Donald Trump: I could ‘shoot somebody’ and still have support (audience laughing and clapping)

Washington Post ^

[springwater13]

"They say I have the most loyal people - did you ever see that? - where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters," Trump said, illustrating his point by pulling his fingers into a gun shape. "Okay? It's like incredible."

The crowd laughed and clapped, and someone in the audience shouted out love for the candidate.

"We love you, too, man," Trump said.

Trump's comment came during a campaign rally Saturday at Dordt College in northwest Iowa. The 1,500-seat theater completely filled, hundreds more watched his speech from an overflow room.

[Wilhelm Tell]

Yes, some of us are really dull and we don’t see humor in jokes about shooting people.

[Jim Robinson]

“The bombing begins in five minutes.” —Ronald Reagan

It was humorous at the moment.

[dem bums]

90% of his supporters say they’re not moving. No other candidate has that loyalty. That’s why he said it but it was funny when he said it....nothing more.

Blind loyalty to a politician is a bad thing.

[Jim Robinson]

By the way:

“They say I have the most loyal people - did you ever see that? - where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters,”

Was it Trump coming up with this out of the blue or was he quoting someone else? Who is the they, in “They say?”

[libbylu]

pass on to your buddies I don’t care what they say. I don’t read what they say anymore. Their heads are buried in the sand. They only see donnie’s halo, nothing else matters to them.
I have posted several times donnie could be caught on live TV naked in bed with a young boy or bambi and trumpees would not care. The same goes for his shooting someone.
That is the power of his cult.
Everyone used to examine candidate’s records.
They have given the lowest info candidate to ever run with the worst character defects I have ever seen in a supposedly grown man - using Alinsky to destroy real peoples lives and they CHEER.
Their opinion matters to me as much as donnie’s and palin’s.
Which is in the negative range.

[kaehurowing]

Hillary’s already done it. More than once.

[Carry_Okie]

I've always wondered how a well-educated Christian country like Germany could fall for a delusional egomaniac like Adolf Hitler.

With the rise of Donald Trump I get it now: Fear, anger, and desperation are so powerful as to get rational people to gather behind a bogus promise of relief like lemmings headed for a cliff.

[blondiegoodbadugly]

Thanks for correcting the previous post!

Appreciated

[NormsRevenge]

The run-up to the conventions is like a Mel Brooks script..

Both parties are being devoured by their own “transparencies”..

Few secrets remain.. Except for the mysteries of Marilyn Monroe, JFK demises and OBammys true origins.

[acw011]

“I’ve always wondered how a well-educated Christian country like Germany could fall for a delusional egomaniac like Adolf Hitler. “

Comparing the U.S. to Germany and Trump to Hitler?

Sheesh.. this can’t be over soon enough..

[dragnet2]

There he is now, run!!

He's not joking!

[CAluvdubya]

Yes, some of us are really dull and we do'’t see humor in jokes about shooting people.

AAAAAnd, you just proved my point. Thanks for playing.

[Carry_Okie]

Comparing the U.S. to Germany and Trump to Hitler?

"They say I have the most loyal people - did you ever see that? - where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters," Trump said, illustrating his point by pulling his fingers into a gun shape. "Okay? It's like incredible."

The crowd laughed and clapped, and someone in the audience shouted out love for the candidate.

There are more parallels than you apparently realize. Germany in the Wiemar was an economic basket case. Berlin had been taken over by communists of the Spartakusbund, with gay bars all over the city. Germany was fracturing into hard left and a conservative right taking cover just trying to survive. Hitler came down the middle with national socialism and government control of business, supposedly against the left.

Any of that sound familiar?

[nopardons]

Boy howdy...ain’t That the truth! :-)

[Chauncey Uppercrust]

Its a cult!

[nopardons]

We know it’s funny, because we have a sense of humor.

[SoFloFreeper]

[NKP_Vet]

“The bombing begins in five minutes.” —Ronald Reagan

Remember it well and the libs raked him over the coals for saying it. It was a joke, same as the Cruz comment. Bloody Megyn will have a field day with it.

[CAluvdubya]

Unlike you, I have actually met and conversed with Mr. Donald Trump. He is a very refined and extremely respectful, personable and soft spoken gentleman. Ditto for his son I met, Eric Trump.

Next time, take me, take me!!

Seriously, I just don't get all this animosity on the part of a lot of the Cruz supporters. It's not just on FR, either. They are all so angry. Pretty soon, they're all going to start looking like Hillary!