Posted on 03/13/2016 5:35:26 AM PDT by RaceBannon
It is ludicrous to argue that, because the hard Left is primarily responsible for the outbreak of chaos and violence that caused Donald Trump’s Chicago rally to be canceled last night, it is wrong to condemn the thuggery Trump often encourages at his appearances. Trump has encouraged physical battery at his campaign events, even telling supporters he’d pay their legal fees if they get arrested for assaulting dissenters. (See, e.g., Iowa event: ”So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of ‘em, would you? Seriously. Okay? Just knock the hell — I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise. I promise”; see also Las Vegas event: regarding an unruly protester removed by security, Trump tells crowd, “I’d like to punch him in the face. He’s smiling, having a good time.”) Trump has continued to fan these flames even after it has become obvious that some of his supporters are acting on the invitation to resort to violence. Incitement to violence is a crime; incitement to violence at a large rally is incitement to riot — a crime that can get people badly injured or even killed.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/432729/chicago-trump-incitements-cruz-response
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Right on.!!! But you won’t get many here to go along
with you. TED HATERS are in abundance here now.
SAD... and unrational.
OBama and TRUMP ran campaigns alike.
Only Obama said, “ GET IN YOUR NEIGHBOR”S FACE”
We all gasped and said wow what a creep..
that was then.. but now? TRUMP can say the same
and get applause and high fives.
Obama said “ If they bring a knife, we will bring a gun”
GASPS from FREEPERS... but when TRUMP says
I’d LIKE TO PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE... APPLAUSE APPLAUSE HORRARY.
“Listen, we all know that Donald has some bombastic rallies and is not responsible for every attendee at his large rallies. But there is absolutely no excuse for the Left to interfere with First Amendment political speech”.
A response somewhat along the lines of how he responded to the question about Detroit during the last debate would have been appropriate.
He is capable of doing it, but he chose not to.
So now it appears that you have to defend his decision because you support him; or it is because you agree with his sentiment.
He did say that very thing. Go to the right scoop and listen to him. He said that first. Then he talked about Trump’s language inciting it. It’s true. Trump has been talking about hitting people in the mouth and the good old days when you could rough up protesters and beating the crap out of them. Open your eyes.
No. Do any of them rise to the standard I outlined?
You are correct.
Ted Cruz appeals to our better nature. He lays out a path of optimism and belief in America, in what she could be. A new Morning in America.
Trump instead wallows in mud. He talks about how bad America is, encourages thuggery and anger. His message is based in an unending stream of lies, even pathetic and transparent lies. He brags how his acolytes value slavish loyalty to him above principle, and proves it again and again.
The reason for the difference is simple. Trump is playacting, bought into the liberals’ straw man of conservatives as uneducated, bigoted rednecks. Cruz is an actual lifelong conservative and knows better. The choice is stark.
Cruz could have simple decried the protestors, and waited for some other time to make political criticisms of Trump. Face it, if Cruz wins the nomination, he is going to face the exact same gangs of lefties. It has nothing to do with Trump’s mannerism, and everything to do with his positions on areas such as immigration and Islam.
It is TRUMP that is inciting by what he SAYS..
SAME as OBAMA did in 2009.. same Alinsky tactic.
Yes Bernie and Hillary are our enemies, but many here
feel that TRUMP is just using a camaflauge
to gain the huge, widespread following that
will take us over the SAME CLIFF.
exactly!!!!!!!!!!
TRUMP INCITES and his followers BLAME CRUZ.
SOUNDS like a true LEFTY!
It shows how far Lying Ted will go to manipulate the truth for his own self interests.
Ted cannot be trus-Ted
Keep serving your Black Lives Masters Mr Klans-Man. Ted Cruz takes their side over Trump’s constituents.
Wrong. BLM is the outfit that assaults people having brunch in a restaurant. Unless eating brunch constitutes providing an excuse.
so when Cruz said this:
“We will carpet bomb [ISIS] into oblivion. I don’t know if sand can glow in the dark, but we’re going to find out,” [Ted Cruz] said at the Rising Tide Summit in Cedar Rapids.
Then if someone from isis attacks him, he has brought it on himself?
ABSURD!!!!!!!!!!! COMPLETELY ABSURD!!!!!!!!!!
Go back and double check your talking points. If you want to be taken seriously stop repeating lies out of context quotes edited comments and general BS.
As another poster stated, Blaming Trump for the Chicago riot is like blaming a Youtube video for Benghazi.
There is Nothing whatsoever wrong with supporting self defense. You should be ashamed for pushing that dishonest GOPe garbage.
Cruz is now protected by the GOPe. Why should protesters go after Cruz, Rubio, or Kasich since they support illegal immigration. Free trade to destroy American jobs, the nuclear deal with Iran, and are anti true conservative candidates for Congress? They are the very epitome of what the GOPe and Democrats want as the loyal opposition to cave on Democratic policies to destroy the nation.
Ted has allied himself with BLM and Bill Ayers. Never thought I would see it. Truth is a relative thing to Lying Lawyer Ted.
You get it. Thank you for posting.
Trump is reaping what he sowed. While every candidate had had hecklers, no other candidate has threatened violence, or skirted with contracting violence upon dissenters (”I’ll pay you to be violent upon them”), which is nearly criminal.
There is one exception. On the 2008 campaign Obama threatened violence and FR outrage was justifiably measurable.
But as had been said; “it’s not fascism when we do it”
Trump immaturity and narcissism hint at a real potential tyrant down the road. Let’s pray this isn’t so. While the nation needs solid conservative leadership, Trump, through all his years had shown no such qualities.
What a double standard! Trump encourages his supporters to punch protesters in the face, promises to pay their legal bills, and on and on but it is Cruz, not Trump, who should have shown restraint.
After Trump gets his nomination and turns on all of you bots, you will have to find a whole new rationale to blame somebody besides yourselves for what you are doing to the process.
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