Posted on 03/20/2016 12:06:51 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that "professional agitators" bore much of the blame for violence at his rallies as video showed a protester being beaten and another apparently being grabbed by Trump's campaign manager.
Speaking on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, Trump defended campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and declined to condemn supporters who have attacked protesters at his increasingly chaotic rallies.
Nor did he back down from his warning that there would be riots in the streets if the Republican Party denied him the nomination for the November election, despite his being the most popular candidate among Republican voters.
Senior figures in the party are openly plotting to prevent Trump from becoming the nominee because they view him as insufficiently conservative, and Trump was due to privately meet with some party leaders in Washington on Monday, the Washington Post reported.
"I don't know what's going to happen, but I will say this, you're going to have a lot of unhappy people," he said on "This Week," predicting anger at the party's national convention in July should someone else end up the nominee. "I don't want to see riots, I don't want to see problems. But you're talking about millions of people."
Scenes of mayhem have become increasingly common at the billionaire New York businessman's rallies, which have been frequently interrupted by protesters, many of them Democrats, who say Trump's controversial remarks on immigrants and Muslims are dangerous. The 69-year-old candidate has sometimes encouraged his supporters using violence on protesters, and on at least one occasion said that he would like to punch a protester himself.
Television footage from an Arizona rally on Saturday showed a man punching and kicking a protester as he was led out of the event.
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Hooray TRUMP!! Take no prisoners; call out the lying media!
They need to start arresting the protesters for any illegal behavior.
I have absolutely every reason to believe he's right. Indeed, if you follow the money, I'll bet it leads to Soros.
The communist agitators paid for by Soros are responsible.
Trump and his supporters are peaceably assembling.
Other outside groups are trying to disrupt.
No, it is because they view him as insufficiently liberal. And they think that he could possibly win.
“Trump refuses to condemn violence at his U.S. presidential rallies”
Hey! Roto Reuters! I’sn’t that your job?!
Trump supporters are not violent.
Left wing bought and paid for by George Soros agitators are violent.
Who do you think your foolin’?
Oh so it’s Trump’s fault that George Soros funded Move On and Blacks Lives Matter Rent a Mob, via Craig’s List, attacked his event.
So it’s the victims fault for exercising their 1st Amendment and defending themselves.
Reuters = U.K. news (the Red Coats in other words still lecturing us after 200 years)
Why?
Because political correctness is the social tool used to implement liberal utopian fascism.
Maybe a *little* violence will help us to avoid a *lot* of violence.
Total Debbie Downer article. Didn’t know she was still around.
Yes, I agree...Hope Trump does not give in.
Extreme Trump Bashing going on today...almost unbelievable!
Needs to call a press conference and call out these despicable dregs of society. Lots of creeps in the good old USA. Like rats coming out of their holes!
Trump also refuses to condemn himself for beating his wife and for eating live children.
Trump refuses to accept the media’s ground rules and it’s driving them bonkers!
Here’s a link to a “truthful” black, off duty police officer who attended a recent Trump event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Bt6b8PPP0
(I got the link from another post here at FR)
The media are nothing but liars and manipulators.
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