“People are there doing harm, you have to go and you have to use equal force”. “It’s not for lying, the biggest liar, this is the biggest liar I have ever seen in my life”, said Trump. A lot of them come from Bernie Sanders, whether he wants to say it or not. Protesters have been following Trump’s rallies like a shadow, which is unprecedented in the American political election campaign history.
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Following Friday’s rally, the Chicago Police Department said three men from Chicago and a 45-year-old woman from MI were arrested and charged for participating in a disturbance at the protest, which drew hundreds of people to the University of IL at Chicago.
Earlier, clashes broke out between protesters and Trump supporters after the campaign announced the rally would be cancelled more than 30 minutes after it was scheduled to start.
The presidential hopeful’s detail swarmed around their man while the protester was frogmarched from the rally.
But in an interview Sunday on Meet the Press, Trump said he did not accept responsibility for creating such an atmosphere.
“I think all the gates of civility have blown apart”, he said on CNN, adding: “This notion that a president can say anything they want, or even a presidential candidate can say anything they want, whatever comes to mind – it’s just not true, and it’s reckless and unsafe”.
“Donald Trump has got to be loud and clear and tell his supporters that violence at rallies is not what America is about and to end it”, Sanders said.
Trump wrapped up the night by telling supporters to vote next Tuesday in the Missouri primary.
And when a protester momentarily disrupted Trump’s rally, the GOP front-runner again said the demonstrator was a “Bernie person”. “I don’t know if I would have done well but I would have been out there fighting, folks”. The Texas senator told reporters today, “I committed at the outset, I will support the Republican nominee, whoever it is”.
John McGraw was charged with assault and later with communicating a threat after he said he enjoyed hitting “that loudmouth” and threatened next time “to kill him” .
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He complained the well-organized protesters in Chicago intent on keeping him from speaking had violated his First Amendment rights, and questioned why no one was asking Bernie Sanders to defend the actions of his backers. “I understand-and I don’t condone violence and I don’t condone what happened to him and what he did because he got carried away and it’s very unfortunate”, he said.
