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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After the media celebrating a year of burning cities they are suddenly outraged by a couple of protesters getting punched. What double standard?
Pray America wakes
The 2nd reporter in that video must have gotten hurt with that STOP sign smashed to the face=== ouch.
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> video showed a protester being beaten and another apparently being grabbed by Trump’s campaign manager.
If Lewandowski had stood by and let an attack occur he would be condemned. If Lewandowski pulls an attacker away from a person he is condemned. This is all BS to support a meme that somehow Trump is to blame, Trump is violent, these are nazi rallies, etc etc etc. It’s garbage.
Leftists showup to disrupt and shut down Trump rallies. The publicize their intent beforehand, they brag afterwards. They even go so far as to blockade highways.
I would LMAO if Trump actually decks the next jerk who rushes his stage.
I’d like to see who this Trump supporter was, looks like a setup. The guy was sitting on the aisle, knew how to throw a punch, went right into kicking the protester, yet stopped and walked away when cops got there.
How many enraged people would just drop it and surrender, no residual anger. It’s like he did his job then followed through with the plan.
Why should he?
Cruz fans are used to just standing there and taking a beating. They are p*ssies.
P.S. Megyn...You are what you are...
Why should he?
Did my part to get this all over FB.
They were looking for trouble...and they found it.
Headline is an obvious lie. The honest version would be:
Trump refuses to accept our spin that he is to blame for the violence caused by democrat party thugs at his rallies.
Predators have no obligation to protect their prey. The GOPe has no duty to voters who are foolish enough to accept their lies. It’s a power & control system that utilizes every tool available - media, deception, lies, etc - to achieve its desired end(s).
“The communist agitators paid for by Soros are responsible.”
Soros funded moveon.org to help Clinton. It seems that moveon.org and Soros have gone separate ways.
Excellent. Well said.
trump rallies are peaceful until these protesters come and start trouble...well trumps people are pissed and not going to sit there and take it....where trump has his rallies that is his space and the first amendment does not cover the prosters unless they are outside of his space
But the videos are not showing that the man who was attacked was wearing KKK cap.
Sad. Trump and his supporters have become the mirror image of BLM occupy wall street and you think this is a good thing? This isn’t a third world country yet but is on the fast track to become one.
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