for previous statements, insisted that the protester was “misbehaving badly”. One of them told police, “Donald Trump was right – all these illegals need to be deported”.
That protester was filming the rally with his phone, and a man tried take the smartphone away, then the other Black protester, who witnesses say was the victim of the beating, moved into the crowd and began yelling, “Black Lives Matter”. In October, while being repeatedly interrupted by protesters, Trump told the crowd See the first group, I was nice.
But Trump’s controversial comments about racial and religious minorities – from Hispanics to, more recently, Muslims – have strained his relationship with people of color. It’s the difference between the truth of America’s creed and the fallacy that Trump is peddling.
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Another of Trump’s statistic said whites were killed by other whites at a rate of 16 percent, while whites killed by blacks at 81 percent.
