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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has andy sullivan stopped beating his wife?
I thought he was pretty clear about the professional thugs that are causing violence at his riots. Perhaps they are again asking the wrong/biased question.
Bias?
A marketing firm is not in the business of objectivity.
A marketing firm lies to possitivtly position their client’s product.
The MSM is an infomercial, not a news organization.
The media and the left are in full panic mode. They are doing everything they can to demonize and destroy Trump.
“Senior figures in the party are openly plotting to prevent Trump from becoming the nominee because they view him as insufficiently conservative”
WHAT A JOKE!
We have $20 TRILLION in debt, and ELECTED REPUBLICANS, who RUN AS CONSERVATIVES cannot even stop funding funding for Planned Parenthood, much less slow down Obamacare - even though real conservatives (i.e., us voters) GAVE THEM MAJORITIES in both houses of Congress to do just that.
OBVIOUSLY if the party bosses cared about ‘conservatism’, then they WOULD NOT have been supporting JEB, RUBIO, or KASICH and would not be dancing with ROMNEY.
So what gives? My only answer is that both the GOPe and the media want Trump out, and both agree that their only hope is to come at him from the right, CLAIMING he’s not conservative enough, so low-information voters don’t gravitate to him, and instead go to Cruz. NOTHING ELSE MAKES SENSE.
When is the media going to denounce the professional agitators that Black Lies Matter, and MoveOn.org is sending to disrupt Trump’s events?
I heard Andy is a homosexual that kicks puppies as well.
Media and the Democratic party refuse to condemn violence caused by demonstrators at Trump presidential rallies.
There.
Fixed it.
You lose with the wrong headline.
We need to re-frame the situation to what it really is, instead of accepting the framework where we cannot win the argument. all we can do here is continually repeat “But i quit beating my wife”
Completely misleading headline.
Smart.
This is keep the more timid agitators away.
But may draw in more that are looking for a fight.
So be it. I think the score so far is
Trump supporters - 2
Commies - 0
The come to the rally hoping for violence and the get what they want.
From the same people who pushed Romney as "severely conservative".
From the same people who pushed Romney as "severely conservative".
I think President Nixon tried to declare a Hippie Punching Day.
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