Posted on 02/23/2016 4:44:16 AM PST by reaganaut1
Updated, 7:33 a.m. | LAS VEGAS — In his final rally on Monday before the Nevada caucuses, Donald J. Trump said he wanted to punch a protester, who had been ejected from the event, in the face.
On the eve of what could be Mr. Trump’s third consecutive victory among a fractured Republican presidential field, the protester — the third one to interrupt him at the event and who Mr. Trump said had thrown punches at security guards — really drew the candidate’s ire. As the man was being escorted away, Mr. Trump repeatedly told the crowd that he wished for the “old days,†adding, “You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They’d be carried out on a stretcher.â€
“I’d like to punch him in the face, I’ll tell ya,†Mr. Trump added.
Mr. Trump has faced criticism over his response to protesters before. After a Black Lives Matter demonstrator was pushed to the ground at one of his events in November, Mr. Trump said in an interview after the episode that “maybe he should have been roughed up,†before later pulling back from his comments.
But on Monday night, he held nothing back, and the crowd of thousands met every one of his lines with whooping cheers.
Addressing another protester, a man holding a sign that read, “Veterans to Trump: End Hate Speech Against Muslims,†Mr. Trump repeatedly said, “Get him the hell out,†as the crowd booed the man’s exit.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump denounced Senator Ted Cruz, who earlier in the day fired his communications director for spreading a misleading video with subtitles purporting to show Senator Marco Rubio saying the Bible has few answers. Mr. Rubio, in fact, said the Bible has many answers.
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That despite all the tough talk most will never use.
They'll be handed over for the next lost battle and conservatives will be crying out, "We'll get 'em next time with a real conservative" as everyone is in Mao suits, gender neutral, eating gruel in their commie bloc flat that they share with five "modern" families in between daily rapes and robberies.
“...I don’t know if to laugh or cry after watching that...”
A little of both, I think.
We are where we are, and we do the best with what we have to work with.
Roger that and ol Betsy is well oiled like the Fore Fathers told us to keep them and at the ready.
He was right.
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Trump is right a lot. American society has been slowly brain washed by the media.
That is the danger of social media to old media, we can talk to one another without agenda.
It is also the reason that Twitter and Facebook are beginning to delete tweets, postings and accounts of conservative voices.
Must stop people discussing issues without media interference.
A declared political candidate, standing on a political event stage, having security provided by the Federal government, expresses a desire to get physical with a political dissenter, and you are OK with it?
This is not two guys in a bar - Trump said something that if the dissenter would have responded to in kind, would have landed him with Federal charges, with charges based on Trump’s politician status as a candidate.
This is not Alpha Male, this is the reason the First Ammendment was first.
Right, fascist wanna bees have a “right” to storm people gathering and try to disrupt their political assemblies.
Sorry Fascists wanna bees, you act like a thug, you are going to be treated like one. Crying hysterically when your actions have consequences is the behavior of spoiled children, not adults.
Don’t like being punched, don’t throw punches.
LOL — Direct hit. You sank my battleship.
Isn’t it nice to see all the Cruzaders out in full force today? They had enough time to recover from the butt kicking St Ted took in SC.
Well if that is the case then these little butter cups who want their little safe zones have just screwed the country for the future.
Hell, I'd support a return to DUELING!
“...have just screwed the country for the future....”
Precisely.
Me, too. Anything to get rid of the lawyers. Whatever happened to tort reform?
>>One year ago:
>>I’m sick of wimpy candidates that just sit there and take it. Democrats are street fighters! When are we going to take off the gloves! If they don’t start punching back we are going to be in CW2! Well I got my gun, and will fight!!!
>>One year later:
>>“Trump acts like a thug, and that ought to bother his supportersâ€
LOL. It is funny how so many of the Internet Tough Guys have suddenly found their sensitive, feminine side.
When you find a candidate that can change the political landscape the way Trump has by doing things the same way as everyone else: you let me know.
First it takes two WP Reporters to make a Mountain out of a Molehill.
Now it takes two NYT Reporters to do the same thing.
Trump also said to the crowd as he does on may occasions that if he sat down with these Protestors for ten minutes maybe he could change their minds.
Tempest in a Teapot #7,487.
Uh, since Reagan didn’t talk to me or anyone else at that moment since it was in the middle of a production of “Will Rogers’ Follies†I don’t see how your comment even makes sense. But that’s Cruz fanatics for you.
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You know, if you’re not going to go back and get the whole context of the conversation you jump in on (which is the purpose of an internet forum), you can expect not to fully understand all of the comments, as you did not understand mine. To be expected.
I’m not a Cruzer. But I understand the need to put everything in a little box, it just doesn’t always apply.
I’m unapologetically anti-Trump.
I think it got eclipsed by the structural tsunami that is TRUMP.
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