Donald J. trump:
From the mouth of Donald Trump:
January 23 - “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”
November 22, “Maybe he should have been roughed up . . . “
February 1 - “If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, just knock the hell out of them. I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees.”
February 23 - “I’d like to punch him in the face, I tell ya.”
“I love the old days. 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, folks.”
Now, Sen. Ted Cruz:
This is exactly what Cruz said.
“It is my hope that going forward we will have a substantive, issue-based discussion, where we can have differences about how we turn this country around, that we do so in a way that appeals to our better angels instead of our worst instincts,” Cruz continued. “That seeks to pull us together, and unite us, instead of tear us apart. You know, we’ve seen for seven years a president who often at times of crisis, has sought to divide us, sought to divide us on ethnic lines, on religious lines, on class lines. America’s better than this. We don’t have to tear each other apart.”
Asked if Trump should have gone ahead with the rally, Cruz paused for a moment, then said the decision should have been based on public safety.
“But I think a campaign bears responsibility for creating an environment when the candidate urges supporters to engage in physical violence, to punch people in the face,” said Cruz. “The predictable consequence of that is that it escalates, and today is unlikely to be the last such instance. We saw, earlier today, in St. Louis, over 30 arrested. That’s not how our politics should occur. You know, the city of Chicago in 1968 saw some ugly days, when politics descended into hatred and incivility and even violence. It is my hope that in 2016 we can appeal to our better angels, to avoid going down that road once again.” - Ted Cruz
How can anyone back Ted Cruz after this weekend is beyond me
Don’t confuse the mob, with facts and verified quotes m. They are rabid now, beyond reason, and a few want a clash and blood. Just read the posts. Some are actually advocating confronting directly people assembled for Sanders and this will necessarily result in violence. It also plays right into the unfair negative narrative based on bad optics the leftist media is now constructing for Trump for use by Hitlery on the fall.
Thank you for reminding us that Cruz believes that a person who exercises his free speech rights is the one to blame when violence and oppression is perpetrated against him and his supporters. Anyone who actually believes in the First Amendment would not blame the person for his words, but the rioters for their anti-Constitutional actions. He spent a few seconds briefly condemning the left-wing anarchist protesters, and several minutes blaming the victim because he exercised his free speech rights in ways that Cruz didn’t like.
Of course, the Trump haters would prefer that the protesters just be allowed to run amuck, continually disrupting Trump and making it as impossible for him to speak as possible. That’s why they continually excuse everything the protesters do or simply refuse to report it, while fixating on the 3 or 4 disruptors who were mildly hurt. There are a disturbing number of people in this country who want to shut up Trump, because they are afraid of him getting his ideas out even though that is a fundamental Constitutional right, and they are doing any and everything to try to stop him. I’ve never seen anything even vaguely like it before.
One can be on the side of free speech or one can be on the side of those opposing free speech. One can’t legitimately claim to be for both. By blaming Trump, Cruz in effect excused the radical leftist disruptors, which included moveon.org and the Revolutionary Communist Party members.
SO trump wanted a violent blm thug to get punched out for being the violent thugs they are ? OH NO