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Trump vows to pay legal fees of supporters who 'knock the crap' out of tomato-throwers
The Week ^ | February 1, 2016 | Jeva Lange

Posted on 02/01/2016 1:18:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Trump vows to pay legal fees of supporters who 'knock the crap' out of tomato-throwers.

Donald Trump got word from his security detail in Cedar Rapids on Monday that there could be someone in the audience with tomatoes -- so Trump reportedly decided to go ahead and take precautions.

"If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them," Trump urged his supporters. Were anyone to feel concern about being prosecuted for assault in such a scenario, Trump reassured that, "I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees."

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TOPICS: US: Iowa; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; iowa; newyork; tomato; trump
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To: SunkenCiv

To knock them down, you have to catch up with them.

Get it? Catch up? :-)


161 posted on 02/01/2016 4:44:43 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Thibodeaux
but purist being purist are only interested in their own self righteous self esteem and won’t be bothered with truth

While that is true, it goes further than that. It's the old mentality of "screw you if you don't play by my rules, I'm taking my ball and going home"..........

162 posted on 02/01/2016 4:45:50 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Dear Santa: Please find a home for every homeless and unwanted cat and dog that is suffering)
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To: MinuteGal
Well said, Leni!

As Rush would say, he must be a member of the "New Castrotti".

163 posted on 02/01/2016 4:58:06 PM PST by America_Right (Time to play your Trump card, America. Use it or lose it.)
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To: CottonBall

Exactly. It would only get worse. The dirty Liberals would throw feces, urine, aids infected blood if they aren’t stopped now.


164 posted on 02/01/2016 5:39:19 PM PST by BridgeOutAhead (Obama.....dabit deus his quoque finem)
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To: Norseman

Not hardly, Trump is a man’s man.


165 posted on 02/01/2016 5:50:17 PM PST by CottonBall
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To: matt1234
Do you think a secret service agent--when he sees a raised firearm--waits until the firearm is discharged before he takes action against the wouldbe shooter? No he does not. Guaranteed.

Do you think comparing a government agent seeing a gun raised to a political rally opponent holding a tomato can be compared logically? Really?

Point is, the secret service agent is acting lawfully....the assaulter of the tomato-holder would not be. Hence Trump's offer to pay for the legal fees of anyone that assaults on his behalf.

166 posted on 02/01/2016 5:52:43 PM PST by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie)
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To: XenaLee
Point is, the secret service agent is acting lawfully....the assaulter of the tomato-holder would not be.

You are wrong. See post #147.

167 posted on 02/01/2016 6:02:34 PM PST by matt1234 (Note to GOPe lurkers: I and thousands like me will NEVER vote for Jeb Bush)
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To: matt1234

And does the Iowa Code define an ‘imminent use of unlawful force’ to consist of throwing a tomato?

Iowa Code
704.3 Defense of self or another. A person is justified in the use of reasonable force when the person reasonably believes that such force is necessary to defend oneself or another from any imminent use of unlawful force.

Why then would Trump offer to pay for legal fees (bail) for anyone that did his bidding re: assaulting the tomato throwers?


168 posted on 02/01/2016 6:28:56 PM PST by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie)
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To: Larry Lucido

That’s what I condiment.


169 posted on 02/01/2016 10:55:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Fresh Wind

I can’t help that I’m outstanding in my field.


170 posted on 02/01/2016 10:56:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Norseman
2. Now it seems that he's even started to recruit his own brownshirts.

Do you think Trump is going to go all Berzelius Windrip and form his own "Minute Men" to thump heads?

I was kind of wondering if anyone here on FR was going to go there -- salon.com already has gone there.

171 posted on 02/02/2016 10:36:29 AM PST by Peet (I'd say to hell with the media, but hell doesn't want them either.)
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To: mkjessup
Well FRiend, that principal is certainly a valid one, you get no argument from me, but I doubt anyone would find me at a rally or function for a candidate that was NOT my candidate. ;)

When there are two (or more) candidates who appear acceptable, isn't it smart to see and hear both, rather than depend on the OPINIONS of others, who may have an agenda? If Cruz holds a rally near me, I'm there; same with Trump. We're likely to get one of them, and I'm for Cruz in the primary at this point. But any non-RAT in the general.

I might even attend a Bernie function, to take photos and try to identify which of my neighbors are likely to be a danger to my well-being, ratting me out to the regime when TSHTF.

172 posted on 02/02/2016 10:41:39 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever!)
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