On 9 March, US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Chicago had to be cancelled in the face of altercations and protests.
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Protesters also interrupted a Trump rally in Kansas City, Missouri on Saturday.
“I hope they arrest these people because they’re really violating all of us”, Trump said at a rally here during which dozens of protesters were ejected from the venue by police.
But Trump dismissed the notion his extreme statements on immigrants and Muslims had exacerbated tensions, placing the blame squarely on “organised thugs” and saying he’s “going to start pressing charges against all these people”.
“I don’t even call them protesters”, Trump said on CNN’s “State of the Union”.
After widespread protests continue to disrupt Donald Trump rallies nationwide, the GOP front-runner is threatening to fight back with a dose of the same medicine because he believes the Bernie Sanders campaign is behind them.
Let me say something about Mr. Trump. “I call them disrupters”.
Police said five people were arrested, including CBS News reporter Sopan Deb. Two officers were injured, with one requiring stitches, police said. “I don’t think he could be elected dog catcher in Florida”. He complained the well-organized protesters in Chicago intent on keeping him from speaking had violated his constitutional right to freedom of speech, and questioned why no one was asking Bernie Sanders to defend the actions of his backers. Trump said afterward: “Maybe he should have been roughed up”.
Bernie Sanders. Trump said that the reason he has protesters at his rallies when other candidates do not is that his fans are respectful enough to not interrupt a rival’s rally.
“With all of the rallies I’ve had-and I get more people than anybody by, as you know, a lot, thousands and thousands of people, 25,000 is nearly getting standard-you haven’t seen one person even injured at one of our rallies”, he said.
“What Donald Trump must do now is stop provoking violence and make it clear to his supporters that people who attend his rallies or protest should not be assaulted, should not be punched, should not be kicked”.
Mr Rubio trails Mr Trump in his home state of Florida, while John Kasich has pulled ahead of Mr Trump in OH, where he serves as governor.
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Bernard Sanders’ supporters in the Democratic nomination contest as a cause of the violence and threatened to return the favor, tweeting Sunday morning: “Bernie Sanders is lying when he says his disruptors aren’t told to go to my events”. “And we have millions of supporters and some of them will do what they do”.
