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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Post and run.
I remarked the very same yesterday.
So what you condemned Obama for doing is okay if Trump does it?
My Dad’s favorite saying was “ If you are looking for trouble you don’t need a Bird Dog to find it!”.
Another was “ If you are looking for trouble you, you came to the right place!”.
hahahaha!
Any word from Ted Cruz today about how the leftist BLM riots are all Trump’s fault?
It’s Bernie’s fault. His supporters are filthy socialists taking out frustrations at Trump rallies. It’s coordinated to make any fighting get blamed on Trump.
That’s right great point and thanks.
And how despicable for CRuz, KSick and the feckless GOPee to be glomming on to the leftist media lies and false memes...by not condemning the thug, professional protesters.
I’m sure he’s condemned this leftist thug behavior, by these professional agitators, OR AT LEAST the lying MSM, by now. Right?
Ah, the arrogant playbook of the left.
WE HATE YOU, THEREFORE YOU ARE GUILTY OF INCITING HATRED!
However, hatred of any LEFTIST is utterly unacceptable, homophobic, racist, knuckle-dragging, un-American prejudice!
Fighting back against the tyranny of the left is not permitted.
Arguing with them is not permitted.
We should be ashamed we even put UP a candidate against them! Who do we think we ARE?
SIGH.
I thought Lewandowski was absolved from this...
Some butt kicking can’t hurt his cause IMO. Seems to me we the people are tired of the leftist wussiness in our leadership.
That's what we've come to expect from the establishment. I guess it wouldn't go over well to say we don't want him upsetting our apple cart, breaking our rice bowls, and he's VULGAR!!!
Good old Andy Still twisting words and putting words in the mouths of others. The perfect example of modern journalism and opinion writing
Now that’s jus plain funny
Thankfully any europeans who want to see Trump for themselves can watch his rallies on youtube and other social media and see him calling on the crowd to be “nice” to the agitators who are doing their foul vulgar damndest to get a reaction
Wow - awesome video !
18 U.S. Code § 241 - Conspiracy against rights If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; .... They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 696; Pub. L. 90–284, title I, § 103(a), Apr. 11, 1968, 82 Stat. 75; Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7018(a), (b)(1), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4396; Pub. L. 103–322, title VI, § 60006(a), title XXXII, §§ 320103(a), 320201(a), title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 1970, 2109, 2113, 2147; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, §§ 604(b)(14)(A), 607(a), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3507, 3511.) Also, any thugs disrupting an appearance by a person under protection by the Secret Service are violating Federal laws. It is a federal offense, punishable by up to 10 years in prison to protest anywhere the Secret Service might be guarding someone. For another, it’s almost impossible to predict what constitutes “disorderly or disruptive conduct” or what sorts of conduct authorities deem to “impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official function.
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