Posted on 03/12/2016 7:46:02 AM PST by Citizen Zed
Five people were arrested Friday night and two officers were injured in skirmishes that broke out after Donald Trump abruptly canceled a Chicago rally on Friday. And Donald Trump had no doubts about who was to blame for the shocking violence: organized “thugs.” Trump tweeted on Saturday: "The organized group of people, many of them thugs, who shut down our First Amendment rights in Chicago, have totally energized America!"
Rivals quickly pointed the finger at Trump though, saying that the violence at his rallies reflect the tenor of the frontrunner’s campaign. “A campaign bears responsibility for creating an environment,” said Ted Cruz. “The predictable consequence of [Trump’s comments] is it escalates. Today is unlikely to be the last such instance.” John Kasich also criticized Trump along the same lines: “Tonight the seeds of division that Donald Trump has been sowing this whole campaign finally bore fruit, and it was ugly.”
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When Cruz has a riot at his event will he blame himself for being ‘divisive’?
We need divisive. We are saving America and the thugs want to ‘f*ck the police’ and conquer our nation with illegal immigration.
This is a fight for the future of our country. Cruz chose his side: The lawless thugs who would silence us.
Bad call, Ted.
Dog Pile on Trump....
thugs go to a Trump rally to shut it down. They attack, punch and assault people. There were kids and women there last night and they did this.
Now the media states it is Trumps fault that these people got off their butts, went to his rally and caused this near riot.
how screwed up is America when we blame the victims and not the rioters.
Those violent protests will happen at the rallies of whomever becomes the Republican nominee.
THis actually helps Trump.
Shows America that their rights are being threatened by thugs and Trump is the only man with balls enough to stand up to it.
Real asinine and stupid call for Ted, Rubio, Kasich, at al to blame trump for this.
Those moveon and BLM thugs and Ted, Rubio, Kasich handed Trump a gold mine. He’s going to use it.
Remember when Trump blamed Pam Gellar for the Draw Mohammad Contest shootings?
I do.
Slate quoting Ted Cruz. Two slimers in it together.
I’m a Cruz supporter, but he jumped the shark on this one. I am becoming disappointed in Ted. Trump is starting to grow on me.
I long thought Cruz was as phony as a 2 dollar bill, so I’m not at all surprised by his response. I had a milder opinion of Kasich than most here on FR, but now that he’s blamed Trump for last night, he’s dead to me.
What these morons don’t see is what happened last night is not an isolated incident. Its an escalation of organized violence by the Left which has as one of its main purposes shutting down opposing viewpoints.
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“THis actually helps Trump.”
I agree.
they had been planning this chaos for years and years.
they would have done it regardless of who the Republican candidate was.
this is an extension of Ferguson and it helps us.
“...what happened last night is not an isolated incident. Its an escalation of organized violence by the Left which has as one of its main purposes shutting down opposing viewpoints.”
BINGO!
No, everyone else does not blame the victim.
I don’t know. Did Cruz ever say that protesters should be carried out on stretchers? Did he justify the shooting at Pamela Geller’s Mohammed Cartoon event in Texas by saying she provoked it?
The postmodernist libtards are the cause of divisiveness. They are collectivists who divide the country into groups and then encourage group warfare.
And not a one of them thinks of the 1st Amendment implications of what they are doing.
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