Posted on 02/23/2016 4:44:16 AM PST by reaganaut1
Updated, 7:33 a.m. | LAS VEGAS â 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. Trumpâs third consecutive victory among a fractured Republican presidential field, the protester â the third one to interrupt him at the event and who Mr. Trump said had thrown punches at security guards â really drew the candidateâs ire. As the man was being escorted away, Mr. Trump repeatedly told the crowd that he wished for the âold days,â adding, âYou know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? Theyâd be carried out on a stretcher.â
âIâd like to punch him in the face, Iâll tell ya,â 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 âmaybe he should have been roughed up,â 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, âVeterans to Trump: End Hate Speech Against Muslims,â Mr. Trump repeatedly said, âGet him the hell out,â as the crowd booed the manâs 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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Now, there’s a man with the temperament for the complexities of international diplomacy.
This behavior makes his supporters support him even more strongly. It shows that he ... oh, I forget what, but it does.
“Trump acts like a thug, and that ought to bother his supporters. “
It should but it doesn’t!
Of course, what you’re not reporting is that the protester was throwing punches at members of the audience. A violent thug. Trump is a very tough law-and-order guy. Check out his behavior during the Central Park Jogger case.
Speaking out of turn will have bad results
Guess what...we've all said something similar at some point.
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 supporters”
Keep your powder dry.
yea we could have another fairy sigh.
Trumps a big tough guy hiding behind his security and his lawyers.
Sounds like he has some big issues from his childhood he hasn’t figured out.
Yeah it’s too bad that he doesn’t act more like Bush or Kasich. /s
LIKE A BOSS!!!!!!!
Gee I love the passive/aggressive nature of the special little snowflakes. Act like an abusive thug and try to disrupt other people political events then whine hysterically when your aggressive bully behavior is met with force.
Don’t act like scumbags, we will not treat you like scumbags.
Trump, and every other candiate, has every right to conduct his events free from the thug behavior of political storm trooper wanna bes.
Saying you want to punch a guy, but restraining yourself from doing it is one thing. Actually doing it would be another thing entirely.
This is much ado about nothing.
Reagan didn’t resort to childish things like Trump does.
Guys who hide behind lawyers and security aren’t tough guys.
So Sorry Alpha Male behavior makes you insecure in your safe place.
Sound like you have have some serious short comings snowflake
It doesn’t.
I would have liked to punch the thug myself. He's a rude distraction to everyone in attendance who is there to listen to Trump.
There's no difference between that venue and doing the same thing in a theater........
Says the guy hiding behind a computer monitor talking trash.
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